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Bill Gates calls Steve Jobs a ‘wizard’ who saved AppleNew York

Steve Jobs was a wizard who “cast spells on people” to help keep Apple afloat

during the company’s darkest days, according to longtime rival Bill Gates.

The Microsoft founder dis-cussed his and Jobs’ leadership

styles with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Sunday. Both men are known for being tough leaders who foster an intense workplace culture.

Gates said people often em-ulate the negative elements of the Apple founder’s personali-ty, but Jobs was also a unique leader who took Apple from near-death to its pedestal as

the most valuable company in the world (before Micro-soft usurped that crown this year).

Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy when Jobs rejoined the company in the late 1990s; it is now worth just shy of $1 trillion.

Jobs was “a good example of

‘don’t do this at home,’” Gates said. But nonetheless, he added, “I have yet to meet any person who in terms of picking talent, hyper-motivating that talent and having a sense of design, of ‘this is good, this is not good.’ So he brought some incredibly positive things along with that toughness.”

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His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa yesterday conferred the first-class Order of Bahrain (Wisam Al Bahrain) on British Ambassador Simon Martin in recognition of his tremendous efforts and role in bolstering the fruitful co-operation. His Majesty lauded the historic friendship, co-operation and partnership in various fields, and reaffirmed Bahrain’s keenness to further consolidate its ties with the United Kingdom to serve the interest and aspirations of the two countries and the welfare of both friendly peoples.

A rare honour ‘US action has cut off Iran’s ability to support terrorism’

Washington

The United States will not waver from its course of maximum pressure

against Iran, Vice President Mike Pence said yesterday, as tensions rise and the US-bro-kered nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers ap-pears to be unraveling with the Trump administration’s pullout.

Pence’s assertion to a pro-Is-rael Christian organisation that the US “will never allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon” came on the same day that Iran began enriching uranium to 4.5 per cent , breaking the limit set in the 2015 agreement sealed un-

der President Barack Obama.The speech, amplified in

later remarks to the group by the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and national securi-ty adviser John Bolton, also comes as the other partners in the agreement must decide how to respond to Iran’s an-

nouncement. President Donald Trump

discussed the issue by phone Monday with French President Emmanuel Macron.

Echoing comments made re-peatedly by Trump, Pence said the international accord simply delayed Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon by “roughly a decade” and gave away billions in economic relief that Iran could then use to wage terrorist attacks.

“Iran must choose between caring for its people and con-tinuing to fund its proxies who spread violence and terrorism throughout the region and breathe out murderous hatred against Israel,” Pence said.

SME support plan Bahraini SMEs to be favoured during the tender process

• The Cabinet approved a recommendation by the Civil Service Bureau to re-structure the Industry, Commerce and Tourism Ministry.

• The session commended the efforts exerted by the minister and EWA to improve services and reduce cuts.

Manama

The Cabinet chaired by His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa

bin Salman Al Khalifa yesterday issued directives to favour the Kingdom’s Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) while carry-ing out government bidding and procurement processes.

This came as HRH the Premier directed to expand the scope of the advantages granted to SMEs

from the part of government departments and entities.

The session decided, based on a memorandum prepared by the Ministerial Committee for Legal and Legislative Affairs and presented by the Deputy Pre-mier and committee chairman, that the 10 per cent advantage enjoyed by SMEs in the biddings of government departments should also cover tenders.

Among other things, the Cabi-net approved a recommendation by the Civil Service Bureau to re-structure the Industry, Com-merce and Tourism Ministry and the Bahrain National Space

Science Agency (NSSA).According to a memorandum

submitted by the Deputy Pre-mier and Deputy Chairman of the Civil Service Council, there will be four assistant undersec-

retaries instead of six, and 12 directorates instead of 14 at the ministry. With regard to NSSA, there will be a chief executive officer and four directorates.

The Cabinet was informed about the Electricity and Water Authority (EWA)’s preparations and measures to meet the re-quirements of the summer sea-son regarding the sufficiency of water and electricity production and the efficiency of their dis-tribution, through the inaugu-ration of new lines and stations, as well as the maintenance of the current lines and updating of contingency plans.

Commenting on a detailed memorandum presented by the Electricity and Water Affairs Minister on the measures taken to meet the summer needs, the Cabinet commended the efforts exerted by the minister and EWA to improve services and reduce cuts.

The session approved the re-view framework for the higher education institutions’ academic programmes for the second ses-sion, based on a recommenda-tion by the Supreme Council for the Development of Education and Training and the memoran-dum submitted in this regard by the Minister of Transporta-tion and Telecommunications and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Education and Training Quality Authority (BQA).

The Cabinet welcomed the agreement concluded by the Su-danese military and parties on the arrangements for the tran-sitional period, stressing that it is a constructive step forward that would support the security, stability and prosperity in broth-erly Sudan.

HRH the Premier chairs the Cabinet.

12directorates will replace

14 directorates at the Ministry of Industry,

Commerce and Tourism.

Iran must choose between caring for its people and continuing to fund its proxies who

spread violence and terrorism.

PENCE

‘We won’t deal with UK envoy’ London

US President Donald Trump has stepped up his attack on the UK’s

ambassador in Washington, Sir Kim Darroch, saying “we will no longer deal with him”.

In withering comments on Twitter, Mr Trump also lashed out at Theresa May, saying it was “good news” that Britain would soon have a new prime minister.

Sir Kim, in emails leaked on Sunday, described Mr Trump’s administration as dysfunctional and inept.

Mrs May said she had “full faith” in Sir Kim but did not agree with him.

Her spokesman had de-scribed the leak as “absolutely unacceptable”, and said the prime minister’s office had made contact with the White House.

New Premier for Greece Athens

Following a landslide vic-tory, Greece’s new prime

minister was sworn in yester-day as many hope his win will signal an end to austerity.

After being dogged by finan-cial crises for years, the Greek electorate are hoping Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s centre-right New Democracy party will bring a new dawn to the nation.

With youth unemployment nearly double the EU average, the new premier will have an uphill struggle to turnaround Greece’s fortunes.

There will be no honey-moon period for him as EU leaders were due to meet on Monday to review how Greece risks missing its budget tar-gets after his predecessor’s spending spree. See page 7

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Turkmenistan ties in focus Bahrain-Turkmenistan second political consultation meeting held

• Bahrain-Turkmenistan Joint Committee for Economic Co-operation and the establishment of a Business Council between the two countries stressed at the meeting.

• The Undersecretary stressed that the Gulf and Central Asia face the danger of Iran’s illegal interventions, which are contrary to the principles of good neighbourliness.

Manama

The second political con-sultations meeting be-tween the Kingdom

and Turkmenistan was held in Ashgabat yesterday, under the chairmanship of the Undersec-retary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for International Affairs, Dr Shaikh Abdulla bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, and the Turkmenistan Deputy Foreign Minister.

Dr Shaikh Abdulla extended his appreciation and gratitude for the Government of Turk-menistan for hosting the second political consultations meeting, stressing that the Kingdom of Bahrain is keen on enhancing its bilateral relations with Turk-menistan.

The two sides reviewed are-as of bilateral co-operation and

ways of enhancing it in various fields. They also exchanged dif-ferent views and perspectives on the current events at the re-gional and international levels as well as combating extremism and terrorism.

Dr Shaikh Abdulla stressed the importance of this meeting, in light of the high-level visit of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa to Turkmenistan in March 2019, which boosted

the relations between the two countries.

Nine agreements of co-op-eration were signed between both countries in various fields including banking, tourism, edu-cation, e-gov, transport, culture, and mutual exemption of visa requirements for holders of dip-lomatic and private passports.

The International Affairs Un-dersecretary added that he was certain that the Kingdom, un-

der the leadership of HM the King, and the Republic of Turk-menistan, under the leadership of President Gurbanguly Ber-dimuhamedow, were laying the groundwork for a comprehen-sive, constructive and long-term strategic partnership.

He also expressed his appreci-ation of the outcomes of the first political consultation meeting, hosted by the Kingdom in July last year, noting that the King-

dom was among the first coun-tries to send a delegation to visit Turkmenistan after it gained independence in 1991.

The Undersecretary affirmed that the Kingdom enjoys a qualified human resources, an attractive investment environ-ment and a unique geographic location, which opens up a wide scope for the development of mutual co-operation in the field of investment.

He hailed the establishment of the Bahrain-Turkmenistan Joint Committee for Economic Co-operation and the establish-ment of a Business Council be-tween the two countries.

He stressed that the relations between the two countries have promising opportunities, espe-cially in light of the mutual in-terest in activating signed agree-ments, the qualitative invest-ments in the fields of energy and gas, petrochemicals, tourism, youth and sports, and linking ports, as well as the Kingdom’s leadership in new economic fields based on technical and financial technology, logistics and entrepreneurship, as the Kingdom has established itself as a leading regional model for reform and sustainable devel-opment.

He added that the two coun-tries share general stances on main issues, foremost of which is the establishment of security and stability, combating terror-ism, rejecting external interfer-ence in internal affairs, reiterat-ing the Kingdom’s support for the positive neutrality approach adopted by Turkmenistan.

The Undersecretary stressed that the Gulf and Central Asia face the danger of Iran’s illegal interventions, which are con-trary to the principles of good neighbourliness and interna-tional norms and conventions.

The Deputy Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan expressed is country’s keenness to enhance co-operation and co-ordination with the Kingdom, expressing appreciation of Bahrain’s inter-est in boosting consultations and bilateral relations. Bahraini delegation at the meeting.

Dr Shaikh Abdulla, fourth from left, after the second political consultation meeting.

The Kingdom was among the first

countries to send a delegation to visit

Turkmenistan after it gained independence in

1991.DR SHAIKH ABDULLA

‘The Wizard of Oz’ show headlines Eid festivities TDT | Manama

The upcoming Eid Al Adha holidays will mark the debut of the Broadway

musical ‘The Wizard of Oz’, which will kick off on August 13 at the Bahrain Internation-al Exhibition and Convention Centre.

‘The Wizard of Oz’ musical is an enchanting revival of the all-time classic story developed from the ever-popular 1939 film, featuring all the favour-ite characters from the movie’s cast, starting with Dorothy, her dog Toto and their heartening friends the Cowardly Lion, Tin Man and Scarecrow.

The captivating production

will capture the hearts of the audience, featuring breath-tak-ing special effects, dazzling choreography and the classic songs from the film.

On this occasion, the CEO of BTEA, Shaikh Khaled Bin Humood Al Khalifa revealed, “We are truly delighted to host this Broadway musical in the Kingdom for the very first time. Hosting this landmark produc-tion comes in line with our strategy to increase the num-ber of visitors in the Kingdom of Bahrain through launching exciting events and festivals continuously throughout the year.”

“Our efforts remain dedicated towards increasing the tourism

sector’s contribution to the na-tional economy, we are consist-ently striving towards hosting world-renowned attractions and family activities, especially during holidays such as Eid, with overall aim of providing exceptionally entertaining and fun-filled experiences that ap-peal to audiences of all ages,” he added.

Hosting this event comes in line with the BTEA’s long term strategy to further develop the Kingdom’s tourism sector and strengthen its position on a re-gional and international level under the slogan of ‘Ours.Yours’, which contributes towards the Kingdom’s economy and the 2030 Economic Vision.The Wizard of Oz is a musical based on the 1939 film of the same name.

Bahrain Odia Samaj celebrated Rathyatra (car festival) in co-ordination with ISKCON Bahrain on July 4 and 5 in great fervour. A special event at Shree Krishna Temple Manama marked “the welcoming of Lord Jagannatha and his siblings”. Renowned Odissi team Tridhara from Odisha (India) under Guru Dr Gajendra Panda performed in front of “The Lord” during “Rathyatra” along with other various cultural programmes by ISKCON followers. A large numbers of devotees participated. Holy food was also served to all who attended the festival. Founder of Bahrain Odia Samaj Arun Kumar Praharaj, Nepal Ambassador Padam Sundas attended.


Kingdom’s healthcare sector to ‘witness massive transformation in coming years’

Increasing prominence of medical technologies will totally change the healthcare sector, says Dr Cheriyan

• Dr Cheriyan said the concept of healthcare is gradually shifting from “traditional sickness model” to “wellness care”.

• AMH is planning to create an E-Healthcare platform and this will consist of ways to connect a patient with a physician anywhere in the world.

TDT | Manama Mohammed Zafran

The Kingdom’s health-care sector will witness a huge transformation in

the coming years, according to a leading doctor and healthcare executive.

American Mission Hospital (AMH) Chief Executive and Chief Medical Officer Dr George Cheriyan said that the increas-ing prominence of latest tech-nologies will totally change the healthcare sector.

Highlighting the two major changes that would be strongly felt in the sector in the next few years, he said: “The follow-up visits with doctors will take place at home using the latest medical software. Gadgets de-signed for medical purposes will also help doctors monitor pa-tients’ health and provide well-ness care.”

Dr Cheriyan said the concept of healthcare is gradually shift-ing from “traditional sickness model” to “wellness care”.

“Technology is disrupting the traditional models of healthcare from a patient having to always come to a hospital to visit to a doctor to receiving consulta-tion from home. So basically in the next few years follow-up care where a patient having to come back to hospital will be

obsolete because all of this could be done through medical apps where you will schedule an ap-pointment to see your doctor through an app and you would have a consultation. No trav-el will be necessary except for perhaps the initial consultation.

“The technology will allow us

to stay in touch with a patient not just for the 15 minutes when the patient is in at hospital. For example, if you’re a diabetic and you can have a Fitbit type of device which can record your blood sugar and send feedback to the doctor.”

When asked about AMH’s ex-

pansion plans, he said: “Our past is pretty much well known to all people of Bahrain. AMH is the first hospital in the Kingdom and as an organisation, we have been in existence for 120 years.

“During the past five to seven years, we have been substan-tially increasing our footprint in

the Kingdom. Initially, the only place where we had our pres-ence was the American Hospital in Manama. We then started a small clinic in Saar.

“But over the last five years we’ve expanded. We’ve got a much bigger facility in Saar and then we opened up an facility in Amwaj and in Riffa. Our expan-sion plans began 10 years ago. It was the question of finding the right location and of course get-ting a large enough piece of land.

“We first approached the Roy-al Court and His Majesty was so kind to provide us with a large piece of land A’ali.”

Explaining the new A’ali hos-pital project, he said: “It will be much bigger than the one in Manama. We are investing 20 million BD for the whole project. There will be two major wings to this hospital which will have hundred rooms. We will have a maternal and child health wing

and another wing for all other specialties.

“We are planning to have this new hospital fully operational, hopefully by the third quarter of 2022.”

“More than just building a hos-pital, we aim to meet the health-care needs of the people of Bah-rain in the next 25 to 50 years.”

