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Grab this opportunity to develop government’s performance• The submission phase of Government innovation competition Fikra opens, says PM’s Office

TDT | Manama

Applications are open for government employees to

take part in the fourth edition of the Government Innovation Competition “Fikra”.

Fikra will receive submissions until the 1st of December 2021 as

per the directives of HRH Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa,

the Crown Prince and Prime Minister.

The competition aims at stim-ulating creativity and innovation among government sector em-ployees. It also provides them with the opportunity to make proposals to develop the govern-ment’s performance.

“Fikra reinforces the engage-ment of public sector employees in contributing to national de-velopment plans and initiatives,” said the PM office in a statement.

Participants may submit their ideas individually or in groups (with a maximum of 4 individu-als per group) in the government sector.

The ideas should focus on de-

veloping or improving govern-ment services or performance.

To apply, log on to www.pmo.gov.bh.

An evaluation committee will review the proposals and train the candidates for pitching and presenting ideas.

Then comes the presenta-tion phase, where candidates will present their projects to a committee of ministers. Both these phases will complete in December.

The coordination and Approv-al phase will come in January 2022, where the projects will gain final approvals.

His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa received at the Al-Safriya Palace yesterday falconers on the occasion of the start of the falconry season.

Genome project hits halfway• National Genome Centre collects more than 23,000 samples from the Kingdom

• Achieves 53% of the mission goal set for 2023

TDT | Manama

Bahrain journey to acquir-ing the capability to pre-vent, diagnose or preci-

sion treat diseases exploiting the human genome had passed a crucial milestone yesterday.

National Genome Centre said they had achieved more than 50% of the goal set for 2023. As of now, the Centre has collected more than 23,000 samples from

the Kingdom. The national Genome project,

the Centre said, will enable deci-phering the genetic composition of the people in the Kingdom and their extent of the response

to various medications. Thanks to huge advance-

ments, soon, doctors will be using this specific information about a person’s genes or pro-teins to provide tailored treat-

ment. “This will enhance the health

system and the safety of the cur-rent and future generations in the Kingdom,” the Centre said.

“The mission’s success also reflects the awareness of Bah-raini citizens of the importance of the national project,” the Cen-tre said in a statement. “The pro-ject is progressing as planned.”

The ultimate purpose of the Centre established by the Min-istry of Health is to protect Bah-rain from illness and prevent diseases in current and future generations.

The Centre will create a data-base of the Bahraini population’s DNA to identify opportunities in disease diagnosis, early de-tection and lowering the risk of contracting diseases.

The project helps better di-

agnose rare genetic disorders, cancer, and heart diseases. On-cology is currently at the fore-front of using genomics.

“The genome sequence will help mitigate the risks associ-ated with diseases or customise treatment based on expected response for each patient,” the Centre said.

Training programmes are scheduled for Bahraini doctors and medical staff early next month, the Centre said. Experts from the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University and the Arabian Gulf University will conduct the training.

Expected benefits of Bahrain’s project include improved under-standing of people health, short-er time-to-diagnosis, cost-effec-tive diagnostics, personalised prevention and treatment.

KNOW WHAT

Thirty years ago, in 1990, the Human Genome Project was

initiated with the primary goal to obtain a highly accurate

sequence of the human genome and to identify its genes. The

project was an international 13-year effort, 1990 to 2003.

The project identified the full set of human

genes, sequenced them all, and identified

some of the alleles, particularly those that

can cause disease when they get mutated.

Humans have between 20,000 and 25,000 genes. Every person has two copies of each gene, one inherited from each parent.

25kWhat is genome sequencing?Genome sequencing is figuring out the order of DNA nucleotides, or bases, in a genome—the order of As, Cs, Gs, and Ts that make up an organism’s DNA. The human genome is made up of over 3 billion of these genetic letters.

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To apply, log on to www.pmo.gov.bh.

Bahrain lists India’s COVAXIN for emergency useTDT | Manama

India’s COVID-19 vaccine COVAXIN received an

emergency use approval from the National Health Re g u l a t o r y Au t h o r i t y (NHRA).

COVAXIN, an inactivated SARS-CoV-2 antigen, will be available in Bahrain for those aged 18 years and above.

NHRA said its decision fol-lows the careful evaluation carried out by the Clinical Trials Committee and Im-munization Committee of data provided by the man-ufacturer, Bharath Biotech India.

The approval also follows the emergency use listing of COVAXIN by the World Health Organisation earlier this month.

The vaccine comes in sin-gle-dose vials and multidose vials of 5, 10 and 20 doses.

More than 26,000 people participated in the vaccine’s clinical trials, which estab-lished that the two-dose vaccine is 77.8% effective and 93.4% effective against severe cases of COVID-19.

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Global events and crises have proved to the world that

close international cooperation with

modern visions and ideas that fit the

present and foresee the future is the way forward to a secure,

prosperous and sustainable life for

humankindHM THE KING

National Library resumes services • Doors are open to visitors from Sunday to Thursday from 8:00 am until 2:00 pm

TDT | Manama

The National Library at the Isa Culture Centre has re-

opened its doors after a long hiatus over closures to contain the COVID-19 outbreak.

The centre said they are now welcoming visitors, readers and researchers without advance appointments, except on Fri-days.

The Director of the Bahrain National Library at the Isa Cultural Centre, Dr Mansour

Sarhan, said the library would resume its services starting this week. Doors are open to visitors from Sunday to Thursday from 8:00 am until 2:00 pm.

On Saturdays, doors are open from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm.

However, the children’s li-brary will remain closed until further notice.

Dr Sarhan urged all to adhere strictly to preventive and health measures to ensure the health and safety of all.

The National Library at Isa Culture Centre. Inset, Dr Mansour Sarhan

The CEO of Oil and Gas Holding Company, Mark Thomas, hailed the high safety standards of the new aviation fuel storage complex at Bahrain International Airport during a tour of the complex yesterday. Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bahrain Airport Company for Jet Fuel, Mohammed Yousef Al-Binfalah, the project manager and a member of the Board of Directors for the Bahrain Airport Company for Jet Fuel, Abdul Majeed Al-Qassab, were present. The complex, which includes aviation fuel tanks with a total capacity of 30,000 cubic metres, covers an area of 77,000 square metres, including dedicated operational and service buildings. Bahrain Airport Company for Jet Fuel is a joint venture between the Bahrain Airport Company and the Oil and Gas Holding Company.

Minister of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning, Essam Khalaf, received in his office Deputy Abdulnabi Salman, representative of the Sixth District, Ghazi Al Rahma, representative of the Fourth District, and Municipal Member Hussein Al-Aali, representative of the Sixth District in the Northern Governorate, in the presence of the Undersecretary for Works Affairs Ahmed Abdulaziz Al-Khayyat, Acting Director-General of the Northern Region Municipality, Ibrahim Al-Jowder. Discussions focused on issues related to infrastructure projects, municipal facilities and urban planning. They also discussed plans regarding the lands adjacent to Al-Ramli Al-Janoubi project. Ministry said the ministry is working on projects for roads in Complex 738 in the A’ali area and is preparing designs for Buqwah-Saar intersection development project.

HM King holds call with Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Al-SharifTDT | Manama

His Majesty King Ham-ad bin Isa Al Khali-

fa yesterday held a tele-phone call with Shaikh Dr Ahmed El-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif.

HM the King commended the efforts made by Shai-kh Dr Ahmed El-Tayeb in serving Islam and Muslims as well as promoting the Is-lamic values and conveying the good image of the Bah-raini society.

King Hamad lauded the pioneering role of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif in the intellectual, cultural and civilizational fields as well as in support-ing the Islamic and Arab issues.

The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif thanked HM the King for the King-dom’s honourable stances in supporting Arab and Is-lamic issues.

Close cooperation is the way for safe, sustainable life: King tells Paris forum• HM King speaks at Paris Peace Forum 2021

TDT | Manama

His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa yes-terday called on world

nations to provide a safe, pros-perous and sustainable life for humankind by establishing close cooperation.

The crises have proved that close international cooperation is the way forward,” His Majesty reminded the world leaders by saying, “It should have its basis on firm pillars of communica-tion, solidary and peace.”

“A collective response and ef-fective partnership with mod-ern visions and advanced ideas that suit the present and looking

forward to the future is the way for countries to achieve their common goals,” stressed HM the King during the opening of the Paris Peace Forum in a recorded speech.

The Peace Forum was in the presence of French President Emmanuel Macron and heads of state of several countries.

HM King described the fourth edition of the annual Paris Peace

Forum as an important platform for exchanging views and ideas for strengthening world peace.

“The forum presents a val-uable opportunity to search for solutions to overcome the

challenges facing countries to-day, foremost of which is the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis.”

The forum, HM the King said, also enhances international co-operation, especially in science and governance. Founded in 2018, the non-profit organiza-tion aims to boost cordial diplo-macy and prevent hostility in the global arena.

HM King further stressed that the global events and crises have proved that close interna-tional cooperation is the way to achieve our common goals.

“The countries of the world have an important entitlement to fulfil the 2030 Sustainable De-velopment Goals, whose pace of achievement has been affected by the coronavirus pandemic,” said HM the King.

King Hamad called on to adopt constructive initiatives to help countries achieve the aspirations of their peoples for development and prosperity through the United Nations.

HM the King further pledged Bahrain full cooperation to countries of the world to achieve international peace and securi-ty and build a more secure and stable world with justice and equality.

Several high-ranked repre-sentatives—including US Vice President Kamala Harris—will attend the meeting.

During the two-day gathering, foreign state delegates and heads of international organizations will attend various workshops and panels where they will have the opportunity to demonstrate concrete resolutions to maintain multilateral peace.

US Iran envoy to visit Bahrain

• Malley would begin his trip in the United Arab Emirates

TDT | agencies

Rob Malley, the US Special Envoy for Iran, is visiting

Bahrain as part of a trip to the United Arab Emirates, Israel, Saudi Arabia ahead of talks about reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

The US State Department said yesterday that the trip began yesterday and continue until the 20th of this month.

The exact date of his Bah-rain visit is not revealed.

Reports said Malley would begin his trip in the United Arab Emirates before proceed-ing to Israel, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.

The trip will also be Mal-ley’s first to Israel as a member of the Biden administration, though he has met multiple times with Israeli officials in Washington.

“He will coordinate our ap-proaches on a broad range of concerns with Iran, including

its destabilizing activities in the region and the upcoming seventh round of talks on a mutual return to full com-pliance with the (deal),” the statement said, referring to the Nov. 29 resumption of indirect US-Iran talks.

The upcoming talks in Vien-na seek to get Washington and Tehran to resume compliance with the nuclear deal, under which Iran restrained its nu-clear programme in return for relief from US, EU and UN sanctions.

Then-US President Donald Trump abandoned the deal in 2018 and restored broad US sanctions.

Rob Malley

Health Minister Faeqa bint Said Al Saleh yesterday received a delegation of the World Health Organization, in the presence of Assistant Undersecretary for Public Health Dr Mariam Al Hajeri. The meeting focused on reviewing the recommendations of a feasibility study on investment in prevention to control non-communicable diseases. WHO Office director Dr Tasnim Al Atatra, and Food Programme regional consultant Dr Ayoub Al Jawalda, were present.


Youths are the most important partner in decision making and the ambassadors of

the KingdomHH SHAIKH NASSER

Free seats at Universities, yearly renewal for driving licence, Olympic academies & more

Youth Parliament discussed several initiatives to boost creativity and economy

• Proposal to amendArticle (40) of the Lawon Societies, Socialand Cultural Clubs

• Free seats for citizenswishing to completepostgraduate studies atuniversities in Bahrain

• A permanent andsmart city for youth

• Professionalacademies for Olympicin all governorates

TDT | Manama

Creating seats funded by State-owned companies for Bahrainis wishing to

complete their post-graduation in the Universities in the King-dom was one of the proposals discussed yesterday by the Youth Parliament.

The session also discussed several other proposals aimed at harnessing the capabilities of Bahraini youngsters in the national building process.

The session, chaired by Speak-er Fawzia bint Abdullah Zainal, had the presence of His High-ness Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, representative of His

Majesty the King for Humani-tarian Works and Youth Affairs, ministers and top officials.

Smart city for youthDiscussions also focused

on establishing a Smart city for youth similar to that done by the Ministry of Youth and Sports, professional academies

for Olympic sports in all gov-ernorates and renewing driv-ing licences of people in the age group 18 to 21 years on an annual basis to reduce accidents. The session also presented a request to put forward a topic for general discussion on a policy support-ing entrepreneurship among the youth and amending the Law on

Societies, Social and Cultural Clubs and special organizations working in Youth and Sports.

Addressing the session, Shai-kh Nasser thanked His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khali-fa and HRH Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister, for making the youth sector a top

priority in the government’s work programme.

“Youths are the most impor-tant partner in decision mak-ing and the ambassadors of the Kingdom,” said Shaikh Nasser calling Bahraini youth a source of inspiration and creativity.

In this regard, Shaikh Nasser highlighted the importance of

launching Tamkeen Fund and the Hope Fund project to sup-port youth projects.

“I am all ears to suggestions of the parliamentary youth in this session,” said Shaikh Nasser.

Shaikh Nasser also called on the House of Representatives to submit the outcomes to take it further ahead.

Speaker thanked HH Shaikh Nasser for his presence at the session and generous support to the Youth Parliament.

“Through this, we aim to em-power Bahraini youth in dealing with legislative and constitu-tional tools,” said the speaker.

Parliamentarians demand-ed the government to support youth business projects for cre-ating job opportunities and elim-inating unemployment.

They also demanded to create a platform for communication between entrepreneurs and those experienced in this field to enhance creativity, innovations, ideas and proposals and support them financially.

HH Shaikh Nasser, Speaker Zainal, MPs and ministers during the session held yesterday

Minister orders to reduce municipal fees for 192 familiesTDT | Manama

Works Minister yester-day issued a ministerial

order to reduce the munici-pal fees for 192 families who do not own houses and live in rented apartments during October 2021.

“The order is in line with the decision of the His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa for providing a decent life to all citizens and reducing the burden of expenses,” said Es-sam Khalaf.

Explaining, the minister said the decision to reduce fees

would benefit 189 Bahraini families, while fees waiver would benefit three families.

The ministry, he said, is co-ordinating with municipal af-fairs and the Electricity and Water Authority to execute the decisions.

Lane closure

TDT | Manama

The left lane at the intersec-tion of Almuasker High-

way with Riffa Avenue will remain closed for maintenance works, announced the Minis-try of Works, Municipalities

Affairs and Urban Planning. The closure will affect those

travelling towards Sitra. The ministry said it would

keep one lane open for traffic. Works, which began yester-

day at 11:00 pm, will continue for two days.

Putting smiles on the faces of Palestinian Children Bahrain’s Ambassador to Israel visits Wolfson Medical Centre

TDT | Manama

They are going through a lot at this young age.

B u t w h e n K h a l e d Yousif Al Jalahma sat down on his knees to shake hands with a tiny kid, a smile lit up all their faces.

The heart-warming scenes happened at the Wolfson Med-ical Centre that treats children from the Palestinian Authority and Gaza.

Al Jalahma, the Ambassador of Bahrain to Israel, was tour-ing the Palestinian Children’s Cardiology Clinic at the Centre as part of a visit to Save a Child’s Heart. The project brings hun-dreds of children from all over the world to undergo life-saving heart treatments in Israel every year.

The ambassador, accompa-nied by the Israeli ambassador

to Bahrain Eitan Na’a, talked to several Palestinian children and parents at the clinic.

The Centre now houses kids from Iraq, Myanmar, Zambia, Ethiopia, Uganda and Nigeria.

The ambassador also sat down with the Director-General of Wolfson Medical Centre, Dr Anat Engel, chairman of Save

a Child’s Heart, and its Direc-tor, Simon Fisher, to examine humanitarian cooperation be-tween the two countries.

“I hear a lot about the human-itarian activity of Save a Child’s Heart, and I am happy to be here today to see the work first hand. I hope that this is the beginning of a very fruitful relationship be-

tween Bahrain and Israel in the medical field,” Al Jalahma said.

He also toured the new Silvan Adams Children’s Hospital, and held talks with medical staff, including three Palestinian doc-tors from Gaza and two from Zambia and Ethiopia, working for the Save a Child’s Heart’s training programme.

In pictures. Al Jalahma with children at the Wolfson Medical Centre


Al Baraka Banking Group (B.S.C.)CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Al Baraka Banking Group B.S.C.Al Baraka Headquarters - Bahrain Bay

P.O. BOX 1882, Manama - Kingdom of Bahrain, C.R. 48915 (Licensed as an Islamic Wholesale Bank by CBB)

albaraka.com

3 continents 17 countries 686 branches

INTERIM CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITIONAt 30 September 2021 (Reviewed)

CONDENCED INTERIM CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY For the nine months ended 30 September 2021 (Reviewed)

Equity attribut-able to parent’s shareholders and Sukuk holders

Non-controllinginterest

Total equity

US$ ‘000 US$ ‘000 US$ ‘000

At 1 January 2021 1,423,569 798,825 2,222,394

Net movement in treasury shares (59) - (59)

Net movement in other reserves 623 907 1,530

Net movement in cumulative changes in fair values 1,293 166 1,459

Foreign currency translations (90,963) (95,072) (186,035)

Net income for the period 89,430 56,924 146,354

Dividends of subsidiaries - (17,969) (17,969)

Allocation of Zakah (1,015) - (1,015)

Profit distribution on perpetual tier 1 capital (15,750) - (15,750)

Movement related to subsidiaries' tier 1 capital 3,831 (12,706) (8,875)

Net movement in non-controlling interest - (207) (207)

At 30 September 2021 1,410,959 730,868 2,141,827

At 1 January 2020 1,467,212 855,978 2,323,190

Dividends (24,858) - (24,858)

Net movement in treasury shares 347 - 347

Net movement in other reserves (1,136) (2,042) (3,178)

Net movement in cumulative changes in fair values 397 213 610

Foreign currency translations (102,473) (125,952) (228,425)

Net income for the period 66,960 65,376 132,336

Dividends of subsidiaries - (12,712) (12,712)

Allocation of Zakah (1,656) - (1,656)

Profit distribution on perpetual tier 1 capital (15,750) - (15,750)

Movement related to subsidiaries’ tier 1 capital 7,229 (12,706) (5,477)

Modification loss net of government assistance (6,370) (552) (6,922)

Effect of change in ownership 237 (237) -

Net movement in non-controlling interest - (408) (408)

At 30 September 2020 1,390,139 766,958 2,157,097

INTERIM CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF INCOMEFor the nine months ended 30 September 2021 (Reviewed)

Three months ended Nine months ended

30 September2021

30 September2020

30 September2021

30 September2020

US$ ‘000 US$ ‘000 US$ ‘000 US$ ‘000

INCOMENet income from jointly financed contracts and investments 336,542 316,059 973,212 984,420

Return on equity of investment accountholders before Group’s share as a Mudarib (272,737) (257,847) (798,517) (830,783)Group’s share as a Mudarib 95,867 94,057 268,874 299,550

Return on equity of investment accountholders (176,870) (163,790) (529,643) (531,233)

Group’s share of income from equity of investment accountholders (as a Mudarib and Rabalmal) 159,672 152,269 443,569 453,187

Mudarib share for managing off-balance sheet equity of investment accountholders 536 1,549 6,579 9,452Net income from self financed contracts and investments 34,953 78,698 111,855 203,684 Fees and commission income 45,847 59,159 132,979 123,853 Other operating income (4,023) 783 49,675 73,083

236,985 292,458 744,657 863,259 Profit on long term financing (7,287) (5,929) (21,092) (24,019)TOTAL OPERATING INCOME 229,698 286,529 723,565 839,240

OPERATING EXPENSESStaff expenses 69,667 71,756 218,249 231,423 Depreciation and amortisation 15,107 9,605 51,669 29,322 Other operating expenses 37,406 47,534 124,853 146,272 TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES 122,180 128,895 394,771 407,017

NET INCOME FOR THE PERIOD BEFORE NET ALLOWANCE FOR EXPECTED CREDIT LOSSES / IMPAIRMENT AND TAXATION

107,518 157,634 328,794 432,223 Net allowance for expected credit losses / impairment (31,726) (90,579) (115,432) (217,249)NET INCOME FOR THE

PERIOD BEFORE TAXATION 75,792 67,055 213,362 214,974

Taxation (23,220) (25,094) (67,008) (82,638)NET INCOME FOR THE PERIOD 52,572 41,961 146,354 132,336

Attributable to:Equity holders of the parent 36,768 19,873 89,430 66,960 Non-controlling interest 15,804 22,088 56,924 65,376

52,572 41,961 146,354 132,336

Basic and diluted earnings per share - US cents 3.04 1.62 6.09 4.15

(Reviewed)30 September

2021

(Audited)31 December

2020US$ ‘000 US$ ‘000

ASSETS

Cash and balances with banks 5,881,048 5,361,444 Receivables 11,909,106 11,945,993 Mudaraba and Musharaka financing 3,453,386 2,854,658 Ijarah Muntahia Bittamleek 1,950,785 1,747,627 Investments 4,288,659 5,097,189 Property and equipment 513,716 478,572 Other assets 648,754 764,516 TOTAL ASSETS 28,645,454 28,249,999

LIABILITIES, EQUITY OF INVESTMENT ACCOUNTHOLDERS AND EQUITY

LIABILITIESCustomer current and other accounts 7,404,889 7,508,344 Due to banks 1,381,121 1,642,085 Long term financing 451,237 319,364 Other liabilities 1,186,840 1,328,101 TOTAL LIABILITIES 10,424,086 10,797,416

EQUITY OF INVESTMENT ACCOUNTHOLDERSFinancial institutions 663,545 538,177 Non-financial institutions and individuals 15,415,995 14,692,012 Total equity of investment acountholders 16,079,540 15,230,189

EQUITYShare capital 1,242,879 1,242,879 Treasury shares (16,258) (17,462)Share premium 17,526 18,084 Reserves 183,744 183,121 Cumulative changes in fair value 34,233 32,940 Foreign currency translation reserve (891,452) (800,489)Retained earnings 440,287 364,496 Equity attributable to parent’s shareholders 1,010,959 1,023,569 Perpetual tier 1 capital 400,000 400,000 Equity attributable to parent’s shareholders and Sukuk holders 1,410,959 1,423,569 Non-controlling interest 730,866 798,825 TOTAL EQUITY 2,141,827 2,222,394

TOTAL LIABILITIES, EQUITY OF INVESTMENT ACCOUNTHOLDERS AND EQUITY 28,645,454 28,249,999

CONDENCED INTERIM CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWSFor the nine months ended 30 September 2021 (Reviewed)

Nine months ended

30 September2021

30 September2020

US$ ’000 US$ ’000

Net cash (used in) from operating activities (529,607) 1,430,942

Net cash from (used in) investing activities 773,981 (1,466,305)

Net cash from (used in) financing activities 89,013 (75,648)

Foreign currency translation adjustments (186,035) (228,425)

NET CHANGE IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS 147,352 (339,436)Cash and cash equivalents at 1 January 2,778,177 2,926,184

CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AT 30 SEPTEMBER 2,925,529 2,586,748

Abdullah Saleh KamelChairman

Mazin MannaMember of the Board and Group Chief Executive Officer

The above Interim Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements, have been extracted from the Interim Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements reviewed by Ernst & Young-Bahrain. These statements are available in full detail on the web site indicated below.

