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210 fils (includes VAT) KNOW WHAT TOTAL TESTED ACTIVE CASES DEATHS DISCHARGED NEW CASES CRITICAL 5230560 977 1379 265263 114 22 BAHRAIN p3 Stay alert WHO experts warn ‘more dangerous’ variants could take hold Reuters | Cairo The World Health Organi- zation’s emergency committee warned yesterday that new and more dangerous Covid-19 var- iants were expected to spread around the world, making it harder to halt the pandemic. The announcement was fur- ther bad news as several coun- tries battle a new wave of infec- tions fanned by new variants, namely Delta which was first identified in India. “The pandemic is nowhere near finished,” the committee warned in a statement yester- day following a meeting a day earlier. Committee chairman Didier Houssin acknowledged to re- porters that “recent trends are worrying”. He said a year-and-a half af- ter the WHO first declared a so- called Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHE- IC) -- its highest alert level -- “we are still running after this virus and the virus is still running af- ter us”. For now, four concerning var- iants of Covid-19 are dominating the global pandemic picture: Al- pha, Beta, Gamma and especial- ly the rapidly-spreading Delta variant. But the committee warned that worse could lie ahead, pointing to “the strong likeli- hood for the emergence and global spread of new and possi- bly more dangerous variants of concern that may be even more challenging to control”. WHO declares variants as be- ing “of concern” when they are seen as either more transmissi- ble, more deadly or have the po- tential to get past some vaccine protections. Lebanon crisis deepens Hariri abandons cabinet formation, president to set date for consultations TDT | agencies L ebanon yesterday plunged deeper into the political chaos formed by the an- nouncement of Saad al-Hariri abandoning his claims to a new government nine months after he was named to the post by the parliament. “It is clear we will not be able to agree with his Excellency the president,” Hariri told reporters after meeting Aoun for barely 20 minutes. “That is why I ex- cuse myself from government formation.” With no obvious alternative for the post, there is little hope of a government that can start fixing the economic situation. Hariri said Aoun had request- ed fundamental changes to a cabinet line-up he had present- ed to him on Wednesday. Aoun had told Hariri that they would not be able to agree, Hariri said. In a statement, Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun said that Saad al-Hariri was not ready to discuss any changes to the gov- ernment proposal he submitted a day earlier. Hariri proposed that Aoun take one more day to accept the suggested proposal but Aoun said, “what is the use of one ad- ditional day if the door to dis- cussions was closed,” a state- ment by the presidency said. The president will set a date for parliamentary consultations as soon as possible after Hariri gave up on cabinet formation, the statement said. Al Fateh mosque limits worshipers during Eid TDT | Manama E id Al-Adha prayers at Al Fateh Grand mosque this year will allow only a selected number of worshippers, said the Ministry of Justice, Islamic Affairs and Endowments. Only 30 people, who will re- ceive a personal invitation, will gain entry to the mosque for prayers. The new arrangement will remain in place for four days from 19 July 2021 to 22 July 2021 based on recommenda- tions by the National Task Force Combating the COVID-19 pan- demic. The prayers during the day of Arafah and three days of Eid Al-Adha will take place inside the mosque, adhering strictly to COVID-10 measures, the min- istry said. The measures are to avoid gatherings and mixing during Eid to prevent a further spike in cases amid the emer- gence of new mutations. The preventive measures are per the Orange alert level of the traffic light mechanism adopted for the Arafah and Eid Al-Adha holidays. Accordingly, starting today, Bahrain will adopt the green alert level. From 19 July to 22 July 2021, the alert level gets raised to Orange. Average COVID-19 positivity rates will be reviewed following the Eid Al-Adha holidays on 23 July to reassess the alert level. Hariri was designated to form the new government in October, after the resignation of Prime Minister Hassan Diab in the aftermath of the Aug. 4 Beirut port explosion. Diab continues in a caretaker capacity. Saad al-Hariri Dr Liam Fox named chairman of UK Abraham Accords group TDT | London T he ambassadors of Bah- rain, the United Arab Emirates and Israel to the United Kingdom named Dr Liam Fox as chairman of Abraham Accords group to promote the group and sup- port comprehensive peace in the Middle East. Shaikh Fawaz bin Mo- hammed Al Khalifa, the Ambassador of Bahrain to the UK, said Dr Fox played a crucial role in consolidating cooperation between the signatory countries of the Abraham Accords. 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Page 1: Lebanon crisis deepens

210 fils (includes VAT)

KNOW WHAT

TOTAL TESTED

ACTIVE CASES

DEATHS

DISCHARGED

NEW CASES

CRITICAL

5230560

977

1379

265263

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BAHRAIN

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WHO experts warn ‘more dangerous’ variants could take holdReuters | Cairo

The World Health Organi-zation’s emergency committee warned yesterday that new and more dangerous Covid-19 var-iants were expected to spread around the world, making it harder to halt the pandemic.

The announcement was fur-ther bad news as several coun-tries battle a new wave of infec-tions fanned by new variants,

namely Delta which was first identified in India.

“The pandemic is nowhere near finished,” the committee warned in a statement yester-day following a meeting a day earlier.

Committee chairman Didier Houssin acknowledged to re-porters that “recent trends are worrying”.

He said a year-and-a half af-ter the WHO first declared a so-

called Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHE-IC) -- its highest alert level -- “we are still running after this virus and the virus is still running af-ter us”.

For now, four concerning var-iants of Covid-19 are dominating the global pandemic picture: Al-pha, Beta, Gamma and especial-ly the rapidly-spreading Delta variant.

But the committee warned

that worse could lie ahead, pointing to “the strong likeli-hood for the emergence and global spread of new and possi-bly more dangerous variants of concern that may be even more challenging to control”.

WHO declares variants as be-ing “of concern” when they are seen as either more transmissi-ble, more deadly or have the po-tential to get past some vaccine protections.

Lebanon crisis deepens Hariri abandons cabinet formation, president to set date for consultations

TDT | agencies

Lebanon yesterday plunged deeper into the political chaos formed by the an-

nouncement of Saad al-Hariri abandoning his claims to a new government nine months after he was named to the post by the parliament.

“It is clear we will not be able to agree with his Excellency the president,” Hariri told reporters after meeting Aoun for barely 20 minutes. “That is why I ex-cuse myself from government formation.”

With no obvious alternative for the post, there is little hope of a government that can start fixing the economic situation.

Hariri said Aoun had request-ed fundamental changes to a cabinet line-up he had present-ed to him on Wednesday. Aoun had told Hariri that they would

not be able to agree, Hariri said.In a statement, Lebanon’s

President Michel Aoun said that Saad al-Hariri was not ready to discuss any changes to the gov-ernment proposal he submitted a day earlier.

Hariri proposed that Aoun take one more day to accept the suggested proposal but Aoun said, “what is the use of one ad-ditional day if the door to dis-cussions was closed,” a state-ment by the presidency said.

The president will set a date for parliamentary consultations as soon as possible after Hariri

gave up on cabinet formation, the statement said.

Al Fateh mosque limits worshipers during Eid TDT | Manama

Eid Al-Adha prayers at Al Fateh Grand mosque this

year will allow only a selected number of worshippers, said the Ministry of Justice, Islamic Affairs and Endowments.

Only 30 people, who will re-ceive a personal invitation, will gain entry to the mosque for prayers.

The new arrangement will remain in place for four days from 19 July 2021 to 22 July

2021 based on recommenda-tions by the National Task Force Combating the COVID-19 pan-demic.

The prayers during the day of Arafah and three days of Eid Al-Adha will take place inside the mosque, adhering strictly to COVID-10 measures, the min-istry said. The measures are to avoid gatherings and mixing during Eid to prevent a further spike in cases amid the emer-gence of new mutations.

The preventive measures are per the Orange alert level of the traffic light mechanism adopted for the Arafah and Eid Al-Adha holidays.

Accordingly, starting today, Bahrain will adopt the green alert level. From 19 July to 22 July 2021, the alert level gets raised to Orange.

Average COVID-19 positivity rates will be reviewed following the Eid Al-Adha holidays on 23 July to reassess the alert level.

Hariri was designated to form the new government in October, after the resignation of Prime Minister Hassan

Diab in the aftermath of the Aug. 4 Beirut port explosion. Diab continues

in a caretaker capacity.

Saad al-Hariri

Dr Liam Fox named chairman of UK Abraham Accords groupTDT | London

The ambassadors of Bah-rain, the United Arab

Emirates and Israel to the United Kingdom named Dr Liam Fox as chairman of Abraham Accords group to promote the group and sup-port comprehensive peace in the Middle East.

Shaikh Fawaz bin Mo-hammed Al Khalifa, the Ambassador of Bahrain to the UK, said Dr Fox played a crucial role in consolidating cooperation between the signatory countries of the Abraham Accords.

Qatar stops two Bahraini vessels, arrests 4 sailors

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Essam Khalaf, the Minister of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning, holding a meeting with Khalid Yousef Al Jalahma, the newly appointed ambassador of Bahrain to Israel. The meeting was in the presence of Dr Nabil Muhammad Abu Al-Fath, the Undersecretary of Agriculture and Marine Resources, and members of the diplomatic mission in the State of Israel. Khalaf wished the ambassador success in performing his new duties.

Deputy Prime Minister His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa and Foreign Affairs Minister Dr Abdullatif Al Zayani holding a meeting. Discussions focused on Bahrain’s foreign policy and programmes for developing diplomatic and administrative work.

Al Al-Jasra Handicrafts Centre had resumed its cultural activities after a hiatus caused by the COVID-19 outbreak with workshops “Al-Naqdah” and “Sef Al-Khos”. The centre continues these workshops on the 17th and 24th of this month. The centre is also holding a Razan art workshop on the 25th and 26th of this month on resin works. The Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities is preparing to announce two workshops on “3D printing” and “Basics of Mosaic” (mosaic) soon. Located in Al Jasra village and surrounded by abundant greenery, Al-Jasra handicrafts centre was established in 1990.