“The hospital will function as a central satellite hub from which wellness care, healthcare and sickness care are provided.”

Dr Cheriyan said that AMH is planning to create an E-Health-care platform and this will con-sist of ways to connect a patient with a physician anywhere in the world, be it New Delhi or New York.

“Based on what one’s require-ment is, we can connect the pa-tient with best doctors abroad. The new hospital will be build on this capability.”

Emphasising on the need to make healthcare cheaper and accessible, Dr Cheriyan said: “There’s no point in having very sophisticated health services without people having access to it. AMH is not for profit hospi-tal and here we don’t have any shareholders or stakeholders.

“We need not generate profits. All we need to do is to provide best healthcare services at a cost that keeps us operationally sol-vent.”

His Majesty being briefed on the new AMH project in A’ali by Dr Cheriyan.

More than just building a hospital, we aim to meet the healthcare

needs of the people of Bahrain in the next 25

to 50 years. DR CHERIYAN

Dr Cheriyan An artist’s impression of the upcoming AMH project in A’ali.

School evacuation plan underwayManama

Efforts are underway to evacuate eight dilapi-dated schools, based on

the decision, which was taken by the Cabinet during its reg-ular weekly session.

The list includes Hoora Sec-ondary Girls’ School, Salmaniya Intermediate Boys’ School, Ab-dulrahman Al Dakhel Interme-diate Boys’ School, Abdulrahman Al Nasser Intermediate Boys’ School, Abul Ala’a Al Maari Pri-mary Boys’ School, A’ali Inter-mediate Boys’ School, Karzakan Primary Boys’ School and Barbar Primary Boys’ School.

The Ministry of Education held a meeting with parents of students, whose children will be transferred to other neigh-bouring schools and updated them on the temporary meas-ure which aims to ensure stu-dents’ safety. Primary Educa-tion director Fatima Shaheen

Al Buainain said that many alternatives would be imple-mented for the coming school year, regarding transportation, and the transfer of students to neighbouring schools.

Works Ministry completes Arad Sewage Network Project Manama

Sewage Assistant Under-secretary at MoW, Asmaa Jassim Murad, has stated

that the ministry has finished the sewage network project of Arad, which aims to con-nect 100 properties in the area and to replace parts of the old sewage pipes in Streets 4501 and 4502.

She has stated that the project is considered one of the devel-opmental projects within the government’s work programme in an extensive agenda that the ministry is carrying out to devel-op sewage services in Muharraq in order to provide infrastruc-tural services as a national pri-ority in the area.

She has also explained that the project consisted of creat-ing 3,300 meters of main lines, 2,300 meters of secondary lines and 830 meters of deep lines.

“All of which led to the re-

placement of 781.63 meters of main lines and deep lines to have the capacity of future streams that will come from block 246 after building the sewage there.

The project tender was ear-lier won by Abdulhadi Al Aafu Construction for an amount of

BD 2,025,559.The assistant undersecretary

said that the ministry will en-sure constant supervision on all of its projects, including the sewage projects, in order to ful-fil the needs of citizens in the different areas of the Kingdom and provide better services.

The Project was carried out according to standards that achieve longevity and ensures a healthy environment for cit-izens.

According to Works Ministry, it is a conscious effort to utilise modern technology and to in-crease the absorptive capacity of the sewage system.

“This is all an effort towards the goal of providing a better lifestyle for all citizens, which aligns with the goals of The Eco-nomic Vision 2030.”

Furthermore, the ministry worked on improving sewage projects through the previous successful projects that contrib-uted greatly to the development of this sector.

“This is all part of the strate-gic plan the ministry has carried out to achieve development for the sewage sector and to pro-vide better services in all of the areas in the Kingdom,” the offi-cial added.

Many alternatives would be implemented for the coming school

year, regarding transportation, and the transfer

of students to neighbouring schools.

MS AL BUAINAIN

The project consisted of creating 3,300 meters of main lines.


I wanted to sell the drugs to some of

my customers here, with whom I was regularly having

sexual intercourse in return for money.

DEFENDANT

Five-year prison for Thai drug smuggler

Convict was arrested at Bahrain International Airport carrying 218 grammes of Shabu

• The defendant confessed that he was regularly consuming Shabu with his customers here.

• The Thai national will be deported once he completes the sentence.

TDT | Manama

The First High Criminal Court yesterday sentenced a Thai masseur, who at-

tempted to smuggle drugs into the Kingdom by hiding it in his body cavity, to five years imprisonment

and fined him BD3,000. The 51-year-old received an ad-

ditional one year imprisonment sentence for engaging in male prostitution. The defendant will be deported once he completes the sentence.

The verdict was announced af-ter the case was adjourned several

times by the judges this year. Court files show that the man

was arrested last March at Bah-rain International Airport upon his arrival from Bangkok with 218 grammes of methamphetamine, a drug that’s commonly known as Shabu, hidden in a sexual protec-tion sheath that was found in his undergarments.

During the interrogation, the man told prosecutors that he bought the substance from Thai-land, where it is much cheaper than Bahrain.

“I wanted to sell it to some of my customers here, with whom I was regularly having sexual inter-course in return for money.”

The defendant told the interro-gators that he hid the drugs in his body cavity and removed it upon

his arrival to the Kingdom. He also confessed that he was

regularly consuming Shabu with his customers here.

The sentence came as he was convicted of smuggling and con-suming drugs, in addition to partially relying on vice trade as a source of income.

Kindergarten ordered to pay BD1,050 after

kid suffers injury TDT | Manama

The Court of Appeals yesterday upheld a previous court verdict

that obliges a kindergarten to pay BD1,050 to compen-sate the parents of a child, who broke his arm during the nursery hours in 2017.

The child reportedly broke his arm after he was pushed by another child while play-ing in the kindergarten’s play-ground, which was left un-attended by the responsible educator.

According to the plaintiff ’s attorney, Ebtissam Al Sab-bagh, the incident took place on April 17, 2017.

Ms Al Sabbagh said the kin-dergarten authorities didn’t take the necessary procedures to ensure the safety of the children, explaining that the child was pushed by another child while no teacher super-vised them in the playground, resulting in his injury.

The lawyer said the child’s father, being his legal custodi-an, demanded the kindergar-

ten to pay a compensation of BD1, 500.

She clarified that the fa-ther demanded moral and materialistic compensation of BD500 for the child, BD500 compensation for himself and the child’s brother, and BD500 for the child’s mother (his wife).

Subsequently, the court or-dered the kindergarten to pay BD1,050 to the plaintiff last February.

The kindergarten manage-ment appealed against the verdict and the case was again opened by the Court of Ap-peals, which announced its judgement yesterday to reject the appeal.

3,000Bahraini dinars in fine was imposed on the Thai drug

smuggler.

The kindergarten authorities didn’t

take the necessary procedures to

ensure the safety of the children.

MS AL SABBAGH

Wage protection system stressed at LMRA Board meeting

Manama

Labour and Social Devel-opment Minister and Chairman of the Board of

Directors of the Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA), Jameel Humaidan, has lauded LMRA’s projects and plans to en-hance work environment.

He hailed LMRA’s efforts to preserve workers’ rights through a series of quality initiatives and projects that have been widely appreciated by specialised Arab and international organisations.

“All these efforts have earned the Kingdom regional and in-ternational acclaim. Its efforts to secure and consolidate work-

ers’ rights, as well as to maintain their gains have been acknowl-edged.”

While chairing the LMRA board meeting yesterday, in the presence of members and CEO, Ausamah Al Absi, the minister highlighted decree-law 59/2018 on amending some provisions of the Labour Law for the Private Sector stipulating that workers’ salaries or wages have to be cred-ited to approved bank accounts to protect their rights, commen-surate with national laws and international work standards.

In this regard, he stressed that preserving the rights of the work parties tops the priorities of the government.

The minister valued highly the existing positive co-operation among the LMRA, the National Committee to Combat Traffick-ing in Persons and the relevant government departments to maintain the Kingdom’s distin-guished international position as reflected in Bahrain’s success in maintaining the first tier status regarding anti-human trafficking efforts in the US State Depart-ment’s report.

LMRA’s CEO gave a detailed report on LMRA’s future pro-grammes and plans, highlighting the projects that contributed to the Kingdom’s success in main-taining its first tier status for the second year in a row.

Mr Al Absi shed light on LM-RA’s projects during this year, including the wage protection system aimed at creating a se-cure and transparent work en-vironment in which the rights of everyone are secured.

He also highlighted LMRA’s plans to ensure easy procedures for the citizens and employers through a network of branches spread all over the Kingdom, in addition to the signing of an agreement with the Al Salam Bank under which the latter could collect employers’ LMRA dues, thus raising the number of banks through which they could pay their dues to three with 20 branches.

Mr Humaidan chairs the meeting.

Last month ‘hottest June since 1902’

Manama

Bahrain Meteorological Di-rectorate (BMD) reported that the month of June

2019 goes on record as the hot-test June ever experienced in Bahrain since 1902.

The mean temperature of the month was 36.3 C which is 3.9 C above the long-term normal for June and this goes on record as the highest mean temperatures for the month of June since 1902, the BMD said in a statement is-sued. The old record was 35.7 C in June 2018.

The mean maximum temper-ature of the month was 40.9 C which is 4.5 C above the long-term normal and this goes on record as the highest mean maximum temperatures for the month of June since 1946. The old record was 40.2 C in June 1999.

During the month Bahrain had 20 days with maximum temper-ature exceeding 40 C. This goes on record as the highest number of days with maximum temper-ature exceeded 40 C for June since 1946. The old record was 17 days in June 2006 and 2009.

The highest temperature re-corded during the month was 45.3 C, which occurred on the 30th June at Bahrain Interna-tional Airport and this goes on

as the seventh highest maximum temperature for the month of June since 1946 at Bahrain In-ternational Airport.

The mean minimum temper-ature of the month was 32.3 C which is 3.5 C above the long-term normal and this goes on re-cord as the second highest mean minimum temperatures for the month of June since 1946 and only exceeded by June 2018 with a record of 32.4 C.

The lowest temperature re-corded was 29.7 C set on the 4th June at Bahrain International Airport but recorded 26.9 C on the 23rd June at Durrat Al Bah-rain.

The mean relative humidity for June was 41 per cent whereas the mean maximum relative hu-midity was 64pc and the mean minimum relative humidity was 22pc, the statement added.

The highest temperature

recorded during the month was 45.3 C.

KNOW

DID

BRAVE CF London event ‘a game changer’ TDT | Manama

Bahrain’s own BRAVE Com-bat Federation, founded by His Royal Highness Shai-

kh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khal-ifa, will organise its first ever London event on July 25, which is all set to empower the sport of Mixed Martial Arts in the region.

“Like no other, this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience that is not only a groundbreaking mo-

ment for the Kingdom and its international representation but for the sport itself,” the Brave CF said in a statement issued to media.

“For many years, the sport of Mixed Martial Arts has been seen as the fastest-growing one worldwide. But in Europe, where pretty much all sports activities are cemented and have their spot on the mainstream, this scenario is slightly different. There’s a

gap between potential and fulfil-ment, between how the sport is seen from an international per-spective and by the European au-dience. This is about to change.

“Bringing under the same roof the most influential people in the United Kingdom and inter-nationally from many different areas, from government officials to military officers, celebrities, businessmen, reputed athletes, and distinguished members of

the society, BRAVE CF is ready to bridge that gap.”

According to Brave CF, it will be the most global show London MMA will have ever witnessed, with 11 nations represented in eight electric bouts.

BRAVE 24 London will be re-membered as the event in which Bahrain’s first and only global product will break milestones and is set to be remembered as the show which will change the

entire perception of the sport of MMA to a much higher level, the statement said.

The occasion will showcase just how glamorous and lux-urious an MMA event can be, from the setup, the attention to detail, and, of course, the list of attendees that consists in some of the top influencers, politicians and sports person-alities from around the globe, it added. One of the posters of the event.

HKers moot Bank of China ‘stress test’ after latest clashes• The rallies were sparked by a now-suspended law that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China

• Call to collectively withdraw funds from the Bank of China

Hong Kong, China

Anti-government protesters in Hong Kong began circu-

lating plans yesterday to “stress test” the Bank of China in their bid to keep pressure on the city’s pro-Beijing leaders, after five people were arrested in the lat-est clashes with police.

The city has been plunged into its worst crisis in recent histo-ry following a month of huge marches as well as separate vio-

lent confrontations with police involving a minority of hardcore protesters.

The rallies were sparked by a now-suspended law that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, but have since morphed into a wider movement calling for democratic reforms and a halt to sliding freedoms in the semi-autonomous territory.

Sunday night saw fresh po-litical violence break out in the district of Mongkok as police baton-charged small groups of masked, largely young protesters who were walking along roads and refused to disperse follow-ing another massive, peaceful rally earlier in the day.

Police said the group were taking part in an “unlawful as-

sembly” and had been warned that officers would take action.

“Some protesters resisted and police arrested five persons for assaulting a police officer and obstructing a police officer in the execution of duties,” a state-ment said.

Another protester was arrest-ed earlier in the day for failing to provide identification during a stop and search.

‘Excessive force’Activists hit out at the police

tactics, saying the protesters had remained peaceful as they made their way home, and that violence was started by a shield wall of riot officers that had blocked the crowd’s path.

“HKers joined rally peace-fully... against extradition bill result in being beaten and assaulted by HK Police,” de-mocracy activist Joshua Wong wrote in a tweet accompanying pictures of at least two pro-testers with bleeding head

wounds. “Just another exam-ple of excessive force used by the police,” he added in another tweet.

By Monday morning, online groups were already planning more protests on encrypted mes-senger apps and chat forums that have been successfully used by demonstrators to bring out huge crowds. One proposal go-ing viral was a call to collectively withdraw funds from the Bank

of China this Saturday to “stress test” the organisation’s liquidity.

Shares in the bank were down about one percent Mon-day in line with the broader market. The state-owned Bank of China’s towering Hong Kong headquarters is one of the most recognisable buildings in the territory’s famous skyline and the organisation is one of three banks licensed to issue its own notes.

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29 die as bus falls off highway

Agra, India

At least 29 people were killed yesterday after a bus careered off one of

India’s busiest roads which has become known as the “highway to hell” because of its poor safety record.

The driver was suspected to have fallen asleep before the bus crashed into a railing and fell into a drain between two flyo-vers on the Yamuna expressway which connects New Delhi with Agra, the city famed for the Taj Mahal.

Eighteen people were injured,

some critically, police said.The 165-kilometre (100-mile)

Yamuna expressway was India’s longest six-lane highway when it opened in 2012 but about 900 people been killed on the road since, according to authorities, and Indian media have dubbed it the “highway to hell”.