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Bahrain expresses solidarity with India, Sri Lanka

TDT | Manama

Bahrain extended condo-lences to the governments

and peoples of India and Sri Lanka over the victims of the torrential rains, which killed dozens of people and injured others.

In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed the sympathy of Bahrain with the two friendly countries, af-firming its full solidarity and support for all efforts made to limit further losses in lives and property.

Heavy rains on Sri Lanka’s coast and in the south Indi-an state of Tamil Nadu have killed at least 41 people, de-stroyed thousands of homes and snarled traffic.

According to a report, 25 people have died in recent

days, most from drowning, while five were hurt in land-slides in Sri Lanka.

In the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, at least 16 people died after heavy rains caused severe flooding over the weekend, the state’s disaster management department said Thursday. Officials previously said five people had died in the floods.

More heavy rain is expected in Tamil Nadu and the south-ern coast of neighbouring Andhra Pradesh state, as a de-pression over the Bay of Ben-gal moves toward the region, according to India’s Meteoro-logical Department.

Tamil Nadu state officials evacuated hundreds of people from low-lying areas and dis-tributed rations and food to those already affected by the rains. (See page 10-11)

A woman and child wade through a flooded area in Kochchikade, Sri Lanka (CNN)

Bahrain turned challenges into opportunities: Education MinisterTDT | Paris

Education Minister, Dr Majidbin Ali Al-Nuaimi, affirmed

Bahrain’s full support to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organ-isation yesterday to achieve its humanitarian goals and noble values.

The minister said this as he spoke at the 41st session of the General Conference of UNESCO at the UNESCO headquarters.

He affirmed Kingdom’s sup-port to strengthen the pillars of peace, promote sustainable development and overcome the effects of the outbreak, especial-ly on education. He indicated that the Kingdom had taken all measures to ensure that educa-

tion continues a priority. “Bahrain has turned the chal-

lenges created by the pandemic into real success opportunities,

be it through the King Hamad Schools of the Future Project, which provides great opportu-nities for electronic and digital

learning, the centralised les-son and the educational por-tal (eduNET),” the minister said.

The minister told the meet-ing that the number of visits to eduNET had crossed 68 million during the previous academic year, or other means, such as televised lessons and 14 You-Tube channels. He also high-lighted the role played by the Bahrain-based UNESCO’s Re-gional Centre for Information and Communication Technolo-gy (RCICT) in providing the nec-essary supportive programmes.

He stressed that efforts to provide quality education are continuing during the current academic year.

Education Minister, Dr Majid bin Ali Al-Nuaimi

Military Hospital holds mock evacuation exerciseTDT | Manama

The Military Hospital con-ducted a mock evacuation

exercise yesterday to tackle a fire outbreak.

The drill scenario consisted of evacuating all the employ-ees in one of the hospital’s de-partments after a fire broke out,

causing injuries to four people. The exercise aimed to ascer-

tain safety measures at the Royal Medical Services. More than 14 employees attended the ex-ercise. Military Hospital is the only hospital in Bahrain, which obtained Canadian accredita-tion as the first accredited cen-tre for treating injuries.

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CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED INTERIM FINANCIAL INFORMATION for the nine months ended 30 September 2021

The Board of Directors approved the condensed consolidated interim financial information on 11 November 2021 and signed on its behalf by:

Jassim AlSeddiqi Hisham Alrayes Chairman Chief Executive Officer & Board Member

“The above Condensed Consolidated Statement of Financial Position, Income Statement, Statement of Cash Flows and the Changes in Owners’ Equity have been extracted from Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements of GFH Financial Group B.S.C. for the nine months ended 30 Septmeber 2021, which were reviewed by KPMG, who have expressed an Unqualified Opinion on 11 November 2021”.

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWSfor the nine months ended 30 September 2021/ (US$ 000’s)

30 September 2021

(reviewed)

30 September 2020

(reviewed)

OPERATING ACTIVITIES

Profit for the period 68,276 30,308

Adjustments for:

Income from commercial banking (45,959) (25,322)

Income from proprietary investments (24,789) (26,789)

Income from dividend and gain / (loss) on treasury investments (129,189) (44,550)

Foreign exchange (gain) / loss (1,505) (1,275)

Finance expense 124,967 124,031

Impairment allowances 17,441 2,120

Depreciation and amortisation 3,533 3,515

12,775 62,038

Changes in:

Placements with financial institutions (original maturities of more than 3 months) (96,339) 344,392

Financing assets (8,414) 37,826

Other assets (53,684) (13,593)

CBB Reserve and restricted bank balance (13,342) 40,827

Clients’ funds 1,675 23,462

Placements from financial and non-financial institutions 529,392 (168,449)

Customer current accounts (9,779) (23,486)

Equity of investment account holders 61,916 (96,311)

Payables and accruals 20,516 (33,610)

Net cash generated from operating activities 444,716 173,096

INVESTING ACTIVITIES

Payments for purchase of equipment (1,054) (329)

Proceeds from sale of proprietary investment securities, net 32,020 (39,074)

Purchase of treasury portfolio, net (730,773) (560,013)

Cash acquired on acquisition of a subsidiary - 32,856

Proceeds from sale of investment in real estate 1,061 944

Dividends received from proprietary investments and co-investments 14,154 8,377

Advance paid for development of real estate (6,688) (14,917)

Net cash used in investing activities (691,280) (572,156)

FINANCING ACTIVITIES

Financing liabilities, net 222,800 653,857

Finance expense paid (116,618) (136,913)

Dividends paid (17,485) (34,927)

Purchase of treasury shares, net 28,200 (14,764)

Net cash generated from financing activities 116,897 467,253

Net increase /(decrease) in cash and cash equivalents during the period (129,667) 68,193

Cash and cash equivalents at 1 January 655,455 367,533

Cash and cash equivalents at 30 September 525,788 435,726

Cash and cash equivalents comprise:

Cash and balances with banks (excluding CBB Reserve balance and restricted cash) 421,631 294,099

Placements with financial institutions (original maturities of 3 months or less) 104,157 141,627

525,788 435,726

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN OWNERS’ EQUITYfor the nine months ended 30 September 2021 / (US$ 000’s)

Attributable to shareholders of the Bank

Non – controling interests

Total owners’

equity

Sharecapital

Treasury shares

Statutory reserve

Investment fair value reserve

Foreign currency

translation reserve

Retained earnings

Share grant

reserve Total

30 September 2021 (reviewed)

Balance at 1 January 2021 (as previously reported) 975,638 (63,979) 19,548 5,593 (46,947) 22,385 1,093 913,331 272,733 1,186,064

Effect of adoption of FAS 32 - - - - - (2,096) - (2,096) - (2,096)

Balance at 1 January 2021 (restated) 975,638 (63,979) 19,548 5,593 (46,947) 20,289 1,093 911,235 272,733 1,183,968

Profit for the period - - - - - 60,340 - 60,340 7,936 68,276

Fair value changes during the period - - - 2,693 - - - 2,693 439 3,132

Transfer to income statement on disposal of sukuk - - - (22,003) - - - (22,003) - (22,003)

Total recognised income and expense - - - (19,310) - 60,340 - 41,030 8,375 49,405

Bonus Shares issued for 2020 25,000 - - - - (25,000) - - - -

Dividends declared for 2020 - - - - - (17,000) - (17,000) - (17,000)

Transfer to zakah and charity fund - - - - - (1,572) - (1,572) (142) (1,714)

Transfer to statutory reserve - - 4,510 - - (4,510) - - - -

Purchase of treasury shares - (26,777) - - - - - (26,777) - (26,777)

Sale of treasury shares - 54,977 - - - 4,092 - 59,069 - 59,069

Foreign currency translation differences - - - - (6,815) - - (6,815) (2,022) (8,837)

Acquisition of NCI without a change in control - - - - - 7,783 - 7,783 (38,253) (30,470)

Balance at 30 September 2021 1,000,638 (35,779) 24,058 (13,717) (53,762) 44,422 1,093 966,953 240,691 1,207,644

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN OWNERS’ EQUITY for the nine months ended 30 September 2020 / (US$ 000’s)

Attributable to shareholders of the Bank

Non – controling interests

Totalowners’equity

ShareCapital

Treasury shares

Statutory reserve

Investment fair value reserve

Foreign currency

translation reserve

Retained earnings

Share grant

reserve Total

30 September 2020 (reviewed)

Balance at 1 January 2020 975,638 (73,419) 125,312 7,737 (29,425) (2,498) 1,198 1,004,543 288,328 1,292,871

Profit for the period - - - - - 23,167 - 23,167 7,141 30,308

Fair value changes during the period - - - (16,326) - - - (16,326) (64) (16,390)

Transfer to income statement on disposal of sukuk - - - (13,196) - - - (13,196) - (13,196)

Total recognised income and expense - - - (29,522) - 23,167 - (6,355) 7,077 722

Additional capital contribution to subsidiary - - - - - (59,893) - (59,893) (14,311) (74,204)

Modification loss on financing assets - - - - - (13,892) - (13,892) (11,180) (25,072)

Government grant - - - - - 3,686 - 3,686 1,266 4,952

Dividends declared for 2019 - - - - - (30,000) - (30,000) - (30,000)

Transfer to zakah and charity fund - - - - - (1,388) - (1,388) (258) (1,646)

Purchase of treasury shares - (84,849) - - - - - (84,849) - (84,849)

Sale of treasury shares - 108,652 - - - (22,000) - 86,652 - 86,652Treasury shares acquired for share incentive scheme - (16,526) - - - - 123 (16,403) - (16,403)

Foreign currency translation differences - - - - (6,308) - - (6,308) (1,348) (7,656)

NCI arising from acquisition of a subsidiary - - - - - - - - 63,747 63,747

Adjustment of accumulated losses - - (110,273) - - 110,273 - - - -

Balance at 30 September 2020 975,638 (66,142) 15,039 (21,785) (35,733) 7,455 1,321 875,793 333,321 1,209,114

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION As at 30 September 2021 / US$ 000’s

30 September 2021(reviewed)

31 December 2020(audited)


ASSETS

Cash and bank balances 479,444 536,502 337,361

Treasury portfolio 2,726,882 1,878,546 1,767,975

Financing assets 1,275,680 1,267,266 1,234,951

Real estate Investments 1,851,407 1,812,315 1,840,586

Proprietary investments 172,148 216,108 287,898

Co-investments 135,813 126,319 103,774

Receivables and prepayments 655,455 605,658 482,435

Property and equipment 138,134 144,149 107,146

Total 7,434,963 6,586,863 6,162,126

LIABILITIES

Clients’ funds 132,610 130,935 94,320

Placements from financial, non-financial institutions and individuals 2,947,392 2,418,000 2,278,800

Customer current accounts 130,977 140,756 124,001

Term financing 1,311,877 1,089,077 933,275

Payables and accruals 485,554 465,038 400,382

Total 5,008,410 4,243,806 3,830,778

Equity of investment account holders 1,218,909 1,156,993 1,122,234

OWNERS’ EQUITY

Share capital 1,000,638 975,638 975,638

Treasury shares (35,779) (63,979) (66,142)

Statutory reserve 24,058 19,548 15,039

Investment fair value reserve (13,717) 5,593 (21,785)

Foreign currency translation reserve (53,762) (46,947) (35,733)

Retained earnings 44,422 22,385 7,455

Share grant reserve 1,093 1,093 1,321

Total equity attributable to shareholders of Bank 966,953 913,331 875,793

Non-controlling interests 240,691 272,733 333,321

Total owners’ equity 1,207,644 1,186,064 1,209,114

Total liabilities, equity of investment account holders and owners’ equity 7,434,963 6,586,863 6,162,126

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENTfor the nine months ended 30 September 2021 / US$ 000’s

Nine months ended Three months ended

30 September 2021

(reviewed)

30 September 2020

(reviewed)

30 September2021

(reviewed)

30 September 2020

(reviewed)

Investment banking income

Asset management 2,354 3,765 755 1,038

Deal related income 55,786 62,015 22,648 23,778

58,140 65,780 23,403 24,816

Commercial banking income

Income from financing 58,842 60,908 19,058 19,641

Treasury and investment income 46,292 26,568 12,968 9,196

Fee and other income 4,021 4,878 1,765 1,672

Less: Return to investment account holders (23,950) (24,648) (7,856) (8,670)

Less: Finance expense (26,716) (22,879) (9,159) (9,385)

58,489 44,827 16,776 12,454

Income from proprietary and co-investments

Direct investment income, net 14,344 20,374 424 1,074

Dividend from co-investments 10,445 6,415 5,433 2,306

24,789 26,789 5,857 3,380

Real estate income

Development and sale 12,268 10,707 4,922 1,451

Rental and operating income 4,135 3,119 2,001 1,962

16,403 13,826 6,923 3,413

Treasury and other income

Finance income 9,211 19,410 2,806 6,240

Dividend and net gain/(loss) on treasury investments 80,396 27,890 27,904 16,753

Other income, net 23,179 15,579 5,928 520

112,786 62,879 36,638 23,513

Total income 270,607 214,101 89,597 67,576

Operating expenses 86,638 80,483 26,877 22,835

Finance expense 98,252 101,190 34,856 34,246

Impairment allowances 17,441 2,120 3,733 573

Total expenses 202,331 183,793 65,466 57,654

Profit for the period 68,276 30,308 24,131 9,922

Attributable to:

Shareholders of the Bank 60,340 23,167 23,296 8,113

Non-controlling interests 7,936 7,141 835 1,809

68,276 30,308 24,131 9,922

Earnings per share

Basic and diluted earnings per share (US cents) 1.78 0.69 0.69 0.24


ASSETSCash and bank balances Investments Accrued income Insurance receivablesInsurance depositsDeferred policy acquisition costsReinsurers’ share of technical provisionsOther assetsInvestment propertyProperty and equipmentTOTAL ASSETS

LIABILITIES AND EQUITY

LIABILITIESTechnical provisions Insurance payablesOther liabilitiesTOTAL LIABILITIES

EQUITYAttributable to shareholders of parent company Share capitalTreasury stockReservesAccumulated losses

Non-controlling interests

TOTAL EQUITYTOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED INTERIM FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE NINE MONTHS ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2021 (REVIEWED)CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITIONAS AT 30 SEPTEMBER 2021 (In thousands of U.S. Dollars)

97,794 390,503

3,104 33,952 20,435

438 40,030 28,014 4,514

11,679 630,463

277,837 54,294 27,979

360,110

220,000 (14,793)

54,618 (2,003)

257,822 12,531

270,353 630,463

100,500 454,603

8,786 72,732 20,917 4,749

74,368 37,349 4,622

12,006 790,632

408,86980,664

38,672 528,205

220,000 (14,793)

56,296 (16,142) 245,361

17,066

262,427 790,632

136,406 424,335 16,255 85,869 21,899 6,918

97,596 36,387 4,812

11,689 842,166

462,528 83,164 48,099

593,791

220,000 (14,793)

51,211 (25,271) 231,147 17,228

248,375 842,166

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF PROFIT OR LOSS FOR THE NINE MONTHS ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2021 (In thousands of U.S. Dollars)

Gross premiums writtenOutward reinsurance premiumsChange in unearned premiums

Net earned premiumsClaims and related expensesPolicy acquisition costsInvestment income attributable to insurance fundsOperating expenses Underwriting result

Investment income attributable to shareholders’ fundsOperating expenses - non underwriting activitiesBorrowing costOther incomeOther expenses and provisions

Profit for the period

Attributable to:Non-controlling interestsShareholders of parent company

Earnings per share attributable to shareholders (basic and diluted):

(17,295) 3,027

82,722

68,454 (31,609) (19,225)

2,824 (7,685)

12,759

2,124(5,597)

(112)6,283

(2,790)

12,667

(891)13,558 12,667

6.8(US cents)

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITYFOR THE NINE MONTHS ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2021 (In thousands of U.S. Dollars)

Balances at 31 December 2020Net profit for the periodChanges on fair value of available for sale investmentsTransfers for recognition of gains on disposal of available for sale investmentsTransfers for impairment loss recognised on available for sale investments Total comprehensive income for the period Transfer of net depreciation on revalued propertyTransfer to (from) non-distributable reservesSubsidiary's capital reductionBalances at 30 September 2021Balances at 31 December 2019 Net profit (loss) for the year Changes on fair value of available for sale investmentsTransfers for recognition of gains on disposal of available for sale investmentsTransfers for impairment loss recognised on available for sale investmentsRevaluation of property Total comprehensive income for the yearTransfer of net depreciation on revalued propertyTransfer to (from) non-distributable reservesSale of subsidiary - minority interests Balances at 31 December 2020 Balances at 31 December 2019Net profit (loss) for the periodChanges on fair value of available for sale investmentsTransfers for recognition of gains on disposal of available for sale investmentsTransfers for impairment loss recognised on available for sale investments Total comprehensive income for the periodTransfer of net depreciation on revalued property Balances at 30 September 2020

Share capital Treasury stock Reserves Non-controlling interests Total equity Accumulated losses (reviewed)

220,000

-

-------

220,000

220,000

-

-

-

-

-

--

-

-220,000

220,000

-

-

-

-

-

-220,000

(14,793)

-

-------

(14,793)

(14,793)

-

-

-

-

-

--

-

-(14,793)

(14,793)

-

-

-

-

-

-(14,793)

56,296

-

(216)(2,092)

548(1,760)

(166)248

-

54,618

51,705

-

4,518

(3,374)

1,640

646

3,430(195)

1,356

-56,296

51,705

-

307

(2,080)

1,425

(348)

(146)51,211

(16,142)

14,221

---

14,221166

(248)-

(2,003)

(28,539)

13,558

-

-

-

-

13,558195

(1,356)

-(16,142)

(28,539)

3,122

-

-

-

3,122

146(25,271)

17,066

73

(9)(9)1065

--

(4,600)

12,531

17,952

(891)

114

(88)

41

-

(824)-

-

(62)17,066

17,952

(736)

13

(42)

41

(724)

-17,228

262,427

14,294

(225)(2,101)

55812,526

--

(4,600)

270,353

246,325

12,667

4,632

(3,462)

1,681

646

16,164-

-

(62)262,427

246,325

2,386

320

(2,122)

1,466

2,050

-248,375

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS FOR THE NINE MONTHS ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2021 (In thousands of U.S. Dollars)

CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIESPremiums received

Claims and acquisition costs paid Reinsurance receipts in respect of claims Interest receivedDividends received Other (expenses) income, netInsurance deposits received (paid), net Purchase of trading investments

Net cash used in operating activities

Purchase of investmentsTerm deposits with bank

Investment income Collateralised cash deposits

Sale of subsidiary Net cash provided by investing activities

CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES

Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period Cash and cash equivalents, end of periodTerm deposits with bankCash and bank balances, end of period

24,106(18,345)

(128,700)62,996

421,574

-(7,985)(5,131)

210--

(71,233)

101,280(40,562)

8,4725,4642,4484,506

(2)-

81,606

---

(4,600)

(4,600)5,773

(7)63,436

69,20228,59297,794

72,683(12,746)

(183,072)81,3005,3781,888

57(8,551)

170511

(667)20,027

(23,022)

133,616(46,756)(24,702)

7,5391,356

(7,879)(28)

-63,146

(7,000)(187)

(2,418)-

(9,605)

30,519

(76)66,895

97,33839,068

136,406

97,323(17,477)

(226,798)98,8014,7102,286

56(12,761)(5,967)

1,455(667)

20,529(38,510)

154,855(90,950)(22,698)

9,4282,255

(8,457)(30)318

44,721

(7,000)(187)

(2,418)-

(9,605)

(3,394)

(65)66,895

63,43637,064

100,500

Arab Insurance Group (B.S.C.) - a reinsurance firm regulated by the Central Bank of Bahrain

Borrowing costBorrowings

Dividends paidSubsidiary's capital reduction - minority interests

Reinsurance premiums paid

Investment income

Operating expenses paid

Sale of trading investments

Maturity/sale of investmentsCASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES

Interest received

Purchase of property and equipment

Net cash used in financing activities

Effect of exchange rate on cash and cash equivalents

Samuel VergheseActing Chief Executive Officer

Ahmed Saeed AlMahriDirector

Saeed Mohammed AlBahharChairman

The above condensed consolidated interim financial statements have been extracted from the condensed consolidated interim financial statements reviewed by KPMG Fakhro.