Dr Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, received yesterday Ibrahim Mohamed Al-Hassan, the Ambassador of Sudan to Bahrain. Discussions focused on ways to enhance bilateral cooperation. They also reviewed issues and topics of common interest. Dr Shaikh Abdullah bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Political Affairs, and Ahmed Mohamed Al-Tarifi, the Chief of Arab Affairs, were present.

Nawaf Mohammed Al-Maawda, Ombudsman, received in his office yesterday Ali Ahmed Al-Derazi, the President of the National Institution for Human Rights, in the presence of Ghada Hamid Habib, the Deputy Secretary-General for Ombudsman. The meeting discussed ways to strengthen cooperation and coordination between the Ombudsman and the National Institution for Human Rights. Abdul Rahman Faris, Director of the Grievances Affairs Department, and Hamad Taqi, Director of the Correctional and Detention Centers Monitoring Department, were present.

Bahrain, Saudi back Australia on Great Barrier reef

TDT | agencies

Bahrain and Saudi Arabia are backing Australia in its

effort to keep the Great Barrier Reef off a list of world heritage sites in danger, said a report by the Guardian.

Bahrain and Saudi, both members of the 21-coun-try committee, Guardian re-port said, are co-sponsoring amendments that back Aus-tralia and ask the world herit-age committee to push back a key decision until at least 2023.

In a meeting on Tuesday night, Australian time, a sen-ior official from the United Nations Educational, Scientif-ic and Cultural Organization (Unesco) told Australia’s envi-ronment minister, Sussan Ley, during a face-to-face meeting in Paris the organisation had followed all necessary steps before recommending the reef be listed as in danger.

The world heritage commit-tee will begin a 15-day meeting on Friday with a decision on the Great Barrier Reef current-ly scheduled for 23 July.

In the amendments, the committee is being asked to reject Unesco’s official find-

ing the reef was facing “ascer-tained danger” – a trigger for entry onto the “in danger” list.

Instead of asking the com-mittee to decide next week on the “in danger” inscription, the amendments state that should not be considered until 2023 at the earliest.

The Unesco world heritage committee’s decision on the Great Barrier Reef’s ‘in danger’ status is currently scheduled for 23 July.

The Great Barrier Reef is unique as it extends over 14

degrees of latitude, from shallow estu-arine areas to deep

oceanic waters. With-in this vast expanse are a unique range

of ecological commu-nities, habitats and

species – all of which make the Reef one

of the most complex natural ecosystems in

the world.

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BETTER

In line with the directives of the Speaker of the Council of Representatives, Fawzia bint Abdulla Zainal, a virtual meeting was held yesterday between the Communication Directorate at Bahrain’s Council of Representatives and the Media and Community Communication General Department at the Saudi Shura Council. The meeting discussed the duties, responsibilities, programmes and initiatives of parliamentary media that supports parliamentary work and enhances social communication, in addition to social media accounts.

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WHO Supremo to visit Bahrain after Eid

TDT | Manama

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Di-rector-General of the

World Health Organisation, will visit Bahrain after Eid-Al Adha.

The WHO Supremo will be accompanied by Dr Ahmed Al Mandhari, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Med-iterranean, during the visit for the official opening of the WHO office in Bahrain.

The news came as Health Minister Faeqa bint Saeed Al Saleh received Dr Tasnim Ata-trah, who presented her cre-dentials as the World Health Organisation Representative and Head of Office in Bahrain.

Dr Tasnim Atatrah assumed her role as WHO Representa-tive and Head of Office in Bah-rain on 1 June 2021.

Dr Atatrah is a public health

specialist, medical doctor and policy fellow. She joined WHO in 2010 and has worked in 12 countries across WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean and European regions in various capacities.

Al Saleh praised WHO’s ef-forts in facing the coronavirus pandemic and its prominent role in supporting countries across the world.

Health Ministry Under-secretary Dr Walid Al Manea stressed the importance of strengthening cooperation be-tween the Ministry of Health and WHO and highlighted the government’s continuous sup-port to the health sector.

According to WHO, more than one million people in Bahrain have received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.

“This ensures that almost 70% of the population have an additional layer of protection against the virus.”

Health Minister receives WHO representative’s credentials

Qatar stops two Bahraini vessels, arrests 4 sailors• Qatar informed the arrest in a fax message

• Qatar says the vessels violated its sea border

• The men are facing legal actions in Qatar

• Bahrain is taking legal measures to ensure their release

TDT | Manama

Two Bahraini cruisers with four sailors onboard are taken into custody

by the Qatari coast guards, said Bahrain’s Coast Guard Com-mand.

Bahraini Coast Guard officials said they learned about the in-cident in a fax message by the General Department of Coast and Border Security.

The arrest was for “illegally entering the territorial waters of the State of Qatar and practising fishing without a permit,” the Qatari fax to Bahrain said.

Qatari officials said they are pursuing legal actions against

the sailors on board the cap-tured cruisers.

Bahraini Coast Guard officials said they are taking necessary legal measures to ensure their release.

ProvocationsQatari coast guards are known

to routinely harass Bahrainis and capture their vessels on the pretence of border violations.

In a similar incident in Janu-ary this year, Qatar had arrest-

ed a bodybuilding champion and two other Bahrainis dur-ing fishing trips. Their release came several days after Mana-ma demanding their release. That arrest was also the third incident after Bahrain and its allies signed a deal to end a row with Doha.

The Interior Ministry said, in a statement, that Qatari authori-ties had also released a Bahraini sailor arrested in December but kept their boats.

At that time, Bahrain’s inte-rior ministry said it had not re-ceived any official notice. “Such provocative practices were in-consistent with the principles of the Gulf Cooperation Coun-cil (GCC) nations and reflected Qatar’s hostility,” the ministry had said.

Before that Qatari coast-guards vessels also violated re-gional and international agree-ments by stopping two Bahraini boats inside Qatari waters.

Representative picture (courtesy of Al Ayam)

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ABDUL RAHMAN KANOO INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLStaff Would like to Convey their deepest Condolences to

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We ask the Almighty God to Inspire his Family and Give his Relatives, Patience and Solace

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Madhu is to start a new life leaving behind misfortunes and mistakes Indian Embassy, social workers save homeless man stranded in Bahrain following a travel ban

TDT | Manama

With no passport, no job and no home to stay, all he had was

the comfort of a park bench. He stayed there days and

nights, battling the chilling weather and scorching heat, on an empty stomach.

By the time people took note of his condition, Madhu was on the edge of peril, fighting for his life with troubled vision, dys-phagia, and dysarthria.

Thanks to the intervention of the Indian Embassy and sever-al other kind-hearted people, Parayanparambil Raman Madhu is set to fly back home, to his kith and kins, in India, leaving behind a dark episode in his life.

Life went upside down for 53-year-old Madhu for commit-

ting a mistake during his life’s journey as a watchman at an apartment complex here in the Kindom.

“I took three months rent from

clients there and failed to pay it to the owner,” Madhu confessed to Sudheer Thirunilath of World NRI Council.

Sudheer Thirunilath, who

learned about the situation of Madhu through MC Pavithran, a social worker, told Tribune that Madhu’s ordeal started at that point.

This led to the owner of the apartment pressing charges against Madhu for retrieving the BD8,250 he lost. Authorities also placed a travel ban on Madhu, pending settlement.

Thrunilath, the director of Humanitarian Aid, Middle East Region and Country Head - Pravasi Legal cell, told Tribune that he then decided to approach Samaheej police station.

Police took him into custo-dy upon confirming the case against Madhu.

“This was a blessing in dis-guise for Madhu, who had nei-ther a place to stay or food to eat,” say Thirunilath.

But things went South again when a spike in the COVID-19 cases led police to release Mad-hu. Madhu was on the streets of Bahrain again.

“Things were back to square one, and now he doesn’t have a place to stay,” Thirunilath told Tribune.

“Fortunately, with the help of ICRF and a few good friends, we found a temporary bed space for him and arranged a few food kits.”

“It was the intervention of the Indian Embassy that changed things positive for Madhu,” Thrunilath adds.

Indian Embassy officials, un-derstanding his predicament, took the initiative to talk to the apartment owner, who, finding the gravity of the situation, read-ily agreed to withdraw the case.

Last Wednesday, Indian Embassy managed to remove the travel ban

and issued an outpass to Madhu, who expressed his desire to move back

home.

Sudheer Tirunilath thanked Piyush Srivastava, the Indian Ambassador, Embassy Officials, Arul Das, ICRF Chairman and ICRF Team for helping Madhu.

“I also thank MC Pavithran, a social worker, for helping me understand the situation of the poor man.”

The issue come to a close after four months of intense follow up by the Indian Embassy.

Thirunilath said Madhu is to leave Bahrain on a ticket booked by the Indian Embassy.

ICRF special summer programme quenches the thirst of 200 workers TDT | Manama

The Indian Community Relief Fund announced launching

its ICRF Thirst-Quenchers 2021, an annual summer special pro-gramme for distributing bottled waters and fruits for workers.

ICRF said the programme aims at teaching workers the importance of drinking water and remaining healthy during summers.

ICRF Thirst-Quenchers are continuing this programme for the sixth consecutive year.

The fund said the event is backed by Bohra Community, as in the previous years.

ICRF said it intends to con-tinue the weekly event for the next 8 to 10 weeks in various worksites.

The first of the series was held

yesterday at the FGR worksite in Manama with the participation of 200 workers.

ICRF volunteers distributed flyers explaining how to remain

safe during COVID-19 and on mental well being.

The event, organised fol-lowing COVID-19 protocol, was attended by ICRF Thirst

Quenchers’ convenor Sudheer Thirunilath, ICRF Volunteers Nisha Rangarajan, Raman Preet, Muralikrishnan and Pavithran Neelesearam.