The state-run bus was taking more than 50 people from Luc-know in northern Uttar Pradesh state to Delhi when the accident happened at about 4.15am (2245 GMT) some 20 kilometres out-side of Agra.

It fell more than 12 metres (40 feet) into a drain below the road, crushing the roof of the

bus. Running water in the drain complicated rescue efforts, po-lice said.

“Twenty nine persons have died and 18 others are injured,” said Agra district magistrate N.G. Ravi Kumar at the scene of the accident. “It appears that the driver was drowsy.”

People living in the area said they were woken by the crash and found the badly-mangled bus submerged in blackish-grey water.

“We rushed out of our homes and saw people screaming for help. We got into the drain and tried to save some of them. Soon police arrived and quickly

brought cranes,” one witness told reporters.

Crash-prone highwayMost of the victims were

sleeping when the driver lost control of the vehicle which had the Taj Mahal painted on its white exterior.

State Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ordered an investi-gation into the crash and cash compensation of 500,000 rupees ($7,289) for the family of each of the dead. “The (probe) com-mittee will give a report on the cause of the accident and also suggest long-term measures to avoid such mishaps,” govern-

ment official Awanish Awasthi said.

The Yamuna expressway was intended to be a symbol of mo-dernity when it was opened, speeding up journey times from Delhi to the key region.

In 2017 alone 763 crashes were reported on the Yamuna ex-pressway, which resulted in 145 deaths, authorities told the Save Life Foundation, a non-prof-it group that works on road safety.

India’s Defence Minister Ra-jnath Singh called the latest ac-cident “heart wrenching” and expressed his condolences to grieving families.

Onlookers and Indian police retrieve dead bodies from the crumpled remains of a bus that crashed on the Delhi-Agra expressway, near Agra

Protesters in Hong Kong are demanding that a postponed extradition bill be scrapped entirely

The Dugong Show: 24-hour webcast shows star Thai sea cows

Bangkok

A round-the-clock web-cast starring two belov-

ed baby dugongs in Thai-land named Mariam and Jamil went live Sunday, al-lowing a more in-depth look at the celebrity sea cows.

Mariam captured hearts in viral social media posts last month showing her playfully nuzzling up to rescuers in shallow waters off southwestern Thailand, while Jamil washed ashore further up the coast a week ago.

The orphaned dugong duo are being held separate-ly, but anyone with an in-ternet connection can now see them through a 24-hour livestream that uses eight camera angles and sched-uled feeding times.

A little after 2pm Jamil was seen splashing away in a small pool in the Phuket center.

Normally dugongs don’t leave their mothers until they are a little more than a year.

Mariam is female and believed to be about six months old, while Jamil is half her age. Experts say interest in the dugongs has helped galvanise awareness in ocean conservation.

Mariam captured hearts in viral social media posts last month


How serious are Iran’s breaches of the 2015 deal?

Vienna, Austria

Attention is once again focused on how close Iran could be to a nuclear weapon, after Tehran said it had started enrich-ing uranium to a higher level than agreed in a 2015 nuclear deal abandoned by the US.The move comes a week after it

was confirmed that the country has also exceeded the deal’s limit on its stockpile of enriched uranium.

• Which moves would cause more alarm?

Iran has said a “third phase” of reducing its commitments under the JCPOA may take place in the coming months if

no agreement can be reached with the other parties.One direction this could take is an increase in centrifuge

installation, particularly of more advanced models such as the IR-2M. More than 1,000 of these were removed from Natanz and put into storage under the JCPOA.

Prior to the deal, Iran had around 20,000 centrifuges of various kinds and amassed some 8,000 kilogrammes of low-enriched uranium.

If the IR-2Ms were redeployed, they could bring the time needed for enriching weapons-grade uranium down to seven months, according to David Albright from the Institute for Science and International Security, a think thank.

However, Kelley said the “breakout” concept is misleading if it only focuses on Iran’s stocks of nuclear material.

“You have to go back and say: ‘Where are they in the pro-cess of (in terms of developing) high explosives, machining’,” Kelley said, adding that he believed Iran was currently “de-ficient” in those areas.

Iran would also have to test and procure various bits of equipment -- activities that should be detectable, Kelley said.

A former French ambassador to Iran, Francois Nicoullaud, pointed out that having only one weapon “would leave Iran vulnerable once it had been tested” and that it would be better to have “at least two or three”.

For a nuclear capability of that kind, “the timeframe is undoubtedly three to five years from now,” Nicoullaud wrote on his blog.

• What does stockpile limit breach mean?

On July 1 the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), confirmed that Iran

had marginally exceeded the JCPOA’s 300-kilogramme (660-pound) stockpile limit of enriched uranium.

However, experts said Iran would need several times this amount before it would be able to even start amassing enough material for a bomb.

“At this point in time it’s certainly not a matter of great concern, because there is still time,” Olli Heinonen, former IAEA head of safeguards, said of the breach.

However, he cautioned that if Iran continued stockpiling in a year from now it could gather a tonne of the material, slashing the time it would take to produce weapons grade material. Iran has stressed that all the breaches announced so far could be reversed “in hours” if the other parties to the nuclear deal make good on their side of the bargain, meaning providing relief from sanctions.

• What does higher enrichment mean?

While Iran has always insisted its nuclear programme is peace-ful, the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)

froze the so-called “breakout time” Tehran would need to produce enough fissile material to make an atomic bomb to one year.

One of the restrictions to achieve this meant that Iran was only permitted to enrich uranium to the level of 3.67 per cent -- suffi-cient for power generation but far below the more than 90pc level required for a nuclear warhead.

Iran’s atomic energy organisation said on July 8 it had gone over the level of 4.5pc.

Iranian officials have hinted they may go up to five percent, the level needed to produce fuel for Iran’s only nuclear power station at Bushehr.

While the differences in percentages may sound small, former IAEA inspector Robert Kelley said that once the 3.67pc cap was breached, enriching to higher purities becomes much easier be-cause most of the effort is spent at the beginning of the process.

However, he said that in his opinion “increasing from 3.67pc to five percent is virtual proof they are not working on a bomb”.

“It is insignificant... a poke in (US President Donald) Trump’s eye.”

Uranium enrichment

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Museum starts ‘live’ restoration of Rembrandt masterpieceAmsterdam, Netherlands

Amsterdam’s famed Ri-jksmuseum yesterday be-

gan the biggest ever restoration of Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch”, erecting a huge glass cage around the painting so the public can see the work carried out live.

The multi-million-euro over-haul of the giant 1642 master-piece, one of the world’s most famous paintings, will also be streamed online so that “every-one in the world” can see.

Dubbed “Operation Night Watch”, the project is the “larg-est and most comprehensive research on Rembrandt’s mas-terpiece in history”, the museum said in a statement.

“Operation Night Watch aims to preserve the painting opti-

mally for the future and takes place in front of the public in a specially designed glass room.”

Rembrandt Van Rijn was com-missioned by the mayor and leader of the civic guard of Am-sterdam, Frans Banninck Cocq, to paint the picture of the of-ficers and other members of the so-called “Night Watch” militia.

Over the last three centuries Rembrandt’s brooding painting has endured travails including an escape from the Nazis, los-ing large chunks from each side during a move, and three attacks by vandals.

But experts have recently no-ticed changes to the painting, with a white haze appearing on some parts, especially in the area around the knife damage, where it is bleaching out the figure of a

small dog. The museum wants to “understand how the chang-es are happening and the best way to restore it”, director Taco Dibbits said when he unveiled the project in October.

Experts will examine the painting using high-resolution photography and computer analysis of every layer including varnish, paint and canvas.

The work will then take place in a glass case designed by French architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte, who was behind re-vamps of both the Rijksmuseum and the Louvre gallery in Paris.

“This research and restora-tion will be carried out with the world watching... so that every-one in the world, no matter where they are, can see,” Dibbits added.

The last major restoration work was carried out 40 years ago after a mentally ill man slashed it with a knife, and it is now housed in its own special room in the Rijksmuseum


We are not big fans of that man and he has not served the

UK well. So I can understand it, and I can say things about

him but I won’t bother

DONALD TRUMP

New Greek premier sworn in• The cabinet will be sworn in today and will meet tomorrow

• The country’s public debt last year stood at 335 billion euros ($376 billion), or 180 percent of GDP

Athens, Greece

Greece’s new conservative prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was sworn in

Monday after a sweeping elec-tion victory put him in charge of the EU’s most indebted member with promises to end a decade of economic crisis.

“The Greek people gave us a strong mandate to change Greece. We will honour it to the full,” Mitsotakis said after taking his oath of office in a televised ceremony.

“Hard work begins today. I am completely confident that we will prove equal to the chal-lenge.”

The cabinet will be sworn in on Tuesday and will meet on Wednesday, he said.

The 51-year-old Harvard grad-uate and former McKinsey con-sultant took the oath of office in the presidential mansion in the presence of his wife and three children.

He then walked next door to the prime minister’s office, where he had a brief discussion with defeated leftist premier Alexis Tsipras.

The US-educated conserva-tive faces a hefty challenge as he takes over from Tsipras, who imposed austerity measures re-

quired under a bailout to keep Greece in the eurozone.

The country’s public debt last year stood at 335 billion euros ($376 billion), or 180 percent of GDP.

The debt load is forecast to fall to 168 percent of GDP this year, but only under belt-tightening brought in under Tsipras’s Syr-iza party -- something that Mit-sotakis’s New Democracy party says is stifling growth.

The tricky job of keeping Greece’s international creditors onside while easing the hard-ship on Greeks -- by lowering taxes and renegotiating fiscal targets -- could result in a short honeymoon phase for Mitso-takis.

A Eurogroup finance meeting on Monday will convene to dis-cuss the state of Greece’s econ-omy after tax cuts rolled out by

Tsipras in a last-ditch attempt to win over voters May.

‘Message for change’The former banker has

pledged to create jobs and “steamroller” obstacles to busi-ness.

Those pledges wooed Greek voters, who handed him 40 per-cent of the votes in Sunday’s election, well ahead of the 31.5 percent given to Tsipras.

“It’s a strong message for change in Greece,” Mitsotakis told reporters on Sunday.

Last week he said that he saw it as his mission “to make sure we restart the economy” with “ambitious growth driven by private investments, exports and innovation”.

He predicted that he could persuade Greece’s creditors to accept the easing of tight fiscal

targets if “a comprehensive reforms package” was pre-sented.

Tsipras, for his part, warned that Mitsotakis would do away with the so-cial spending he brought in to help Greece’s vulnerable groups.

He portrayed the Mitsotakis family -- one of Greece’s leading political dynasties -- as part of a failed system that bankrupted the coun-try in 2010, which he blamed for the humil-iating bailout.

Greece’s newly elected Prime Minister and leader of conservative New Democracy party Kyriakos Mitsotakis

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Mitsotakis is the son of former prime minister Constantine Mitsotakis, one of the country’s longest-serving parliamentarians. His sister Dora Bakoyannis is a former

minister and Athens’s first female mayor.And in a first even for a country accustomed to family links in politics, the new mayor

of Athens is the incoming PM’s nephew.Mitsotakis took charge of the New Democrats three years ago. Following the election, his

party will have a majority of 158 seats in the 300-member parliament.New Democracy was last in power in 2014, in coalition with the Greek socialists.Syriza’s parliamentary presence will shrink from 144 seats to 86. Tsipras has promised

to remain an “active” voice in opposition.Sunday’s election was Greece’s third in as many months.In May, New Democracy beat Syriza by nearly 9.5 points in European parliament elec-

tions. A week later, it completed a near-sweep of Greek regions in local elections. After that, Tsipras was forced to call an early general election.

“A painful cycle has closed,” Mitsotakis said in a televised address immediately following his electoral victory, adding that Greece would “proudly raise its head again” on his watch.

Entering parliament for the first time are Greek Solution, a nationalist party formed by TV salesman Kyriakos Velopoulos, and MeRA25, an anti-austerity party founded by maverick economist and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis.

Neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn was shut out of parliament for the first time since 2012.Golden Dawn, until recently Greece’s third-ranking party, is in steep decline amid an

ongoing trial for the 2013 murder of an anti-fascist rapper, allegedly carried out with the knowledge of senior Golden Dawn members.

Britain hunts for leaker of cables calling Trump ‘inept’• One of the confidential telegrams from ambassador Kim Darroch called the Trump administration “uniquely dysfunctional”

London, United Kingdom

Britain scrambled yester-day to stem damage to its

relations with Washington by finding the leaker of diplomatic cables in which the UK ambassa-dor called US President Donald Trump “inept”.

The confidential telegrams from ambassador Kim Darroch created a political firestorm in London after their publication in the Mail on Sunday newspaper.

One of them called the Trump administration “uniquely dys-functional” while another char-acterised the US leader as “in-competent” and “insecure”.

Their release came just a month after Trump visibly en-joyed himself during a state visit that included a 41-gun salute welcome at Buckingham Palace and dinner with the queen.

They also threatened to com-plicate London’s efforts to strike a new US trade agreement that could help mitigate potential damage from Britain’s with-drawal from the European Un-ion.

Trump fired back by saying that people in his administration were “not big fans” of London’s man in Washington.

“We are not big fans of that man and he has not served the UK well. So I can understand it, and I can say things about him but I won’t bother,” Trump told reporters.

‘Very serious consequences’UK officials defended Darroch

as a professional who was carry-ing out his duties by providing “frank” assessments of the lat-est developments in the White House.

“Our ambassadors provide honest, unvarnished assess-ments of politics in their coun-try,” a Downing Street spokes-man said.

“As you’d expect, contact has been made with the Trump ad-ministration setting out our view

that we believe the leak is unac-ceptable.”

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the culprit would face “very serious consequences if and when we find out who was responsible.”

The British parliament’s for-eign affairs committee chairman Tom Tugendhat called the leak a “betrayal” that was “deeply dam-aging to the integrity of the UK”.

The Daily Telegraph newspa-

per said such memos are seen by up to 100 people working in the Foreign Office and other government departments.

“But it would require a sin-gle official or minister to have access to the whole cache, in-evitably casting the spotlight on senior ministers,” it wrote.

The immediate suspicion of the London papers fell on Brex-it-backing players in a power struggle within the governing Conservative Party.

Coveted jobBritish politics are in for a ma-

jor revamp once Prime Minister Theresa May ends her three-year spell in power later this month.

Brexiteer former foreign min-

ister Boris Johnson is the favour-ite to replace her in a leadership contest against Hunt.

The winner will get to appoint his own US envoy by the time Darroch’s term expires at the end of the year.

Commentators note that the official widely tipped for the Washington job was less en-thusiastic about Brexit than Johnson or some members of his team.