The reviewed condensed consolidated interim financial statements are available on Arig’s website www.arig.net

These condensed consolidated interim financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors on 11 November 2021 and signed on its behalf by:

For the three monthsended 30 September 2021

(reviewed)

For the financial year-to-date30 September 2021

(reviewed)

For the financial year-to-date30 September 2020

(reviewed)

For the year ended31 December 2020

(audited)


(audited)

148363

2,405

2,916 4,463(539) 800

(1,880)

5,760

1,387(760)

-298

(587)

6,098

1015,997 6,098

3.0


(reviewed)

(3,302) 618

14,997

12,313 3,509

(1,646) 3,910

(5,639)

12,447

4,054 (2,597)

- 3,020

(2,630)

14,294

73 14,221 14,294

7.2

For the financial year-to-date 30 September 2021

(reviewed)


31 December 2020(audited)


(15,669) (494)

74,852

58,689 (31,318) (16,517)

704 (5,580)

5,978

569 (4,359)

(112) 2,481

(2,171) 2,386

(736)3,122

2,386

1.6


(reviewed)

(3,051) (2,260) 16,769

11,458 (2,885) (2,499)

1,949 (1,239)

6,784

1,050 (832)

(22) 712

(1,684) 6,008

(194) 6,202

6,008

3.1


(reviewed)

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME FOR THE NINE MONTHS ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2021 (In thousands of U.S. Dollars)

Profit for the period

Other comprehensive incomeItems that will be reclassified to profit or loss:Changes on fair value of available for sale investmentsTransfers for recognition of losses (gains) on disposal of available for sale investmentsTransfers for impairment loss recognised on available for sale investments Items that will not be reclassified subsequently to profit or loss: Revaluation of propertyOther comprehensive income for the period Total comprehensive income for the period

Attributable to:Non-controlling interestsShareholders of parent company

6,098

(890) 118

-

- (772)5,326

86 5,240

5,326


(reviewed)

14,294

(225) (2,101)

558

- (1,768)12,526

65 12,461

12,526

6,008

2,444 (1,977)

943

- 1,410

7,418

(197)7,615

7,418

12,667

4,632 (3,462)

1,681

646 3,497

16,164

(824) 16,988

16,164


(audited)

2,386

320 (2,122)

1,466

- (336)

2,050

(724) 2,774

2,050


(reviewed)


(reviewed)

BDF Commander-in-Chief Field Marshal Shaikh Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Khalifa paid an inspection visit to a BDF unit yesterday. Shaikh Khalifa reviewed the combat readiness and military preparedness, as well as the workflow of the unit. He wished them every success in their tasks and preserving the homeland and its gains.

Advisor to His Majesty the King for Diplomatic Affairs Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa received Secretary-General of the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity (HCHF) Mohammad Abdul-Salam. HCHF was established by an initiative of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and UAE Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, His Eminence The Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed Al Tayeb, and His Holiness Catholic Church Pope Francis. He hailed their role in establishing world peace and coexistence, implementing charitable and humanitarian initiatives and strategic projects.

BDF Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Theyab bin Saqr Al-Nuaimi received Egyptian Defense Attache to Bahrain Brigadier Mohammed Naji Mohammed Yousef. The chief of staff praised the role of the attache in strengthening the Bahraini- Egyptian relations.

Shaikh Mohammed bin Salman, son of the Crown Prince and Prime Minister, HRH Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, yesterday celebrated his birthday.

Polytechnic holds exams

TDT | Manama

Students of Bahrain Poly-technic sat for their mid-

term exams for the first semes-ter of the academic year 2021 to 2022 at Isa Town Campus.

Polytechnic had stopped conducting exams since the

second semester of the aca-demic year 2019/2020 after shifting to online learning fol-lowing the COVID-19 outbreak.

Acting CEO of the Polytech-nic, Dr Reem Al-Buainain, thanked students for commit-ting to the instructions and di-rectives issued by the college.

UAE, Bahrain, Israel and US forces in joint naval drillReuters | Dubai

Forces from the United ArabEmirates, Bahrain, Isra-

el and the United States Na-val Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) began a multilat-eral maritime security opera-tions exercise in the Red Sea on Wednesday, NAVCENT said yesterday.

This is the first publicly ac-knowledged naval exercise be-tween the United States, Israel and the two Gulf countries.

An Israeli naval officer, brief-

ing reporters in Israel on the drill, said the start of such mili-tary cooperation under US aus-pices could help counter Iran’s “power projection” in the re-gion.

The UAE and Bahrain last year normalised diplomatic relations with Israel under a US-brokered deal known as the Abraham Ac-cords.

Negations between Iran and major powers on reviving a 2015 nuclear deal resume in Vienna on Nov. 29, with failure carry-ing the risk of a sharp spike in

regional tensions.

Five-day drillThe five-day exercise in-

cludes training on the USS Port-land vessel and will “enhance interoperability between partic-ipating forces’ maritime inter-diction teams”, a US statement said.

“Maritime collaboration helps safeguard freedom of navigation and the free flow of trade, which are essential to regional security and stability,” said Vice Admi-ral Brad Cooper, commander

of NAVCENT, US 5th Fleet and Combined Maritime Forces.

In Israel, the Israeli naval officer, whose rank and name could not be published under the terms of the briefing, cited an attack in July, which world powers and Israel blamed on Iran, that killed two people aboard a commercial ship off Oman. The drill, the officer said “will increase the cooperation and the safety of the Red Sea, but not just the Red Sea, because we are dealing with Iranian ter-ror” in the region as a whole.


INTERIM CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION(Expressed in thousands of Bahraini Dinars unless otherwise stated)

At 30 September2021

(Reviewed)

At 31 December 2020

(Audited)

ASSETS

Cash and balances with banks and central banks 225,922 239,332

Commodity and other placements with banks, financial and other institutions 119,166 85,612

Murabaha and other financings 1,251,061 1,347,337 Musharaka financing 500,826 350,420 Sukuk and investment securities 850,331 755,225 Investment in associates 3,391 - Assets acquired for leasing 149,982 145,346 Other assets 76,277 47,953 Investment in real estate 2,172 2,316 Development properties 64,359 73,359 Fixed assets 54,624 22,274

Intangible assets 21,861 25,603

Total assets 3,319,972 3,094,777

LIABILITIES, EQUITY OF UNRESTRICTED INVESTMENT ACCOUNTHOLDERS, NON-CONTROLLING INTEREST AND OWNERS’ EQUITY

LIABILITIES

Customers’ current accounts 719,173 661,739

Due to banks, financial and other institutions 518,211 435,764

Due to investors 482,475 514,234

Other liabilities 144,618 102,998

Total liabilities 1,864,477 1,714,735

Equity of unrestricted investment accountholders 1,357,222 1,275,162

Non-controlling interests 54,019 55,049

Total liabilities, equity of unrestricted investment accountholders and non-controlling interest 3,275,718 3,044,946

Share capital 100,000 100,000

Reserves (37,283) (34,033)

Accumulated losses (18,463) (16,136)

Total owners’ equity 44,254 49,831

Total liabilities, equity of unrestricted investment accountholders, non-controlling interest and owners’ equity 3,319,972 3,094,777

INTERIM CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS (Expressed in thousands of Bahraini Dinars unless otherwise stated)

Nine months ended

30 September 2021(Reviewed)

30 September 2020(Reviewed)

OPERATING ACTIVITIES

Net income before overseas taxation 10,904 7,323

Adjustments for:

Depreciation and amortization 7,473 6,828

Share of results after tax from associates (194) -

(Reversal of)/provision for impairment - net (3,257) 12,435

Income from sukuk and investment securities (32,047) (42,453)

Finance cost on net ijarah liability 2,146 -

(Gain)/loss on sale of fixed assets (578) 38

Operating loss before changes in operating assets and liabilities (15,553) (15,829)

Changes in operating assets and liabilities:

Balances with banks maturing after ninety days including central banks balances relating to minimum reserve requirement 6,279 151,074

Murabaha and other financings 77,687 (91,512)

Musharaka financing (184,286) (49,450)

Other assets (21,099) (9,317)

Customers’ current accounts 91,620 77,222

Due to banks, financial and other institutions 98,134 (816)

Due to investors 206 (12,290)

Other liabilities 16,903 3,751

Increase in equity of unrestricted investment accountholders 106,489 144,246

Taxes paid (10,848) (5,015)

Net cash generated from operating activities 165,532 192,064

INVESTING ACTIVITIES

Net changes in:

Investment in associates (1,365) -

Assets acquired for leasing (4,636) 6,668

Sukuk and investment securities (115,656) (185,166)

Fixed assets (5,281) (2,741)

Net cash used in investing activities (126,938) (181,239)

FINANCING ACTIVITY

Repayment of net Iajrah liability (3,973) -

Net cash used in financing activity (3,973) -

Foreign currency translation adjustments (9,998) (11,345)

Net increase/(decrease) in cash and cash equivalents 24,623 (520)

Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the period 278,280 312,560

Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the period 302,903 312,040

Non-cash items:1. Additions to the fixed assets in relation to the recognition of right of use of assets amounted to BD33.3 million.2. Recognition of lease liabilities amounted to BD31.2 million recorded in other liabilities.3. Classification of investment securities to investment in associates amounted to BD2.2 million.

INTERIM CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENT(Expressed in thousands of Bahraini Dinars unless otherwise stated)

Nine months ended Three months ended

30 September 2021

(Reviewed)

30 September 2020

(Reviewed)

30 September 2021

(Reviewed)

30 September 2020

(Reviewed)

INCOMEIncome from assets financed by unrestricted investment accounts 80,551 68,111 28,553 23,475 Less: return to unrestricted investment accountholders and impairment provisions (45,081) (40,454) (15,480) (14,732)

Group’s share of income from assets financed by unrestricted investment accounts as a Mudarib 35,470 27,657 13,073 8,743

Income from murabaha and other financings 25,310 42,903 6,950 10,842 Income from sukuk and investment securities 32,047 42,453 9,876 13,665 Other income 14,869 16,962 4,211 3,474 Total income 107,696 129,975 34,110 36,724

Less: profit paid to banks, financial and other institutions – net (44,821) (59,421) (14,641) (16,346)

Operating income 62,875 70,554 19,469 20,378 EXPENSESAdministrative and general expenses (47,755) (43,968) (15,469) (14,849)Depreciation and amortization (7,473) (6,828) (2,550) (2,298)Total expenses (55,228) (50,796) (18,019) (17,147)

Net income before provision for impairment and overseas taxation 7,647 19,758 1,450 3,231

Reversal of/(provision for) impairment – net 3,257 (12,435) (429) (1,766)Net income before overseas taxation 10,904 7,323 1,021 1,465 Overseas taxation (9,562) (8,035) (3,087) (2,383)NET INCOME/(LOSS) FOR THE PERIOD 1,342 (712) (2,066) (918)Attributable to:Equity holders of the Bank (2,622) (4,180) (3,156) (2,148)Non-controlling interest 3,964 3,468 1,090 1,230

1,342 (712) (2,066) (918)

Basic and diluted losses per share Fils (2.62) Fils (4.18) Fils (3.16) Fils (2.15)

INTERIM CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL RESULTSFOR THE NINE MONTHS ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2021

HRH Prince Amr Mohamed Al FaisalChairman

Ahmed Abdul RahimCEO

Elham HasanDirector

The above Interim Condensed Consolidated Statement of Financial Position, Interim Condensed Consolidated Income Statement, Interim Condensed Consolidated Statement of Changes in Owners’ Equity and Interim Condensed Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows have been extractedfrom the Interim Condensed Consolidated Financial Information of Ithmaar Bank B.S.C.(c) for the nine-month period ended 30 September 2021, which were approved for issue by the Board of Directors and reviewed by PricewaterhouseCoopers ME Limited, Kingdom of Bahrain, whoexpressed an unqualified review conclusion on 11 November 2021.

Ithmaar Bank B.S.C.(c), C.R.: 99336-1, P.O. Box 2820, Seef Tower, Seef District, Kingdom of Bahrain. Tel: (+973) 17585000, Fax: (+973) 17585151, Email: [email protected], Website: www.ithmaarbank.com

Licensed as an Islamic retail bank by the Central Bank of Bahrain

INTERIM CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN OWNERS’ EQUITY FOR THE NINE-MONTH PERIOD ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2021(Expressed in thousands of Bahraini Dinars unless otherwise stated)

Reserves

Share capital

Statutory reserve

Investments fair value

reserveHedging reserve

Investment in real estate

fair value reserve

Foreign currency

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reservesAccumulated

losses

Total owners’

equity

At 1 January 2021 (Audited) 100,000 299 7,309 (2,760) 721 (39,602) (34,033) (16,136) 49,831

Net loss for the period - - - - - - - (2,622) (2,622)

Increase in shareholding of a subsidiary - - - - - - - 295 295

Movement in fair value of sukuk and investment securities - - 932 - - - 932 - 932

Movement in hedging reserve - - - 1,342 - - 1,342 - 1,342

Foreign currency translation adjustments - - (125) - (40) (5,359) (5,524) - (5,524)

At 30 September 2021 (Reviewed) 100,000 299 8,116 (1,418) 681 (44,961) (37,283) (18,463) 44,254

INTERIM CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN OWNERS’ EQUITY FOR THE NINE-MONTH PERIOD ENDED 30SEPTEMBER 2020(Expressed in thousands of Bahraini Dinars unless otherwise stated)

Reserves

Share capital

Statutory reserve

Investments fair value

reserve

Investment in real estate

fair value reserve

Foreign currency

translationShare

premiumTotal

reservesAccumulated

losses

Total owners’

equity

At 1 January 2020 (Audited) 100,000 299 3,740 744 (37,473) 40,280 7,590 (28,419) 79,171

Adjustments resulting from reclassification of investments on adoption of FAS 33 - - 4,019 - - - 4,019 - 4,019

At 1 January 2020 (Audited) 100,000 299 7,759 744 (37,473) 40,280 11,609 (28,419) 83,190

Set off of accumulated losses - - - - - (40,280) (40,280) 40,280 -

Net loss for the period - - - - - - - (4,180) (4,180)

Modification loss - - - - - - - (14,782) (14,782)

Increase in shareholding of subsidiary - - - - - - - 1,286 1,286

Movement in fair value of sukuk and investment securities - - (2,932) - - - (2,932) - (2,932)

Foreign currency translation adjustments - - (119) (44) (4,437) - (4,600) - (4,600)

At 30 September 2020 (Reviewed) 100,000 299 4,708 700 (41,910) - (36,203) (5,815) 57,982


At 1 January 2021 22,000 (1,597) 8,767 24,701 56 53,927 2,379 56,306(Loss)/ profit and total comprehensive income for the period - - - (14,952) - (14,952) 58 (14,894)

Dividend declared for 2020 - - - - - - (718) (718) Utilization of donation and charity reserve - - - - (8) (8) - (8) At 30 September 2021 22,000 (1,597) 8,767 9,749 48 38,967 1,719 40,686

Cash flows from operating activities Loss for the period before non-controlling interest (14,894) (2,542)Adjustments for: Depreciation on property, plant and equipment 4,695 4,951Depreciation on right of use assets 1,409 1,758Impairment of trade and other receivables, net 4,039 1,078Impairment on contract assets 4,813 146Impairment on property, plant and equipment and other assets 463 256Amortization of held to maturity investment - 3Gain on disposal of property, plant and equipment (805) (181)Loss on disposal of investment properties - 60Share of profit from equity accounted investments, net (57) (59)Employee benefits 2,455 3,023Changes in: Inventories (279) 2,372Trade and other receivables 7,024 6,670Contract assets 7,382 183Due from related parties 683 937Trade and other payables (3,868) (1,965)Contract liabilities 535 (3,448)Employee benefits (2,439) (2,655)Due to related parties (1,383) (626)Bills payable (484) 920Net cash generated from operating activities 9,289 10,881Cash flows from investing activities Purchase of property, plant and equipment (3,378) (7,480)Proceeds from sale of property, plant and equipment 886 406Proceeds from sale of investment properties - 1,025Dividend from equity accounted investee 725 -Movement on deposits with banks (391) (780)Maturity proceeds of other assets 283 -Net cash used in investing activities (1,875) (6,829)Cash flows from financing activities Proceeds from bank loans 610 5,092Repayment of bank loans (1,472) (1,306)Payment of lease liabilities (1,228) (1,338)Dividends paid to non-controlling shareholders (559) (2,260)Donations paid (8) (7)Net cash (used in)/ generated from financing activities (2,657) 181Net increase in cash and cash equivalents 4,757 4,233Cash and cash equivalents at 1 January (4,954) (5,941)Cash and cash equivalents at 30 September (197) (1,708)Represented by: Cash and bank balances 11,677 9,091Short term bank deposits maturing within 90 days 1,163 2,774Bank overdrafts (13,037) (13,573) (197) (1,708)

ASSETSProperty, plant and equipment 26,114 28,120Right-of-use assets 4,490 4,915Equity accounted investees 997 1,665Other assets - 283Total non-current assets 31,601 34,983

Inventories 7,242 6,963Trade and other receivables 54,448 58,972Contract assets 24,041 36,236Due from related parties 1,060 2,814Deposits with banks 2,858 3,982Cash and bank balances 11,677 7,225Total current assets 101,326 116,192Total assets 132,927 151,175 EQUITY Share capital 22,000 22,000Treasury shares (1,597) (1,597)Statutory reserve 8,767 8,767Retained earnings 9,749 24,701Donations and charity reserve 48 56Equity attributable to owners of the Company 38,967 53,927Non-controlling interest 1,719 2,379Total equity 40,686 56,306 Liabilities Lease liabilities 3,360 3,506Bank loans 6,707 7,482Employee benefits 6,992 6,894Total non-current liabilities 17,059 17,882 Trade and other payables 30,716 34,313Lease liabilities 1,300 1,510Contract liabilities 14,134 8,131Employee benefits 3,789 3,871Due to related parties 7,576 9,104Bills payable 2,445 2,929Bank loans 2,185 2,272Bank overdrafts 13,037 14,857Total current liabilities 75,182 76,987Total liabilities 92,241 94,869Total equity and liabilities 132,927 151,175

Revenue 68,212 103,885 24,323 37,222Cost of sales (65,418) (97,634) (23,663) (33,714) Gross profit 2,794 6,251 660 3,508 Other operating income, net 1,132 448 531 127Government assistance 441 2,361 219 551General and administrative expenses (9,708) (9,556) (4,096) (1,162)Impairment allowance on trade and other receivables and contract assets, net (8,853) (1,284) (4,319) (306)Finance income 47 76 15 38Finance costs (804) (897) (245) (297)Share of profit of equity-accounted investees, net 57 59 50 33 (Loss)/ profit for the period (14,894) (2,542) (7,185) 2,492 Other comprehensive income - - - - Total comprehensive income for the period (14,894) (2,542) (7,185) 2,492 Attributable to: Shareholders of the Company (14,952) (3,149) (7,154) 2,257Non-controlling interest 58 607 (31) 235 (14,894) (2,542) (7,185) 2,492 Earnings per share Basic earnings per share (Fils) (69.52) (14.64) (33.26) 10.49

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION as at 30 September 2021

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF PROFIT OR LOSS AND OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOMEfor the nine months ended 30 September 2021

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWSfor the nine months ended 30 September 2021

NASS CORPORATION BSC

At 1 January 2020 22,000 (1,597) 8,767 27,523 64 56,757 2,280 59,037(Loss)/ profit and total comprehensive income for the period - - - (3,149) - (3,149) 607 (2,542)

Dividend declared for 2019 - - - - - - (685) (685)

Utilization of donation and charity reserve - - - - (7) (7) - (7)

At 30 September 2020 22,000 (1,597) 8,767 24,374 57 53,601 2,202 55,803

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITYfor the nine months ended 30 September 2021

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITYfor the nine months ended 30 September 2021 (continued)

Bahraini Dinars ’000




Donations Non-Share Treasury Statutory Retained and charity Total controlling Totalcapital shares reserve earnings reserve interest equity

Donations Non-Share Treasury Statutory Retained and charity Total controlling Totalcapital shares reserve earnings reserve interest equity

Attributable to owners of the company Attributable to equity holders of the parent2021 (reviewed) 2020 (reviewed)

Sameer Abdulla Nass Sami Abdulla Nass Chairman Deputy Chairman


The condensed consolidated interim financial information was approved by the Board of Directors on 11 November 2021 and signed on its behalf by:

30 September 2021

(reviewed)

31 December 2020

(audited)2021

(reviewed)2021(reviewed)

2020(reviewed)

2020(reviewed)

Three months ended30 September

Nine months ended 30 SeptemberNine months ended

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The above statements have been extracted from the condensed consolidated financial information for nine months ended 30 September 2021 which has been reviewed by KPMG Fakhro

Date : 11th November 2021

GFH profit rises on strong all-round performance • Nine-month net profit rises 160.4% to US$60.34 million

• Third-quarter net jumped 187.30% to US$23.30 million

• Income up 26.39% for the nine months, supported by strong and steady recurring income streams

• Continued progress and contributions from across the Group’s diversified business lines

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Riding on the back of strong performance across all its business lines, GFH

Financial Group yesterday re-ported a third-quarter and nine-month profit that surged from a year-ago ago, despite the on-going market pressures glob-ally as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic

Among the main contribu-tors to the third quarter were investment banking and treasury income.

Fees generated on deals of US$22.65 million were realised

from key investments in the logistics sector and multi-resi-dential portfolios.

Also supporting income growth and profits were contri-butions from the treasury busi-ness and commercial banking business of the Group.

Quarterly results The third-quarter net profit

attributable to shareholders was US$23.30 million, up 187.30% from US$8.11 m in the same quar-ter a year ago.

Earnings per share were US cents 0.69 compared to US cents 0.24 for the comparative quarter of 2020.

Total income was US$89.60 m compared to US$67.58 m in the prior-year quarter, a rise of 32.58%.

Consolidated net profit was US$24.13 m compared with US$9.92 m in the year-earlier quarter, an increase of 143.25%.

Total expenses were up 13.56% to US$65.47 m from US$57.65 m in the prior-year quarter.

Nine-month profit Net profit attributable to

shareholders was US$60.34 mil-lion compared with US$23.17 m in the corresponding period of 2020, an increase of 160.42%.

Supporting the growth was increased deal placement, con-tinued expansion of the Group’s treasury activities and stronger performance by its commercial banking subsidiary, Khaleeji Commercial Bank (KHCB,) and real estate business.

Earnings per share were US

cents 1.78 compared to US cents 0.69 in the year-ago period.

Total income was US$270.61 m, versus US$214.10 m for the 2020 period, an increase of 26.39%. Income growth contin-ued to be supported by strength-ening performance and contri-butions from across the Group’s core investment platforms and activities.

Consolidated net profit in-creased 125.27% to US$68.28 m, compared with US$30.31 m in the prior-year period.

To t a l E x p e n s e s w e r e US$202.33 m, up 10.08% from US$183.79 m in the year-earlier period.

Total equity attributable to shareholders was US$0.97 bil-lion at 30 September 2021, up 6.59% from US$0.91 bn at year-

end 2020. Total assets of the Group continued to grow reach-ing US$7.43 bn at 30 September 2021 compared with US$6.59 bn at 31 December 2020, an in-crease of 12.75%.

Beating pandemicCommenting, Jassim Alsed-

diqi, Chairman of GFH, said, “The first nine months of 2021 have been marked by substantial growth in income and profits achieved by the Group. We’re pleased with these results and GFH’s continued ability to deliv-er across its diversified lines of business and geographies where we invest.”

“While globally, we are still feeling the effects of the pan-demic, our performance for the period underscores the robust nature of our strategy and the important positions we have built-in resilient and defensive sectors and businesses around the world. During the period, we continued to expand our pres-ence in the global logistics real estate sector, bringing new and exciting deals to our investors and generating strong placement income.”