Madhu

ICRF Thirst-Quenchers 2021 programme in Manama

Lake Lawzi to get a BD145,058 makeover

• The tender board has awarded the project to Al Dur Contracting Company for Excavation and Building

TDT | Manama

The coasts of Lake Lawzi is to get a grand makeover

through a BD145,058 project set to begin next month.

The tender board has awarded the project to Al Dur Contract-ing Company for Excavation and Building, said the Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning.

The lake in the Northern Governorate near Dumistan and Hamad Town will see its coastal slopes on the eastern side

restored as part of the project. The planned works are for a

stretch of 700 metres, said the ministry. “This lake is the main reservoir for collecting rainwa-ter with a capacity of 650,000 cubic meters,” said the minister, highlighting its environmental significance to the region.

The lake, the minister said, attracts various types of flora and fauna and provides a natural

place for people and residents of the region.

The ministry said they are studying various solutions for maintaining the cleanliness of its water. The ministry is also car-rying out infrastructure devel-opment work in the Lawzi area. Road construction is ongoing to the Lawzi housing southeast of Zaid Bin Ambra Street and west of Lake Lawzi.

The lake in the Northern Governorate near Dumistan and Hamad Town.

Labour minister makes surprise worksite visits

TDT | Manama

Jameel Humaidan, the Minister of Labour and Social Development,

yesterday visited several con-struction worksites unan-nounced to learn about the commitment of the establish-ments in implementing the summer work ban.

The minister praised the companies and organisations for implementing the noon work ban, revealing that they found only 15 violating facili-ties after 3,344 inspection vis-its since early July.

“This comes to only 0.4% of the companies, while 26 work-ers were detected breaking summer ban rules, till date,” the minister said.

Bahrain, Humaidan said, had made great strides in en-hancing the safety and health of workers through legislation and occupational safety meas-ures, also earning respect from the international community.

“Working when the tem-perature is lower will lead to increased productivity and ensure the completion of the projects on time.”

“Work ban decision has a tangible and direct impact in preventing summer disease, heat stress, sunstroke, heat exhaustion from exposure to high temperatures and humid-ity,” the minister added.

As per Law No. (36) for 2012, violators attract a jail term not exceeding three months, a fine ranging between BD 500 and BD1,000, or one of them.

The minister visiting a worksite

India ships GI certified Fazil mango to Bahrain TDT | agencies

The Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry

announced shipping a consign-ment of Geographical Identifi-cation (GI) certified Fazil mango variety from the Malda district of West Bengal to Bahrain.

According to a commerce ministry press release, the con-signment of Fazil mango was

exported by APEDA registered DM enterprises, Kolkata and imported by Al Jazira Group,

Bahrain.The nine varieties exported

includes GI certified Khirsapati (Malda, West Bengal), Lakkhan-bhog (Malda, West Bengal), Faz-li (Malda, West Bengal), Dussh-heri (Malihabad, Uttar Pradesh) and Amrapali and Chausa (Mal-da, West Bengal) and Langda (Nadiya, West Bengal).

In June this year, a week-long Indian mango promotion pro-

gramme was organised in Bah-rain where 16 varieties of the fruit including three GI certified Khirsapati and Lakshmanbhog (West Bengal), Zardalu (Bihar) were displayed.

Picture for representation

While most of the states in India have mango plantations, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka have a major share in total production of the fruit.

Changes in air navigation calls for GCC consensusTDT | Manama

Aviation security and safety are Bahrain’s pri-orities which the King-

dom has maintained for years as per the standards set by the International Civil Aviation Or-ganisation, said Kamal Ahmed, the Minister of Transport and Communications.

The minister said the King-dom is working closely with the WTO council for ensuring the safety of air traffic in the region.

He stressed the importance of consensus among Gulf Co-operation Council nations on

modifications of regional air navigation plans and close coor-dination with the International Civil Aviation Organisation.

In a statement after meeting the President of the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization, Kamal Ahmed affirmed that he would work during the coming period with the organisation and all GCC nations to provide navigation services characterised by the highest level of safety and ef-ficiency.

“Amending regional plans and redrawing borders of the regions and skies are techni-

cal issues that are agreed upon by the Gulf countries and ap-proved by the organisations.”

Bahrain has been managing the aviation information of the region with a mandate from ICAO since 1959.

The Kingdom had also re-cently made clear that it is ready to work on Qatar’s ambition to gain control of its airspace.

The International Civil Avi-ation Organization’s council earlier said Qatar, Bahrain and other Gulf states should dis-cuss and agree on “technical arrangements” to create a Doha flight information region (FIR).

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In United States Dollars (‘USD’)Share Statutory Foreign Accumulated Investment Total Non- Total

capital reserve currency losses fair value controlling equity translation reserve interest reserve

2020Balance at 1 January 58,000,000 1,356,312 (790,772) (8,954,930) 796,250 50,406,860 7,403,814 57,810,674 Foreign currency translation reserve - (1) 32,750 - - 32,749 14,033 46,782Investment fair value reserve - - - - (56,709) (56,709) (44,478) (101,187)Statutory reserve - 88,972 - (88,972) - - - - Net profit / (loss) for the year - - - (12,135,905) - (12,135,905) 22,195 (12,113,710)Balance at 31 December 58,000,000 1,445,283 (758,022) (21,179,807) 739,541 38,246,995 7,395,564 45,642,559 2019 Balance at 1 January 58,000,000 1,324,137 (844,795) (9,209,323) 934,484 50,204,503 7,398,343 57,602,846 Foreign currency translation reserve - - 54,023 (2) - 54,021 23,522 77,543 Investment fair value reserve - - - - (138,234) (138,234) (56,324) (194,558)Statutory reserve - 32,175 - (32,175) - - - - Net profit / (loss) for the year - - - 286,570 - 286,570 38,273 324,843 Balance at 31 December 58,000,000 1,356,312 (790,772) (8,954,930) 796,250 50,406,860 7,403,814 57,810,674

In United States Dollars (‘USD’) Accumulated Foreign currencydeficit translationreserve Total

2020Balance at 1 January (41,351,933) 327,865 (41,024,068)Surplus for the year 14,973,176 2 14,973,178 Foreign currency translation reserve - 16,854 16,854 Balance at 31 December (26,378,757) 344,721 (26,034,036)2019 Balance at 1 January (42,173,072) 375,696 (41,797,376)Surplus for the year 820,277 - 820,277 Foreign currency translation reserve 864 (47,831) (46,967)Balance at 31 December (41,351,931) 327,865 (41,024,066)

In United States Dollars (‘USD’) Year ended 31 December 2020 2019

Contributions (audited) (audited)Gross contributions 73,378,574 73,993,157 Retakaful share of gross contributions (12,857,443) (12,413,698)Retained contributions 60,521,131 61,579,459 Unearned contributions adjustment (1,098,089) (1,725,154)Net earned contributions 59,423,042 59,854,305 Policy issuance fee 324,121 334,045 Policy acquisition costs (5,417,313) (5,634,938)Re-takaful discount 2,458,882 2,678,517 Net acquisition costs/ discount income (2,634,310) (2,622,376)Unearned acquisition costs / discount income adjustment- net (475,472) 648,965 Net earned acquisition costs / discount income (3,109,782) (1,973,411)Net earned revenue 56,313,260 57,880,894 Claims Gross claims paid 49,938,291 50,321,671 Retakaful share of claims paid (7,937,521) (4,685,039)Change in Outstanding claims - gross (4,732,119) 11,658,233 Change in Outstanding claims - retakaful share 2,898,460 (12,600,371)Net claims 40,167,111 44,694,494 Net earned revenue over net claims incurred 16,146,149 13,186,400 Wakala fee (10,512,581) (9,936,253)General and administrative expenses under mudarib model (3,752,782) (3,285,607)Provision for bad and doubtful debts (326,564) - Surplus/(Deficit)fromtakafuloperations 1,554,222 (35,460)Profit income 790,928 601,177 Mudarib share (74,756) (80,072)Qard Hassan written back 12,861,000 500,000 Other expense (158,216) (165,368)SURPLUS FOR THE YEAR 14,973,178 820,277

CONSOLIDATEDSTATEMENTOFCHANGESINPARTICIPANTS’EQUITY

CONSOLIDATEDSTATEMENTOFCHANGESINSHAREHOLDERS’EQUITY

CONSOLIDATEDSTATEMENTOFPARTICIPANTS’REVENUEANDEXPENSES

In United States Dollars (‘USD’)31 Dec 2020 31 Dec 2019

(audited) (audited)ASSETSCash and cash equivalents 10,882,532 9,949,749 Statutory deposits 5,311,027 5,976,578 Deposits more than 3 months 12,143,835 9,602,642 Investments 14,195,707 13,401,551 Contribution receivable 25,043,311 20,358,792 Receivable from takaful and retakaful companies 3,359,262 3,972,436 Deferred acquisition cost 4,399,426 5,046,814 Deferred retakaful share of contribution 4,960,617 5,599,471 Retakaful share of outstanding claims 22,851,216 25,829,100 Property and equipment 631,315 728,485 Other assets 8,220,498 6,164,645 Total assets 111,998,746 106,630,263

LIABILITIES,PARTICIPANTS’FUNDAND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITYLiabilitiesTechnical reserves 67,120,951 71,476,470 Payable to takaful and retakaful companies 2,489,262 3,763,900 Other liabilities 22,780,010 14,603,285 Total liabilities 92,390,223 89,843,655

Participants’fundAccumulated deficit (26,378,757) (41,351,931)Foreign currency translation reserve 344,721 327,865 Total of participants’ fund (26,034,036) (41,024,066)

EquityShare capital 58,000,000 58,000,000 Statutory reserve 1,445,283 1,356,312 Investment fair value reserve 739,541 796,250 Foreign currency translation reserve (758,022) (790,772)Accumulated losses (21,179,807) (8,954,930)

38,246,995 50,406,860 Non- controlling interest 7,395,564 7,403,814

Totalshareholders’equity 45,642,559 57,810,674

TOTALLIABILITIES,PARTICIPANTS’FUNDANDSHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY 111,998,746 106,630,263

In United States Dollars (‘USD’) Year ended 31 December

2020 2019Income (audited) (audited)Wakala fee 10,512,581 9,936,253 Investment profit income 312,089 393,391 Mudarib share 74,756 80,072 Other income 245,896 287,560 Total income 11,145,322 10,697,276 ExpensesGeneral and administration expenses 10,375,753 9,726,800 Qard Hassan written off 12,861,000 500,000 Share of loss from Associate 20,846 142,547 Total expenses 23,257,599 10,369,347 (Loss)/ProfitfortheyearbeforecontributiontoKFAS (12,112,277) 327,929Contribution to KFAS (679) (1,463)Zakat (754) (1,624)(LOSS) / PROFIT FOR THE YEAR (12,113,710) 324,842 Profit attributable to:Owners of the parent (12,135,905) 286,569 Non-controlling interests 22,195 38,273 NET (LOSS) / PROFIT FOR THE YEAR (12,113,710) 324,842

CONSOLIDATEDSTATEMENTOFSHAREHOLDERS’INCOME

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION

t’azur Company b.s.c. (c)

‘The Board of directors have approved the consolidated financial statements.

CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2020

Corrigendum

On 15 July 2021, on page5 of edition 8899, the

Daily Tribune mistakenly reported the launch of an e-Cheque service by AhliUnited Bank.

We regret the error, as there is no official informa-tion on the matter as of the time this corrigendum was written.

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Fitch lifts Saudi Arabia’s outlook to stable on higher oil prices

• A rebound in crudedemand and theeasing of coronavirusrestrictions havelifted the economy

• Fitch maintainedSaudi Arabia’ssovereign rating at ‘A’.

• Fitch forecastthe budget deficitto narrow to 3.3%of GDP this year

Reuters

Ratings agency Fitch revised Saudi Arabia’s outlook yesterday to

stable from negative, citing significantly higher oil pric-es and continued government commitment to adjusting its finances.

A rebound in crude demand and the easing of coronavi-rus restrictions have lifted the economy in recent months.

Fitch maintained Sau-di Arabia’s sovereign rating at ‘A’.

“The outlook revision re-flects prospects for a smaller deterioration in key sovereign balance-sheet metrics than at the time of the previous re-view, owing to significantly higher oil prices and contin-ued government commitment to fiscal consolidation,” it said.

Saudi Arabia’s budget deficit jumped to 11.2% of gross do-

mestic product last year from 4.5% in 2019, but Fitch said the widening was less pronounced than after the 2014-2015 oil price shock due to Saudi fiscal reforms.

The kingdom last year intro-duced austerity measures such as the tripling of a value-added tax and the removal of a cost of living allowance.

It also transferred $40 bil-lion from the central bank to the Public Investment Fund - the sovereign wealth fund atthe centre of plans to trans-form the economy - to spurinvestment.

Assuming Brent prices av-erage $63 per barrel this year, Fitch forecast the budget defi-cit to narrow to 3.3% of GDP this year, better than the 4.9% deficit projected by the gov-ernment.

Net foreign assets at the cen-tral bank recently dropped to about $433 bn, their lowest in more than a decade.

Reserves to increaseFitch expects reserves at the

Saudi central bank to increase to $470 bn in 2022-2023 as the current account switches to a surplus and PIF increases domestic investments.

Still, Fitch pointed to lack of clarity when it comes to invest-ment plans by PIF or Saudi oil giant Aramco and said a shift of public spending outside the budget and a potential increase in debt by state-owned and government-related entities presented “an important risk to the sovereign’s balance sheet strengths”.

Saudi gains on petchem boost; other major markets easeReuters

Most major stock mar-kets in the Gulf ended

lower yesterday, weighed by financial shares, while the Saudi index was lifted by shares of petrochemical companies.

Saudi Arabia’s benchmark index finished 0.2% higher, with Sahara International Petrochemical Company rising over 3% and Saudi Ba-sic Industries gaining 0.7%.

Goldman Sachs expects an oil supply agreement be-tween Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to be a bullish catalyst for crude prices over coming months.

The kingdom and the UAE have reached a compromise over OPEC+ policy, Reuters reported on Wednesday, cit-ing an OPEC+ source, a move that should unlock a deal to supply more crude to a tight oil market.

“New talks between OPEC members suggest possible modifications to the supply agreement and changes in the volumes they will put on the market,” said Daniel Takieddine, senior market analyst at FXPrimus.

“The results will affect the energy sector in the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) stock markets.”

Elsewhere, Arriyadh De-velopment umped more than 5% after reporting a sharp rise in its quarterly net profit.

The Qatari index retreat-ed 0.7%, dragged down by a 1.6% slide in Qatar Nation-al Bank, the Gulf ’s largest lender, and a 1.2% drop in petrochemical firm Indus-tries Qatar.

Dubai’s main share in-dex fell 0.4%, weighed by a 1.3% fall in blue-chip de-veloper Emaar Properties and a 0.6% decrease in sha-ria-compliant lender Dubai Islamic Bank.

In Abu Dhabi, the index edged down 0.2%, hit by a 0.6% fall in First Abu Dhabi Bank and a 0.7% decline in conglomerate International Holding (IHC).

Outside the Gulf, Egypt’s blue-chip index lost 0.4%, with Fawry for Banking Technology and Electronics dropping 1.9%.

Closing Bell SAUDI 0.1% to 10,795

ABU DHABI 0.2% to 7,069

DUBAI 0.4% to 2,744

QATAR 0.7% to 10,696

EGYPT 0.4% to 10,561

BAHRAIN n at 1,577

OMAN 0.3% to 4,075

KUWAIT 0.4% to 6,934

Iraq extends oil supply deal with JordanReuters | Baghdad

Iraq has extended an oil agree-ment with Jordan for another

year to supply it with 10,000

barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil under preferential terms, the Iraqi oil ministry said yesterday

The announcement came after a meeting yesterday be-

tween Iraqi Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul Jabbar and his Jordani-an counterpart Hala Zawati in Baghdad, the ministry said in a statement.

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THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THE BEAUTY OF THEIR DREAMSELEANOR ROOSEVELT

QUOTE OF THE DAY

FRIDAY, JULY 16, 2021

622 1519 1809 1940TODAY IN

HISTORYMuslim Era begins - Muhammad begins flight from Mecca to Medina (Hijra)

Public debate between Martin Luther and theologian Johann Eck at Pleissenburg Castle

in Liepzig, during which Luther denies the divine right of the Pope

La Paz, Bolivia declares its independence from the Spanish Crown and forms the Junta Tuitiva led by Pedro Domingo Murillo, the 1st independent government in Spanish America

Adolf Hitler orders preparations for the

invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion)

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ened self-interest. Vac-cines can be produced and the world can be opened up. It’s in our hands. We can end it [#COVID19] soon

@DrTedros

Let’s be clear: we’re going to vigorously

challenge attacks on our elections.

@JoeBiden

The National AYUSH Mission will keep

popularising traditional forms of medicine and highlighting their bene-fits in a scientific manner.

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189,473,728

4,078,581

172,964,052

Deaths

Recovered:

New cases

New deaths +333,542

+4,478

Country Total cases

new cases

Total deaths

New Deaths

Total recovered

Active cases

Egypt 283,409 16,418 220,530 46,461

Saudi Arabia

506,125 +1,165 8,035 +15 486,918 11,172

UAE 656,354 +1,541 1,885 +5 634,272 20,197

Kuwait 380,699 2,158 360,746 17,795

Oman 289,042 +904 3,498 +14 263,752 21,792

Qatar 223,911 +131 599 221,805 1,507

Middle East

Country Total cases Total deaths

1 USA 34,849,087 623,867

2 India 31,025,114 412,558

3 Brazil 19,209,729 537,498

4 Russia 5,882,295 146,069

5 France 5,829,724 111,413

6 Turkey 5,500,151 50,367

7 UK 5,281,098 128,593

8 Argentina 4,702,657 100,250

9 Colombia 4,565,372 114,337

10 Italy 4,278,319 127,840

11 Spain 4,041,474 81,043

12 Germany 3,747,272 91,836

13 Iran 3,464,055 86,592

14 Poland 2,881,151 75,191

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News in brief u South Africa mustered its army reserves on Thursday in a bid to quell looting that has ravaged supplies of food and other essentials and dealt a crippling blow to its economy. “All reserve members are to report for duty at first light tomorrow morning 15 July 2021 at their respective units,” army chief Lieutenant-General Lawrence Mbatha said in orders issued overnight as the unrest entered its sixth day. Soldiers should “report ready with their necessary equipment,” the defence ministry said in a statement. On Wednesday, the government said it would call out around 25,000 troops to tackle the emergency -- 10 times the number that it initially deployed.

u Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus will receive the Olympic Laurel at the Tokyo Games, the second time the trophy

has been awarded, the IOC said yesterday. Yunus, whose pioneering micro-lender has been hailed for cutting poverty across the globe, will be

honoured for “his extensive work in sport for development”, the International Olympic Committee said in a statement. The 81-year-old economist turned globe-trotting celebrity speaker, won the Nobel in 2006. He will be given the award at the Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony on July 23. The Olympic Laurel was created five years ago to recognise endeavours in culture, education, peace and development through sport, according to the IOC.

u Thousands of baby flamingos have died at Turkey’s Lake Tuz in the past two weeks from a drought that environmentalists said was the result of climate change and agricultural irrigation methods. Drone footage of the large saline lake in Turkey’s central province of Konya showed dead flaminglets lying partially buried in dried mud. Lake Tuz is home to a flamingo colony where up to 10,000 flaminglets are born every year. Turkish Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, Bekir Pakdemirli said around 1,000 birds were thought to have died but denied that agriculture was to blame.

u The WHO chief urged China yesterday to be more cooperative in the next phase of investigations into the pandemic origins, demanding more access to raw data. Speaking to reporters in Geneva,

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also acknowledged that a prior push to all but rule out the possibility that Covid-19 may have escaped from a lab had been “premature”. He said that the WHO was laying the groundwork for moving forward with fresh investigations into where Covid-19 came from, adding “we hope there will be better cooperation to get to the bottom of what happened.”