“There have been reports that Mark Sedwill, the current cabi-net secretary, is being lined up for the position,” The Guardian’s diplomatic editor Patrick Win-tour wrote.

But Trump “may be suspicious of Sedwill, and would prefer a true Brexiter”.

Wintour wrote that Sedwill “may not fill that bill, but Ni-gel Farage -- who pretty openly campaigned for the job before Darroch’s appointment in 2016 -- does”.

Farage has met Trump on several occasions and has bran-dished his anti-European cre-dentials by leading his brand new Brexit Party to victory in European election in May.

Farage on Monday called Dar-roch’s memos “pretty irrespon-sible” but played down interest in taking the ambassadorial job in Washington.

“I’m not a diplomat, and I think that’s quite an understate-ment,” he told BBC radio.

British Ambassador Kim Darroch speaks at an Afternoon Tea hosted by the British Embassy to mark the U.S. Presidential Inauguration at The British Embassy in Washington, DC


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DAMIEN MCELROY

The thing about ruling more than half the world is that it is habit-forming for gen-

erations to come.Commentary on British soci-

ety often revolves around the dominance of the privileged elite in its institutions and economy. While the controversies over the make-up of the establishment are an undoubted aspect of British culture, they are also overblown. In truth, critics bear as much responsibility as anyone else for the failure to make the country a fairer place.

There is scarcely an aspect of British modern life not touched by class warfare. Politics is cer-tainly dominated by the theme. The two men in the final leg of the race to be leader of the Con-servative party and therefore prime minister are products of two leading fee-paying board-ing schools, Eton and Char-terhouse. Both went to Oxford University.

Often they don’t help them-selves either in closing the class divide. One of the candidates, former foreign secretary Boris Johnson, suggested last week that he wanted to appeal to Op-

pidan Britain. Oppidan can mean urban; it more specifically refers to a certain type of Eton pupil who lives in town rather than boards at the school. Mr John-son himself was the other type, a King’s Scholar, and therefore, by implication, superior.

The casual use of the term in an interview with the Specta-tor magazine, a publication he used to edit, was entirely typical of the Wodehousian Mr John-son. It might have been that he was using the word in its original meaning of town-dweller to indi-cate that he wanted to appeal to the urban electorate.

As it happens, a visit he made to the London suburb of Orp-ington the same day provided an illustration of why Mr Johnson might not have acquired the com-mon touch he needs to win over Britain. At a garden centre, where he triumphantly tweeted he was “out and about meeting the good people of Orpington this morn-ing”, an elderly couple heckled him with the sneer: “Good luck with your preposterous ideas”. Mr Johnson stayed 15 minutes.

Appealing to the ordinary folk of Orpington should be top of his agenda. Figures on the dom-inance of privilege in the pro-

fessions and among wealth cre-ators do look horribly skewed. The Sutton Trust recently pub-lished its annual mobility survey.

It found only seven per cent of British people were privately ed-ucated, yet occupied 39 per cent of top positions.

CHOOSING TO BE POSITIVE AND HAVING A GRATEFUL ATTITUDE IS GOING TO DE-TERMINE HOW YOU’RE GOING TO LIVE YOUR LIFE. JOEL OSTEEN

QUOTE OF THE DAY

Class divides and elitism remain the unresolved

legaciesThe Conservative party

leadership race is indicative of how those from privileged backgrounds tend to flourish

The country has been

wagering on European panic but

recent events could force

EU powers to get tough on

Tehran

RAGHIDHA DERHAM

We are entering a very dangerous week for the US-Iran relation-

ship.The coming days carry grave

risks, because the Iranian lead-ership will continue inflaming military tensions as long as US President Donald Trump main-tains his strategy of strangling Iran economically. Both sides want to cut a deal but their de-mands are mutually exclusive.

Sources familiar with Tehran’s logic say the regime intends to exacerbate tensions to invite a US military strike. They argue Iran’s recent decision to increase uranium enrichment levels and threats to start up a nuclear re-actor if European nations fail to give economic guarantees by Sunday aim to induce panic in Europe and force a decisive split within Nato, forcing the US to radically alter its policy on Iran.

Some observers believe Tehran might win this bet, with some EU powers complying with meas-ures that could damage trans-atlantic ties. But others think the Europeans cannot bypass sanctions on Iran, resume oil purchases and establish a finan-cial vessel as Tehran desires, preventing Iran from forcing an about-face in Washington.

Mr Trump does not want to fire the first shot against Iran. But Tehran’s leaders want to lure him into it, to trap him on the eve of the US presidential election campaign and because they be-lieve he would back down. Sourc-es familiar with Washington’s thinking are adamant that the Americans are not “terrified”, as the Iranian intelligence minister Mahmoud Alavi has suggested. Mr Alavi said his country would

only agree to dialogue with the US if Mr Trump lifts sanctions and if Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, agrees.

If Tehran pushes Mr Trump too far by withdrawing from the nuclear deal altogether, the White House is ready to respond. Despite Mr Trump’s reluctance, it might have no choice but to re-spond militarily. The US military has already taken pre-emptive measures, including deploying 12 Stealth F-22 planes to US bases in the Gulf region. The decision whether or not to embark on a world-altering war is now in the hands of Mr Khamenei. In truth, the next few days could prove

decisive in this regard.Some Gulf states believe this

is a psychological or propaganda war. This view holds that Iran’s regime is not suicidal but surviv-alist and thus will stop short of provoking war.

Some believe an Iranian-Is-raeli war is unlikely because the two are “frenemies” who have avoided direct war and limited their confrontation to other bat-tlefields, chiefly Lebanon. On the other hand, some suggest Israel could be central in any potential military confrontation between the US and Iran. Based on interviews with military and intelligence sources, there are

two main scenarios for how this could play out.

One source noted: “Iran is not afraid of military confron-tation and its determination to destroy Israel is very serious.” The source added: “The Irani-ans have drafted military plans that include striking Israel to directly neutralise its capabilities [while] leveraging the capabili-ties of Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine.”

Another source painted a dif-ferent scenario, where the US would provide air cover for a strike on Iranian radars and mis-sile sites while Israel takes out the nuclear reactors in Arak and

Bushehr. In this scenario, the en-suing war would be devastating if Iran decided to strike back.

Iran has formidable military capabilities and can immediately activate Hezbollah in Lebanon to attack Israel. This would embroil Lebanon in a war with Israel, against its will, especially since Washington has told the Leb-anese government it would be held responsible for Hezbollah’s actions. Lebanon has also been informed that this time, Hezbol-lah would be battling both the US and Israel.

But both sources agree that any conflict would be relatively short. Still, the level of destruc-

Strategic chaos has taken Iran to the brink of disaster



DAMIEN MCELROY

The thing about ruling more than half the world is that it is habit-forming for gen-

erations to come.Commentary on British soci-

ety often revolves around the dominance of the privileged elite in its institutions and economy. While the controversies over the make-up of the establishment are an undoubted aspect of British culture, they are also overblown. In truth, critics bear as much responsibility as anyone else for the failure to make the country a fairer place.

There is scarcely an aspect of British modern life not touched by class warfare. Politics is cer-tainly dominated by the theme. The two men in the final leg of the race to be leader of the Con-servative party and therefore prime minister are products of two leading fee-paying board-ing schools, Eton and Char-terhouse. Both went to Oxford University.

Often they don’t help them-selves either in closing the class divide. One of the candidates, former foreign secretary Boris Johnson, suggested last week that he wanted to appeal to Op-

pidan Britain. Oppidan can mean urban; it more specifically refers to a certain type of Eton pupil who lives in town rather than boards at the school. Mr John-son himself was the other type, a King’s Scholar, and therefore, by implication, superior.

The casual use of the term in an interview with the Specta-tor magazine, a publication he used to edit, was entirely typical of the Wodehousian Mr John-son. It might have been that he was using the word in its original meaning of town-dweller to indi-cate that he wanted to appeal to the urban electorate.

As it happens, a visit he made to the London suburb of Orp-ington the same day provided an illustration of why Mr Johnson might not have acquired the com-mon touch he needs to win over Britain. At a garden centre, where he triumphantly tweeted he was “out and about meeting the good people of Orpington this morn-ing”, an elderly couple heckled him with the sneer: “Good luck with your preposterous ideas”. Mr Johnson stayed 15 minutes.

Appealing to the ordinary folk of Orpington should be top of his agenda. Figures on the dom-inance of privilege in the pro-

fessions and among wealth cre-ators do look horribly skewed. The Sutton Trust recently pub-lished its annual mobility survey.

It found only seven per cent of British people were privately ed-ucated, yet occupied 39 per cent of top positions.

CHOOSING TO BE POSITIVE AND HAVING A GRATEFUL ATTITUDE IS GOING TO DE-TERMINE HOW YOU’RE GOING TO LIVE YOUR LIFE. JOEL OSTEEN

QUOTE OF THE DAY

Class divides and elitism remain the unresolved

legaciesThe Conservative party

leadership race is indicative of how those from privileged backgrounds tend to flourish

The country has been

wagering on European panic but

recent events could force

EU powers to get tough on

Tehran

RAGHIDHA DERHAM

We are entering a very dangerous week for the US-Iran relation-

ship.The coming days carry grave

risks, because the Iranian lead-ership will continue inflaming military tensions as long as US President Donald Trump main-tains his strategy of strangling Iran economically. Both sides want to cut a deal but their de-mands are mutually exclusive.

Sources familiar with Tehran’s logic say the regime intends to exacerbate tensions to invite a US military strike. They argue Iran’s recent decision to increase uranium enrichment levels and threats to start up a nuclear re-actor if European nations fail to give economic guarantees by Sunday aim to induce panic in Europe and force a decisive split within Nato, forcing the US to radically alter its policy on Iran.

Some observers believe Tehran might win this bet, with some EU powers complying with meas-ures that could damage trans-atlantic ties. But others think the Europeans cannot bypass sanctions on Iran, resume oil purchases and establish a finan-cial vessel as Tehran desires, preventing Iran from forcing an about-face in Washington.

Mr Trump does not want to fire the first shot against Iran. But Tehran’s leaders want to lure him into it, to trap him on the eve of the US presidential election campaign and because they be-lieve he would back down. Sourc-es familiar with Washington’s thinking are adamant that the Americans are not “terrified”, as the Iranian intelligence minister Mahmoud Alavi has suggested. Mr Alavi said his country would

only agree to dialogue with the US if Mr Trump lifts sanctions and if Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, agrees.

If Tehran pushes Mr Trump too far by withdrawing from the nuclear deal altogether, the White House is ready to respond. Despite Mr Trump’s reluctance, it might have no choice but to re-spond militarily. The US military has already taken pre-emptive measures, including deploying 12 Stealth F-22 planes to US bases in the Gulf region. The decision whether or not to embark on a world-altering war is now in the hands of Mr Khamenei. In truth, the next few days could prove

decisive in this regard.Some Gulf states believe this

is a psychological or propaganda war. This view holds that Iran’s regime is not suicidal but surviv-alist and thus will stop short of provoking war.

Some believe an Iranian-Is-raeli war is unlikely because the two are “frenemies” who have avoided direct war and limited their confrontation to other bat-tlefields, chiefly Lebanon. On the other hand, some suggest Israel could be central in any potential military confrontation between the US and Iran. Based on interviews with military and intelligence sources, there are

two main scenarios for how this could play out.

One source noted: “Iran is not afraid of military confron-tation and its determination to destroy Israel is very serious.” The source added: “The Irani-ans have drafted military plans that include striking Israel to directly neutralise its capabilities [while] leveraging the capabili-ties of Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine.”

Another source painted a dif-ferent scenario, where the US would provide air cover for a strike on Iranian radars and mis-sile sites while Israel takes out the nuclear reactors in Arak and

Bushehr. In this scenario, the en-suing war would be devastating if Iran decided to strike back.

Iran has formidable military capabilities and can immediately activate Hezbollah in Lebanon to attack Israel. This would embroil Lebanon in a war with Israel, against its will, especially since Washington has told the Leb-anese government it would be held responsible for Hezbollah’s actions. Lebanon has also been informed that this time, Hezbol-lah would be battling both the US and Israel.

But both sources agree that any conflict would be relatively short. Still, the level of destruc-

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In some walks of life, the dom-inance of the old school tie is overwhelming. A total of 65 per cent of judges and 52 per cent

of British diplomats come from similarly privileged backgrounds.

Even the estimated 26 per cent figure for tech entrepreneurs is

highly unrepresentative.All walks of life are tainted.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge created the hit comedy Fleabag, which critics dubbed “less lovable” be-cause its characters were posh.

It should be said that Britain is not unique in having well-con-nected people rise to the top. When George W Bush became president, he was following in the steps of his father, George HW Bush.

Ursula von der Leyen was named the next leader of the European Commission last week in a career move that will trump her father’s, a director-general of the body.

One problem is that the an-tidote to class divides was dis-carded in a triumph for left-wing social orthodoxy. One of the best political quips in the last 15 years was Conservative leader Michael Howard’s jibe at La-bour’s Tony Blair about school-ing. “This grammar schoolboy is not going to take any lessons from that [private] schoolboy on the importance of children from less privileged backgrounds gaining access to university,’’ he declared.

The post-war generation of schoolchildren, who had ac-

cess to grammar schools, was far more upwardly mobile than the next generation, who were swept up in the great experi-mental democratisation of the education system with the in-troduction of comprehensives in the 1960s.

The following generation was further hampered by the intro-duction of a loans-dominated university system.

Among the Sutton Trust rec-ommendations to close the social gap is opening up Oxford, Cam-bridge and other top institutions to a wider student pool. It called for the adoption of “contextu-

al recruitment and admissions practices”. This suggests the adoption of affirmative action programmes rather than a mer-itocracy.

There was a warning this week that a shift in this direction could harm Britain’s global influence at just the wrong time. Sir Mark Lyall Grant, a former national security adviser and ambassador to the UN, described universi-ties as a pillar of Britain’s global soft power, adding that their ap-peal would diminish if the focus on excellence was diluted. Sir Mark’s ancestors, it should be noted, were responsible for lend-ing their name to Pakistan’s third largest city Faisalabad, originally known as Lyallpur, under the British Raj.

The empire entrenched the private school system as a pro-duction line for a cadre of admin-istrators to be posted across the globe. It is still producing kings and captains of industry.

Resolving how to supersede rather than entirely demolish the legacy of empire remains an unresolved conundrum. Spare a thought for those not fulfill-ing their true potential as the damaging class warfare debate rages on.

1896William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

1900The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and lo-cal church members, including children.

1918In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express, killing 101 and injuring 171 people, mak-ing it the deadliest rail accident in US.