“We also reported enhanced contributions from our restruc-tured commercial banking busi-ness alongside further growth in our treasury business and improvements in real estate activities and income. GFH has entered the fourth quarter with strong momentum and a pipe-

line of opportunities to enable us to achieve further growth and profitability for the remainder of the year and beyond,” said Alseddiqi.

Hisham Alrayes, CEO of GFH, added, “Solid increases in income and profits reflect a well-diversified business model, effective management of our investments and steady income generation capabilities, which has been a key objective for the Group. During the quarter, we benefited from strong investor demand for deals we have closed in the US real estate market in well-performing segments such as logistics and residential. We have also made gains from im-proving performance in our commercial banking activities, where we have increased our stake in KHCB.”

Growth central themeLooking ahead, he said growth

remains a central theme for GFH, in all areas of our business. “We have entered the final months of the year with a sharp focus on investments and relationships that will allow us to accelerate growth in our portfolios in key sectors including logistics, tech-nology and education, among others.”

He added: “We look forward to announcing further strategic transactions and new partner-ships with a view towards cre-ating even greater value for our investors and shareholders.”

Hisham Alrayes, CEO of GFH Jassim Alseddiqi, Chairman of GFH


2021 2020(Reviewed) (Reviewed)

At 1 January 2020 12,127,500 (94,726) 5,670,492 1,087,579 13,391,305 2,108,674 181,300 50,687,050 85,159,174- Loss for the period - - - - - - - (145,214) (145,214)- Other comprehensive income - - - - - (89,908) (64,454) - (154,362)Total comprehensive income for the period - - - - - (89,908) (64,454) (145,214) (299,576)

Dividends declared for 2019 - - - - - - - (1,200,922) (1,200,922)

Balance at 30 September 2020 12,127,500 (94,726) 5,670,492 1,087,579 13,391,305 2,018,766 116,846 49,340,914 83,658,676

Property Investment Share of 2020 (reviewed) Share Treasury Statutory General revaluation fair value Reserves of Retained

capital shares reserve reserve reserve reserve associate earnings Total

Nine months ended 30 September 2021

Revenue from contracts with customers 2,581,737 1,977,143 963,094 465,312Rental income 850,130 844,772 287,503 271,083Total revenue 3,431,867 2,821,915 1,250,597 736,395Operating costs (2,428,320) (1,981,840) (925,371) (682,490)GROSS OPERATING PROFIT 1,003,547 840,075 325,226 53,905

Share of profit of an associate 762,055 737,873 458,448 188,191Dividend income 99,576 113,394 582 1,651Interest income 159,514 161,243 50,633 53,669Change in fair value of Investments 13,721 (6,024) 3,593 4,408at fair value through profit or lossOther income 210,325 8,953 3,653 3,174Depreciation (1,912,212) (1,828,869) (639,714) (607,613)General and administration expenses (182,851) (171,859) (63,136) (42,610)Profit / (loss) for the period 153,675 (145,214) 139,285 (345,225)

Basic and diluted earnings per share (fils) 1 (1) 1 (3)

ASSETS

Non-current assets Property, plant and equipment 29,094,604 30,101,545 Investment property 32,644,690 33,185,572 Investment in an associate 6,221,867 6,804,606 Investments at fair value through other comprehensive income 2,641,524 2,658,980 Investment at amortised cost 969,751 -

Total non-current assets 71,572,436 72,750,703

Current assets Inventories 79,244 73,945 Investments at fair value through profit or loss 77,784 2,064,063 Trade receivables and other assets 414,021 399,073 Bank deposits 3,300,000 2,500,000Cash and cash equivalents 2,873,759 1,435,960

Total current assets 6,744,808 6,473,041

TOTAL ASSETS 78,317,244 79,223,744

LIABILITIES AND EQUITY

Non-current liabilities Employees’ end of service benefits 217,858 226,599

Total non-current liabilities 217,858 226,599

Current liabilities Trade and other payables 904,134 1,032,708

Total current liabilities 904,134 1,032,708

Total liabilities 1,121,992 1,259,307

EQUITY

Share capital 12,127,500 12,127,500 Treasury shares (94,726) (94,726)Reserves 21,995,949 21,958,199Retained earnings 43,166,529 43,973,464

Total equity 77,195,252 77,964,437

Total liabilities and equity 78,317,244 79,223,744

Profit / (loss) for the period 153,675 (145,214) 139,285 (345,225)

Other comprehensive income

Items that will not be reclassified to profit or loss in subsequent periods:- Net change in fair value of Investments at fair value through other comprehensive income during the period (17,456) (89,908) (15,339) 3,068- Share in associates’ other comprehensive income 53,706 (64,454) 29,938 26,738

Total other comprehensive income for the period 36,250 (154,362) 14,599 29,806

Total comprehensive income for the period 189,925 (299,576) 153,884 (315,419)

OPERATING ACTIVITIES Profit / (loss) for the period 153,675 (145,214)Adjustments for: Depreciation 1,912,212 1,828,869Share of profit of an associate (762,055) (737,873)Change in fair value on investments at FVTPL (13,721) 6,024Amortization of premium 702 -Dividend income (99,576) (113,394)Interest income (159,514) (161,243)Interest expense 177 222Impairment on financial assets 3,854 2,206Provision for employees’ benefits 32,144 41,669

Operating profit before working capital changes 1,067,898 721,266Change in inventories (5,299) 24,360Change in trade receivables and other assets (52,446) 92,032Change in trade and other payables (40,152) (1,054,893)

Cash flows from operations 970,001 (217,235)Employees’ end of service benefits paid (40,885) (100,599)Directors’ remuneration paid (40,000) (156,125)Charitable contributions paid (45,000) (55,000)

Net cash flows from / (used in) operating activities 844,116 (528,959)

INVESTING ACTIVITIES Purchase of property, plant and equipment and investment property (364,389) (386,314)Purchase of investments at amortised cost (970,453) -Bank deposits with maturities of more than 3 months (800,000) (500,000)Disposal of investments at FVTPL 2,000,000 -Dividends received from an associate 1,400,000 2,100,000Dividend received 99,576 113,394Interest received 193,158 95,894

Net cash flows from investing activities 1,557,892 1,422,974

FINANCING ACTIVITIES Dividends paid (960,610) (1,200,922)Finance cost paid (177) (222)

Net cash used in financing activities (960,787) (1,201,144)

Net increase / (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents 1,441,221 (307,129)Cash and cash equivalents at 1 January 1,432,538 1,933,003

Cash and cash equivalents at 30 September 2,873,759 1,625,874

At 1 January 2021 12,127,500 (94,726) 5,670,492 1,087,579 13,043,666 2,026,403 130,059 43,973,464 77,964,437

- Profit for the period - - - - - - - 153,675 153,675- Other comprehensive income

for the period - - - - - (17,456) 53,706 - 36,250Total comprehensive income for the period - - - - - (17,456) 53,706 153,675 189,925Adjustment to the associate’s reserve - - - - - - 1,500 - 1,500Dividends declared for 2020 - - - - - - - (960,610) (960,610)

Balance at 30 September 2021 12,127,500 (94,726) 5,670,492 1,087,579 13,043,666 2,008,947 185,265 43,166,529 77,195,252

Property Investment Share of 2021 (reviewed) Share Treasury Statutory General revaluation fair value Reserves of Retained

capital shares reserve reserve reserve reserve associate earnings Total

CONDENSED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY for the nine months ended 30 September 2021

CONDENSED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION as at 30 September 2021 CONDENSED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS for the nine months ended 30 September 2021 CONDENSED STATEMENT OF PROFIT OR LOSS for the nine months ended 30 September 2021

CONDENSED STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME for the nine months ended 30 September 2021

Faisal Ahmed Al Zayani (Chairman) Adel Nahabah Hamadeh (Vice Chairman & Managing Director)

30 September 31 December 2021 2020

(Reviewed) (Audited) 2021 2020 2021 2020(Reviewed) (Reviewed) (Reviewed) (Reviewed)

Nine months ended Three months ended 30 September 30 September

2021 2020 2021 2020(Reviewed) (Reviewed) (Reviewed) (Reviewed)

Nine months ended Three months ended 30 September 30 September

INTERIM FINANCIAL INFORMATION, for the nine months ended 30 september 2021 (All figures in Bahraini Dinars)

We have continued to achieve good results during the period, despite the unstable

economic and financial conditions globally. This achievement was made possible

by our diverse resources and operating network, which enabled us to contain the

repercussions of the pandemic on our operations and improve our performance

and efficiency

ABDULLAH SALEH KAMEL, CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE GROUP

Al Baraka Q3, nine -month profit surge • Q3 net income surged85% to US$ 37 million

• Nine-month net rose34% to US$ 89 million

• The increase in netincome was predominantlya result of a strong expensediscipline and lower provisions,supported by improvementsin economic conditions.

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Al Baraka Banking Group yesterday posted profits that rose in thethird quarter and nine-month pe-

riod, thanks to lower provisions, strong expense disciple and improving mac-ro-economic conditions.

“We have continued to achieve good results during the period, despite the unstable economic and financial con-ditions globally. This achievement was made possible by our diverse resources and operating network, which enabled us to contain the repercussions of the pandemic on our operations and improve our performance and efficiency,” said Abdullah Saleh Kamel, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Group.

Q3 resultsQuarterly net income attributable to

shareholders of the parent company surged 85% to US$ 37 million from US$ 20 m in the same quarter a year ago.

Earnings per Share were US Cents

3.04, compared to US Cents 1.62 in the year-ago quarter.

Total net income recorded was US$ 53 m, compared to US$ 42 m for the same period of 2020, registering an increase of 25%. This was due partially to the lower provisioning levels allocated dur-ing the period, owing to the gradually improving macro-economic conditions in most of the countries of the Group’s operations.

Net allowances for expected credit losses reduced 65% to US$ 32 m from US$ 91 m during the same period last year.

Total operating income decreased by 20% to reach US$ 230 m compared to US$ 287 m during the same period last year, due to the impact of the devaluation of local currencies against the US dollar in some countries of the Group’s operations in addition to the higher cost of funding, resulting from significant increases in base rates in some markets.

Nine-month results

Net Income attributable to equity holders of the parent company was US$ 89 million, up from US$ 67 m for the same period in 2020, a growth of 34%.

Earnings per share was US Cents 6.09 compared to US cents 4.15 for the same period of 2020.

Total net income was US$ 146 m, up from US$ 132 m in the same period of 2020, registering a growth of 11%.

The increase in net income was pre-dominantly a result of a strong expense discipline and lower provisions, sup-ported by improvements in economic conditions.

Total operating income of the group was US$ 724 m during the first nine months of 2021, compared to US$ 839 m in the same period of 2020, a 14% decrease. The decline in total operat-ing income resulted mainly from the

devaluation of local currencies against the US dollar in some countries of our operations in addition to the higher costs of funding.

Customer Accounts (which include Equity of Investment Account Holders, Customer Current and other Accounts and Due to Banks) increased by 2% from US$ 24.4 billion in December 2020 to US$ 24.9 bn at the end of September 2021.

Mazin Manna, member of the Board of Directors and Group Chief Executive Officer of the Group said, “Our operat-ing and financial results continued to show improvement at both the Group and the Unit levels. We have greatly en-hanced our operating efficiency through stringent discipline towards control of expenses. Our profitability has also im-proved due to better performance of some units and lower provisioning, ow-ing to the gradually improving, albeit unstable, outlook and environment”.

Egypt to host COP27 international climate conference in 2022 -ministryReuters | Cairo

Egypt will host the COP27United Nations Climate

Change Conference in 2022, the country’s environment ministry said yesterday.

The North African coun-try will hold the conference in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, it added.

The decision was taken during this year’s confer-ence, COP26, which is host-ed by the United Kingdom in Glasgow.

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi declared in September his country’s in-terest in hosting the COP27 on behalf of the African continent.

The country would work to make the conference “a radical turning point in in-ternational climate efforts in coordination with all par-ties, for the benefit of Africa and the entire world,” he said at the time.

The United Arab Emir-ates (UAE) was selected on Thursday to host the COP28 international climate con-ference in 2023.

IN WAR THE HEROES ALWAYS OUTNUMBER THE SOLDIERS TEN TO ONEH. L. MENCKEN

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HISTORYTibetan troops occupy Chang’an for 15 days, capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty

Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, paving the way for Joseph Stalin to consolidate complete power

WWII Naval Battle of Guadal-canal begins between Allied and Japanese forces in Solo-mon Islands

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SpaceX crew launch marks 600 space travellers in 60 yearsAP | Cape Canaveral

A S p a c e X ro c ke t c a r r i e d four astronauts into orbit

Wednesday night, including the 600th person to reach space in 60 years.

The repeatedly delayed flight occurred just two days after SpaceX brought four other as-tronauts home from the Interna-tional Space Station. They should have been up there to welcome the newcomers, but NASA and SpaceX decided to switch the order based on Monday’s ideal recovery weather in the Gulf of Mexico and pulled it off.

“It was a great ride, better than we imagined,” mission command-er Raja Chari said shortly after the spacecraft reached orbit.

The launch was just as riveting for spectators at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, as well as along the East Coast, as the Falcon rocket thundered through clouds on its way to space, turning night into day.

Germany’s Matthias Maurer claimed the No. 600 position, according to NASA, based on his mission assignment. He and his three NASA crewmates should ar-

rive at the space station in under 24 hours, well over a week late.

One of the astronauts — NASA isn’t saying which one — was side-lined last week by an undisclosed medical issue. The crew member is fully recovered, according to NASA. Officials won’t say wheth-er it was an illness or injury, but noted it wasn’t COVID-19.

Bad weather also contributed to their flight delays. Chari said trying to launch on Halloween left them with “a trick instead

of a treat.” It was also drizzling Wednesday night when the four astronauts said goodbye to their families for six months — with everyone huddling under umbrel-las — but it cleared up by launch time.

“Enjoy your holidays among the stars. We’ll be waving as you fly by,” SpaceX launch director Mark Soltys radioed to the crew.

The list of 600 travelers rang-es from those who have bare-ly scratched space — like actor

William Shatner last month — to U.S. and Russian astronauts who have spent a year or more in orbit. This year’s surge in space tourists helped push the tally over the 600 mark.

That averages out to 10 people per year since Yuri Gagarin’s pi-oneering flight in 1961, Maurer noted.

“But I think in a very few years, we will see an exponential rise of that one because now we’re entering the era of commercial spaceflight,” he said after arriv-ing at Kennedy Space Center two weeks ago.

The crew launch marked SpaceX’s fourth for NASA and the company’s fifth passenger flight overall — including a Septem-ber charter flight for four that skipped the space station. The Dragon capsule’s toilet leaked during their three days in orbit, necessitating a quick redesign of the flushing system in the newest capsule, named Endurance by its crew.

A balky parachute during Monday’s descent had SpaceX engineers poring over the data, before giving the go-ahead for

Wednesday’s launch. One of the four chutes opened more than a minute late, a problem seen in testing and well within safety limits, but still being examined, officials said.

As of Wednesday, Elon Musk’s company has launched 18 people in 18 months.

Philippines president’s daughter joins new party as election deadline nearsReuters | Tokyo

The popular daughter of Philippine leader Rodrigo

Duterte yesterday joined a new political party and could run for a national position, its top official said, just days out from a deadline to firm up candidates for 2022 presidential elections.

Sara Duterte-Carpio, 43, has led opinion polls throughout this year as the most preferred candidate for the presidency, a post she has repeatedly said she had no interest in pursuing.

But this week she withdrew from next year’s contest for mayor of Davao city, setting off speculation about a bigger role.

Duterte-Carpio is a promis-ing leader and a tremendous asset, said congressman Martin Romualdez, president of Lakas-CMD, the party controlled by former president Gloria Maca-pagal-Arroyo that she joined.

“She joined Lakas-CMD for a possible national run,” Romual-dez told DZMM radio.

The party has nominated can-didates for president and vice president, but those are widely seen as placeholders who can switch at the last minute. The

deadline for changes is Nov. 15.A s p o k e s p e r s o n f o r

Duterte-Carpio did not imme-diately respond to a request for comment on her plans.

Her father’s PDP-Laban po-litical party said on Wednesday it was watching “with keen in-terest” Duterte-Carpio’s moves, adding that a decision to seek a national post “will most cer-tainly affect the political land-scape”.

Duterte once said the presi-dency was no job for a woman but later suggested his daughter

could team up with one of his loyalists for a run.

The 76-year old leader, who cannot seek re-election, was also an 11th-hour replacement in 2015 ahead of an election he won convincingly.

Political observers have an-ticipated his daughter might do the same.

Political analyst Temario Rivera said it was “very clear” Duterte-Carpio would seek a national post, but the possibility of her teaming up with another presidential aspirant, Ferdinand

Marcos Jr., remains.The son and namesake of the

late Philippines dictator, who has registered to run for presi-dent under a different party, has not yet named a vice president.

“If they run together, whether it is Marcos-Sara or Sara-Mar-cos, it will be a formidable team,” Rivera told Reuters.

The Southeast Asian nation of 110 million people holds elec-tions in May 2022 for positions from president down to gover-nors, mayors and local officials.

China’s Xi warns of ‘Cold War-era’ tensions in Asia-PacificChinese President Xi Jinping’s comments come ahead of an upcoming virtual meeting with US counterpart Joe Biden

• Xi Jinping said the Asia Pacific region “should not relapse into the confrontation and division of the Cold War era”

AFP | Beijing

Chinese President Xi Jinping warned against a return to Cold War-era divisions in

the Asia-Pacific yesterday as ten-sions mounted over the security of Taiwan.

In the run-up to an anticipated virtual summit with US President Joe Biden as early as next week, Xi said countries in the region must work together on common challenges, from the Covid-19 pandemic to trade.

“Attempts to draw ideological lines or form small circles on ge-opolitical grounds are bound to fail,” he told a virtual business conference on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Coop-eration summit hosted by New Zealand.

“The Asia-Pacific region cannot and should not relapse into the confrontation and division of the Cold War era.”

Xi’s call came hours after China and the United States announced a surprise pact to accelerate cli-mate action at a summit in Glas-gow where countries are trying to agree on measures to curb the warming of the Earth.

The Chinese leader did not mention the US deal directly but said “all of us can embark on a path of green, low-carbon sustain-

able development”.“Together, we can usher in a

future of green development,” he said.

The Chinese and US leaders will hold virtual talks “soon”, ac-cording to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Some reports say the meeting will take place as soon as next week.

‘Critical historical juncture’ But while the Biden adminis-

tration has identified climate as a key area for potential cooper-ation with China, tensions have soared over their rival visions for the Asia-Pacific region, notably Taiwan, a self-ruling democracy claimed by China.

Beijing has ramped up military activities near Taiwan, with a re-cord number of planes crossing into the island’s air defence iden-tification zone in early October.

Secretary of State Blinken on Wednesday underscored US mili-tary support for Taiwan.

“We will make sure that Taiwan

has the means to defend itself be-cause the purpose here is never to get to that point where anyone is actually trying to disrupt the sta-tus quo by force,” he told an event hosted by The New York Times.

Biden’s national security advi-sor Jake Sullivan said the United States and China had the choice not to return to Cold War-era di-visions.

“China has a different value system. It has different interests. And that’s part of what the ongo-ing competition will be about,” Sullivan said in an online address to Australia’s Lowy Institute yes-terday.

“But there’s no reason that that competition has to turn into con-flict or confrontation. And that is what responsibly and collectively we need to manage as we work in the years to come.”

‘Translate consensus into actions’

Besides its position on Taiwan, China also claims almost all of the

resource-rich South China Sea, through which trillions of dollars in shipping trade pass annually, rejecting competing claims from Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam.

Against that backdrop, the Unit-ed States, Britain and Australia announced in September that they had formed a new alliance -- AUKUS -- under which Austral-ia will acquire nuclear-powered submarines using US technology.

Although delivery is years away and China was not specif-ically named, the announcement angered Beijing and separately sparked a furious row with France which saw its deal to sell Australia conventional submarines torn up.

Sullivan said the AUKUS alliance showed that the United States trusted Australia with its most sensitive technology.

“And we believe even more im-portantly, in our collective, com-bined capacity to produce greater stability, security and deterrence in the Indo-Pacific region,” he said.

252,482,230

5,093,076

228,430,115

Deaths

Recovered:

New cases

New deaths +360,381

+4,732

Country Total cases

new cases

Total deaths

New Deaths

Total recovered

Active cases

Egypt 340,269 19,249 284,993 36,027

Saudi Arabia

549,103 +43 8,809 +2 538,100 2,194

UAE 740,729 +82 2,142 735,270 3,317

Kuwait 412,916 2,462 410,157 297

Oman 304,410 +7 4,113 299,810 487

Qatar 240,705 +148 611 238,500 1,594

Middle East

Country Total cases Total deaths

1 USA 47,654,071 780,327

2 India 34,401,670 462,189

3 Brazil 21,911,382 610,080

4 UK 9,448,402 142,533

5 Russia 8,952,472 251,691

6 Turkey 8,315,424 72,713

7 France 7,256,643 118,073

8 Iran 6,019,947 127,809

9 Argentina 5,300,985 116,184

10 Spain 5,038,517 87,617

11 Colombia 5,021,619 127,640

12 Germany 4,903,011 97,715

13 Italy 4,835,435 132,618

14 Indonesia 4,249,758 143,608

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Figures as of closing

News in brief u Two patients died and a nurse was injured when a fire

broke out in a COVID-19 hospital in the central Romanian city of Ploiesti early yesterday, officials said, the latest in a string of deadly hospital fires over the past year. The fire, which was quickly extinguished, broke out at around 0200 GMT and affected one room. Fifteen patients in the wing were moved to another hospital.