Bangladesh Nobel laureate Yunus to receive Olympic Laurel

Thousands of flamingos die in drought in central Turkey

China must cooperate better with Covid origin

probe: WHO

S.Africa calls up army reserves in bid to crush

looting

TOBIAS ADRIAN

Bahrain Needs Tech Savvy HCW Management

Bahrain is fortunate to have

people who are aware on the

safe disposal of waste, especially

medical waste. This public awareness

combined with the outstanding

efforts of the government has

helped the nation keep medical waste related problems at a

distance.

The sudden advent of the pandemic in 2020 proved to be a global shock for countries across the world. The medical, civic and economic infrastructure of each nation took severe hit due to

COVID19 and while some nations recovered rapidly and ramped up adequate responses to suit the pandemic, many other nations could not do a quick turn-around and ended up with colossal casualties. Bahrain was one of the few nations globally that was able to recover quickly in the wake of the pandemic and put in place effective measures that not only saved innumerable lives but also helped set an example in ecologically responsible management of COVID19, especially in the arena of health care waste management (HCW). This in turn ensured that the environment was spared the sudden spike in medical plastic waste such as masks and gloves.

Even as the outbreak of the virus was being reported Bahrain was testing and isolating potential COVID19 cases and by the time the first pandemic related death was reported in Wuhan, China, the epicenter for the virus, Bahrain had already set up a task force in January 2020 to monitor the situation and take required steps. This alacrity in initi-ative helped Bahrain duck the severity of “pandemic waves” that have ravaged the world. In addition to the efficient handling of the virus, Bahrain has also been able to contain its spread and also expedite vaccinations for the population. But probably what can be considered as the best news for environment in Bahrain has been the fact that all this pandemic driven load on the medical system has not led to medical waste disposal spiraling out of control and impacting health of the people and ecology.

According to the United Nation’s esti-mates, Bahrain generates about 3 tonnes of healthcare waste (HCW) per day. These include sharps, infectious anatomical, phar-maceutical, chemical and other wastes, that are produced by numerous hospitals, clinics, health centres and allied facilities. As they impose severe risks on occupational and public health, Bahrain has undertaken sev-eral measures to ensure the environmentally appropriate treatment and sanitary disposal of healthcare wastes in line with the nation-al and international standards. Currently dedicated and secured vehicles daily collect HCW and safely store, handle and transfer these wastes to the treatment plant which treats the waste the same day. The HCW incinerators are handling disposal processes that is in compliance with national standards regarding air emissions as the air quality is closely monitored by independent qualified laboratory and special reports are directed to Environmental Affairs.

The success of this project is one of the major milestone in environmental protec-tion, which depict the serious commitment

and dedication of the government of Bahrain in the protection of public health by proper management of waste disposal and efficient involvement of stakeholders. Given the fact that the pandemic is not on its way out one can safely conclude that the pressure on the health system of countries will continue to mount. In these circumstance it is essential to ramp up response for management of HCW that would also grow with the patient load. Bahrain’s effective and ecologically re-sponsible management of HCW so far has not only set a global example but has set the pace for other nations to emulate. This benchmarking streak has to continue.

In order to ensure next level of health care waste management that is synchronised with growing environmental concerns, Bahrain can rope in cutting edge technology to track the HCW life cycle. Right from the product manufacturing stage to disposal the HCW management company should be able to track the history of medical waste with the assistance of bar-codes and other mobile technology powered soft-ware’s. This will ensure that each potentially environmentally harmful waste item is tracked and disposed off safely. The smaller clinics and health centres must also be provided mobile apps on which they can update on real time basis the status of their medical waste manage-ment so that the data is available in public domain. This initiative will ensure that the clinics and health care centres put public health and ecological well-being as a priority.

Additionally, the scope and capacities of the HCW incinerators must be ramped up on a regular basis so that the country’s medical health infrastructure is able to keep up with rise in waste generation. Moreover, the incinerators can be upgraded to include some helpful technological features such as cloud based data management and real time monitoring of emissions in the immediate 50km radius of the in-cinerator plant so that the air quality is protected at all times. This will protect the health of the residents and businesses even as the activity of the incinerators is ramped up. These measures will ensure that Bahrain will continue to remain at the forefront of HCW management.

Bahrain is fortunate to have people who are aware on the safe dispos-al of waste, especially medical waste. This public awareness combined with the outstanding efforts of the government has helped the nation keep medical waste related problems at a distance. Now it is time to take HCW management to next level by introducing technology at every stage of its disposal making HCW disposal truly hi-tech.

Headscarf bans for women at work have been a

hotly contested issue in Germany for years, mostly

with regard to aspiring teachers at state schools and trainee judges. This

has not so far been a ma-jor theme in the campaign for this year’s legislative

elections.Elsewhere in Europe, courts have also had to look into where

and how headscarves can sometimes be banned at

work.

KNOW WHAT

Brazil’s Bolsonaro, stabbed in 2018, may need emergency surgeryReuters | Brasilia

Brazilian President Jair Bol-sonaro was transferred to a

Sao Paulo hospital on Wednes-day to undergo tests for an ob-structed intestine, with the pres-ident’s office saying he could receive emergency surgery in his latest health complication from a 2018 stabbing.

The Vila Nova Star hospital in Sao Paulo, where Bolsonaro, 66, was transferred, said late on Wednesday that the president would remain hospitalized “in-itially under conservative man-agement.”

His son Flavio, speaking to radio station Jovem Pan, said Bolsonaro had earlier in the day been moved to an intensive care unit in Brasilia and intubated.

“He ended up being intubated to keep him from breathing in liquid coming from his stom-ach,” Flavio Bolsonaro said in

the interview.The news of Bolsonaro’s hos-

pitalization comes as the far-right leader is sinking in opinion polls due to his handling of the world’s second-deadliest coro-

navirus pandemic and a sim-mering corruption scandal over his government’s purchase of vaccines.

It also caps days of questions over his health due to a chron-

ic case of hiccups, a stubborn cough following a 2020 COVID-19 infection, and a series of sur-geries after the campaign-trail stabbing shortly before his 2018 election victory.

Shortly after news of his trans-fer to Sao Paulo, Bolsonaro post-ed on his Facebook page a photo of himself smiling with his eyes closed and lying in a hospital bed covered in sensors and ca-

bles. What appears to be a priest, with a golden crucifix, stood by his side, placing his hand on the president’s shoulder.

“I thank everyone for their support and prayers,” Bolsonaro said in the post.

Bolsonaro went to the mil-itary hospital in Brasilia early on Wednesday, with his office initially saying it was to undergo tests for chronic hiccups.

But later, the president’s office said Antônio Luiz Macedo, the surgeon who operated on Bol-sonaro in 2018, had decided the president should go to Sao Paulo for additional tests to investigate an obstructed intestine, and pos-sible emergency surgery.

Fábio Faria, Brazil’s commu-nications minister, told a news conference that Bolsonaro had been sedated in the morning and would likely travel to the same hospital where he had previously been operated on by

Macedo. He arrived at the Vila Nova Star hospital in Sao Paulo in the evening, television images showed.

Faria added that the presi-dent ’s schedule would be cleared for 48 hours.

Bolsonaro’s son Flavio, in a separate interview with CNN Brasil, said that a procedure to remove liquid from his father’s stomach had been performed as a precaution. He added that if his father needed surgery, he had been assured it would not be a serious operation.

Bolsonaro nearly died af-ter the stabbing in 2018, re-sulting in multiple follow-up surgeries.

Recently, Bolsonaro had ap-peared unwell. In a national address on social media last Thursday, he struggled to ex-press himself at one point, and said he had been suffering from hiccups for a week.

A presidential convoy with an ambulance transporting Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro leaves the armed forces hospital (HFA) in Brasilia, Brazil

Jair Bolsonaro grimaces after being stabbed in the stomach during a campaign rally in Juiz de Fora

At least 44 dead in floods in western Europe, dozens missing• Houses collapse after Ahr river burst its banks south of Bonn

• Transport disrupted, shipping on parts of the Rhine suspended

• More heavy rain was due in southwestern Germany, on the upper More rain expected on Thursday and Friday

Reuters | Schuld, Germany

At least 42 people have died in Germany and doz-ens were miss-

ing on Thursday as record rainfall in western Europe caused rivers to burst their banks, swept away homes and flooded cellars.

Eighteen people died and dozens were miss-ing around the wine-growing region of Ahrweil-er, in Rhineland-Pa-latinate state, police said, after the Ahr river that flows into the Rhine rose and brought down half a dozen houses.

Another 15 people died in the Euskirchen region south of the city of Bonn, authorities said. In Belgium, two men died due to the torrential rain and a 15-year-old girl was missing after being swept away by a swollen river.

Hundreds of soldiers were helping police with the rescue efforts in Germany, using tanks to clear roads of landslides and fallen trees, while helicopters winched those stranded on roof-tops to safety.

In Ahrweiler, two wrecked cars

leant s t e e p -

ly against either side of

the town’s stone gate and locals used snow shovels and brooms to sweep mud from their homes and shops after the floodwaters receded.

“I was totally surprised. I had thought that water would come in here one day, but nothing like this,” local man Michael Ahrend told Reuters TV. “This isn’t a war - it’s simply nature hitting out. Finally, we should start paying attention to it.”

The floods have caused Ger-many’s worst mass loss of life in years. Flooding in 2002 killed 21 people in eastern Germany and

more than 100 across the wider central European region.