1922Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking the world swimming record and the ‘minute barrier’.

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HISTORY

Studies not the only thing for students

When I was in school, I remember a lot of people gave too much

importance to marks and per-centages.

It was as if a child would not amount to anything in life if they did not receive a 90 per cent in a subject.

Maybe this is a construct of so-ciety which naturally puts pres-sure on parents, but this needs to stop.

This attitude of being so fo-cused on scores, forces children to grow up with a different mind-set.

They fail to love learning and focus only on getting the grade.

While studying and getting good grades is important, being good at extracurricular activities, having hobbies and dedicating time for your personal develop-ment is also important.

It has been argued that extra-curricular activities are not very important in a schoolchild’s life.

I, however, differ with that. A stu-dent’s social life is as important as their academic life, for their development.

Many parents, guardians, and students themselves do not un-derstand the importance of ex-tracurricular activities. Teach-ers in many schools have had to convince some parents and guardians to permit their children to participate in extracurricular activities.

This is because the parents feel that those after-school activities distract them from their studies, or caused them to get home late. Some students also feel that they do not need the activities, all they need is to concentrate on their books.

This notion couldn’t be any more untrue. Co-curricular ac-tivities are just as important as academics. They both comple-ment each other to develop a well-rounded student with more

social skills than one who only concentrates on their books. Ed-ucation should go beyond the four classroom walls; it should be more than just books.

There are so many activities that a student can choose from, including sports such as athletics, football, and rugby, scouts, de-bate, chess or even music. Some students who are interested in more than one activity end up participating in them, as long as they have enough time left for their studies.

For the children who have re-ceived their Central Board of Sec-ondary Education (CBSE) results and have done well, congratu-lations!

For those who have not done well, this isn’t the end of the road. Life gives you plenty of opportu-nities to prove yourself and shine.

Marks don’t always make the man.

Sagar A

The empire entrenched the private school system as a production line for a cadre

of administrators to be posted across the globe. It is still producing kings and

captains of industry.

tion would be significant.The Russian leadership is

watching closely and its attempts to defuse tensions have so far failed. The future of a major arms deal between Russia and Iran hangs in the balance and it is likely Moscow will not deliv-er heavy weapons in the event of US-Iranian war. According to Russian sources, such a war “would destroy Russian-Ameri-can relations”.

Moscow is holding the US re-sponsible for imposing an eco-nomic embargo on Iran and sees it as a provocation that amounts to a declaration of war. Rus-sian President Vladimir Putin has sought to persuade Irani-an President Hassan Rouhani to stop inviting military strikes. He has failed primarily because the final decision rests with Mr Khamenei and Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Hos-sein Salami, who said his forces were ready to “vanquish” their enemies.

Europe is divided into firm powers and panicked ones. A few days go, the British Royal Ma-rines seized Grace 1, an Iranian

oil tanker, in Gibraltar. The super tanker was carrying a massive shipment of crude oil heading for the Banyas refinery in Syria, in vi-olation of EU sanctions on the As-sad regime. France is desperately trying to save the nuclear deal that Mr Trump withdrew from – an impossible mission given the US insistence on compelling all sides to abide by sanctions on Tehran.

For example, German firms, due in no small part to the strict lobbying of the US ambassador to Berlin, are concerned they might be hit by US sanctions if they participate in the Instex financial vessel for EU trade with Iran. Judging by this, EU powers will not be able to meet their obliga-tions to Iran, despite EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogher-ini’s claims that Instex has been activated. Indeed, the US position has been that Instex is a way to circumvent sanctions and has issued warnings to firms, banks and even governments that the sanctions could apply to them if they use it.

The UK interception of the Ira-nian super tanker could force Europe to implement the em-bargo on Iranian oil. It sends an important message to Teh-ran, which has been wagering on European panic and for the purpose, adopted “strategic reck-lessness” to exploit the fear of war.

Ultimately, it seems this reck-lessness is pushing Iran and its people to the brink. But Tehran has the option of adjusting and reinventing itself to serve its interests and to pursue natural relations with its neighbours. The spectre of regional war will continue to loom large unless wisdom quickly prevails.

Strategic chaos has taken Iran to the brink of disasterThe UK interception of the Iranian super tanker could force Europe to implement

the embargo on Iranian oil. It sends an important message to Tehran, which

has been wagering on European panic.

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Batelco partners with YuppTV TDT | Manama

Batelco said it has partnered with YuppTV, the largest

South Asian OTT content pro-vider.

The deal allows subscribers access to more than 100 Indian Live TV channels in the Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil languag-es, in addition to benefitting from open access to a large video on demand library of In-dian TV shows and Bollywood movies. Yupp TV also provides a catch-up feature that records up to one week of Live TV.

Commenting, Batelco Gen-eral Manager Consumer Di-vision, Maha Abdulrahman said, “This partnership aims to provide on-demand video services to meet the needs of our customers, in-line with the increase in online enter-tainment offerings during this digital era.”

Zahra Zayat, VP and Head of MENA for Yupp TV said, “It is our pleasure to have entered into this partnership with Batelco which gives the oppor-tunity for residents in Bahrain to enjoy watching their favour-ite TV channels and Bollywood

movies, non-stop and on any device at any time, thanks to the attractive data bundle of-fered by Batelco.”

Yupp TV is offered to Batel-co’s Home Internet and Mobile subscribers for an additional BD4 monthly. Mobile subscrib-ers who activate the YuppTV service will also benefit from 5GB of data FREE on top of their existing data packages. TVs. Subscribers can download the Yupp TV application from the Google Play & Apple stores.

Maha Abdulrahman

MIT Technology Review lists Huawei in 50 smartest companiesTDT | Manama

HUAWEI was named recently as one of the 50 Smartest

Companies by MIT Technolo-gy Review. Since 2010, the MIT Technology Review, a globally influential technology media outlet, has annually published a list of the 50 companies that best combine innovative technology with an effective business model around the world.

MIT Technology Review picks the 50 smartest companies based on what the companies did over the last year, what methods they used, and what achievements they made. They evaluate the companies’ core competence with emerging technologies and any breakthroughs and in-novation the companies have achieved for themselves, their industries, or even the world. HUAWEI was included in the list this year for its outstanding ca-pabilities in innovation.

William Xu, HUAWEI’s Direc-tor of the Board and President of the Institute of Strategic Re-

search, delivered a speech about the company’s innovation strate-gy at the 50 Smartest Companies 2019 China Summit. He stated, “Over the past 30 years, HUA-

WEI mainly made technical and engineering innovations as well as innovations in solutions based on customer needs. We call that Innovation 1.0. In the future,

HUAWEI will pursue Innovation 2.0, which refers to theoretical breakthroughs and inventions driven by vision. The company sticks to open innovation and

inclusive development. Open innovation means innovating together with global experts. In this process, resources and capabilities are shared. Inclusive

development means the fruits of any innovation should be shared and used by all humanity and in-dustries. This can lighten the fu-ture of the world and industries.”

William Xu added that aca-demia is a source for theoretical breakthroughs and inventions, while industries drive progress through raising challenges, ad-dressing customer needs, and funding the research conduct-ed by universities. HUAWEI will continue to support the research of universities and institutions, and is committed to exploring and identifying future-proof technologies along the whole information process, from in-formation generation, storage, computing, transmission, and presentation, to information consumption.

The MIT Technology Review celebrated the 50 Smartest Com-panies for the first time in China this year, with the list containing entries for Chinese companies and international companies that operate in China.

HUAWEI was named one of the 50 Smartest Companies by MIT Technology Review

William Xu, Huawei’s Director of the Board and President of the Institute of Strategic Research

Ebdaa Bank makes a special appointment TDT | Manama

Ebdaa Bank for Microfinance has announced the appoint-

ment of Mohammed Fouad Al-Haddad, as its new Hamad Town branch manager.

This came in line with the bank’s efforts to empower na-tional cadres and give a hand to employees with special needs.

CEO of Ebdaa Bank Dr Khaled Al Ghazzawi said: “At the be-ginning of his career at the bank, despite all difficulties of his work as a loan specialist for several years, Mohammed Al-Haddad proved his ability to

accomplish the tasks assigned to him quickly and profession-ally with high productivity and assist the Bank’s Executive

Management in achieving its objectives,”

“In 2017, he got promoted as a team leader at our main branch.

Soon after, he got promoted as assistant manager of Saar branch. Now, Al-Haddad gets his new position with great mer-it after a distinguished career throughout his tenure in the bank,” added Dr Al Ghazzawi.

Dr Al Ghazzawi further noted bank’s keenness to hire, train and promote Bahraini employ-ees, where 85 per cent of the bank’s employees are Bahrainis. He stressed that bank is em-barking on its plan to promote distinguished employees to senior positions, ensuring the employment of Bahrainis in al Bank’s departments.

Mohammed Fouad Al-Haddad, the new Hamad Town branch manager

Dr Khaled Al Ghazzawi, CEO of Ebdaa Bank

British Airways fined $229.7m over theft of passenger data• Personal data of approximately 500,000 customers were compromised

• The stolen data comprised customer names, postal addresses, email addresses and credit card information

London, United Kingdom

The UK’s data privacy watchdog has fined Brit-ish Airways more than

£183 million after computer hackers last year stole bank de-tails from hundreds of thou-sands of passengers, the pair said yesterday.

The UK Information Com-missioner’s Office (ICO) said it had issued a notice of its inten-

tion to fine BA £183.39 million ($229.7 million, 205 million euros) for infringements of EU data protection rules, or GDPR.

“People’s personal data is just that -- personal,” Information Commissioner Elizabeth Den-ham said in a statement.

“When an organisation fails to protect it from loss, damage or theft it is more than an incon-venience. That’s why the law is clear -- when you are entrusted with personal data you must look after it,” she added.

In a separate statement, BA’s parent group IAG said the fine was equivalent to 1.5 per cent of British Airways’ turnover in 2017. Companies can be fined up to four percent of annual global turnover for breaching EU data protection rules.

The fine is equivalent to more than 7pc of IAG’s net profit last year.

I A G chief executive Willie Walsh said it would consider appealing the penalty as it seeks “to take all appropriate steps to defend the airline’s position vigorous-ly”.

BA’s CEO Alex Cruz said the airline was “surprised and dis-appointed” by the punishment.

“British Airways responded quickly to a criminal act to steal customers’ data,” he said in the statement.

“We have found no evidence of fraud/fraudulent activity on accounts linked to the theft. We apologise to our customers for any inconvenience this event caused,” Cruz added.

Personal data of approx-imately 500,000 customers were compromised, beginning

in June 2018, the ICO said Monday.

This was shortly after the Eu-ropean Union introduced its tighter data protection law, the General Data Protection Regu-lation (GDPR).

BA meanwhile publicly re-vealed the hack in September.

The stolen data comprised customer names, postal ad-dresses, email addresses and credit card information.

However the 15-day breach, which was fixed on discovery, did not involve travel or pass-port details.

Following disclosure of the hack, BA promised to compen-sate affected customers and took out full-page adverts in the UK newspapers to apologise to passengers.

Ghana halts $200-million parliament plan after outcryAccra, Ghana

Ghana yesterday shelved plans to spend $200 mil-

lion on a new parliament building following a public outcry over the cost.

An online campaign by cul-tural figures and civil society under the banner #DropThat-Chamber drew widespread support that the West Afri-can nation had more pressing needs. Parliament said it had halted the project due to the backlash ahead of a planned street protest on Saturday.

“We are a listening insti-

tution and after gauging the views of the people, we de-cided to shelve the idea,” Kate Addo, the acting director of public affairs of parliament, said.

“People should rest assured that we are listening to their concerns. We’ve realised that people think there is no need for a new chamber now, but it isn’t as if we don’t need a new chamber,” she added.

“Going forward we’ll engage people more.” Officials said the project was required to expand on the capacity of the current 275-seat facility.


China invests a lot in Europe, but only five percent of its

EU investments are in central and east

European states JACEK CZAPUTOWICZ

POLAND’S FOREIGN MINISTER

AU launches ‘historic’ free trade deal• Deal launched after 17 years of tough negotiations

• With Nigeria and Benin on board, 54 of the 55 AU member countries have now signed onto the deal

• Around 4,500 delegates and guests -- including 32 heads of state and more than 100 ministers -- attended the AU summit in Niamey

• The zone will be operational from July 1st 2020

Niamey, Nige

African nations official-ly launched a landmark trade agreement at the

African Union summit in Ni-ger on Sunday, with the long sought-after agreement hailed as a historic step towards “peace and prosperity” across the con-tinent.

After 17 years of tough nego-tiations, the AU launched the “operational phase” of the Af-rican Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in what AU com-mission chairman Moussa Faki had described as a “historic” moment.

“An old dream is coming true, the founding fathers must be proud,” said Faki, adding that Af-CFTA would create “the greatest trading area in the world”.

Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou hailed it as “the great-est historical event for the Afri-can continent since the creation of the Organisation of African Unity in 1963,” referring to the

AU’s predecessor.AU officials announced the

launch of the five “operation-al instruments” of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).

Nations agreed to shared “rules of origin, the monitoring and elimination of non-tariff barriers, a unified digital pay-ments system and an African trade observatory dashboard”, the AU commission announced.

The agreement was given a boost when the presidents of Nigeria and Benin signed on to rapturous applause on Sunday morning at the two-day summit in Niger’s capital Niamey.

With Nigeria and Benin on board, 54 of the 55 AU member countries have now signed onto the deal, with holdout Eritrea announcing it will consider join-ing the pact.

Around 4,500 delegates and guests -- including 32 heads of state and more than 100 min-isters -- attended the AU sum-mit in Niamey, which has been revamped and boasts a brand-new airport, upgraded roads, and new hotels for the occasion.

‘Game changer for Africa’The agreement was formal-

ised at the end of April when the agreement crossed the launch

threshold, which required rati-fication by at least 22 countries.

The zone will be operational from July 1st 2020, giving coun-tries time to adapt to the agreed changes, Issoufou said.

Malawi’s director of trade, Christina Chatima, told AFP the trade agreement as a “game changer for Africa.”

“Most of us export with Eu-rope and the US. It’s about time we started trading more with each other,” she said.

However despite the launch, there are still key issues leaders have yet to resolve.

Leaders could not agree on a common criteria for rules of

origin for some sectors.“An agreement has not yet

been reached on some of these issues,” Chatima said. “On tex-tiles, even the automotive sector. The AU secretariat is meant to come up with proposals on how we can agree,” she added.

The AfCFTA commits the ma-jority of countries to 90 percent tariff cuts within a five year pe-riod -- reducing barriers to trade on the continent.