There were more than 17,400 COVID-19 patients, including 310 children, being treated in Romanian hospitals yesterday, including 1,823 in intensive care units.

u Pope Francis asked Scotland’s Catholics to pray for the success of the UN Climate Change (COP26) conference in Glasgow because “time is running out” to save the planet. In the letter, Francis said he regretted that he could not attend the opening of the conference as he had originally hoped, but asked all to join in prayer for a fruitful outcome. “This gathering (is) meant to address one of the great moral issues of our time: the preservation of God’s creation, given to us as a garden to be cultivated and as a common home for our human family,” he said in the letter released by the Vatican.

u Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi on Wednesday sacked defence minister Jaime

Neto, without giving a reason or announcing a replacement. Neto was responsible for managing the country’s response to an Islamist insurgency in the country’s northernmost province of Cabo Delgado as part of his role. “The President of the Republic, Filipe Jacinto Nyusi... dismissed through presidential order Jaime Bessa Augusto Neto from the office of the minister of national defence,” the government said in a short statement, without elaborating.

u A federal judge in the United States has approved a $626m settlement for victims of the lead water crisis in Flint, Michigan, in a case brought by tens of thousands of residents who were affected by the contaminated water. The payment, awarded on Wednesday, is one of the largest civil settlements in Michigan’s history, and will mainly go to people who were children at the time of the water crisis in Flint.

u South Africa’s last white president Frederik Willem (FW) de Klerk

died morning at his home in Cape Town, the FW de Klerk Foundation said in a statement. “Former President FW de Klerk died peacefully at his home in Fresnaye earlier this morning following his struggle against mesothelioma cancer,” the statement said. He was 85 years old.

Fire at COVID-19 hospital in Romania kills two

Mozambique president sacks defence minister

South Africa’s last white president, FW de Klerk, dies at home

Pope says success of COP26 vital as “time is running out”

Lead poisoning victims in Flint to get a $626m settlement

Heavy rains in India, Sri Lanka kill 41, authorities say

Reuters | Chennai

Heavy rains across south-ern India and Sri Lanka

have killed at least 41 people, authorities said yesterday, with weather forecasters ex-pecting the downpours to ease in the next few days as stricken communities pumped out the deluge.

The Indian Meteorological Department forecast light to moderate rain in most affected areas, with occasional flooding of some roads and low-lying areas.

Counterparts in neighbour-ing Sri Lanka said rain there was expected to ease from yesterday as the low pressure that brought the bad weather moved away.

“The worst is over and oc-casional rains will happen,” said Pradeep John, an amateur forecaster who is widely fol-lowed in Tamil Nadu, India’s worst-affected state.

“Today rains will be on and off, with large breaks and nothing alarming.”

The rains have killed 25 people in the island nation of Sri Lanka, most of whom drowned, while landslides in-jured five, officials said.

Sixteen people were killed in Tamil Nadu, state disaster

management minister KKSSR Ramachandran told a news conference.

Many parts of the state cap-ital Chennai, which is India’s auto manufacturing centre, were water-logged and gov-ernment officials used pumps to drain some communities that had been stranded waist deep.

Thousands of people in low lying areas were moved to safety, officials said.

Many schools and colleg-es in Tamil Nadu remained closed while some train servic-es were still suspended.

India’s northeast mon-soon usually runs from Oc-tober to December, bringing heavy rain, particularly to the south.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon capsule lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center

People wade through a flooded beach after heavy rainfall in Chennai

Davao City Mayor and daughter of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, delivers a speech during a senatorial campaign (file photo)

Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a keynote speech for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit

Attempts to draw ideological lines or

form small circles on geopolitical grounds are bound to fail. The Asia-

Pacific region cannot and should not relapse into the confrontation and

division of the Cold War era

XI JINPING

India’s northeast monsoon usually

runs from October to December, bringing heavy rain, particu-

larly to the south

KNOW WHAT

Philippine leader Rod-rigo Duterte once said the presidency was no job for a woman but later suggested his

daughter could team up with one of his loy-

alists for a run

KNOW

BETTER

The list of 600 trav-elers ranges from

those who have barely scratched space — like actor William Shatner

last month — to US and Russian astronauts

who have spent a year or more in orbit. This year’s surge in space tourists helped push

the tally over the 600 mark

KNOW WHAT

Neighbours of Belarus say migrant crisis risks military clashReuters | Warsaw

Countries bordering Bela-rus yesterday warned the

migrant crisis on the European Union’s eastern borders could escalate into a military con-frontation while Ukraine said it would deploy thousands more troops to reinforce its frontier.

Lithuania, Estonia and Lat-via said Belarus posed serious threats to European security by deliberately escalating its “hybrid attack” using migrants to retaliate for EU sanctions.

“This increases the possibil-ity of provocations and seri-ous incidents that could also spill over into the military do-main,” a joint statement by the countries’ defence ministers said.

While not an EU member, Ukraine is wary of becoming another flashpoint in the es-calating migrant crisis. Kyiv announced drills and the de-ployment of 8,500 additional troops and police officers to the country’s long northern border with Belarus.

Migrants stranded inside Be-larus threw rocks and branch-es at Polish border guards and used logs to try to break down a razor wire fence overnight in new attempts to force their way into the EU, the authorities in Warsaw said.

The EU says Minsk is encour-aging thousands of migrants fleeing war-torn parts of the world to try to cross its borders and may impose new sanctions on Belarus and airlines ferrying the migrants as soon as Mon-day.

Belarusian President Alexan-der Lukashenko threatened to retaliate, including by shutting down the transit of Russian nat-ural gas via Belarus, although there was no immediate re-sponse from Russia, its close ally and financial backer.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Moscow will try to help Europe weather an energy crunch and is hoping that German authorities will soon certify the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that will carry more Russian gas to Germany.

Moscow reacted angrily in the past when Ukraine, anoth-er transit country, disrupted supplies of gas to the West and Lukashenko has proved a dif-

ficult partner, pushing back against its wishes at times while accepting loans and subsidised energy.

Russia dispatched two stra-tegic bombers to patrol Bela-rusian airspace on Wednesday in a show of support for its ally. Belarus said Russian planes car-ried out drills for a second day yesterday.

“Yes, these are bombers ca-pable of carrying nuclear weap-ons,” Lukashenko said. “But we have no other option. We must see what they are doing there beyond the borders.”

He also said there were at-tempts to transfer weapons to the migrants, in what he de-scribed as a provocation in comments carried by Belarus state media. He did not pro-vide any evidence and it was not clear who he was accusing of doing this.

The Kremlin said Russia had nothing to do with tensions on the border and suggested the presence of heavily armed people on both sides was a source of concern. It also re-jected as “crazy” a suggestion in a media report that Russia’s flag carrier Aeroflot could be targeted with retaliatory sanctions.

Migrants from the Middle East and elsewhere warmup at the fire gathering at the Belarus-Poland border

The EU says Minsk is encouraging thou-sands of migrants

fleeing war-torn parts of the world to try to cross its borders

and may impose new sanctions on Belarus and airlines ferrying the migrants as soon

as Monday

KNOW

BETTER

IN WAR THE HEROES ALWAYS OUTNUMBER THE SOLDIERS TEN TO ONEH. L. MENCKEN

QUOTE OF THE DAY

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2021

768 1927 1942 1970TODAY IN

HISTORYTibetan troops occupy Chang’an for 15 days, capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty

Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, paving the way for Joseph Stalin to consolidate complete power

WWII Naval Battle of Guadal-canal begins between Allied and Japanese forces in Solo-mon Islands

Cyclone Bhola makes landfall in East Pakistan (Bangladesh) killing up to 500,000, making it the deadli-est tropical cyclone ever recorded

TOP

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03

01

In November last year, @WHO launched the

Global strategy to accel-erate the elimination of #cervicalcancer. Join us on 17 November to mark the anniversary since the world committed for the first time to eliminate a #cancer

@DrTedros

For generations, Amer-icans have answered

the call to serve—taking the sacred oath to defend our ideals of liberty and democracy. These patri-ots represent the best of us. On Veterans Day, we honor their service, ded-ication, and valor and are forever grateful for their sacrifice.

@POTUS

The #ClimateAction struggle requires all

hands on deck. It is every-one’s responsibility. Every country, every city, every company, every financial institution must radical-ly, credibly & verifiably reduce their emissions & decarbonize their portfo-lios starting now. #COP26

@antonioguterres

Brilliant that over 11 million people across

the UK have come for-ward for their lifesaving booster jabs. We know immunity from vaccines weakens over time. But your booster jab will top up your protection. So play your part this winter and #GetBoosted when you are eligible.

@BorisJohnson

Disclaimer: (Views expressed by columnists are personal and need not necessarily reflect our

editorial stances)

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SpaceX crew launch marks 600 space travellers in 60 yearsAP | Cape Canaveral

A S p a c e X ro c ke t c a r r i e d four astronauts into orbit

Wednesday night, including the 600th person to reach space in 60 years.

The repeatedly delayed flight occurred just two days after SpaceX brought four other as-tronauts home from the Interna-tional Space Station. They should have been up there to welcome the newcomers, but NASA and SpaceX decided to switch the order based on Monday’s ideal recovery weather in the Gulf of Mexico and pulled it off.

“It was a great ride, better than we imagined,” mission command-er Raja Chari said shortly after the spacecraft reached orbit.

The launch was just as riveting for spectators at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, as well as along the East Coast, as the Falcon rocket thundered through clouds on its way to space, turning night into day.

Germany’s Matthias Maurer claimed the No. 600 position, according to NASA, based on his mission assignment. He and his three NASA crewmates should ar-

rive at the space station in under 24 hours, well over a week late.

One of the astronauts — NASA isn’t saying which one — was side-lined last week by an undisclosed medical issue. The crew member is fully recovered, according to NASA. Officials won’t say wheth-er it was an illness or injury, but noted it wasn’t COVID-19.

Bad weather also contributed to their flight delays. Chari said trying to launch on Halloween left them with “a trick instead

of a treat.” It was also drizzling Wednesday night when the four astronauts said goodbye to their families for six months — with everyone huddling under umbrel-las — but it cleared up by launch time.

“Enjoy your holidays among the stars. We’ll be waving as you fly by,” SpaceX launch director Mark Soltys radioed to the crew.

The list of 600 travelers rang-es from those who have bare-ly scratched space — like actor

William Shatner last month — to U.S. and Russian astronauts who have spent a year or more in orbit. This year’s surge in space tourists helped push the tally over the 600 mark.

That averages out to 10 people per year since Yuri Gagarin’s pi-oneering flight in 1961, Maurer noted.

“But I think in a very few years, we will see an exponential rise of that one because now we’re entering the era of commercial spaceflight,” he said after arriv-ing at Kennedy Space Center two weeks ago.

The crew launch marked SpaceX’s fourth for NASA and the company’s fifth passenger flight overall — including a Septem-ber charter flight for four that skipped the space station. The Dragon capsule’s toilet leaked during their three days in orbit, necessitating a quick redesign of the flushing system in the newest capsule, named Endurance by its crew.

A balky parachute during Monday’s descent had SpaceX engineers poring over the data, before giving the go-ahead for

Wednesday’s launch. One of the four chutes opened more than a minute late, a problem seen in testing and well within safety limits, but still being examined, officials said.

As of Wednesday, Elon Musk’s company has launched 18 people in 18 months.

Philippines president’s daughter joins new party as election deadline nearsReuters | Tokyo

The popular daughter of Philippine leader Rodrigo

Duterte yesterday joined a new political party and could run for a national position, its top official said, just days out from a deadline to firm up candidates for 2022 presidential elections.

Sara Duterte-Carpio, 43, has led opinion polls throughout this year as the most preferred candidate for the presidency, a post she has repeatedly said she had no interest in pursuing.

But this week she withdrew from next year’s contest for mayor of Davao city, setting off speculation about a bigger role.

Duterte-Carpio is a promis-ing leader and a tremendous asset, said congressman Martin Romualdez, president of Lakas-CMD, the party controlled by former president Gloria Maca-pagal-Arroyo that she joined.

“She joined Lakas-CMD for a possible national run,” Romual-dez told DZMM radio.

The party has nominated can-didates for president and vice president, but those are widely seen as placeholders who can switch at the last minute. The

deadline for changes is Nov. 15.A s p o k e s p e r s o n f o r

Duterte-Carpio did not imme-diately respond to a request for comment on her plans.

Her father’s PDP-Laban po-litical party said on Wednesday it was watching “with keen in-terest” Duterte-Carpio’s moves, adding that a decision to seek a national post “will most cer-tainly affect the political land-scape”.

Duterte once said the presi-dency was no job for a woman but later suggested his daughter

could team up with one of his loyalists for a run.

The 76-year old leader, who cannot seek re-election, was also an 11th-hour replacement in 2015 ahead of an election he won convincingly.

Political observers have an-ticipated his daughter might do the same.

Political analyst Temario Rivera said it was “very clear” Duterte-Carpio would seek a national post, but the possibility of her teaming up with another presidential aspirant, Ferdinand

Marcos Jr., remains.The son and namesake of the

late Philippines dictator, who has registered to run for presi-dent under a different party, has not yet named a vice president.

“If they run together, whether it is Marcos-Sara or Sara-Mar-cos, it will be a formidable team,” Rivera told Reuters.

The Southeast Asian nation of 110 million people holds elec-tions in May 2022 for positions from president down to gover-nors, mayors and local officials.

China’s Xi warns of ‘Cold War-era’ tensions in Asia-PacificChinese President Xi Jinping’s comments come ahead of an upcoming virtual meeting with US counterpart Joe Biden

• Xi Jinping said the Asia Pacific region “should not relapse into the confrontation and division of the Cold War era”

AFP | Beijing

Chinese President Xi Jinping warned against a return to Cold War-era divisions in

the Asia-Pacific yesterday as ten-sions mounted over the security of Taiwan.

In the run-up to an anticipated virtual summit with US President Joe Biden as early as next week, Xi said countries in the region must work together on common challenges, from the Covid-19 pandemic to trade.

“Attempts to draw ideological lines or form small circles on ge-opolitical grounds are bound to fail,” he told a virtual business conference on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Coop-eration summit hosted by New Zealand.

“The Asia-Pacific region cannot and should not relapse into the confrontation and division of the Cold War era.”

Xi’s call came hours after China and the United States announced a surprise pact to accelerate cli-mate action at a summit in Glas-gow where countries are trying to agree on measures to curb the warming of the Earth.

The Chinese leader did not mention the US deal directly but said “all of us can embark on a path of green, low-carbon sustain-

able development”.“Together, we can usher in a

future of green development,” he said.

The Chinese and US leaders will hold virtual talks “soon”, ac-cording to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Some reports say the meeting will take place as soon as next week.

‘Critical historical juncture’ But while the Biden adminis-

tration has identified climate as a key area for potential cooper-ation with China, tensions have soared over their rival visions for the Asia-Pacific region, notably Taiwan, a self-ruling democracy claimed by China.

Beijing has ramped up military activities near Taiwan, with a re-cord number of planes crossing into the island’s air defence iden-tification zone in early October.

Secretary of State Blinken on Wednesday underscored US mili-tary support for Taiwan.

“We will make sure that Taiwan

has the means to defend itself be-cause the purpose here is never to get to that point where anyone is actually trying to disrupt the sta-tus quo by force,” he told an event hosted by The New York Times.

Biden’s national security advi-sor Jake Sullivan said the United States and China had the choice not to return to Cold War-era di-visions.

“China has a different value system. It has different interests. And that’s part of what the ongo-ing competition will be about,” Sullivan said in an online address to Australia’s Lowy Institute yes-terday.

“But there’s no reason that that competition has to turn into con-flict or confrontation. And that is what responsibly and collectively we need to manage as we work in the years to come.”

‘Translate consensus into actions’

Besides its position on Taiwan, China also claims almost all of the

resource-rich South China Sea, through which trillions of dollars in shipping trade pass annually, rejecting competing claims from Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam.

Against that backdrop, the Unit-ed States, Britain and Australia announced in September that they had formed a new alliance -- AUKUS -- under which Austral-ia will acquire nuclear-powered submarines using US technology.

Although delivery is years away and China was not specif-ically named, the announcement angered Beijing and separately sparked a furious row with France which saw its deal to sell Australia conventional submarines torn up.

Sullivan said the AUKUS alliance showed that the United States trusted Australia with its most sensitive technology.

“And we believe even more im-portantly, in our collective, com-bined capacity to produce greater stability, security and deterrence in the Indo-Pacific region,” he said.

252,482,230

5,093,076

228,430,115

Deaths

Recovered:

New cases

New deaths +360,381

+4,732

Country Total cases

new cases

Total deaths

New Deaths

Total recovered

Active cases

Egypt 340,269 19,249 284,993 36,027

Saudi Arabia

549,103 +43 8,809 +2 538,100 2,194

UAE 740,729 +82 2,142 735,270 3,317

Kuwait 412,916 2,462 410,157 297

Oman 304,410 +7 4,113 299,810 487

Qatar 240,705 +148 611 238,500 1,594

Middle East

Country Total cases Total deaths

1 USA 47,654,071 780,327

2 India 34,401,670 462,189

3 Brazil 21,911,382 610,080

4 UK 9,448,402 142,533

5 Russia 8,952,472 251,691

6 Turkey 8,315,424 72,713

7 France 7,256,643 118,073

8 Iran 6,019,947 127,809

9 Argentina 5,300,985 116,184

10 Spain 5,038,517 87,617

11 Colombia 5,021,619 127,640

12 Germany 4,903,011 97,715

13 Italy 4,835,435 132,618

14 Indonesia 4,249,758 143,608

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News in brief u Two patients died and a nurse was injured when a fire

broke out in a COVID-19 hospital in the central Romanian city of Ploiesti early yesterday, officials said, the latest in a string of deadly hospital fires over the past year. The fire, which was quickly extinguished, broke out at around 0200 GMT and affected one room. Fifteen patients in the wing were moved to another hospital.

There were more than 17,400 COVID-19 patients, including 310 children, being treated in Romanian hospitals yesterday, including 1,823 in intensive care units.

u Pope Francis asked Scotland’s Catholics to pray for the success of the UN Climate Change (COP26) conference in Glasgow because “time is running out” to save the planet. In the letter, Francis said he regretted that he could not attend the opening of the conference as he had originally hoped, but asked all to join in prayer for a fruitful outcome. “This gathering (is) meant to address one of the great moral issues of our time: the preservation of God’s creation, given to us as a garden to be cultivated and as a common home for our human family,” he said in the letter released by the Vatican.

u Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi on Wednesday sacked defence minister Jaime

Neto, without giving a reason or announcing a replacement. Neto was responsible for managing the country’s response to an Islamist insurgency in the country’s northernmost province of Cabo Delgado as part of his role. “The President of the Republic, Filipe Jacinto Nyusi... dismissed through presidential order Jaime Bessa Augusto Neto from the office of the minister of national defence,” the government said in a short statement, without elaborating.

u A federal judge in the United States has approved a $626m settlement for victims of the lead water crisis in Flint, Michigan, in a case brought by tens of thousands of residents who were affected by the contaminated water. The payment, awarded on Wednesday, is one of the largest civil settlements in Michigan’s history, and will mainly go to people who were children at the time of the water crisis in Flint.

u South Africa’s last white president Frederik Willem (FW) de Klerk

died morning at his home in Cape Town, the FW de Klerk Foundation said in a statement. “Former President FW de Klerk died peacefully at his home in Fresnaye earlier this morning following his struggle against mesothelioma cancer,” the statement said. He was 85 years old.

Fire at COVID-19 hospital in Romania kills two

Mozambique president sacks defence minister

South Africa’s last white president, FW de Klerk, dies at home

Pope says success of COP26 vital as “time is running out”

Lead poisoning victims in Flint to get a $626m settlement

Heavy rains in India, Sri Lanka kill 41, authorities say

Reuters | Chennai

Heavy rains across south-ern India and Sri Lanka

have killed at least 41 people, authorities said yesterday, with weather forecasters ex-pecting the downpours to ease in the next few days as stricken communities pumped out the deluge.

The Indian Meteorological Department forecast light to moderate rain in most affected areas, with occasional flooding of some roads and low-lying areas.

Counterparts in neighbour-ing Sri Lanka said rain there was expected to ease from yesterday as the low pressure that brought the bad weather moved away.

“The worst is over and oc-casional rains will happen,” said Pradeep John, an amateur forecaster who is widely fol-lowed in Tamil Nadu, India’s worst-affected state.

“Today rains will be on and off, with large breaks and nothing alarming.”

The rains have killed 25 people in the island nation of Sri Lanka, most of whom drowned, while landslides in-jured five, officials said.

Sixteen people were killed in Tamil Nadu, state disaster

management minister KKSSR Ramachandran told a news conference.

Many parts of the state cap-ital Chennai, which is India’s auto manufacturing centre, were water-logged and gov-ernment officials used pumps to drain some communities that had been stranded waist deep.

Thousands of people in low lying areas were moved to safety, officials said.

Many schools and colleg-es in Tamil Nadu remained closed while some train servic-es were still suspended.

India’s northeast mon-soon usually runs from Oc-tober to December, bringing heavy rain, particularly to the south.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon capsule lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center

People wade through a flooded beach after heavy rainfall in Chennai

Davao City Mayor and daughter of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, delivers a speech during a senatorial campaign (file photo)

Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a keynote speech for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit

Attempts to draw ideological lines or

form small circles on geopolitical grounds are bound to fail. The Asia-

Pacific region cannot and should not relapse into the confrontation and

division of the Cold War era

XI JINPING

India’s northeast monsoon usually

runs from October to December, bringing heavy rain, particu-

larly to the south

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The list of 600 trav-elers ranges from

those who have barely scratched space — like actor William Shatner

last month — to US and Russian astronauts

who have spent a year or more in orbit. This year’s surge in space tourists helped push

the tally over the 600 mark

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Neighbours of Belarus say migrant crisis risks military clashReuters | Warsaw

Countries bordering Bela-rus yesterday warned the

migrant crisis on the European Union’s eastern borders could escalate into a military con-frontation while Ukraine said it would deploy thousands more troops to reinforce its frontier.

Lithuania, Estonia and Lat-via said Belarus posed serious threats to European security by deliberately escalating its “hybrid attack” using migrants to retaliate for EU sanctions.

“This increases the possibil-ity of provocations and seri-ous incidents that could also spill over into the military do-main,” a joint statement by the countries’ defence ministers said.

While not an EU member, Ukraine is wary of becoming another flashpoint in the es-calating migrant crisis. Kyiv announced drills and the de-ployment of 8,500 additional troops and police officers to the country’s long northern border with Belarus.

Migrants stranded inside Be-larus threw rocks and branch-es at Polish border guards and used logs to try to break down a razor wire fence overnight in new attempts to force their way into the EU, the authorities in Warsaw said.

The EU says Minsk is encour-aging thousands of migrants fleeing war-torn parts of the world to try to cross its borders and may impose new sanctions on Belarus and airlines ferrying the migrants as soon as Mon-day.

Belarusian President Alexan-der Lukashenko threatened to retaliate, including by shutting down the transit of Russian nat-ural gas via Belarus, although there was no immediate re-sponse from Russia, its close ally and financial backer.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Moscow will try to help Europe weather an energy crunch and is hoping that German authorities will soon certify the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that will carry more Russian gas to Germany.