Chancellor Angela Merkel ex-pressed her dismay.

“I am shocked by the catastro-phe that so many people in the flood areas have to endure. My sympathy goes out to the families of the dead and missing.”

Armin Laschet, the conserva-tive candidate to succeed Merkel as chancellor at a general election in September and the premier of the hard-hit state of North Rhine Westphalia, blamed the extreme weather on global warming.

“We will be faced with such events over and over, and that means we need to speed up cli-mate protection measures, on Eu-ropean, federal and global levels, because climate change isn’t con-fined to one state,” he said during a visit to the area.

Climate and environmental issues are one of the main bat-tlegrounds in the election cam-paign, in which Laschet is going head-to-head with Social Dem-ocrat candidate Olaf Scholz and Annalena Baerbock of the Greens.

In Belgium, around 10 houses collapsed in Pepinster after the river Vesdre flooded the eastern town and residents were evacu-ated from more than 1,000 homes.

Downstream in the Nether-lands, flooding rivers damaged many houses in the southern province of Limburg, where sev-eral care homes were evacuated.

In addition to the fatalities in the Euskirchen region, another nine people, including two fire-fighters, died elsewhere in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Firefighters speak with people next to debris brought by the flood following heavy rainfalls in Schuld, Germany

EU court says headscarves can be banned at work under certain conditionsReuters | Brussels

Companies may ban Muslim employees from wearing a

headscarf under certain con-ditions, the European Union’s top court said yesterday in a ruling on two cases brought by women in Germany who were suspended from their jobs for wearing one.

In the cases brought to court, both Muslim women - a special-needs carer at a child-care centre in Hamburg run by a charitable association, and a cashier at the Mueller drugstore chain - did not wear headscarves when they started in their jobs, but decided to do so years later after coming back from parental leave.

They were told that this was not allowed, and were at dif-ferent points either suspend-ed, told to come to work with-out it or put on a different job, court documents show.

The EU court had to decide in both cases whether head-scarf bans at work represented a violation of the freedom of religion or were allowed as part of the freedom to conduct a business and the wish to pro-ject an image of neutrality to customers.

Its response was that such bans were possible if justified by an employer’s need to pres-ent a neutral image.

“A prohibition on wearing any visible form of expression of political, philosophical or religious beliefs in the work-place may be justified by the employer’s need to present a neutral image towards cus-tomers or to prevent social disputes,” the court said.

However, that justification must correspond to a genuine need on the part of the em-ployer, it said.

In the case of the care cen-tre employee, the court said the rule at issue appeared to have been applied in a general

and indifferentiated way, since the employer also required an employee wearing a religious cross to remove that sign.

In both cases, it will now be up to national courts to have the final say on whether there was any discrimination.

The EU court already ruled in 2017 that companies may ban staff from wearing Islamic headscarves and other visi-ble religious symbols under certain conditions, sparking a backlash among faith groups.

More than 5 million Mus-lims live in Germany, making them the largest religious mi-nority group there.

Israel in talks with pharma companies about COVID booster jab, PM saysReuters | Jerusa-lem

Israel is discuss-i n g C OV I D -1 9

booster shots with drug companies, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Wednes-day, as the coun-try grapples with an outbreak of the fast-spreading Del-ta variant.

T h e W o r l d Health Organisa-tion (WHO) said o n We d n e s d a y the Delta variant has been detect-ed in at least 111 countries in the last two months, and was likely to become the domi-nant variant global-ly over the coming months. In Israel, it makes up about 90% of confirmed cases, according to the Health Minis-try.

“We are in a di-alogue with the pharma companies about the booster i s s u e, w h e t h e r a booster of the original shot or an adapted booster shot,” Bennett told a news confer-ence in Jerusalem, where he detailed his cabinet’s strat-egy for curbing the Delta outbreak.

In Israel, about 60% of the 9.3 mil-lion population has received at least one dose of the vac-cine produced by Pfizer and partner BioNtech. Pfizer did not immediate-ly respond to a re-quest for comment.

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THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THE BEAUTY OF THEIR DREAMSELEANOR ROOSEVELT

QUOTE OF THE DAY

FRIDAY, JULY 16, 2021

622 1519 1809 1940TODAY IN

HISTORYMuslim Era begins - Muhammad begins flight from Mecca to Medina (Hijra)

Public debate between Martin Luther and theologian Johann Eck at Pleissenburg Castle

in Liepzig, during which Luther denies the divine right of the Pope

La Paz, Bolivia declares its independence from the Spanish Crown and forms the Junta Tuitiva led by Pedro Domingo Murillo, the 1st independent government in Spanish America

Adolf Hitler orders preparations for the

invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion)

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“Self-interest is natural, but there is enlight-

ened self-interest. Vac-cines can be produced and the world can be opened up. It’s in our hands. We can end it [#COVID19] soon

@DrTedros

Let’s be clear: we’re going to vigorously

challenge attacks on our elections.

@JoeBiden

The National AYUSH Mission will keep

popularising traditional forms of medicine and highlighting their bene-fits in a scientific manner.

@narendramodi

The pandemic will o n l y e n d w h e n

everyone is protected from #COVID19 - includ-ing refugees. My thanks to communities & coun-tries who have covered refugees and displaced people in their vaccina-tion plans. I urge all oth-ers to follow suit.

@antonioguterres

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

editorial stances)

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4,078,581

172,964,052

Deaths

Recovered:

New cases

New deaths +333,542

+4,478

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new cases

Total deaths

New Deaths

Total recovered

Active cases

Egypt 283,409 16,418 220,530 46,461

Saudi Arabia

506,125 +1,165 8,035 +15 486,918 11,172

UAE 656,354 +1,541 1,885 +5 634,272 20,197

Kuwait 380,699 2,158 360,746 17,795

Oman 289,042 +904 3,498 +14 263,752 21,792

Qatar 223,911 +131 599 221,805 1,507

Middle East

Country Total cases Total deaths

1 USA 34,849,087 623,867

2 India 31,025,114 412,558

3 Brazil 19,209,729 537,498

4 Russia 5,882,295 146,069

5 France 5,829,724 111,413

6 Turkey 5,500,151 50,367

7 UK 5,281,098 128,593

8 Argentina 4,702,657 100,250

9 Colombia 4,565,372 114,337

10 Italy 4,278,319 127,840

11 Spain 4,041,474 81,043

12 Germany 3,747,272 91,836

13 Iran 3,464,055 86,592

14 Poland 2,881,151 75,191

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News in brief u South Africa mustered its army reserves on Thursday in a bid to quell looting that has ravaged supplies of food and other essentials and dealt a crippling blow to its economy. “All reserve members are to report for duty at first light tomorrow morning 15 July 2021 at their respective units,” army chief Lieutenant-General Lawrence Mbatha said in orders issued overnight as the unrest entered its sixth day. Soldiers should “report ready with their necessary equipment,” the defence ministry said in a statement. On Wednesday, the government said it would call out around 25,000 troops to tackle the emergency -- 10 times the number that it initially deployed.

u Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus will receive the Olympic Laurel at the Tokyo Games, the second time the trophy

has been awarded, the IOC said yesterday. Yunus, whose pioneering micro-lender has been hailed for cutting poverty across the globe, will be

honoured for “his extensive work in sport for development”, the International Olympic Committee said in a statement. The 81-year-old economist turned globe-trotting celebrity speaker, won the Nobel in 2006. He will be given the award at the Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony on July 23. The Olympic Laurel was created five years ago to recognise endeavours in culture, education, peace and development through sport, according to the IOC.

u Thousands of baby flamingos have died at Turkey’s Lake Tuz in the past two weeks from a drought that environmentalists said was the result of climate change and agricultural irrigation methods. Drone footage of the large saline lake in Turkey’s central province of Konya showed dead flaminglets lying partially buried in dried mud. Lake Tuz is home to a flamingo colony where up to 10,000 flaminglets are born every year. Turkish Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, Bekir Pakdemirli said around 1,000 birds were thought to have died but denied that agriculture was to blame.

u The WHO chief urged China yesterday to be more cooperative in the next phase of investigations into the pandemic origins, demanding more access to raw data. Speaking to reporters in Geneva,

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also acknowledged that a prior push to all but rule out the possibility that Covid-19 may have escaped from a lab had been “premature”. He said that the WHO was laying the groundwork for moving forward with fresh investigations into where Covid-19 came from, adding “we hope there will be better cooperation to get to the bottom of what happened.”

Bangladesh Nobel laureate Yunus to receive Olympic Laurel

Thousands of flamingos die in drought in central Turkey

China must cooperate better with Covid origin

probe: WHO

S.Africa calls up army reserves in bid to crush

looting

TOBIAS ADRIAN

Bahrain Needs Tech Savvy HCW Management

Bahrain is fortunate to have

people who are aware on the

safe disposal of waste, especially

medical waste. This public awareness

combined with the outstanding

efforts of the government has

helped the nation keep medical waste related problems at a

distance.

The sudden advent of the pandemic in 2020 proved to be a global shock for countries across the world. The medical, civic and economic infrastructure of each nation took severe hit due to

COVID19 and while some nations recovered rapidly and ramped up adequate responses to suit the pandemic, many other nations could not do a quick turn-around and ended up with colossal casualties. Bahrain was one of the few nations globally that was able to recover quickly in the wake of the pandemic and put in place effective measures that not only saved innumerable lives but also helped set an example in ecologically responsible management of COVID19, especially in the arena of health care waste management (HCW). This in turn ensured that the environment was spared the sudden spike in medical plastic waste such as masks and gloves.