Countries on a United Na-tions list of ‘Least Developed Countries’ will have 10 years to cut tariffs, whilst a group of six countries -- including Niger and Malawi -- will have at least 15

years, Chatima said. Amaka Anku, Africa analyst

at Eurasia group, described the deal as a positive step but said implementing the AfCFTA was still “a long way from taking off”, with concerns on how many of the new regulatory agencies for the trade agreement would be funded.

The AU estimates that the deal will lead to a 60-percent boost in intra-African trade by 2022.

At the moment, African coun-tries trade only about 16 per-cent of their goods and services among one another, compared to 65 percent with European countries.

Security on the continent Also on the summit agenda is

security -- an issue afflicting the Sahel in particular.

Summit host Niger has faced constant attacks by jihadist groups.

Its fellow members in the G5-Sahel security pact -- Chad, Mali, Burkina Faso and Mauri-tania -- will seek backing at the AU summit to push for a greater UN security force to address the terror threat.

The countries hope to activate Chapter VII of the UN Charter, a Nigerien security source told AFP. The chapter allows for the UN Security Council to deter-mine a threat to peace and pro-pose measures, including mili-tary deployment, to deal with it.

“No prosperity, no integra-tion is possible without peace,” said Faki, who stressed the im-portance of an AU Peace Fund launched in 2018 to finance se-curity activities and called on member states to fulfil their fi-nancial promises.

So far, only $116 million has been received for the envisaged $400-million fund.

The leaders are also set to dis-cuss boosting intelligence coop-eration and the global migration crisis.

(L to R) Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat, Egyptian President and African Union Chairman Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (L) and Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou applaud as they attend the launching of the “operational phase” of a landmark free trade agreement during the African Union summit at the Palais des Congres, in Niamey

Ethiopia to send 50,000 workers to UAEAddis Ababa, Ethiopia

Ethiopia will send 50,000 people to work in the Unit-

ed Arab Emirates, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced yesterday.

“Ethiopia is planning short-term measures to reduce un-employment in Ethiopia and to cope with the increasing job demands of our people,” Abiy told parliament in the capital Addis Ababa.

“One of these short-term programmes is sending our skilled labour to foreign countries,” said Abiy, who has sought to open his country to foreign investment since as-suming office last year.

He said that under the deal 50,000 workers would be sent to UAE in the 2019/2020 fiscal year, and discussions were be-ing held to send 200,000 over the next three years.

The workers would receive training in various sectors, in-cluding driving and nursing, earn higher wages and “boost their capacity”, Abiy said.

Discussions are underway about similar agreements with Japan as well as European na-tions, Abiy said.

He added that Africa’s fast-

est-growing economy would be aided by a young skilled workforce that was trained abroad.

T h e UA E h a s re c e n t l y pressed for closer ties with countries in the Horn of Af-rica, helping to mediate along with Saudi Arabia a historic peace accord between former enemies Ethiopia and Eritrea last year.

Last year, the UAE pledged to invest $3 billion in aid and investment in Ethiopia.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed

Poland urges China to boost investment, drop tariffs

• Poland in January arrested a former executive of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei suspected of spying

• The United States has banned government agencies from buying equipment from Huawei

Warsaw, Poland

Poland’s foreign minister yesterday urged China to

invest more in central Europe and to drop tariff barriers as his Chinese counterpart sought assurances that Warsaw would consider Beijing’s controversial 5G technology.

Poland in January arrested a former executive of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei suspect-ed of spying, casting doubt over its bid to develop a 5G network in the EU country closely allied with Washington.

The US has banned Huawei’s participation in the develop-ment of 5G wireless networks citing potential risks to national security.

“China invests a lot in Eu-rope, but only five percent of

its EU investments are in cen-tral and east European states,” Poland’s Foreign Minister Ja-cek Czaputowicz said at a joint press conference with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Warsaw.

“I encouraged the minister to make greater investments, of benefit to our society, in Poland and central Europe,” Czaputowicz said, also calling for Beijing to “eliminate barri-ers” and “open up” to imports from Poland and other Europe-an countries.

He noted progress on the ex-port of Polish farm products to China.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said he had received Warsaw’s assurance of fairness in considering Beijing’s 5G bid.

“Today I received the reas-surance from the minister that Poland has an honest, non-dis-criminatory and equal approach to entities engaged in building 5G,” Wang Yi said, according to an official translation.

The United States has banned government agencies from buy-ing equipment from Huawei over fears Beijing could spy on communications and gain ac-cess to critical infrastructure if the firm is allowed to devel-op foreign 5G networks offer-ing instantaneous mobile data transfer.

Washington is adamantly op-posed to Huawei’s involvement because of its obligation un-der Chinese law to help Beijing gather intelligence or provide other security services.

Europe in turn has been torn over its approach to the Chi-nese giant -- while countries such as Britain and Germany have accepted its part in the construction of their networks, other countries including the Czech Republic have warned against Huawei.

Poland’s Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz (L) shakes hands with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, before a meeting at the Palace on the Isle in Warsaw’s Lazienki Park

$64.89a barrel was the price of

Brent crude futures by 1353 GMT


Most Gulf markets bounce back• Riyad Bank gains on higher H1 dividend

• Advanced Petrochemical slips on lower Q2 profit

• Kuwait rises for the eight straight session

• Bank of Sharjah drops on weak Q2 results

• Six of seven banks slide in Qatar

Reuters

Most Gulf markets re-covered from earlier losses yesterday to

close higher, with Saudi lifted by financial shares and Kuwait rising for the eighth straight ses-sion following MSCI’s decision to include the country in its main emerging markets index.

The Saudi index gained 0.2 per cent with Al Rajhi Bank ris-ing 0.6pc and Riyad Bank adding 1.7pc after its board proposed a higher dividend for the first-half of the year.

The market is up nearly 13pc so far this year in a rally led by foreign investors.

Total ownership of Saudi

stocks by foreign investors in-creased to 7.47pc by June 30, up from 4.67pc at the end of December, stock exchange data shows, reflecting increased ac-tive and passive fund flows this year.

Advanced Petrochemical fell 0.9pc after it posted an over 24pc decline in second-quar-ter profit, which it blamed on a drop in sales volume and prod-uct prices.

Kuwait’s index closed 0.2pc higher. The index has surged since MSCI said it would move

Kuwaiti equities to its main emerging market index in 2020, a move that could trigger bil-lions of dollars of inflows.

Kuwait has outperformed its Gulf peers in anticipation of the MSCI move, gaining nearly 26pc year-to-date.

Middle Eastern funds plan to continue increasing investments in Kuwait over the next three months, a Reuters poll found earlier this week.

The Abu Dhabi index added 0.2pc with Abu Dhabi Commer-cial Bank gaining 1.3pc.

However, Bank Of Sharjah plunged 3.9pc after reporting a 38pc slump in first-quarter profit.

The Dubai index increased 0.3pc led by a 2.5pc jump in its largest listed developer Emaar Properties.

In Egypt, the index gained 0.2pc as Egypt Kuwait Holding leapt 5.1pc and Talat Mostafa Group Holding was up 1.6pc.

In Qatar, the index declined 0.7pc with Qatar National Bank losing 1.5pc and Commercial Bank was down 1.9pc.

Closing BellSAUDI 0.2pc » 8,827 pts

ABU DHABI 0.2pc » 5011 pts

DUBAI 0.3pc » 2,656 pts

QATAR 0.7pc » 10,443 pts

EGYPT 0.2pc » 14,043 pts

BAHRAIN 0.3pc » 1,533 pts

OMAN 0.2pc » 3,823 pts

KUWAIT 0.2pc » 6,634 pts

Traders on the floor of Saudi Stock market (Courtesy of Amazons)

Deutsche Bank careers end in an envelope, a hug and a cab ride

Reuters | Hong Kong/London/New York

Summoned by HR to be handed a Deutsche Bank envelope,

many of its staff across the world then left their desks for the last time on Monday, shown the door by their German employer within hours of a restructuring announcement.

Deutsche Bank confirmed on Sunday that it was closing huge parts of its trading businesses, with staff in its equities divi-sion in Sydney and Hong Kong among the first to be told their roles would go.

“If you have a job for me, please let me know,” said a bank-er leaving the Hong Kong office on Monday.

Staff leaving in Hong Kong were holding envelopes with the bank’s logo. Three employ-ees took a picture of themselves beside a Deutsche Bank sign outside, hugged and then hailed

a taxi.“They give you this packet and

you are out of the building,” said one equities trader.

“The equities market is not that great so I may not find a similar job, but I have to deal with it,” said another.

At the bank’s Wall Street of-fice, staff impacted by the cuts were summoned to the cafete-ria to learn of their fate. A no-tice inside the building’s lobby told staff the cafeteria would be closed until 11.30 a.m. EST.

Hundreds of staff were in-formed during the meetings that their positions were being cut, sources within the bank said. They also received details of their redundancy packages. One source said staff could be seen saying their goodbyes to colleagues upon leaving the caf-eteria.

Speaking outside the bank’s office, one employee told Reu-ters the cuts had been anticipat-ed for weeks.

“People have been planning their next moves but it’s a tough market,” the person said, speak-ing on condition of anonymity.

Deutsche Bank plans to close all of its equity trading business and cut some parts of its fixed

income operations, in an over-haul expected to lead to 18,000 job cuts.

Some of those roles will be cut immediately, while some staff will be kept on for longer while they help wind down operations.

A few hours after the Hong Kong staff left, workers were seen leaving Deutsche Bank’s of-fice in the City of London, which along with New York is expected to bear the brunt of the cuts, car-rying similar envelopes.

“I was terminated this morn-ing, there was a very quick meet-ing and that was it,” said one IT worker, who left while Deutsche Bank chief executive Christian Sewing was inside the building doing a call with the media.

Few staff wanted to speak outside the bank’s London of-fice, but trade was picking up at the nearby Balls Brothers pub around lunchtime.

“I got laid off, where else would I go,” said a man who had

just lost his job in equity sales.

Far-flung cuts The layoffs were going beyond

the major financial centers.A Deutsche Bank employee

in Bengaluru told Reuters that he and several colleagues were told first thing that their jobs were going.

“We were informed that our jobs have become redundant and handed over our letters and given approximately a month’s salary,” he said.

“The mood is pretty hopeless right now, especially (among)people who are single-earners or have big financial burdens such as loans to pay,” he added.

Deutsche spokespeople in Hong Kong and London de-clined to comment on specific details about the number of de-partures, but said they would try to support people being made redundant.

For those losing their jobs in

equities, finding a new one could prove difficult, with the industry still grappling with higher costs from new European regulations on share trading.

“The job market in equities is going to be very tough,” said George Kuznetsov head of re-search and analytics at Coalition, which analyses the investment banking industry.

“Our expectations if for equi-ties sales and trading revenues falling 7-8% this year and that of course is going to put a lot of halts into the hiring across most of the brokers”.

For Deutsche Bank staff whose jobs are safe for now, there was some relief, but also big doubts about the future.

“The biggest question for us is where do we go from here if we don’t offer the whole suite of products? Will clients stick with us or is the game over?” said a Singapore banker who remains in his job.

At the bank’s Wall Street office, staff impacted by the cuts were sum-moned to the cafeteria to learn of their fate. A notice inside the build-

ing’s lobby told staff the cafeteria would be closed until 11.30 a.m.

EST

Pizzas are delivered to a Deutsche bank office in LondonA man carrying a box leaves a Deutsche Bank office in LondonPeople carry bags outside a Deutsche bank office in London

Oil rises amid Iran’s new nuclear threatsReuters | London

Oil prices firmed yester-day amid tensions over

Iran’s nuclear programme but gains were tempered by concerns about global economic growth and con-sequently oil demand.

Brent crude futures were up 66 cents by 1353 GMT at $64.89 a barrel. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) was up 60 cents at $58.11.

Iran on Monday threat-ened to restart deactivated centrifuges and step up its enrichment of uranium to 20% in a move that further threatens the 2015 nuclear agreement that Washington abandoned last year.

On Sunday Trump issued another warning over Iran’s nuclear activities. “They’d better be careful,” he said.

However, oil prices con-tinue to be pressured by lin-gering fears over demand.

The US-China trade war has dampened prospects for global economic growth and oil demand.

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OASIS JUFFAIR1-SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME (PG-15) (ACTION/ADVENTURE) NEW*-TOM HOLLAND, SAMUEL L. JACKSON, ZENDAYA

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2-ALMAMAR (PG-13) (ARABIC/DRAMA/WAR) NEW*-AHMAD EIZ, HIND SABRI, AHMAD RIZIK

DAILY AT: 11.00 AM. + 2.00 + 5.00 + 8.00 + 11.00 PM

3-TOY STORY 4 (G) (ANIMATION/ DVENTURE/COM-EDY) *-TOM HANKS, TIM ALLEN, JOAN CUSACK

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5-ALADDIN (PG) (ADVENTURE) *-WILL SMITH, NAOMI SCOTT, MENA MASSOUD

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DAILY AT: 11.45 AM. + 7.00 + 12.00 MN

7-ANNA (15+) (ACTION/CRIME/THRILLER) *-SASHA LUSS, HELEN MIRREN, LUKE EVANS

DAILY AT: 4.30 + 9.30 PM

8-KABIR SINGH (15+) (HINDI/DRAMA/ROMANTIC) *-SHAHID KAPOOR, KIARA ADVANI, ARJAN BAJWA

DAILY AT: 10.30 AM. + 1.45 + 5.00 + 8.15 + 11.30 PM

CITYCENTRE1-SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME (PG-15) (ACTION/ADVENTURE) NEW*-TOM HOLLAND, SAMUEL L. JACKSON, ZENDAYA

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DAILY AT: 11.30 AM. + 2.30 + 5.30 + 8.30 + 11.30 PM


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DAILY AT: 12.15 + 3.00 + 5.45 + 8.30 + 11.15 PM + (12.30 MN THURS/FRI)

6-MOHAMMED HUSSAIN (PG-15) (ARABIC/COMEDY) *-MOHAMED SAAD, MAI SALEEM, MOHHAMED THARWAT

DAILY AT: 11.00 AM. + 1.00 + 3.00 + 5.00 + 7.00 + 9.00 + 11.00 PM


DAILY AT: 11.15 AM. + 1.45 + 4.15 + 6.45 + 9.15 + 11.45 PM

8-JOHN WICK 3 - PARABELLUM (15+) (ACTION/THRILL-ER/CRIME) *-KEANU REEVES, HALLE BERRY, IAN MCSHANE

DAILY AT: 11.00 AM + 1.30 + 4.00 + 6.30 + 9.00 + 11.30 PM

9-ANNA (15+) (ACTION/CRIME/THRILLER) *-SASHA LUSS, HELEN MIRREN, LUKE EVANS

DAILY AT: 11.30 AM + 2.00 + 4.30 + 7.00 + 9.30 + 12.00 MN

10-THE HUSTLE (PG-15) (COMEDY/CRIME) *-ANNE HATHAWAY, REBEL WILSON, ALEX SHARP

DAILY AT: 10.30 AM + 12.30 + 2.30 + 4.30 + 6.30 + 8.30 + 10.30 PM

11-CHILD’S PLAY (18+) (HORROR) *-AUBREY PLAZA, GABRIEL BATEMAN, BRIAN TYREE

DAILY AT: 10.30 AM + 3.00 + 7.30 + 12.00 MN

12-GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS (PG-13) (AC-TION/ADVENTURE/THRILLER/FANTASY) *-VERA FARMIGA, KEN WATANABE, SALLY HAWKINS

DAILY AT: 12.30 + 5.00 + 9.30 PM

13-POKEMON DETECTIVE PIKACHU (PG) (ACTION/ADVENTURE/FANTASY)*-RYAN REYNOLDS, JUSTICE SMITH, KATHRYN NEWTON

DAILY AT: 11.00 AM + 4.15 + 9.30 PM

14-AVENGERS: ENDGAME (PG-15) (ACTION/ADVEN-TURE) *-BRIE LARSON, ROBERT DOWNEY JR., KAREN GILLAN

DAILY AT: 1.00 + 6.15 + 11.30 PM

15-SABIE AL BOROMBA (PG-13) (ARABIC/COMEDY) *-RAMEZ GALAL, BAYOUMI FOUAD, JAMEELA AWAD

DAILY AT: 10.45 AM + 3.00 + 7.15 + 11.30 PM

16-CASABLANCA (PG-15) (ARABIC/ACTION/CRIME/THRILLER) *-AMIR KARARA, GHADA ADEL, EYAD NASSAR

DAILY AT: 12.45 + 5.00 + 9.15 PM

SEEF (II)1-SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME (PG-15) (ACTION/ADVENTURE) NEW*-TOM HOLLAND, SAMUEL L. JACKSON, ZENDAYA

DAILY AT: (12.45 MN THURS./FRI.)