Moscow reacted angrily in the past when Ukraine, anoth-er transit country, disrupted supplies of gas to the West and Lukashenko has proved a dif-

ficult partner, pushing back against its wishes at times while accepting loans and subsidised energy.

Russia dispatched two stra-tegic bombers to patrol Bela-rusian airspace on Wednesday in a show of support for its ally. Belarus said Russian planes car-ried out drills for a second day yesterday.

“Yes, these are bombers ca-pable of carrying nuclear weap-ons,” Lukashenko said. “But we have no other option. We must see what they are doing there beyond the borders.”

He also said there were at-tempts to transfer weapons to the migrants, in what he de-scribed as a provocation in comments carried by Belarus state media. He did not pro-vide any evidence and it was not clear who he was accusing of doing this.

The Kremlin said Russia had nothing to do with tensions on the border and suggested the presence of heavily armed people on both sides was a source of concern. It also re-jected as “crazy” a suggestion in a media report that Russia’s flag carrier Aeroflot could be targeted with retaliatory sanctions.

Migrants from the Middle East and elsewhere warmup at the fire gathering at the Belarus-Poland border

The EU says Minsk is encouraging thou-sands of migrants

fleeing war-torn parts of the world to try to cross its borders

and may impose new sanctions on Belarus and airlines ferrying the migrants as soon

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Abu Dhabi’s new secular family law steps up Gulf talent competition

• Abu Dhabi’s new law says female witnesses are equal to male

• Other UAE emirates could follow suit, enhancing appeal to expats

• UAE vies with Saudi Arabia for foreign talent

Reuters | Dubai

Legal reforms in Abu Dhabi designed to enhance the emirate’s appeal to for-

eigners will allow for non-Mus-lim judges, birth certificates for children of unmarried parents, equality of men and women as witnesses, and new alimony and inheritance laws.

The new secular law, a copy of which was seen by Reuters, in-tends to make the political cap-ital of the United Arab Emirates more attractive for outsiders to live and work.

It has been welcomed as a step forward for gender equality.

“It gives a lot of rights to women which did not exist be-fore,” said Hassan Elhais, a legal consultant from UAE-based Al Rowaad Advocates. “It is revo-lutionary,”

The UAE’s tourism and busi-ness hub Dubai - usually more avant garde than Abu Dhabi - could follow suit and craft its own family laws too. That would help the UAE keep a competi-

tive edge in luring investment as conservative Gulf neighbour Saudi Arabia opens itself up to bring in foreign money and tal-ent.

Foreigners, mostly from South Asia, Egypt and the Phil-ippines, account for about 88% of the UAE’s nearly 10 million population, fuelling all as-pects of the economy from ex-ecutive positions to low-paid construction and domestic workers.

The Family Law for Non-Mus-lim Expatriates in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, announced on Sun-

day and expected to come into force in December, allows for “personal status” procedures - such as divorce, inheritance and marriage - to take place for the first time in the country outside of religious codes.

It also allows non-Muslim judges to preside over family is-sues for the first time anywhere in the Gulf.

It introduces the concepts of civil marriage, no-fault divorce and joint child custody. And, also for the first time in the UAE, it allows babies born to unmarried foreign parents to obtain birth

certificates if the father recog-nises paternity.

EQUALITY FOR FEMALE WITNESSES

The new law could also give more credibility to Abu Dhabi court judgements when parties apply for them to be recognised in, for example, Europe, Elhais said.

Many aspects of sharia fam-ily law give more standing and rights to men, such as where two female witnesses are con-sidered the equal of one male witness in family court proce-

dures. Abu Dhabi’s new law says female witnesses are equal to male.

Rothna Begum, of Human Rights Watch, said the law is an important step towards pro-viding equality, but wider legal reform was required to include all citizens and residents in the UAE, which is made up of seven emirates.

“The UAE should instead pass an optional civil code as well as reform its Personal Sta-tus Law to ensure equality be-tween men and women in all matters relating to marriage,

divorce, inheritance and deci-sions concerning children,” said Begum.

In one potentially problem-atic area, expatriate couples in Abu Dhabi, which has a popu-lation of about 2.9 million, need to opt into the secular system. That opens the possibility for a husband, for example, to insist on entering the sharia system instead.

Abu Dhabi’s reform comes a year after the UAE at a federal level started to reform its legal system to make it more attrac-tive for investment. Changes in-cluded decriminalising premar-ital sexual relations and alcohol consumption, and cancelling provisions for leniency when dealing with so-called “honour killings”.

The Gulf state also introduced longer-term visas as a way to attract and retain talent and en-courage more businesses to set up shop.

A general view of the Abu Dhabi skylin

Abu Dhabi’s reform comes a year after the UAE at a federal level started to reform its legal system to make it more attractive for

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Britain presses Iranian deputy foreign minister over detained dual nationalsReuters | London

Britain yesterday said that officials had pressed Ira-

nian deputy foreign minister Ali Bagheri Kani to release de-tained dual nationals including British-Iranian aid worker Naz-anin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.

British foreign office offi-cials also told Bagheri Kani at a meeting in London that Iran should conclude the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPoA) nuclear deal under the terms on the table now, the for-eign ministry said.

“The Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister was also pressed on the need for Iran to urgently release all British nationals un-fairly detained in Iran, includ-ing Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Anoosheh Ashoori and Morad Tahbaz,” the Foreign, Common-wealth and Development Office said in a statement.

Iran’s foreign ministry was not immediately available to comment.

Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was ar-rested at a Tehran airport in April 2016 and later convicted of plotting to overthrow the clerical establishment.

In April, an Iranian court sentenced Zaghari-Ratcliffe to a new term in jail on charges

of propaganda against Iran’s ruling system, just a month af-ter she finished a prior five-year sentence. That sentence has not yet started, though it has been upheld by an appeals court.

Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s family and the foundation have denied the charges. The foundation is a charity that operates inde-pendently of media company Thomson Reuters and its news subsidiary Reuters.

Her husband, Richard Rat-cliffe, is on a hunger strike to highlight her case. He met Brit-ish minister for the Middle East James Cleverly on Thursday.

“If I’m honest, quite a de-

pressing meeting,” Ratcliffe told reporters after he left the Foreign Office, adding that Cleverly told him the meeting with Bagheri Kani had been cordial.

“(Cleverly) couldn’t give a timeline on when things were going to move forward.”

The FCDO said Cleverly had reaffirmed the government’s commitment to reuniting Zaghari-Ratcliffe with her fam-ily in the UK.

“The Foreign Secretary (Liz Truss), Minister Cleverly and the FCDO continue to work hard to secure the release of all those British nationals unfairly de-tained in Iran,” it said.

Richard Ratcliffe, husband of British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, holds Nazanin’s picture during the 19th day of a hunger strike outside the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), in London, Britain

Sudan’s army chief appoints new ruling council, led by himself

Reuters | Cairo

Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fat-tah al-Burhan was sworn in

yesterday as head of a new tran-sitional council he appointed to lead the country following the military takeover late last month, shrugging off domestic and international pressure to reverse the coup.

The new 14-member Sover-eign Council, for which one member is yet to be confirmed, includes civilians represent-ing Sudan’s regions but none from the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) political coalition that had been sharing power with the military in a democrat-ic transition since 2019.

Burhan’s deputy will remain

Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, commander of the powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), with both men keeping roles they held before the coup.The move is likely to harden opposition among ci-vilian groups who have pledged to resist the takeover through a campaign of civil disobedi-ence, strikes and mass rallies, the next of which is planned for Saturday.

Late on Thursday, protesters closed roads and burned tires in Burri, a neighbourhood in the east of the capital Khartoum, witnesses said. Unverified pic-tures posted on social media ap-peared to show similar protests in other parts of the capital.

Sudan’s ousted Information

Minister Hamza Balloul said the announcement was an ex-tension of the coup and that he was confident the Sudanese people could defeat it.

The Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA), a leading protest movement, said: “Bur-han and his council’s decisions apply only to themselves, they have no legitimacy and will be met only with contempt and resistance.” The new council also includes representatives of rebel groups that reached a peace deal with the govern-ment last year but had reject-ed the takeover in a statement this week. Some senior civilians have been detained and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has been under house arrest.

General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Protesters carry a banner and shout slogans as they march against the Sudanese military’s recent seizure of power


We hope to establish a solid regional base and establish an access point from Spain not only

to cater the GCC but other several regions. The geographical location of Bahrain and easy access to some of the fastest-growing markets

here will provide the platform we need to achieve our international growth ambitions

SERGIO MARTINEZ, THE CEO OF ALEASTUR GROUP

Bahrain a model for one-team spirit: Finance Minister• Shaikh Salman opens Middle East Guidance Forum

TDT | Manama

The Minister of Finance and National Economy, Shaikh Salman bin Khal-

ifa Al Khalifa, has stressed that Bahrain sets a model for one-team spirit work that leads to achievement and excellence, thanks to the His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and His Royal Highness Prince Sal-man bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince and Prime Min-ister.

In his inaugural speech at the 2nd edition of the Middle East Guidance Forum, held under the theme “Giving Priority to Guid-ance in a New World”, the min-ister affirmed Bahrain’s keen-ness to increase investment in the field supporting the human capital.

The forum combines in-per-son and virtual attendance to

discuss changes in the labour market resulting from the coro-navirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

The minister stressed that continuous guidance and train-ing is the guarantor for the tran-sition of knowledge between generations.

He pointed out the directives

of HRH Crown Prince and Prime Minister in February 2020 to form the National Medical Task-force for Combating the Coro-navirus (COVID-19) and set up a joint operation room working round the clock even before Bah-rain recorded a case of infection. “This was part of the proactive

approach and the wise vision of HRH to manage the coronavirus crisis,” he said.

Shaikh Salman affirmed that the world had drawn lessons from the pandemic, including mainly how societies should put the public interest above the private one. He noted that

countries that prioritized the public interest showed better performance in overcoming the challenge imposed by the pan-demic.

The minister asserted that countries that have proven their name in development and pro-gress had accorded human and

financial resources equal im-portance. He pointed out that all government priorities and programmes in Bahrain follow this principle, including the re-cently-launched economic re-covery plan.

Europe’s Aleastur announces GCC’s first aluminium grain refiners plant in Bahrain• The new $15 million facility will supply speciality alloys to global markets

• Aleastur is one of Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company (Mumtalakat) portfolio companies

• The launch of this facility is an example of Bahrain’s economic recovery plan in action

TDT | Manama

Aleastur, a leading Euro-pean metal producer, announced launching

the Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC’s) first state-of-the-art aluminium grain refiners and master alloys production hub at its new Middle East base in Bah-rain. The hub will be the Spanish firm’s first overseas facility and will produce high-quality alu-minium alloys for different pur-poses across various industries.

The new $15 million facility will supply speciality alloys to global markets, including Asia, North America and the GCC. The Bahrain facility will be exporting approximately 85% of its annual production to regional players in the industry, including alumin-ium smelters and cast-houses.

Aleastur is one of Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company (Mumtalakat) portfolio com-panies and is considered one of the top aluminium grain refin-er players. It is expected to hit revenues in the new facility of nearly $53 million by 2025 as it ramps up foreign exports.

The facility in Bahrain, de-

signed to be “an ideal” alumin-ium downstream hub, will re-duce lead times and strengthen supply chains for the alumini-um industry in the region and neighbouring markets as global economies begin to reboot and construction projects resume.

The launch of this facility is an example of Bahrain’s economic

recovery plan in action. This supports the mandate to contin-ue attracting investment to the Kingdom, ultimately creating jobs for Bahrainis.

“We hope to establish a solid regional base and establish an access point from Spain not only to cater the GCC but other sev-eral regions. The geographical

location of Bahrain and easy ac-cess to some of the fastest-grow-ing markets here will provide the platform we need to achieve our international growth ambi-tions,” said Sergio Martinez, the CEO of Aleastur Group.

“We’re thrilled to be joining our industry peers in Bahrain, and we look forward to tapping into a growing aluminium hub right next door to Alba. With our Spanish facilities, the new site will be particularly well-po-sitioned to export to the South East Asian and Indian markets. In addition to Bahrain’s well-placed geographical location, we will benefit from the highly skilled local workforce, strong logistics infrastructure and best-value operating costs,” said Sergio Martinez.

Aleastur’s new hub is part of a broader plan, in partnership with Mumtalakat, who acquired a significant stake in the compa-

ny in 2016, to develop the King-dom’s downstream aluminium sector and strengthen synergies between local manufacturers, and key international players.

Commenting on the an-nouncement, Khalid Al Rumai-hi, the CEO of Mumtalakat, said, “As one of our key investments, Aleastur’s presence in Bahrain will add significant value to the growing downstream alumin-ium cluster which will enable them to cater to the growing demand in the region and be-yond. We look forward to see-ing their operations expand and are excited by the prospects this next phase for Aleastur brings.

Bahrain is already known in the Gulf region for its boom-ing aluminium trade. The King-dom’s national aluminium man-ufacturer, Alba, is the largest single-site smelter in the world outside of China, producing at full capacity more than 2% of global output. Mid and down-stream clusters are fast develop-ing around Alba, feeding off the metal it produces. Aluminium exports made up about 34.2% of Bahrain’s non-oil exports in 2020, and the sector already contributes 11.1% to GDP.

Khalid Humaidan, the Chief Executive of Bahrain’s Econom-ic Development Board, said, “The decision by Aleastur to build its first international base in Bahrain, is a prime example of the Kingdom’s attractiveness in the manufacturing and logistics sectors which we believe can be summarized by three main attributes. Firstly, our competi-tive operating costs are likely to be more profitable, secondly, our free trade agreements support businesses. Last but not least, a key decisive element is a high-ly-skilled workforce we have to man those business and keep them successful.”

Other aluminium companies operating

in Bahrain include BAMCO, GARMCO, Bal-

exco, and Midal Cables. The firms distribute

internationally through Bahrain’s FTAs with

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17309007 or [email protected] Gallery W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of LABOURER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17140000 or [email protected] CITY CLEANING W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of CLEANER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17727925 or [email protected] Trading & Contracting W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of STEEL FABRICATOR , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17431145 or [email protected] SAEED AL-HAJRI CORPORATION W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WELDER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17312220 or [email protected] Solar Co. B.S.C. Closed has a vacancy for the occupation of ELECTRICIAN , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17705313 or [email protected] Agency for the Supply Workers w. l. l has a vacancy for the occupation of PREPARER(COFFEE) , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17717730 or [email protected] OLAYA SUITES HOTEL W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WAITER (HOTEL) , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17712303 or [email protected] ARTISTIC FRAMES CENTRE W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of CARPENTER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 36511786 or [email protected] W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of SHEET METAL WORKERS (GENERAL) , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17675599 or [email protected] INTERNATIONAL CONTRACTING has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39944412 or [email protected] TOWN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY W.L.L. has a vacancy for the occupation of LABOURER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17404866 or [email protected] TOWN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY W.L.L. has a vacancy for the occupation of MASON , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17404866 or [email protected] TOWER CONTRACTING company partnership owned by hasan abdu has a vacancy for the occupation of MASON , suitably qualified applicants can contact 77140192 or [email protected] TOWN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY W.L.L. has a vacancy for the occupation of MASON , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17404866 or [email protected] RASHID ALJALAHMA CONSTRUCTION has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39478431 or [email protected] Partners W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of CHEF , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33449049 or [email protected] BAHRAIN INSULATION has a vacancy for the occupation of MASON , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17484815 or [email protected] TECHNICAL ZONE W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 34668999 or [email protected] FACILITY MANAGEMENT CO W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of CLEANER (GENERAL) , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17382228 or [email protected] CONTRACTING CO W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of BLACKSMITH , suitably qualified applicants can contact 36636624 or [email protected] RESTAURANT AND GRILLS has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39456599 or [email protected] SERVICES W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of HEAVY DRIVER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 36758776 or [email protected] PAK FOR UTILITIES SUPPORT COMPANY W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of OFFICE HELPER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 35004938 or [email protected] SCAFFORM CONTRACTING has a vacancy for the occupation of LABOURER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17725522 or [email protected] COMPANY BAHRAIN W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of CHEF , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17742080 or [email protected] Gallery W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of MARKETING EXECUTIVE , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17140000 or [email protected] P K BUSINESS SUPPORT SERVICES

CO. W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33228504 or [email protected] J M KOOHEJI GROUP BSC CLOSED has a vacancy for the occupation of CARPENTER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17403304 or [email protected] Electromechanical Services Co. W.L.L. has a vacancy for the occupation of TECHNICIAN , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39940152 or [email protected] AHMADI CO W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17268111 or [email protected] MOON JEWELERS W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of SALES EXECUTIVE REPRESENTATIVE , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33300264 or [email protected] SCAFFORM CONTRACTING has a vacancy for the occupation of LABOURER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17725522 or [email protected] GULF W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of SANDBLASTER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17673513 or [email protected] SCAFFORM CONTRACTING has a vacancy for the occupation of SCAFFOLDER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17725522 or [email protected] Contracting WLL has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17000297 or [email protected] SCAFFORM CONTRACTING has a vacancy for the occupation of LABOURER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17725522 or [email protected] SCAFFORM CONTRACTING has a vacancy for the occupation of SCAFFOLDER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17725522 or [email protected] Gulf Inn W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of CHEF , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17564033 or [email protected] RITZ - CARLTON BAHRAIN HOTEL has a vacancy for the occupation of COOK(GENERAL) , suitably qualified applicants can contact 36843001 or [email protected] LOGISTIC has a vacancy for the occupation of HEAVY DRIVER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17740444 or [email protected] FITNESS CO W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of TRAINER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 36900617 or [email protected] my uniform tailoring and embloidery has a vacancy for the occupation of SUPERVISOR , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39683809 or [email protected] Warehouses Co. W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of DEPUTY GENERAL MANAGER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17239393 or [email protected] ADVERTISING AND PROMOTION has a vacancy for the occupation of DESIGNER(COMMERCIAL ADVERTISMENTS) , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17630226 or [email protected] BAKERY has a vacancy for the occupation of BREAD BAKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17737067 or [email protected] Corner Sandwiches has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39123546 or [email protected] WAFE ELECTRICAL TOOLS CO.W.L.L. has a vacancy for the occupation of SALESMAN , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17273169 or [email protected] Safety & Securities Co. WLL has a vacancy for the occupation of ENGINEER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39205395 or [email protected] EXCAVATION CO. B.S.C. CLOSED has a vacancy for the occupation of GRADER OPERATOR & DRIVER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17702385 or [email protected] W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of SCAFFOLDER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 36633899 or [email protected] W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of INSULATOR , suitably qualified applicants can contact 36633899 or [email protected] RESTAURANT has a vacancy for the occupation of DRIVER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33660552 or [email protected] Agency for the Supply Workers w. l. l has a vacancy for the occupation of CLEANER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17717730 or [email protected] ALNASHIL BOUTIQE has a vacancy for the occupation of SALESMAN , suitably

qualified applicants can contact 39531148 or [email protected] MARKETING W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of SALES AGENT , suitably qualified applicants can contact 66668182 or [email protected] IQBAL FOR REPAIR OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33627914 or [email protected] MAX W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33585111 or [email protected] Union Contracting Co WLL has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17533125 or [email protected] & B Electrical Contracting Company W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER(CONSTRUCTION) , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17785131 or [email protected] R A CONTRACTING has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER(CONSTRUCTION) , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17253399 or [email protected] RASHID ALJALAHMA CONSTRUCTION has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39478431 or [email protected] Asphalt & Mixed Concrete Co. W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of PLANT / UNIT OPERATOR , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17252078 or [email protected] AL BAHRAIN has a vacancy for the occupation of COOK(GENERAL) , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33885484 or [email protected] CATERING has a vacancy for the occupation of CHEF , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39939974 or [email protected] Top Mart has a vacancy for the occupation of SALESMAN , suitably qualified applicants can contact 37720166 or [email protected] Electromechanical Services Co. W.L.L. has a vacancy for the occupation of TECHNICIAN , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39940152 or [email protected] CORE W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of SECURITY GUARD , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17822228 or [email protected] GULF W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of SANDBLASTER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17673513 or [email protected] YOUSAF INTERIOR DECORATION W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33779557 or [email protected] Hotel and Suites Amwaj W. L. L has a vacancy for the occupation of ROOM ATTENDANT , suitably qualified applicants can contact 13600111 or [email protected] CARPENTRY WORKSHOP has a vacancy for the occupation of CARPENTER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17642869 or [email protected] Electromechanical Services Co. W.L.L. has a vacancy for the occupation of ELECTRICIAN , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39940152 or [email protected] INDUSTRIAL SERVICES COMPANY W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WELDER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33220131 or [email protected] GULF W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of SANDBLASTER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17673513 or [email protected] LINK FOR GYPSUM CONTRACTING W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of LABOURER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17786149 or [email protected] CLEANING CO. W.L.L. has a vacancy for the occupation of CLEANER (GENERAL) , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39881145 or [email protected] FACILITY MANAGEMENT CO W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17382228 or [email protected] SERVICES has a vacancy for the occupation of CLEANER (GENERAL) , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33331944 or [email protected] DAME CONTRACTING COMPANY W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of ELECTRICIAN , suitably qualified applicants can contact 35618402 or ANTONYCSC@