Even as the outbreak of the virus was being reported Bahrain was testing and isolating potential COVID19 cases and by the time the first pandemic related death was reported in Wuhan, China, the epicenter for the virus, Bahrain had already set up a task force in January 2020 to monitor the situation and take required steps. This alacrity in initi-ative helped Bahrain duck the severity of “pandemic waves” that have ravaged the world. In addition to the efficient handling of the virus, Bahrain has also been able to contain its spread and also expedite vaccinations for the population. But probably what can be considered as the best news for environment in Bahrain has been the fact that all this pandemic driven load on the medical system has not led to medical waste disposal spiraling out of control and impacting health of the people and ecology.

According to the United Nation’s esti-mates, Bahrain generates about 3 tonnes of healthcare waste (HCW) per day. These include sharps, infectious anatomical, phar-maceutical, chemical and other wastes, that are produced by numerous hospitals, clinics, health centres and allied facilities. As they impose severe risks on occupational and public health, Bahrain has undertaken sev-eral measures to ensure the environmentally appropriate treatment and sanitary disposal of healthcare wastes in line with the nation-al and international standards. Currently dedicated and secured vehicles daily collect HCW and safely store, handle and transfer these wastes to the treatment plant which treats the waste the same day. The HCW incinerators are handling disposal processes that is in compliance with national standards regarding air emissions as the air quality is closely monitored by independent qualified laboratory and special reports are directed to Environmental Affairs.

The success of this project is one of the major milestone in environmental protec-tion, which depict the serious commitment

and dedication of the government of Bahrain in the protection of public health by proper management of waste disposal and efficient involvement of stakeholders. Given the fact that the pandemic is not on its way out one can safely conclude that the pressure on the health system of countries will continue to mount. In these circumstance it is essential to ramp up response for management of HCW that would also grow with the patient load. Bahrain’s effective and ecologically re-sponsible management of HCW so far has not only set a global example but has set the pace for other nations to emulate. This benchmarking streak has to continue.

In order to ensure next level of health care waste management that is synchronised with growing environmental concerns, Bahrain can rope in cutting edge technology to track the HCW life cycle. Right from the product manufacturing stage to disposal the HCW management company should be able to track the history of medical waste with the assistance of bar-codes and other mobile technology powered soft-ware’s. This will ensure that each potentially environmentally harmful waste item is tracked and disposed off safely. The smaller clinics and health centres must also be provided mobile apps on which they can update on real time basis the status of their medical waste manage-ment so that the data is available in public domain. This initiative will ensure that the clinics and health care centres put public health and ecological well-being as a priority.

Additionally, the scope and capacities of the HCW incinerators must be ramped up on a regular basis so that the country’s medical health infrastructure is able to keep up with rise in waste generation. Moreover, the incinerators can be upgraded to include some helpful technological features such as cloud based data management and real time monitoring of emissions in the immediate 50km radius of the in-cinerator plant so that the air quality is protected at all times. This will protect the health of the residents and businesses even as the activity of the incinerators is ramped up. These measures will ensure that Bahrain will continue to remain at the forefront of HCW management.

Bahrain is fortunate to have people who are aware on the safe dispos-al of waste, especially medical waste. This public awareness combined with the outstanding efforts of the government has helped the nation keep medical waste related problems at a distance. Now it is time to take HCW management to next level by introducing technology at every stage of its disposal making HCW disposal truly hi-tech.

Headscarf bans for women at work have been a

hotly contested issue in Germany for years, mostly

with regard to aspiring teachers at state schools and trainee judges. This

has not so far been a ma-jor theme in the campaign for this year’s legislative

elections.Elsewhere in Europe, courts have also had to look into where

and how headscarves can sometimes be banned at

work.

KNOW WHAT

Brazil’s Bolsonaro, stabbed in 2018, may need emergency surgeryReuters | Brasilia

Brazilian President Jair Bol-sonaro was transferred to a

Sao Paulo hospital on Wednes-day to undergo tests for an ob-structed intestine, with the pres-ident’s office saying he could receive emergency surgery in his latest health complication from a 2018 stabbing.

The Vila Nova Star hospital in Sao Paulo, where Bolsonaro, 66, was transferred, said late on Wednesday that the president would remain hospitalized “in-itially under conservative man-agement.”

His son Flavio, speaking to radio station Jovem Pan, said Bolsonaro had earlier in the day been moved to an intensive care unit in Brasilia and intubated.

“He ended up being intubated to keep him from breathing in liquid coming from his stom-ach,” Flavio Bolsonaro said in

the interview.The news of Bolsonaro’s hos-

pitalization comes as the far-right leader is sinking in opinion polls due to his handling of the world’s second-deadliest coro-

navirus pandemic and a sim-mering corruption scandal over his government’s purchase of vaccines.

It also caps days of questions over his health due to a chron-

ic case of hiccups, a stubborn cough following a 2020 COVID-19 infection, and a series of sur-geries after the campaign-trail stabbing shortly before his 2018 election victory.

Shortly after news of his trans-fer to Sao Paulo, Bolsonaro post-ed on his Facebook page a photo of himself smiling with his eyes closed and lying in a hospital bed covered in sensors and ca-

bles. What appears to be a priest, with a golden crucifix, stood by his side, placing his hand on the president’s shoulder.

“I thank everyone for their support and prayers,” Bolsonaro said in the post.

Bolsonaro went to the mil-itary hospital in Brasilia early on Wednesday, with his office initially saying it was to undergo tests for chronic hiccups.

But later, the president’s office said Antônio Luiz Macedo, the surgeon who operated on Bol-sonaro in 2018, had decided the president should go to Sao Paulo for additional tests to investigate an obstructed intestine, and pos-sible emergency surgery.

Fábio Faria, Brazil’s commu-nications minister, told a news conference that Bolsonaro had been sedated in the morning and would likely travel to the same hospital where he had previously been operated on by

Macedo. He arrived at the Vila Nova Star hospital in Sao Paulo in the evening, television images showed.

Faria added that the presi-dent ’s schedule would be cleared for 48 hours.

Bolsonaro’s son Flavio, in a separate interview with CNN Brasil, said that a procedure to remove liquid from his father’s stomach had been performed as a precaution. He added that if his father needed surgery, he had been assured it would not be a serious operation.

Bolsonaro nearly died af-ter the stabbing in 2018, re-sulting in multiple follow-up surgeries.

Recently, Bolsonaro had ap-peared unwell. In a national address on social media last Thursday, he struggled to ex-press himself at one point, and said he had been suffering from hiccups for a week.

A presidential convoy with an ambulance transporting Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro leaves the armed forces hospital (HFA) in Brasilia, Brazil

Jair Bolsonaro grimaces after being stabbed in the stomach during a campaign rally in Juiz de Fora

At least 44 dead in floods in western Europe, dozens missing• Houses collapse after Ahr river burst its banks south of Bonn

• Transport disrupted, shipping on parts of the Rhine suspended

• More heavy rain was due in southwestern Germany, on the upper More rain expected on Thursday and Friday

Reuters | Schuld, Germany

At least 42 people have died in Germany and doz-ens were miss-

ing on Thursday as record rainfall in western Europe caused rivers to burst their banks, swept away homes and flooded cellars.

Eighteen people died and dozens were miss-ing around the wine-growing region of Ahrweil-er, in Rhineland-Pa-latinate state, police said, after the Ahr river that flows into the Rhine rose and brought down half a dozen houses.

Another 15 people died in the Euskirchen region south of the city of Bonn, authorities said. In Belgium, two men died due to the torrential rain and a 15-year-old girl was missing after being swept away by a swollen river.

Hundreds of soldiers were helping police with the rescue efforts in Germany, using tanks to clear roads of landslides and fallen trees, while helicopters winched those stranded on roof-tops to safety.

In Ahrweiler, two wrecked cars

leant s t e e p -

ly against either side of

the town’s stone gate and locals used snow shovels and brooms to sweep mud from their homes and shops after the floodwaters receded.

“I was totally surprised. I had thought that water would come in here one day, but nothing like this,” local man Michael Ahrend told Reuters TV. “This isn’t a war - it’s simply nature hitting out. Finally, we should start paying attention to it.”

The floods have caused Ger-many’s worst mass loss of life in years. Flooding in 2002 killed 21 people in eastern Germany and

more than 100 across the wider central European region.

Chancellor Angela Merkel ex-pressed her dismay.

“I am shocked by the catastro-phe that so many people in the flood areas have to endure. My sympathy goes out to the families of the dead and missing.”

Armin Laschet, the conserva-tive candidate to succeed Merkel as chancellor at a general election in September and the premier of the hard-hit state of North Rhine Westphalia, blamed the extreme weather on global warming.

“We will be faced with such events over and over, and that means we need to speed up cli-mate protection measures, on Eu-ropean, federal and global levels, because climate change isn’t con-fined to one state,” he said during a visit to the area.

Climate and environmental issues are one of the main bat-tlegrounds in the election cam-paign, in which Laschet is going head-to-head with Social Dem-ocrat candidate Olaf Scholz and Annalena Baerbock of the Greens.

In Belgium, around 10 houses collapsed in Pepinster after the river Vesdre flooded the eastern town and residents were evacu-ated from more than 1,000 homes.

Downstream in the Nether-lands, flooding rivers damaged many houses in the southern province of Limburg, where sev-eral care homes were evacuated.

In addition to the fatalities in the Euskirchen region, another nine people, including two fire-fighters, died elsewhere in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Firefighters speak with people next to debris brought by the flood following heavy rainfalls in Schuld, Germany

EU court says headscarves can be banned at work under certain conditionsReuters | Brussels

Companies may ban Muslim employees from wearing a

headscarf under certain con-ditions, the European Union’s top court said yesterday in a ruling on two cases brought by women in Germany who were suspended from their jobs for wearing one.

In the cases brought to court, both Muslim women - a special-needs carer at a child-care centre in Hamburg run by a charitable association, and a cashier at the Mueller drugstore chain - did not wear headscarves when they started in their jobs, but decided to do so years later after coming back from parental leave.

They were told that this was not allowed, and were at dif-ferent points either suspend-ed, told to come to work with-out it or put on a different job, court documents show.