2-PLAY OR DIE (18+) (THRILLER/ HORROR) NEW*-CHARLEY PALMER ROTHWELL, ROXANE MESQUIDA, LAETI-TIA CHAMBON

DAILY AT: 11.30 AM + 3.30 + 7.30 + 11.30 PM

3-I’LL TAKE YOUR DEAD (18+) (THRILLER/HORROR) NEW*-AIDAN DEVINE, AVA PRESTON, JESS SALGUEIRO

DAILY AT: 1.30 + 5.30 + 9.30 PM

4-CLARITA (15+) (FILIPINO/HORROR/DRAMA) NEW*-RICKY DAVAO, ALYSSA MUHLACH, JODI STA. MARIA

DAILY AT: 7.30 + 9.30 + 11.30 PM

5-ASTERIX: THE SECRET OF THE MAGIC POTION (PG) (ANIMATION/ ADVENTURE/COMEDY) NEW*-CHRISTIAN CLAVIER, GUILLAUME BRIAT, ALEX LUTZ

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6-PAVAROTTI (PG-13) (DOCUMENTRY) NEW*-SPIKE LEE, PRINCESS DIANA, LUCIANO PAVAROTTI

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7-MALAAL (PG-15) (HINDI/ ROMANTIC) NEW*-MEEZAAN JAFRI, SHARMIN SEGAL, BADRI CHAVAN

DAILY AT: 10.30 AM + 3.00 + 7.30 + 12.00 MN

8-HUME TUMSE PYAAR KITNA (PG-15) (HINDI/THRILL-ER/ROMANTIC) NEW*-JUHI CHAWLA, PRIYA BANERJEE, KARANVIR BOHRA

DAILY AT: 11.00 AM + 3.15 + 7.30 + 11.45 PM


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M O V I E R E V I E W

Pavarotti: Documentary on famed tenor hits most of the right notesPortrait of one of the most famous opera singers ever is delightful, if far from definitive

• Ron Howard’s ebullient documentary salutes the operatic legend Luciano Pavarotti for the genius he was, and the simple man he was

Pavarotti is a 2019 docu-mentary film directed by Ron Howard about oper-

atic tenor Luciano Pavarotti. The film had a nationwide

premiere event through Fath-om Events on June 4, 2019, and was released in theatres on June 7, 2019.

Pavarotti is an American-Brit-ish venture, with CBS Films and HanWay Films serving as dis-tributors.

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an ap-proval rating of 85% based on 39 reviews, with an average rating

of 6.76/10. The website’s criti-cal consensus reads, “Pavarotti pays entertaining tribute to a

towering cultural figure with a documentary whose evident affection for its subject proves

contagious.”On Metacritic, the film has

a weighted average score of 67

out of 100, based on 16 critics, indicating “generally favourable reviews”.

CBS News said the “new doc-umentary about Pavarotti soars

like his legendary voice”.USA Today said the film “serves as a vivid reminder of just how huge a role the great tenor Lu-ciano Pavarotti played for a generation” and that “the pas-sionate way the infectiously beaming, Hawaiian shirt-lov-ing opera star lived his life is the most enchanting element of Pavarotti.”

The New York Times said “If Luciano Pavarotti ever had a bad day, you wouldn’t know it from Pavarotti, an upbeat film that recounts the sing-er’s life, or at least its better moments.”

On the other hand, NPR said the film “misses all the right notes,” adding “Pavarotti feels like a missed chance to tell a good story.”

The Washington Post de-scribed the documentary as “ter-rible but timely”, a “mediocre film, imperfect and annoying,” that opera lovers should never-theless watch.

A scene from ‘Pavarotti’

KNOW WHAT

Luciano Pavarotti was an Italian operatic

tenor best known for his performances with Spanish singers Plac-ido Domingo and Jose

Carreras. Together, they were given the

name The Three Tenors

14 TUESDAY, JULY 9, 2019

Sarah Jessica Parker reported ‘big movie star’ for

‘inappropriate behaviour’Los Angeles

Hollywood star Sarah Jes-sica Parker has revealed that she once reported

a “big movie star” for “behaving inappropriately” with her early in her career.

In an interview with NPR’s Fresh Air radio programme, the 54-year-old actor said she did not feel as powerful as the man behav-ing inappropriately with her.

‘’I think no matter how evolved or how modern I thought I was...I didn’t feel entirely in a position -- no matter what my role was on set -- I didn’t feel as powerful as the man who was behaving inappropriately, which... strikes me as just stunning to say out loud, because there were plenty of occasions where it was happening and I was in a different position and I was as powerful. I mean, I had every right to say, ‘This is inappropriate.’ I could have felt safe in going to a superior,” she said.

The “Sex and the City” star said she took up the matter with her manager, who made sure the advances stopped.

“When there was a situation with somebody and I did go to my agent be-cause I felt I was no longer able to convey how uncomfortable this was making me, how inappropriate it waswithin hours everything had changed He said to them, ‘If this continues, I have sent her a ticket, a one-way ticket out of this city’ where I was shooting ‘and she will not be returning’,” she added.

Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger enjoys

time with familyLos Angeles

Ne w l y w e d s C h r i s Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger seem

to enjoy their married life. The pair was spotted in Hyannis Port, Mass on Sunday. The cou-ple along with Schwarzeneg-ger’ family enjoyed a boat ride,” reported E! Online.

Katherine’s mother Ma-ria Shriver, brother Patrick Schwarzenegger and his girl-friend Abby Champion all joined the couple and spent quality time with each other. After the b o a t r i d e , t h e fam-i l y bid

goodbyes and hugged each other.

The Pratt and Schwarzeneg-ger have been vacationing in Massachusetts for a few days now.

The couple celebrated Fourth of July with Schwarzenegger’s family at the famous Kennedy compound and took several family pictures which made Schwarzenegger joked on so-cial media that she basically

had an Insta-gram hus-band.

T h e couple re-cently got back from their hon-

eymoon in Hawaii.

Khloe Kardashian fires

back after fan accuses her of “excessive spending” on daughter

Los Angeles

American reality star Khloe Kardashian, who never shies away from speaking her mind, has clapped back at a fan who criticised her for spending too much

money on a gift for her daughter True Thompson.The 35-year-old star posted a sweet video on Instagram

over the weekend that showed her daughter sitting in a tiny sparkling pink motorised Bentley with a personalised plate.

“I have so much fun with her,” she captioned the clip that showed the little one laughing and swaying as music played in the toy car.

“Go, mama,” Khloe said asking her daughter if she liked it before True said, “All done,” as the music ended.

“Great, another Kardashian in a Bentley,” a user commented.

“You guys are so oblivious to how your excessive spending looks to the outside world. I really loved

your family’s story and now just can’t bear to watch as you spend all this money on worthless

materialism. It’s so sad,” the user added.

Nick Cannon comments ‘Hilarious’ on ex-wife Mariah Carey’s bottle

cap challenge videoLos Angeles

American actor Nick Cannon could not stop himself from reacting as his ex-wife Mariah Carey took the #Bottle-

CapChallenge to another level.The actor commented ‘Hilarious’ on

the #BottleCapChallenge video shared by Carey on her Instagram account on Sunday.

According to US Magazine, the couple was married for eight years and share two kids.

The video shows Carey all prepped to take on the challenge. However, she took the challenge to another level as she popped off the cap of a bottle without even using her leg.

Carey, instead of doing a round kick deliv-ered a high note popping the cap off the bottle.

The challenge started last month when UFC fighter Max Holloway kicked the cap off a bottle with his foot.

Ariana Grande pens letter to fans after videos of her crying on stage went viral

Los Angeles

After a video of Ariana Grande breaking into tears in the middle of a concert surfaced online, the singer penned a

letter dedicated to her fans, opening up about the challenges she faced in re-cent years.

The video features the Amer-ican singer crying onstage at a recent concert and struggling to get through a song.

The ‘Thank U, Next’ singer got candid about her struggles and asserted that she is at a point in her life where she is “still processing a lot”, CNN quoted the letter.

Hailey Baldwin celebrates one year since Justin Bieber proposed herLos Angeles

Model Hailey Baldwin marked the first anniver-sary of the special day

since her husband Justin Bieber proposed her to marry him.

“1 year ago I said yes to being your best friend for life, and today I have never loved you more,” the 22-year-old model wrote on Ins-tagram alongside an adorable photo of the two together.

The pop star

had asked her out in the Bahamas in July last year.

“Life gets more beauti-ful every day because of

you, my heart belongs to you forev-er. Here’s to learning and growing together,” she further wrote.

Two months post the proposal the couple secretly got married in September in New York City.

“They went ahead and did it without listening to anyone,” a source close to the couple told People at the time.

A religious source had revealed that the couple was legally married

at the courthouse. However, they may plan a religious cer-emony and celebration with family and friends soon.

Ariana Grande

Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin

Shawn Mendes clears air on dating Camila Cabello

Los Angeles

Post the electrifying per-formance of Canadian singer Shawn Mendes at

Staples Center, curious fans in-terrogated if he is dating his re-cent co-singer, Camila Cabello.

The concert, which started with a few chords of ‘Lost in Ja-pan,’ ended with a question-an-swer session, during which a fan asked Mendes, “Are you dating Camila?”

In response, the singer shook his head and placed his hands to the side, which meant a no, reported E Online.

The fan further inquired “And if not, will you go out with me?”

“That was the best setup to ‘Will you go out with me’ I’ve ever heard. I won’t, but I don’t know you. That’s why. Get to know me first,” the singer re-plied.

The ‘Havana’ singer who re-cently called it quit with coach boyfriend, Matthew Hussey was also spotted at the Mendes’ concert, as seen in an Insta-gram Story she posted.

Mendes and Cabello, who re-cently launched a steamy duet and music video, ‘Senorita’ has been sparking romance rumors in recent weeks.

The duo, who were seen to-gether at a Fourth of July par-ty, was also photographed on a night out, hand-in-hand.

Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello

Khloe Kardashian

Colts CA to tour England TDT | Manama

Colts Cricket Academy, Bah-rain is all set to embark on

their first international tour to UK from 11th July to 21st July.

The tour party consist more than 30 participants that in-cludes 15 players and their families and Colts CA coaches. The players will get the oppor-tunity to play on high quality natural turf wickets on lush green grass grounds against quality opponents from UK Schools, clubs and Academies. They will play four 30 over games and two T20s during the tour.

The talented youngsters from Bahrain would be given a tough test in the UK which would help them immensely to enhance their skills.

The tour will start in York-shire where they play 5 match-es over a period of six days be-fore moving to London for the rest of the tour. The team will have the rare opportunity to undergo a specialized coaching

session with Hawk Eye anal-ysis and a guided tour at the world-famous Lord’s cricket ground.

They then play the final game of the tour in London followed by an awards cere-mony. The tour party also gets the opportunity to explore the beautiful UK and scheduled to enjoy Harry Potter World, Madame Tussauds vax Muse-um, London Eye ride, Themes River Cruise, Headingly Inter-national Cricket Stadium tour, Manchester United Football ground tour, Royal Armories etc.

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IndiaIndia bounced back from their only group stage defeat – a 31-run defeat to hosts England at Edg-baston - by beating Bangladesh and Sri Lanka to sign off on a high.

Against Bangladesh, Rohit Sharma scored 104 in a total of 314/9. Jasprit Bumrah then claimed 4-55 as India bowled the Tigers out for 286 in reply.

Sharma then hit another century – his fifth of the tournament and third in a row – to lead India to a commanding victory against Sri Lanka. He scored 103 and KL Rahul hammered 111 as India needed just 43.3 overs to chase 265 and win by seven wickets.

New ZealandNew Zealand’s group-stage efforts fizzled out with defeats to Pakistan, Australia and England in their final three games – meaning they only reached a semi-final spot on net run rate.

They could not defend 237/6 in a low-scoring game against Pakistan at Edgbaston, losing by six wickets. Then, against Australia, chasing 244 to win after Trent Boult’s 4-51, they collapsed to just 157 all out.

It was a similar story against England. They pegged the hosts back well after a tough start, leaving them chasing 306 to win at Durham, but they posted just 186 all out in 45 overs.

Probable XIProbable XI

C r i c k e t W o r l d C u p

SEMI FINAL-1

KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli (c), Risabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, MS Dhoni (wk), Dinesh Karthik, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammed Shami

Pitch Condition

Old Trafford has served up some flat, batting wickets so far in this tournament. Frustratingly, rain is set to return to Manchester on Tuesday and there could be a few interruptions for showers.

Head to Head

» India and New Zealand’s group-stage game fell victim to the rain – the only no result either team endured during the group stage. It means they go into this game having met 106 times in ODI history. There have been 55 Indian wins, 45 for New Zealand, one tie and five no results.