GMAIL.COMFAIZAN FOR FRAESH MEAT AND CHIKENS has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39092475 or [email protected] and Agate For Accessories has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33249865 or [email protected] STYLE GENTS SALON has a vacancy for the occupation of BARBER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 66301611 or [email protected] BAKERY has a vacancy for the occupation of BREAD BAKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39888023 or [email protected] PUNJABI RESTAURANT has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39888023 or [email protected] SAIN PAINTERS W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 38357941 or [email protected] YA RESTAURANT has a vacancy for the occupation of WAITER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39922266 or [email protected] SPECIAL ONE LOUNGE W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of COOK(GENERAL) , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39898455 or [email protected] land has a vacancy for the occupation of SALESMAN , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33311122 or [email protected] land trading has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17210500 or [email protected] for trading co. w.l.l has a vacancy for the occupation of SALESMAN , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33588919 or [email protected] Gate Hotel has a vacancy for the occupation of WAITER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17251444 or [email protected] TECHNICAL & CONSTRUCTION SERVICES has a vacancy for the occupation of SUPERVISOR (SITE) , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17785335 or [email protected] JIN ENTERPRISE COMPANY LIMITED has a vacancy for the occupation of LABOURER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17700711 or [email protected] CONTRACTING CO W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of BLACKSMITH , suitably qualified applicants can contact 36636624 or [email protected] CONSTRUCTION COMPANY W.L.L. has a vacancy for the occupation of CARPENTER(CONSTRUCTION) , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17826660 or [email protected] BAHRAIN CO W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17534342 or [email protected] I CONTRACTING has a vacancy for the occupation of LABOURER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17009161 or [email protected] CONTRACTING CO W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of MASON ASST , suitably qualified applicants can contact 36636624 or [email protected] ABAHSAIN FIBERGLASS W.L.L. has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17468522 or [email protected] and safe maintenance services has a vacancy for the occupation of PLUMBER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39686668 or [email protected] CONTRACTING WLL has a vacancy for the occupation of SUPERVISOR , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17555090 or [email protected] CONTRACTING has a vacancy for the occupation of MASON , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17536881 or [email protected] SHABAB CAFETERIA - BAHRAINI PARTNERSHIP COMPANY has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39867872 or [email protected] ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENTS has a vacancy for the occupation of SALESMAN , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39116051 or [email protected] RESTAURANT has a vacancy for the occupation of WAITER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33066604 or [email protected] DREAM GENTS Barber has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 34342311 or [email protected] TRADING CENTER has a vacancy for the occupation of SALESMAN , suitably

qualified applicants can contact 17700323 or [email protected] CONTRACTING & TRADING GROUP W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17255980 or [email protected] BUKAMAL FOR FURNITURE & UPHPLSTERY has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER-EDGE SAWYER-(WOOD) , suitably qualified applicants can contact 36777673 or [email protected] PRIDE TRADING CENTRE W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of LABOURER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17601873 or [email protected] SPECIALIZED CONSTRUCTION OWNED BY AWAL COMMERCIAL SERVIC has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17230808 or [email protected] T M C FOR GENERAL TRADE has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 36445749 or [email protected] TRADING AGENCIES W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of LABOURER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17290111 or [email protected] CO. W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of SECURITY GUARD , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17783886 or [email protected] KHAMIS CONTRACTING AND EVENTS PLANNING CO W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 36650780 or [email protected] JIN ENTERPRISE COMPANY LIMITED has a vacancy for the occupation of LABOURER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17700711 or [email protected] DENTAL LABORTORIES has a vacancy for the occupation of LABOURER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17535020 or [email protected] CYBARCO TABET JV W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of LABOURER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17224545 or [email protected] CONTRACTING has a vacancy for the occupation of CARPENTER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17536881 or [email protected] SERVICES W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 34561904 or [email protected] Hotel W.L.L. has a vacancy for the occupation of WAITER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17712303 or [email protected] 88 SALON - BAHRAINI PARTNERSHIP COMPANY has a vacancy for the occupation of BARBER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 34352005 or [email protected] CONTRACTING has a vacancy for the occupation of MASON , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17536881 or [email protected] RESTAURANT has a vacancy for the occupation of KITCHEN WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33600050 or [email protected] BRANCH CONTRACTING has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17270909 or [email protected] GARAGE has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33963558 or [email protected] KHALIL CAFETERIA has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33831353 or [email protected] Technical SERVICES has a vacancy for the occupation of SALES SPECIALIST , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39988170 or [email protected] SPOON FOR HEALTHY FOOD has a vacancy for the occupation of COOK(GENERAL) , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33961480 or [email protected] SHIPBUILDING & REPAIR YARD CO. )ASRY has a vacancy for the occupation of SUPERVISOR , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17674319 or [email protected] ABD MOHAMMED B.S.C(CLOSED) has a vacancy for the occupation of RIGGER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17700888 or [email protected] ALUMINUM has a vacancy for the occupation of QUALITY INSPECTOR , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17722333 or [email protected] ASPHALT COMPANY W L L has a vacancy for the occupation of CARPENTER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17466776 or [email protected] CONSTRUCTION has a vacancy for the occupation of MASON , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39274827 or [email protected]

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PREMATOR GULF W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of SANDBLASTER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17673513 or [email protected] ABAHSAIN FIBERGLASS W.L.L. has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17468522 or [email protected] ENGINEERING CO. W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of MECHANICAL HELPER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17830801 or [email protected] DUJAIL AUTO SERVICES has a vacancy for the occupation of MECHANIC , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39836099 or [email protected] Public Transport Company W.L.L. has a vacancy for the occupation of DRIVER(PUBLIC TRANSPORT) , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17265555 or [email protected] INDUSTRIAL MAINTENANCE COMPANY W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of STEEL FABRICATOR , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17532010 or [email protected] NADA has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 36667373 or [email protected] Fabrications Installation Contractors W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17295455 or [email protected] Union Contracting Co WLL has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17533125 or [email protected] CONTRACTNIG has a vacancy for the occupation of SPRAYER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17588787 or [email protected] CONTRACTING CO. W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of CARPENTER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17737000 or [email protected] Kadhem aldurazi & sons B.S.c. close has a vacancy for the occupation of TECHNICIAN , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17624116 or [email protected] and co wll has a vacancy for the occupation of WAITER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17200067 or [email protected] KHALIL EBRAHIM has a vacancy for the occupation of HEAVY DRIVER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 34128860 or [email protected] Kadhem aldurazi & sons B.S.c. close has a vacancy for the occupation of MACHINE OPERATOR , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17624116 or [email protected] AHMED CONTRACTING has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39625104 or [email protected] HASAN ALI ABUSERI ( ALMIMON / 10471 ) has a vacancy for the occupation of SEAMAN , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39063362 or [email protected] Fabrications Installation Contractors W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17295455 or [email protected] Kadhem aldurazi & sons B.S.c. close has a vacancy for the occupation of TECHNICIAN , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17624116 or [email protected] GATE CAR WASH MANUAL has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39464585 or [email protected] HASAN ALI ABUSERI ( ALMIMON / 10471 ) has a vacancy for the occupation of SEAMAN , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39063362 or [email protected] MAINTENANCE, CLEANING AND CONTRACTING CO. W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of CLEANER (GENERAL) , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17720648 or [email protected] B.S.C CLOSED has a vacancy for the occupation of SHIPMASTER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17559999 or [email protected] FOOD STUFF CENTRE has a vacancy for the occupation of SALESMAN , suitably qualified applicants can contact 38882236 or [email protected] Fabrications Installation Contractors W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17295455 or [email protected]

EVER BUILD TRADING CO. W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17700939 or [email protected] CONTRACTING has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17536881 or [email protected] CONTRACTING CO W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of MASON , suitably qualified applicants can contact 36636624 or [email protected] Secure Solutions Bahrain W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of SECURITY GUARD , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17714409 or [email protected] ON THE FLY has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 36774492 or [email protected] ENGINEERING CO. W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of OFFICE BOY / FARRASH , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17830801 or [email protected] AND GOLDEN STAR FACTORY W.L.L. has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17253953 or [email protected] SECURITY SERVICES has a vacancy for the occupation of SECURITY GUARD , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17700211 or [email protected] COMPUTERS MIDDLE EAST W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of SYSTEM ANALYST , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17705313 or [email protected] Electromech W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of GENERAL FOREMAN , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17700777 or [email protected] ABDULWAHID MOHAMED EBRHIM FAQEEH has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 77144144 or [email protected] M INTERIOR W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 38354639 or [email protected] TOWERS CONTRACTING AND CLEARANCE has a vacancy for the occupation of DRIVER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 36633480 or [email protected] Union Contracting Co WLL has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17533125 or [email protected] M INTERIOR W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 38354639 or [email protected] CLEANING SERVICES has a vacancy for the occupation of DRIVER(HEAVY TRUCK) , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39024402 or [email protected] G B MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY CO W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33928660 or [email protected] Fine Trading W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17227206 or [email protected] AUTO SPAREPARTS has a vacancy for the occupation of ELECTRICIAN , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33111179 or [email protected] Security Services Co. W.L.L. has a vacancy for the occupation of SECURITY GUARD , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17262725 or [email protected] LAUADRY has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33111179 or [email protected] Health line Gym W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 35910250 or [email protected] One Laundry has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 66994556 or [email protected] LAUADRY has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33111179 or [email protected] Security Services Co. W.L.L. has a vacancy for the occupation of SECURITY GUARD , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17262725 or [email protected] MAINTENANCE CONSTRUCTION W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17162300 or [email protected] MOTORCYCLES FOR SALE has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact

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Matthew McConaughey says he wants to ‘find out more information’ before mandating vaccines for his childrenFox | Los Angeles

Matthew McConaughey is speaking out on mandating vaccines

for his children.The issue has become a

hot-button topic since a vacci-nation against coronavirus was made widely available early this year for adults.

In recent weeks, develop-ers have been working toward making the vaccine available to children, prompting ques-tions about whether such a vac-cine should be mandated for kids.

Speaking at The New York Times’s DealBook summit, the 52-year-old actor expressed hes-itancy to require his children to get the vaccine.

“I couldn’t mandate having

to vaccinate the younger kids,” he said. “I still want to find out more information. … There will come a time where you’re going to have to roll the dice one way or the other and go: ‘Where are the numbers in my favor?’”

He also shared that as of “right now,” he’s not vaccinating his own children.

“Do I think that there’s any kind of scam or conspiracy the-ory?” he asked. “Hell no, I don’t.”

He suggested the public “get off” such a “narrative,” insisting that “there’s not a conspiracy theory on the vaccines.”

Health officials have begun to express confidence in the vaccine’s safety for children, and just last week, the CDC authorized Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine for emergency use in

children ages 5-11.Mc-Conaughey noted that “we just said we can vaccinate kids.”

McConaughey, who has floated the idea of running for the office of governor of Texas, said that he’s not against vaccines, just wants “more informa-tion” about them.

“I’m vaccinated. My wife’s vacci-nated,” he stated.

He said that his 90-year-old m o t h e r, w h o is staying with t h e m , i s i m -munocompro-mised, prompt-ing him to re-

ceive the vaccine. He in-sisted he “chose” to do it rather than because he was “told” to.

McConaughey and his wife, model Camila Alves,

share three children: Levi, 13, Vida, 11,

and Livingston 8.

Howeve r, the actor ’s hesitancy to vaccinate his children has n o t h i n g t o do with how seriously he’s taken the pan-demic, as he claimed he’d

“quarantined harder” than his

friends since last year. He also said that his family has utilized a “heavy amount” of coronavirus testing.

“I’m in a position though where I can do that, and I un-derstand that not everyone can do that,” he explained.

Furthermore, McConaughey addressed Texas’ controversial six-week abortion ban, calling it “overly aggressive.”

“It doesn’t doesn’t seem to open up the room for a sensible choice to be made at the right time,” the “Dallas Buyers Club” star said. “I believe in this: more responsibility, more personal responsibility to make the right choices. And we got to pick con-text with each situation, and each person’s situation, each woman’s situation.”

McConaughey, who has floated the idea of running for the office of governor of Texas,

said that he’s not against vaccines, just wants “more informa-

tion” about them

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Will Smith details unconventional marriage to Jada Pinkett Smith in bookFox | Los Angeles

Will Smith is opening up about his unconventional

marriage to Jada Pinkett Smith.The actor detailed his trau-

matic childhood and rise to stardom in a new memoir titled “Will,” which hit bookshelves on Tuesday. In a new interview with “Good Morning Ameri-ca,” the Oscar-nominated star described how his relationship with the actress simply works for them.

The couple tied the knot in 1997 and share two children.

“We are pursuing uncondi-tional love,” the 53-year-old told the outlet. “We are pursuing the kind of love that everybody dreams about. We just don’t

know that the road [doesn’t] look like everybody think[s] it’s supposed to look.”

In a recent episode of “The Oprah Conversa-tion,” Smith divulged the early days of his re-lationship with Oprah Winfrey.

“We drank every day, and had sex multiple t imes every day, for four straight months,” the 67-year-old read from an ex-cerpt of Smith’s book, as quoted by E! News. “I started to wonder if this was a competition. Either way,

as far as I was concerned, there were only two possibilities:

(1) I was going to satis-fy this woman sexually, or (2) I was going to die trying.”

“Since you’re not dead, we a ssum e you won the com-p e t i t i o n ,” t h e h o s t told Smith,

w h o

laughed.“Well, it ended up being a lot

more complex than that, Op-rah,” Smith replied. “You know, those early days were spectac-ular. Me and Jada, to this day, if we start talking, it’s four hours. It’s four hours if we exchange a sentence.”

The star noted that their lengthy discussions are “the center of why we’ve been able to sustain and why we’re still together, not choking the life out of each other.”

“It’s like, the ability to work through issues,” he shared. “I’ve just never met another person that I connect with in conver-sation more blissfully and pro-ductively than Jada.”

Kanye West wants to end feud with DrakeANI | Washington

Rapper Kanye West, whose legal name is now Ye, has

extended an olive branch to rapper Drake.

Kanye recently announced that he would like to make amends with Drake and of-ficially put an end to their longtime feud in a video statement shared by mu-

sic executive J Prince on Twitter.

On Monday, the ‘Donda’ rapper appeared on Prince’s Twitter, saying in a short clip, “I am making this video to ad-dress the ongoing back and forth between myself and Drake. Both me and Drake have taken shots at each oth-er and it is time to put it to rest.”

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Adele reveals heartbreak in new single ‘Hold On’IANS | London

Grammy winning-singer Adele, who is set to re-lease new album ‘30’ on

November 19, has opened up about her heartbreak and the end of her marriage on new song ‘Hold On’.

Adele has unveiled her new single as the soundtrack to Am-

azon’s new Christmas ad-vert, and she bares her

soul while singing about her split

from ex Si-mon Konecki in the emo-tional lyrics, reports fema-lefirst.co.uk.At one point,

she sings: “I swear

to God I’m such a mess, the harder I try I regress.”

And in another line, she adds: “Every day feels like the road I’m on, might just open and swallow me whole.”

She then croons: “Let time be patient, let pain be gracious, just

hold on. I will survive.”In the Amazon advert, a

young woman is seen strug-gling during the Covid-19 pan-

demic.Adele has already been

honest about how she wrote about the break-

down of her marriage to Konecki and

hopes it can help their son Angelo, nine.

She previously said: “I wanted to ex-

plain to him through this record, when he’s in his 20s or 30s, who I am and why I vol-untarily chose to dis-mantle his entire life in the pursuit of my own happiness.

Adele has already

been honest about how she

wrote about the breakdown of her marriage to Ko-necki and hopes

it can help their son An-

gelo, nine

Dwayne Johnson won’t be playing Santa in ‘Red One’IANS | Los Angeles

Hollywood star Dwayne Johnson will not be play-

ing Santa in his festive film ‘Red One’, his Seven Bucks Productions colleague Hiram Garcia has revealed.

The Rock is starring in the Christmas film for Amazon Studios but his Seven Bucks Productions colleague Hiram Garcia has confirmed that the ‘Jumanji’ star will not be don-ning a red suit, reports fema-lefirst.co.uk.

Garcia told Slash Film: “It’s funny, he’s not playing San-ta. For some reason, everyone thinks he’s playing Santa, but he’s playing something really awesome.

“We’re really excited about it. It’s the movie we’re look-ing to film next year. We’re thrilled to have Jake Kasdan to direct it, because he is such a master in that space and the tone we’re wanting to do.”

Garcia added that the new movie will turn the fes-tive genre “on its head” and will be something completely different for viewers.

He said: “It is very much ‘Hobbs and S h a w ’ m e e t s ‘Guardians of t h e G a l a x y ’ meets ‘Mir-acle on 34th Street ’. It ’s going to take holiday my-thology and turn it on its head. Really, it’s hard to find anoth-er Christmas movie to even compare to it.

“I don’t think

there’s ever been anything done like this in that space, which is always very appealing to us.”

Garcia continued: “We’re re-ally excited about it, Amazon’s been great with it, and we’re in the process -- the script’s about to be written, and we’ll be shooting that next year. Our goal is, knock on wood, we’re hoping to have that ready for December 2023.”

In a statement when the film was announced, Johnson said: “Hold my Mana, because this is exciting. Our Seven Bucks is very bullish on our partner-

ship with Amazon Studios; underpinned with some in-novation, some pioneering and a lot of positive energy and passion.

“I ’ve been very impressed with

(Amazon Stu-dios chief )

Jen Salke a n d h e r team’s vi-sion and ambition to create

a n e n o r-m o u s , f u n

a n d u n i q u e aRed One’ holi-day universe for families around the world to en-joy.”

It’s funny, he’s not playing Santa. For

some reason, everyone thinks he’s playing

Santa, but he’s playing something really

awesomeHIRAM GARCIA

Paul Rudd named People’s ‘Sexiest Man Alive 2021’ANI | Washington

American actor Paul Rudd has

been revealed as People magazine’s ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ of the year 2021’ on Tuesday night’s episode of ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’.

The ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ 2021 title has passed from ‘Black Pan-ther’ actor Michael B. Jordan to ‘Wanderlust’ star Paul Rudd.

As per E! News, the announce-ment was made by Stephen Col-bert on Tuesday night’s episode of The Late Show. In the episode, Colbert tested the 52-year-old actor to determine whether he

is sexy and that included having Paul dump copious amounts of water on himself and attempt to deliver the perfect stoop.

In the end, Colbert told Paul that he “tested negative for sexy.”

A humble Paul replied that the verdict “makes sense. I appre-ciate you just giving me a shot, honestly.”

Impressed by his humility, Colbert changed his tune and revealed that, not just a ‘sexy’ but Paul Rudd is the ‘Sexiest Man Alive’.

“Don’t you see, Paul? There’s nothing sexier than humility. That was the last test, and you passed, Paul!” Colbert said.

The ‘Clueless’ actor even

showed his humility in the Peo-ple cover story by saying he does “have an awareness, enough to know that when people hear that I’d be picked for this, they would say, ‘What?’”

He shared that his wife- actor Julie Yaeger was the only person he told about winning the title, and she was “stupefied.”

Ryan Reynolds: Putting my phone down at night has changed my lifeIANS | Los Angeles

Actor Ryan Reynolds has found putting

his phone down at night a “weirdly and un-expectedly restor-ative” practice.

The star, who is gearing up for the release of his next ‘Red Notice’ on Netflix, told US TV show ‘Ex-tra’ about the t h i n g s h e ’s learned from the Covid-19 p a n d e m i c , which include

his decision

to try and switch off more in the evening, reports ace-showbiz.com.

“One thing I’ve learned to do is put the phone

down at night,” he explained.

“It is a disci-pline, it is hard in this day and age. We are all sort of addicted to our phones and so-cial media... so putting that stuff down at night has changed my life. That has allowed

me to be more pres-ent with my family and I have found that

to be weirdly and unexpectedly restorative.”

Reynolds recently announced he’s taking a planned sabbatical from Hollywood and further explained his reasons for the break during his interview

with ‘Extra’

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Tom Hardy, Channing Tatum to feature in film about Afghanistan evacuationANI | Washington

Hollywood actors Chan-ning Tatum and Tom

Hardy are joining forces for a movie about the recent Afghanistan evacuation.

As per Deadline, Tatum and Hardy are slated to both star in and pro-duce the Universal Pictures project, though no di-rector is at-tached at this time.

The studio h a s p i c k e d up an origi-nal pitch from writer George Nolfi, described as a ‘ripped-from-the-head-lines fact-based drama’.

The project’s plot is based on recently-reported stories about three former Special Forces team members who join their Afghan counter-parts to rescue families and allies amid the fall of Af-ghanistan this past August.

No specific details have been given for the charac-ters Tatum and Hardy will be playing in the project.

Apart from Hardy and Tatum, Jules Daly will pro-duce as well as Reid Carolin and Peter Kiernan of Free A s s o c i a t i o n . N o l f i w i l l serve as the e x e c u t i v e p r o d u c -er on the upcoming movie.

AdeleChanning Tatum

Paul Rudd

Ryan Reynolds Dwayne Johnson

Gerrard returns to Premier League as Aston Villa bossAFP | London

Steven Gerrard will get his first taste of management in

the Premier League after the Liverpool legend was appointed Aston Villa boss yesterday.

Gerrard has left his role as Rangers manager to take charge at Villa, who sacked Dean Smith on Sunday after five successive league defeats.

Considered one of the great-est players in Premier League history, former England mid-fielder Gerrard made a prom-ising start to his managerial ca-reer by reviving the fortunes of the Glasgow giants.

The 41-year-old guided Rang-ers to a first Scottish Premier-ship title in 10 years last season, with the club finishing the cam-paign undefeated in the league for the first time in 122 years.

Gerrard, who took the reins at Ibrox in May 2018, also made progress in Europe, reaching the knockout stages of the Eu-ropa League for the past two seasons.

“The board of Aston Villa are delighted to appoint Steven as our new head coach,” said Villa CEO Christian Purslow, who was managing director of Liverpool when Gerrard was at the club.

“Since moving into coaching after his illustrious playing ca-reer, Steven began by managing and developing top young play-ers in the Liverpool FC Acad-emy, which is experience we value highly at Aston Villa.

“He then took the brave de-

cision to test himself in the in-tense and high-pressured en-vironment of the Scottish Old Firm.

“His subsequent achievement in winning the Premiership title with Glasgow Rangers really caught our eye as did his expe-rience in Europe.”

Villa finished 11th in the Pre-mier League last season, but have ambitions of challenging for Europe after spending near-ly £300 million ($402 million) on players over the past three seasons.

However, Smith paid the price for losing Jack Grealish to Manchester City in August in a British record £100 million deal, with new signings Danny Ings, Leon Bailey and Emi Buendia struggling for form and fitness.

Villa are languishing in 16th place in the Premier League,

two points above the relegation zone, after 11 games.

Villa history Gerrard, who never won the

Premier League title as a player with Liverpool, is widely ex-pected to return to Anfield as manager at some stage but now has the task of proving himself in one of the toughest leagues in the world.

“Aston Villa is a club with a rich history and tradition in English football and I am im-mensely proud to become its new head coach,” said Gerrard.

“It was apparent how am-bitious their plans are for the club and I am looking forward to helping them achieve their aims.”

Rangers thanked Gerrard for his contribution to ending bit-ter rivals Celtic’s domination of

Scottish football.The Hoops won the league

in Gerrard’s first two seasons in Glasgow to match a record nine consecutive titles, but were blown away as Rangers romped to a 55th title by 25 points last season.