» They last met in New Zealand in January, when India were in dominant form on their way to a 4-1 series win.

Martin Guptill, Henry Nicholls, Kane Williamson

(c), Ross Taylor, Tom Latham (wk), Colin de Grandhomme, Jimmy

Neesham, Mitchell Sant-ner, Trent Boult, Lockie

Ferguson, Matt Henry

Brazil end Copa droughtHosts Brazil win first Copa America title since 2007 after beating Peru

• Gabriel Jesus scored and was sent off in 3-1 victory

• Everton and Richarlison also claimed goals for Brazil

AFP | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Ten-man Brazil held on to win the Copa America on home soil despite Gabriel

Jesus’s dismissal with a 3-1 vic-tory over Peru on Sunday.

Jesus scored the decisive goal after a penalty from Peru captain Paolo Guerrero canceled out Everton’s opener for hosts Brazil at Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana stadium.

A last minute penalty from substitute Richarlison sealed a win for Brazil which handed the South American giants their ninth Copa triumph and first since 2007.

Jesus’s evening went sour 20 minutes from time as he was sent off for a second booking.

The Manchester City striker was in tears as he left the field, making obscene hand gestures, angrily kicking a water bottle and almost knocking over the

VAR booth.Brazil’s players rallied after

the dismissal however to claim a battling victory.

“It’s really special because we built something together,” en-thused captain Dani Alves.

Earlier, after a minute’s si-lence was held for bossa nova legend Joao Gilberto -- who died on Saturday -- underdogs

Peru made a confident start and didn’t appear overawed by either their opponents or the occasion.

But it quickly became appar-ent that they were up against more accomplished players.

“It was a game in which they took advantage of our mistakes and turned them all into goals,” said Peru’s Edison Flores.

Peru coach Ricardo Gareca had said on Saturday they need-ed to prevent Brazil from dom-inating possession, but that was easier said than done.

Individual brilliance Brazil started to stroke the ball

around commandingly, and as they did that, they looked dan-gerous.

Their opening goal came from a piece of individual bril-liance by Jesus, whose drag back fooled two defenders, creating space for him to cross for the unmarked Everton to drill home at the back post on the quarter hour. Brazil were in control and playing like champions elect as Roberto Firmino found space on the left and crossed for Philippe Coutinho to stab wide.

Left-winger Everton was clev-er with his movement in drag-ging the athletic right-back Luis Advincula out of position and Brazil’s left-back Alex Sandro found acres of space to put in a deep cross that Firmino headed over.

Just as it looked as if Brazil would stroll to victory, Peru went on the attack and a Chris-tian Cueva cross hit the arm of a sliding Thiago Silva, giving Peru a penalty that was confirmed after a VAR review.

Guerrero sent goalkeeper Alisson the wrong way from 12 yards and Peru were back in it just before half-time.

But they paid for their lack of guile and experience with almost the last kick of the half as Arthur was allowed to drive at the defence from midfield fol-lowing a slip from Renato Tapia that left him space to attack.

KNOW WHAT

Colts is the first cricket academy form Bahrain

to Tour England

Players of Brazil pose with the trophy with Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro

UK tour squad with officials

INDIA VSOLD TRAFFORD –

MANCHESTER

TODAY

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NEW ZEALAND

» Table-topping India are favourites to beat fourth-placed New Zealand in the first semi-final of the 2019 Cricket World Cup. » India, thanks to Rohit Sharma’s five centuries, topped the table with just one defeat from eight completed games - that loss coming against hosts

England. » New Zealand also lost to England, but five wins from their other seven completed games ensured they edged out Pakistan on net run rate to seal

the fourth semi-final spot.

Shoukat CC advance in Indian Club soft ball tournamentTDT | Manama

Shoukat CC, 9 Gags, Mud-abbar CC and Abu Saqar

went into the pre quarter finals of the ongoing Indian Club NHSC 7-A-Side open soft ball cricket tournament 2019.

In the 1st match of the Eliminator round, which decided on super over, Shoukat CC defeated 9 Gags by one wicket. Chasing 4 runs in one over, Shouqat CC registered the win in last ball in the super over.

The regular 6 overs match was tied between these teams. Batting 1st Shoukat scored 50 in 6 overs. Chas-ing 51, 9 Gag batted bril-liantly but failed to score winning run. For 9 Gags, Musafizur (19 not out, 10 balls, 1x4,2x6) played well to hit 6 in the last ball to tie the match

Other matches: Mudabbar CC (42 for

4 wickets, Ehtesham 13 runs(6 b, 1x4,1x6), Na-deem 10runs, Saj j id 3 wikets/3 runs) defeated Target CC(33/5, Aneesh 15*(1x4,1x6)by 9 runs.

Abu Saqar(57/4, Im-ran 22*(7 b, 2x4,2x6), Atif 17(15b,2x4) won by 18 runs against Matchless(39 all out, Vishnu 10)

9 Gags who scored 50 runs in the Eliminator round, qualified for the pre quarters as a lucky loser

Trent Boult

Kane Williamson

Rohit Sharma

Virat Kohli

Djokovic, Nadal ease through• Novak Djokovic through to quarter-finals of Wimbledon after beating Ugo Humbert

• Rafael Nadal crushes Joao Sousa in straight sets to reach quarter-finals

AFP | London

Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal eased into the Wimbledon

quarter-finals yesterday as the sport’s Grand Slam heav-yweights continued to de-liver blow after blow to their wilting lightweight rivals.

Defending champion and world number one Novak Djokovic reached his 11th Wimbledon quarter-fi-nal and 45th at the majors with a 6-3, 6-2, 6-3 win over France’s Ugo Humbert.

Third seed N a d a l , t h e 2008 and 2010 c h a m p i o n , swept to an easy 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 win over outclassed Joao Sousa of Portugal to book his place in a seventh quarter-final at the All England Club.

Four-time champion and top seed Djokovic will face Bel-gium’s David Goffin for a place in the semi-finals.

Djokovic, 32, has a 5-1 career record over 21st seed Goffin who will be playing in his first Wim-bledon quarter-final.

Humbert, the world number 66, had never played a match on grass before this season and was defeated in just one hour and 42 minutes.

“My plan always is to reach the final stages at Grand Slams,” said Djokovic who converted five of nine break points yes-terday.

“Wimbledon has been a spe-cial tournament that has moti-vated me throughout my life.”

Nadal next plays Sam Quer-rey, against whom he holds a 4-1 record.

‘Body holding well’ The 33-year-old Spaniard is

chasing his 19th title at the ma-jors, which would put him just one behind the all-time record of 20 held by Federer -- his po-tential opponent in the semi-fi-nals.

Goffin matched his best-ever performance at the majors by reaching his first Wimbledon quarter-final. The Belgian beat Spain’s Fernando Verdasco 7-6 (11/9), 2-6, 6-3, 6-4.

In getting to the last eight of a Grand Slam for the third time, Goffin became the fifth Belgian man in history to reach the quar-ter-finals at Wimbledon -- and, along with Xavier Malisse in 2002, the only one to do so since 1924.

“It’s so tough to beat Novak in the best of five and espe-cially here on grass,” admitted 28-year-old Goffin.

“Even for Roger, it will prob-ably be the toughest challenge.”

Also joining Nadal in the last-

eight was his compatriot Rober-to Bautista Agut who reached his first Wimbledon quarter-final and second at the majors this year when he defeated France’s Benoit Paire 6-3, 7-5, 6-2.

The 31-year-old world num-ber 22 will face either 2016 run-ner-up Milos Raonic of Canada or Argentina’s Guido Pella for a place in the semi-finals.

With Djokovic, Nadal, Quer-rey and Bautista Agut all win-ning, there are already four 30-somethings in the last-eight.


Federer into 17th Wimbledon quarter-finalAFP | London

Roger Federer became the oldest man to reach a

Grand Slam quarter-final in 28 years when he booked his place in the Wimbledon last-eight for the 17th time.

Eight-time champion Feder-er breezed past Italy’s Matteo Berrettini 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 in just 74 minutes to make sure of a

spot in his 55th quarter-final at the Slams.

It was also his 99th win at the All England Club.

At 37, he is the oldest man to reach the last eight at the ma-jors since 39-year-old Jimmy Connors at the 1991 US Open.

Federer will face either Ja-pan’s Kei Nishikori or Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan for a place in the semi-finals.

Barty, Gauff, Pliskova exit as Serena advanceAFP | London

World number one Ashleigh Barty’s hopes of becoming the first Aus-

tralian women’s champion in nearly four decades were dashed yesterday, opening the way for Serena Williams to potentially equal the all-time Grand Slam haul.

At the opposite end of the age scale to 37-year-old Williams, 15-year-old Coco Gauff could not summon up yet another magical performance as the crowd-pleas-ing American went down 6-3, 6-3, to bat-tle-hardened Romanian Simona Halep.

Having looked assured last week, while Williams was not altogether convincing, it was 23-year-old Australian Barty who cracked and went down in three sets to un-seeded American Alison Riske 3-6, 6-2, 6-2.

There was one consolation for Barty as Karolina Pliskova could have taken her

number one spot but the Czech third seed went

out as well in a mar-athon duel beat-en by compatriot Karolina Muchova 4-6, 7-5, 13-11

Williams, bid-ding for a 24th Grand Slam title to

tie with Australian Margaret Court, will

play Riske next after trouncing Carla Suzarez

Navarro 6-2, 6-2.For Riske it was perhaps an

unexpected early wedding present -- she gets married

after Wimbledon Stephen Amritraj, the son of former Indian Davis Cup player Anand -- but extremely well-earned.

The prospect of playing Williams did not have her knees knocking together in fear either: “Bring it on!”

Halep unlike Gauff ’s previous oppo-nents did not let a partisan crowd nor some audacious strokeplay by the American un-nerve her and always had the upper hand.

Gauff did save three match points but in the end former world number one Halep had little trouble in closing out the match.

The American, though, leaves having given the women’s game a much-needed shot in the arm and announced herself as a future Grand Slam contender.

‘Feel a relief’ Williams, whose clay court season was

affected by a knee injury, said the hunger for the game and for victory is as strong as ever.

“I always get excited,” said Williams after her victory which put her into a 14th Wimbledon quarter-final.

“I’m a really pumped player. That’s my personality. Of course I still I want it or else I wouldn’t be here.”

Williams has teamed up with another former world number one Andy Murray in the mixed doubles to accrue more matches and she said that the more she played she more she was finding her rhythm.

“It definitely is good, I know that I can play and now that I’m feeling better phys-ically, I almost feel a relief more than anything.

“Finally I can play tennis.”Williams, who won her first match with

Murray on Saturday, said she will not be taking Riske for granted.

“Last time I faced a fellow American, I lost,” she said in reference to her loss to Sofia Kenin at Roland Garros

“She’s great on the grass and took out the number one player in the world who’s just won a grass court tournament (Barty won in Birmingham).”

Zhang Shuai became the first Chinese woman since Li Na in 2013 to reach the Wimbledon quarter-finals.

World number 50 Zhang defeated Ukraine teenager Dayana Yastremska 6-4, 1-6, 6-2 -- a result far from her mind when she was talked out of retiring at her lowest point in 2015.

US player Serena Williams returns against Spain’s Carla Suarez Navarro

French break open champagne as Alaphilippe bags stage and Tour leadAFP | Epernay, France

Julian Alaphilippe produced a magnificent show of power

in stage three yesterday to give France its first win and take the overall lead in the 2019 Tour de France.

The win means a French rider has the overall leader’s yellow jersey for the first time in five years.

The Deceuninck-Quick Step rider took a huge gamble with his long range effort.

He slipped away from the pack after vying for bonus sec-onds on the penultimate climb, assuming a daredevil, aerody-namic crouch at the crest and breaking clear.

By the time he crossed the Marne, still an agonising 10km through the champagne vine-yards from Epernay, he was al-most a minute ahead.

Alaphil ippe was strong enough to cling on and win by 26 seconds, despite a desper-ate effort from the pack to reel

him in.“I was really up for it today, so

when I saw the chance I went all in,” said a red-faced Alaphilippe after his third ever stage win and his first yellow jersey.

“I should have waited until the end, I know, but I just went full gas when I saw the gap.”

Thomas loses time on last hill Amazingly, it is the first time a

French rider has had the overall

lead since Tony Gallopin wore yellow in 2014. Alaphilippe was the toast of France yesterday.

A small break in the chasing pack saw defending champion Geraint Thomas lose five sec-onds to his Team Ineos co-lead-er Colombian 22-year-old Egan Bernal and to French hope Thi-baut Pinot.

“That c l imb where Al-aphilippe went was steep and it was hard, but I just knew I

didn’t have the legs to go for the bonus sprint,” Thomas said.

“Then it was just a case of getting to the finish and being safe,” said Thomas, whose In-eos team did much of the chasing.

The crowd on the last hill had been expecting a bare-knuckle struggle, but went wild as Al-aphilippe came up alone and rose in his saddle to swagger over the last steep climb.

French rider Julian Alaphilippe celebrates his victory

That climb where Alaphilippe went was steep and it was hard, but I just knew I didn’t have the legs to go for the bonus sprint. Then

it was just a case of getting to the finish

and being safeGERAINT THOMAS

Herrera says he ‘feels very lucky’ to join PSG from UnitedAFP | Paris

Paris Saint-Germain’s latest recruit Ander Herrera said

on Sunday that if he had to leave Manchester United one of the only places he could go was “one of the most beautiful cities in the world”.

The 29-year-old midfielder, who signed a five-year con-tract with PSG after leaving United on a free transfer, talked to AFP the day before his new club begins pre-sea-

son training.“ W h e n a

club with a big project, in c o n s t a n t

growth, locat-ed in one of the

most beautiful cities in the world, comes to you, it is not very dif-

ficult to make a decision,”

he said. “When y o u

l e a v e a big

club like Manchester United, the only places you can go are those like PSG: the big-gest French club, which has some of the best players in the world.”

“I feel very lucky,” he said.Herrera was part of the

United squad that knocked PSG out of the Champions League in the round of 16 last season.

Asked what he had learned from that encounter, the Span-iard pointed out that PSG were without the injured Neymar and Edinson Cavani but won 2-0 at Old Trafford in the first leg playing “extraordinary” football.

He carefully avoided the subject of PSG’s second-leg dis-play as they lost 3-1 at home, by saying “I don’t want to talk about the past again”.

“You know in Europe, there are eight to 10 clubs who want to win it: Juventus, Real Ma-drid, Barcelona, Manchester City, Liverpool, Tottenham, Munich,” he said.

“But only one can do it. I think we have to continue to be the strongest team in France.”

Novak Djokovic

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