“I would firstly like to put on record my thanks to Steven for his outstanding efforts over the last three-and-a-half years at Rangers,” said Blues chairman Douglas Park.

“He has provided us all with some unforgettable moments, not least his delivery of the Scottish Premiership title back to Ibrox last season having not lost a match in the entire league campaign.

“In European competition, he has restored the good name and credibility of our club on the continent and leaves us in a very healthy position on the pitch.”

HM the King hails honourable Jiu Jitsu achievement

TDT | Manama

His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa held a

phone call with National Jiu Jitsu Team athlete Ali Mun-faridi who bagged the gold medal in the World Champi-onship, organized by the Inter-national Jiu Jitsu Federation (JJIF) in Abu Dhabi, the UAE.

HM the King congratulated champion Munfaridi on this honourable world accomplish-ment which adds to Bahrain’s record of achievements in this sport and other games.

HM the King praised Mufari-di for the effort he had exerted in the championship, outclass-ing all contenders taking part in the world contest, to win the gold medal and honour his country in this international sports arena.

During the phone call , HM the King lauded Bahrain youth’s potential and ability to compete, win and book a berth on the podiums in different sports.

Munfaridi expressed deep-est thanks and gratitude to

HM the King,valuing the un-wavering royal support to all athletes. He vowed to contin-ue honouring the Kingdom of Bahrain in the coming com-petitions.

His Highness Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Su-preme Council for Youth and Sports (SCYS) First Deputy Chairman, Head of General Sports Authority (GSA) and Bahrain Olympic Committee (BOC) President, congratulated His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa on the occassion.

He also congratulated His Royal Highness Prince Sal-man bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister, and His Highness Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, HM’s Representative for Humanitarian Work and Youth Affairs, Supreme Coun-cil for Youth and Sports (SCYS) Chairman.

HH Shaikh Khalid bin Ham-ad Al Khalifa also congratu-lated Bahrain Jiu Jitsu Fed-eration Chairman MP Ridha Munfaridi and all affiliates of the federation on this honour-able achievement.

Saudis spoil Australia’s homecoming with stalemateSaudi Arabia hold Australia goalless in soggy World Cup qualifying stalemate

• Saudi Arabia remain three points clear at top of Group B

AFP | London

Saudi Arabia spoiled Aus-tralia’s homecoming party by holding the Socceroos

to a 0-0 draw yesterday and re-taining their three-point advan-tage over their hosts at the top of Asian World Cup qualifying Group B.

Australia, playing their first match on home soil in more than two years, dominated pos-session but were unable to make the most of the opportunities they created in front of a crowd of 23,214 at a rain-soaked West-ern Sydney Stadium.

The Saudis rode their luck at times in the first 75 minutes but had a flurry of chances towards the end of the contest to snatch a victory and extend their win-ning streak to 10 matches.

“Obviously we wanted the three points to give to the fans, it’s been so long,” said Australia captain Mathew Leckie.

“But we had a great perfor-mance tonight and we were just centimetres away from scoring a couple of goals. Just one of those games when the ball didn’t want to go in.”

Restrictions put in place to contain COVID-19 had kept Aus-tralia on the road since late 2019

and they had hoped the crowd would help them bounce back from their loss to Japan in their last match, a defeat that ended an 11-game winning streak.

Australia had much the better of a frantic and entertaining first half but their best moves tended to fizzle out with the final pass and they were unable to get a single shot on target.

The Socceroos again came out firing after the break and Leckie wrestled his way past his mark-er as the hour mark approached only to be denied from close range by Mohammed Al-Yami.

Five minutes later, the third-choice Saudi goalkeeper pro-duced a superb double save to keep out an Awer Mabil free

kick and a Martin Boyle strike off the rebound.

The visitors pressed forward in the last 15 minutes, however, and Australia keeper Mat Ryan was forced into action to keep out a Salman Al-Faraj shot and two Salem Al-Dawsari efforts.

“It was a very tough game for the two teams,” said Saudi coach Herve Renard.

“We had three chances, we didn’t score but it’s a very good result for us.”

With the top two from the group earning tickets to Qatar next year, Australia remain on course for a fifth successive appearance at the World Cup finals at the halfway mark of the final round of Asian qualifying.

I’ve got to check in with our medical staff

for today’s update. Obviously, the longer

that goes, the less likely it is (that Mount

and Shaw could be involved against San

Marino)GARETH SOUTHGATE

The Saudis rode their luck at times in the first 75 minutes but

had a flurry of chanc-es towards the end of the contest to snatch a victory and extend their winning streak

to 10 matches

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Mathew Leckie vies for the ball during the World Cup qualifier between Australia and Saudi Arabia

Bahrain’s Ali Munfaridi with his medal

Rangers manager Steven Gerrard directs his team from the touchline during a match (file photo)

It will be Gerrard’s first senior coaching role in England and many expect him to one day lead Liver-

pool, the team where he played 710 match-es — many as captain

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Mount, Shaw could miss England qualifiers: Southgate

AFP | London

Gareth Southgate says Ma-son Mount and Luke Shaw

could miss England’s World Cup qualifiers against Alba-nia and San Marino, but Jack Grealish is fit for the crucial fixtures on the road to Qatar.

Southgate’s side host Alba-nia at Wembley on Friday and travel to San Marino on Mon-day as they look to earn the four points required to qualify for next year’s World Cup.

Chelsea midfielder Mount is recovering after a tooth infec-tion kept him out of his club’s starting line-up for their last three games and is unlikely to feature against the Albanians.

Manchester United left-back Shaw sustained a head inju-ry in the derby defeat against Manchester City last weekend and is following concussion protocols.

The 26-year-old failed the head injury markers on the first day of his concussion ab-sence, which has further de-layed his potential return.

“I’ve got to check in with our medical staff for today’s update. Obviously, the longer that goes, the less likely it is (that Mount and Shaw could be involved against San Mari-no),” Southgate told reporters.

Gareth Southgate Mason Mount Luke Shaw (file photo)

Hamilton has Neymar onside ahead of big F1 battle in BrazilAFP | London

Lewis Hamilton stayed on-side with his Brazilian fans

on Wednesday by calling up soc-cer star Neymar ahead of a big weekend for the Briton’s bid for a record eighth Formula One championship.

The Mercedes driver told re-porters he hoped to watch his friend in a World Cup qualifi-er between five times champi-ons Brazil and Colombia at the home of Sao Paulo’s Corinthians yesterday night.

“I’m very much in contact with Neymar, quite often, we were just talking actually earli-er today,” explained the Briton at a news conference for team sponsor Petronas.

“I know he’s playing tomor-row, I really want to go and watch the game.”

Paris St Germain forward Neymar and Hamilton have hung out on several occasions in the past, with the Brazilian once referring to the Formu-la One champion as a ‘brother from another mother’.

Formula One has only media duties yesterday with the action getting under way on Friday, with practice and a qualifying

session for Saturday’s sprint race.

Hamilton is 19 points adrift of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen in the championship with four races remaining, including In-terlagos.

Mercedes are only a point ahead of Red Bull in the con-structors’ championship.

This season has been one of the closest and hard-fought of recent years, with the lead swinging between the two con-tenders, and Hamilton hoped next year could be even more competitive with new rules and cars.

He said that should make a difference when it came to get-ting more grip from the tyres and also reducing the turbu-lence of following another car.

“They have developed this new car so you can use less downforce while following an-other car, so we are really hop-ing that the racing is going be the best that Formula One has ever seen,” he said.

The new cars will feature larger 18 inch wheels with cov-ers and simpler front and rear wings designed to make it easier for drivers to overtake.

Pliskova, Kontaveit open WTA Finals with winsKarolina Pliskova edges Garbiñe Muguruza in three-set thriller

• Anett Kontaveit defeats Barbora Krejcikova for her 11th straight win

AP | Mexico City

Karolina Pliskova over-came a slow start before beating Garbiñe Mugu-

ruza 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 (6) on Wednes-day in her opening match at the WTA Finals.

In a contest between two for-mer No. 1-ranked players, the third-seeded Pliskova struggled early adjusting to the nearly 5,000-feet altitude of Guada-lajara, Mexico’s second largest city.

“The first set was not the best from me. The serve was amaz-ing in the second set, many free points on the first serve,” Plisk-ova said. “Then it was a fighting third set. I thought I just had too many chances, didn’t make it really, but happy it went my way in the end.”

Pliskova is playing the WTA Finals for the fifth time, having reached the semifinals in 2018 and ’19. The 2020 tournament was canceled.

She didn’t win any titles in 2021 but kept a high ranking by reaching the finals at Wim-bledon and Montreal, and the semifinals at Cincinnati.

Pliskova now has a 9-2 record against former Wimbledon and French Open champion Mu-guruza, who won the Chicago and Dubai titles this year and is making her fourth appearance at the season-ending event.

“That was a very tough match for both of us. It was a one-point

difference — I saved many match points and is a tough loss I fought as hard as I could,” Mu-guruza said. “I´m happy with my fighting spirit even though I lost.”

Muguruza dropped serve before winning four straight games to take a 4-2 lead and eventually clinched the first set in 38 minutes.

Pliskova settled down in the second and got service breaks in the second and eighth games to level the match.

The third set lasted more than an hour, with Muguruza saving three match points to force a tiebreaker, and another in the tiebreaker before Pliskova sealed the win.

Earlier, Anett Kontaveit ex-tended her hot streak to 11 con-secutive victories with a 6-3, 6-4 win over second-seeded Barbo-ra Krejcikova.

Kontaveit has won 27 of her last 29 matches, which include her title run at Ostrava where she beat Paula Badosa and Ma-ria Sakkari, both of whom are competing here.

“I’ve been in sort of top 30 for a lot of years,” Kontaveit said. “During the summer I was on a bit of a losing streak, then I started working with Dmitry (Tursunov) and was really hop-ing to get a few wins. I man-aged to win Cleveland, then it just sort of started rolling from there”.

Tursunov a former world No. 20, started working with Kon-taveit at the Cincinnati Masters, where the 25-year-old Estoni-an lost in the first round. Since then, Kontaveit has soared from No. 30 into the top 10. After top-

ranked Ash Barty of Australia opted not to defend the title because of travel restrictions in her country, Kontaveit edged out Ons Jabeur for the last spot in the season-ending champion-ship by beating Simona Halep in the final of the Transylvania Open.

“I’ve been believing in myself a little bit more, and the game definitely has clicked from just getting more wins and playing a lot of tennis and really feeling comfortable,” Kontaveit said.

Krejcikova, the French Open champion, started the year ranked 65th but captured three titles to qualify for the WTA Fi-nals.

“It’s just difficult because a couple days ago I was actual-ly playing in Europe, now I’m here,” Krejcikova said. “It’s re-ally, really, really difficult.”

The tournament, which was canceled last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, is played in a round-robin format.

The WTA Finals are being played in Guadalajara for this year only, with the event sched-uled to return to Shenzhen, Chi-na in 2022.

Win against Sinner convinces Murray he can compete at the top

AFP | Stockholm

Former world number one Andy Murray is convinced

that he can once again com-pete at the top level after tak-ing down Italian Jannik Sin-ner at the Stockholm Open on Wednesday for only his sec-ond win over a top 10 player in 2021.

The 34-year-old Murray had hip surgery in 2018 and 2019. Since his breaks for injury, the British player has not been able to revive the old form and consistency that saw him win three major singles titles.

Murray, ranked 143rd, se-cured his first win over a top 10 player in 14 months when he beat Poland’s Hu-bert Hurkacz in the opening round of the Vienna Open last month.

“I’m convinced I can play ... well, I can. I’m playing at the top level and I’m winning matches against the best play-ers in the world,” Murray told reporters after taking down top-seeded Sinner, ranked 10th, 7-6(4) 6-3.

“The ones that I’m losing, I’m pushing the best players in the world. That argument is finished. I can compete at the top level.”

The 20-year-old Sinner is one of the most promising young talents in men’s ten-nis and he made Murray work hard for the victory in the sec-ond round.

“It was a very tough match. He hits the ball huge from the

back of the court so there were a lot of long rallies and a lot of running. But it’s probably my best win this season. I want to keep it going now,” Murray said.

“If I want to move back up the rankings and have good runs in tournaments again, I need to win these matches.”

American Tommy Paul, ranked 52nd, will be Murray’s next opponent and a victory will see the Briton reach his first tour-level semi-final in two years.

“I said in the last few weeks, it’s coming,” he said.

“I don’t know if it will be this week or the beginning of next year, but I’m going to be pushing and getting deep in tournaments again.”

‘Devastated’ Morgan says Neesham made difference in semi-final thrillerAFP | London

England skipper Eoin Mor-gan on Wednesday said his

team were “devastated” after Jimmy Neesham’s clean strik-ing took them by surprise in their tense Twenty20 World Cup semi-final loss to New Zealand.

Neesham blasted 27 off 11 balls and Daryl Mitchell hit an unbeaten 72 as New Zealand chased down their target of 167 with one over to spare in Abu Dhabi and make their first ever T20 World Cup final.

England looked in control after pushing the Kiwis to 107-4 in the 16th over but the left-handed Neesham took the bowling head on as he smashed Chris Jordan for two sixes and a four to get 23 runs from the over.

“We’re devastated. To be on the wrong side of a close game is not easy to take,” said Morgan.

“I thought we fought unbe-lievably well today on a wicket that didn’t necessarily suit our batting, but we managed to post in and around a par score.

“We were brilliant with the

ball. We were right in the game probably until Jimmy Neesh-am came to the wicket, if not ahead of the game.”

He added: “I think bowling to the short side is never easy. We’ve played against Jimmy a lot. He’s not struck the ball like that against us ever. It’s really good batting.”


Eoin Morgan

Andy Murray of Britain hits a return during his match

We were brilliant with the ball. We were right in the game probably until Jimmy Neesham came to the wicket, if not ahead of the game

EOIN MORGAN

It was a very tough match. He hits the ball huge from the back of

the court so there were a lot of long rallies

and a lot of running. But it’s probably my

best win this season. I want to keep it going

now. If I want to move back up the rankings and have good runs in

tournaments again, I need to win these

matchesANDY MURRAY

PSG forward Neymar and Hamilton have hung out on several

occasions in the past, with the Brazilian

once referring to the Formula One champi-on as a ‘brother from

another mother

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The first set was not the best from me. The serve was amazing in the second set, many

free points on the first serve. Then it was a fighting third set. I

thought I just had too many chances, didn’t

make it really, but happy it went my way

in the endKAROLINA PLISKOVA

Pliskova is playing the WTA Finals for the fifth time, having reached the semifinals in 2018 and ’19. The 2020 tour-nament was cancelled

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Karolina Pliskova returns a shot to Garbine Muguruza

I’m very much in contact with Neymar, quite often, we were just talking actually earlier today. I know

he’s playing tomorrow, I really want to go and

watch the gameLEWIS HAMILTON

(L-R) Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton and FC Barcelona football player Neymar Jr attend Game 2 of the 2017 NBA Finals (file photo)

Wade, Stoinis power Australia past Pakistan and into World Cup final

• Matthew Wade’s brilliant sixes set up New Zealand clash

AFP | Dubai

Matthew Wade and Marcus Stoinis stood unbeaten in

a six-hitting feast to lead Aus-tralia into the Twenty20 World Cup final with a five-wicket win over Pakistan yesterday.

Chasing 177 for victory, Aus-tralia were in trouble at 96-5 when Stoinis (40) and Wade, who hit the winning six in his 41, put on 81 runs to finish off the match with one over to spare in Dubai.

The left-handed Wade, who was dropped by Hasan Ali on 21, smashed three straight sixes off Shaheen Shah Afridi in the 19th over to set up a title clash with New Zealand in Dubai on Sunday.

David Warner made 49 be-fore being caught behind off leg-spinner Shadab Khan who took four wickets.

Australia suffered an early blow when Shaheen trapped skipper Aaron Finch lbw for nought as the Pakistan-domi-nated crowd erupted.

The in-form Warner kept up the attack from one end with support from Mitchell Marsh.

But Shadab turned up the heat in the seventh over to get Marsh out for 28.

The leg-spinner struck in each of his four overs to claim the big wickets of Steve Smith, for five, Warner, and Glenn Maxwell, for seven as Australia lost half their side for 96.

Warner walked when he was caught behind after hitting three fours and three sixes in

his 30-ball stay but replays later showed there was no contact off the batsman’s bat.

Stoinis and Wade steered the team to their second T20 World Cup semi-final and dream of a maiden title.

Blow to helmet Mohammad Rizwan, who

top-scored with 67, and Fakhar Zaman, who hit an unbeaten 55 off 32 deliveries, put on 72 for the second wicket to help Pakistan to a 176-4 after being put into bat.

Rizwan’s opening stand of 71 with skipper Babar Azam, who made 39, unsettled the Australi-an bowling in the first six overs of powerplay.

Leg-spinner Adam Zampa broke the opening stand after sending back Babar, who has amassed 303 runs to lead the tournament’s batting chart, caught at long-on following his 34-ball knock laced with five fours.

Rizwan kept up the attack and smashed Zampa for a six to become the first player to aggregate 1,000 runs in T20 in-ternationals in a calendar year.

He survived a hit on the hel-met grill by a quick bouncer from Pat Cummins as the phys-io came in to conduct a con-cussion test with the batsman smiling.

A six and a single off pace b ow l e r Jo s h Ha z l e wo o d brought up his fifty in 41 balls with Zaman at the other end before he exploded as well.

Rizwan finally fell to Mitchell Starc while trying to force the pace and was caught at mid-off, ending an attacking partnership that came in 46 balls.

Bahrain take on Morocco in friendlyTDT | Manama

Bahrain’s senior men’s na-tional football team take on

their counterparts from Moroc-co tonight in an international friendly match.

The game is scheduled for a 7pm kick-off and it will be played at the National Stadium in Riffa. It will be held behind closed doors, without the pres-ence of any spectators or media professionals.

The fixture is one of two tune-up games in less than a week for the nationals. They are also scheduled to face Kyr-gyzstan on Tuesday.

The friendlies are part of their final preparations for the FIFA Arab Cup in Doha, kicking off at the end of the month.

The Bahrainis have already begun their latest training gath-ering under head coach Helio Sousa, with a total of 28 players taking part.

The Moroccans have trav-elled with a delegation of 27 players. They are also sched-uled to play a friendly against Singapore in Dubai on Tuesday.

Following this current gath-ering, Bahrain’s national team are scheduled to reassemble on November 22 and fly to the Qatari capital on November 26.

Bahrain are in Group A for the Arab Cup, which kicks off on November 30 with 16 partic-ipating nations in all. The other teams in the Bahrainis’ group are hosts Qatar, Iraq and Oman.

The nationals begin their campaign against the home team on opening night, before taking on Iraq on December 3 and then facing Oman on December 6. There are four groups in all for the preliminary stage of the 16-nation compe-tition. The top two squads at the end of a single round-robin advance to the knockouts.

England captain Joe Root demands change after cricket race rowTDT | Manama

England captain Joe Root demanded change yester-

day after a racism row engulfed Yorkshire County Cricket Club, saying the events had “frac-tured our game and torn lives apart”.

Root, who is currently in Australia leading Ashes prepa-rations, issued his statement following weeks of escalating pressure at the club he has rep-resented since childhood.

Former player Azeem Rafiq filed a legal claim against York-shire last year, which has now

been settled, for failing to deal adequately with racist abuse he suffered while representing the county, saying he had been driven to thoughts of suicide.

Subsequent allegations have emerged from others, setting in motion additional investi-

gations.Yorkshire chairman Rog-

er Hutton resigned last week after sponsors withdrew and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) stripped Heading-ley of the right to host interna-tional matches.

Root said he felt he had to speak out.

“In my capacity as England captain and as a senior player at Yorkshire, I feel compelled to address the current situation that has consumed the sport and YCCC,” Root said in a state-ment from England’s base on Australia’s Gold Coast.


Bahrain’s trios advance past qualifiersNadia Aqeel-Noora Sultan-Layla Aljanahi make it through to Women’s Trios second round, as do Yusuf Falah-Ahmed Alkhaja-

Ahmed Algoud in Men’s Trios at IBF Super World Championships in DubaiTDT | Manama

Bahrain’s women’s and men’s trios both advanced to the second round of

their respective categories in the IBF Super World Championships 2021 being held in Dubai.

Nadia Aqeel, Noora Sultan and Layla Aljanahi teamed up to fin-ish the qualification round as the sixth-best team in the Wom-en’s Trios event yesterday, while Yusuf Falah, Ahmed Alkhaja and Ahmed Algoud made it through ranked 12th in the Men’s Trios qualifiers.

The top 16 trios from each di-vision marched through to the next phase, where they will be divided into four groups of four. There, they will face one an-other, with the top two in each group advancing to the knockout quarter-finals, which will be best of three games.

In qualification, Nadia-Noo-ra-Layla had a total of 2,132 over their 10 games for a 213.20 aver-age. Their high game was 250 in their last outing.

The US were the top women’s qualifiers with a 2,361 total for a 236.1 average.

Meanwhile, Falah-Alkhaja-Al-goud posted a 2,160 total for a 216.00 average in their 10 games,

which included a high of 247 in their seventh.

Sweden featured the top men’s trio with scores of 2,414 and 241.40.

Meanwhile, Nadia and Falah

both narrowly missed out on advancing to the last eight in their Singles events.

Nadia competed in group two in her Women’s Singles second

round and finished with nine points with a 1,580 total and a 226 average in her seven games. She ranked fifth amongst the eight bowlers in her group.

On the distaff, Falah was fifth in the third group in the Men’s Singles second round. He fin-ished with 10 points from his seven games after posting a 1,639 total for a 234 average.

In this stage, each bowler played a round-robin in their group and only the top two ad-vanced.

Bahrain’s national team con-tinue their campaign in the world championships in the Tri-os, and then are also set to com-pete in the Mixed Team Singles, Doubles, Trios and Teams events over the next few days.

Bahrain’s Yusuf Falah in action in Dubai

Bahrain’s trio, from left, of Nadia Aqeel, Layla Aljanahi and Noora Sultan

Australia’s Matthew Wade bats during the match

Bahrain players Ahmed Bughammar, left, and Sayed Shubbar Alawi vie for the ball during a drill in training

Joe Root

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Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan become the

first player to aggre-gate 1,000 runs in T20

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The top 16 trios from each division marched

through to the next phase, where they will

be divided into four groups of four. There, they will face one an-

other, with the top two in each group advanc-

ing to the knockout quarter-finals, which will be best of three

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