The EU court had to decide in both cases whether head-scarf bans at work represented a violation of the freedom of religion or were allowed as part of the freedom to conduct a business and the wish to pro-ject an image of neutrality to customers.

Its response was that such bans were possible if justified by an employer’s need to pres-ent a neutral image.

“A prohibition on wearing any visible form of expression of political, philosophical or religious beliefs in the work-place may be justified by the employer’s need to present a neutral image towards cus-tomers or to prevent social disputes,” the court said.

However, that justification must correspond to a genuine need on the part of the em-ployer, it said.

In the case of the care cen-tre employee, the court said the rule at issue appeared to have been applied in a general

and indifferentiated way, since the employer also required an employee wearing a religious cross to remove that sign.

In both cases, it will now be up to national courts to have the final say on whether there was any discrimination.

The EU court already ruled in 2017 that companies may ban staff from wearing Islamic headscarves and other visi-ble religious symbols under certain conditions, sparking a backlash among faith groups.

More than 5 million Mus-lims live in Germany, making them the largest religious mi-nority group there.

Israel in talks with pharma companies about COVID booster jab, PM saysReuters | Jerusa-lem

Israel is discuss-i n g C OV I D -1 9

booster shots with drug companies, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Wednes-day, as the coun-try grapples with an outbreak of the fast-spreading Del-ta variant.

T h e W o r l d Health Organisa-tion (WHO) said o n We d n e s d a y the Delta variant has been detect-ed in at least 111 countries in the last two months, and was likely to become the domi-nant variant global-ly over the coming months. In Israel, it makes up about 90% of confirmed cases, according to the Health Minis-try.

“We are in a di-alogue with the pharma companies about the booster i s s u e, w h e t h e r a booster of the original shot or an adapted booster shot,” Bennett told a news confer-ence in Jerusalem, where he detailed his cabinet’s strat-egy for curbing the Delta outbreak.

In Israel, about 60% of the 9.3 mil-lion population has received at least one dose of the vac-cine produced by Pfizer and partner BioNtech. Pfizer did not immediate-ly respond to a re-quest for comment.

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Gulf Baz Logistics CO. W.L.L.has a vacancy for the occupation of STOREKEEPER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 69990032 or [email protected]

A - KARIM ALJAHROMI CONTRACTING COMPANY WLLhas a vacancy for the occupation of LABOURER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17831000 or [email protected]

Areena Contractor Group Co. S.P.Chas a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17245222 or [email protected]

URBASER BAHRAIN CO W.L.Lhas a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17131018 or [email protected]

MOHAMMAD ABDULLAALAReedh CO.W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of DRIVER/OPERATOR(CRANE) , suitably qualified applicants can contact 38811122 or [email protected]

Bilal jamil khan for Other business support service activities Chas a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 36848778 or [email protected]

Seven Energy W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WELDER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17500791 or [email protected]

Sadman construction co wll has a vacancy for the occupation of MASON , suitably qualified applicants can contact 37728500 or [email protected]

TURATH MANDALI RESTAURANT FOR GRILLS AND IRANIAN FOOD has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39468278 or [email protected]

AMMAR ABDULLA HASAN QATTAN /( NOOR ALI/7862 )has a vacancy for the occupation of SEAMAN , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39819232 or [email protected]

MOHAMED ABDULNABI ALI (RIHANNA ALRASUL / 12140)has a vacancy for the occupation of SEAMAN , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39466236 or [email protected]

ABDULAHUSAIN KHUDHUR &AHMED AND YOUSIF SNOS OF ALI AHMED has a vacancy for the occupation of CLEANER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 36636622 or [email protected]

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ALKHABBAZ COLLECTION OF COOKING OIL has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39299322 or [email protected]

FOUR WALLS INTERNATIONALCO. S.P.C. OWNER ABDULMAJEED KHALID AWAD ALLAM has a vacancy for the occupation of CASHIER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17215550 or [email protected] stars Contracting Co. W.L.Lhas a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 77059992 or [email protected]

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AL SALTANAH DOCUMENT CLEARING has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 36333817 or [email protected]

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NASSER SAEED AL-HAJRI CORPORATION W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of PIPE-FITTER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17312220 or [email protected]

Sansaf Trading Co.W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33921167 or [email protected]

GULF ASIA CONTRACTING COMPANY WLL has a vacancy for the occupation of SAFETY OFFICER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17312220 or [email protected] Access Platforms Bahrain W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of TECHNICIAN(MAINTENANCE) , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17840787

ONENESS TRANSPORTING has a vacancy for the occupation of DRIVER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33138667

Danway Electrical & Mechanical Engineering L.L.C has a vacancy for the occupation of ELECTRICIAN , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17297600 or [email protected]

CAFE BAZZA W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WAITER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 37322408 or [email protected]

SAKAN RIFFA INTERIOR DESIGN DECORATION S.P.C has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39862086 or [email protected]

668 cafe has a vacancy for the occupation of WAITER (GENERAL) , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33113352 or [email protected] PETALS BOUTIQUE W.L.Lhas a vacancy for the occupation of DESIGNER(FASHION) , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33443892 or [email protected]

Krishna for Construction of Floating Structures W.L.L. has a vacancy for the occupation of SALESMAN , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39804140 or [email protected]

Al Diyafah Marine Service WLLhas a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39545365 or [email protected]

National Palace Building Construction W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of OFFICE WORKER HELPER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 38278298 or [email protected]

DOWN TOWN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY W.L.L. has a vacancy for the occupation of STEEL CHIPPER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17404866 or [email protected]

DOWN TOWN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY W.L.L. has a vacancy for the occupation of PLUMBER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17404866 or [email protected]

ABNA ZUHAIR TRANSPORT CO. W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of HEAVY DRIVER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17591881 or [email protected]

DOWN TOWN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY W.L.L. has a vacancy for the occupation of STEEL CHIPPER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17404866 or [email protected]

MAGIC SHINE CLEANING CO. SPChas a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17345051 or [email protected]

VISSION CONSTRUCTION has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39300177 or [email protected]

ABRAJ ALKHAMIS TRADING S.P.Chas a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified

applicants can contact 17630580 or [email protected]

HAMOORABI BLACKSMITH & WELDING WORKSHOP has a vacancy for the occupation of LABOURER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17668579 or [email protected]

AYUB QURESHI CONSTRUCTIONhas a vacancy for the occupation of SUPERVISOR , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39823801 or [email protected]

Idroos Tissues S.P.C owned by Saleha Habeeb Idroos has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 35123005 or [email protected]

ALMADANI HYDRAULIC REPAIR WLL has a vacancy for the occupation of MECHANIC , suitably qualified applicants can contact 38792207 or [email protected]

SM PINOY SUPER MARKET WLLhas a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17736030 or [email protected]

TEA TIME PLEASURE RESTAURANT W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39867872 or [email protected]

Tricon lenses company S.P.C has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 38847202 or [email protected]

Swift and Smooth Logistics Services Co. W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33109342 or [email protected]

Farhee Jewellery Design Co. S.P.C owned by Qamar Ur Rehman has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33579743 or [email protected]

DTS W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17319999 or [email protected]

Adaa Building Solutions W.L.L. has a vacancy for the occupation of CONSTRUCTION WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17210147 or [email protected]

GREEN SKENAR ELECTRIC WORKSHOP SPC OWNED BYSARBJEET SING has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33161222 or [email protected]

TIP TOP SALOON S P C has a vacancy for the occupation of BARBER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39888293 or [email protected]

ISTAR Bahraini partnership company has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 36171122 or [email protected]

Majorca Cafe has a vacancy for the occupation of LABOURER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33363151 or [email protected]

ALPHA. PHARMACY W.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of ACCOUNTANT , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39885906 or [email protected] K M H Decoration Bahraini partnership company has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 36758776 or [email protected]

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GLORY COnTRACTING has a vacancy for the occupation of SUPERVISOR , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17550203 or [email protected]

ALEEM MOHAMMED FOR REPAIR OF MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT S.P.C Owned has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 35116399 or [email protected]

AL MAKEENA AUTO SERVICES & SPARE PARTS Company W.L.Lhas a vacancy for the occupation of MECHANIC , suitably qualified applicants can contact 37745987 or [email protected]

KINDOM OF FLOWERS NURSERYhas a vacancy for the occupation of DRIVER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39909933 or [email protected]

ALRASHIDIYA GARDEN has a vacancy for the occupation of HORSE BREEDER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17212200 or [email protected]

HASAN MOHAMED SAEED ALI “ ALNWARS ALDAHOOK 1/ 7996 “ has a vacancy for the occupation of SEAMAN , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39719795 or [email protected]

SECURI CORE S.P.C OWNED BY RASHEED AL-FAWAZ has a vacancy for the occupation of SECURITY GUARD , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17822228 or [email protected]

SECURI CORE S.P.C OWNED BY RASHEED AL-FAWAZ has a vacancy for the occupation of SECURITY GUARD , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17822228 or [email protected]

REDX INDUSTRIES CO. W.L.L. has a vacancy for the occupation of STEEL CHIPPER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 77454545 or [email protected]

Al Rayah For Safety Items WLLhas a vacancy for the occupation of SECURITY GUARD , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17712700 or [email protected]

MODERN KNOWLEDGE SCHOOLS has a vacancy for the occupation of ADMINISTRATOR , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17727712 or [email protected]

ALMATALA CONTRACTING ESTABLISHMENT has a vacancy for the occupation of HEAVYDRIVER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39458212 or [email protected]

ZAKIYA BAKERY has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 677575 or [email protected]

CENTURY FIVE TRADING EST.has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER(SALES) , suitably qualified applicants can contact 33206972 or [email protected]

AL JASRA BIKES RE has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17713637 or [email protected]

FRUITAGE GULF has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17277227 or [email protected]

911 MARKET has a vacancy for the occupation of SALESMAN , suitably qualified applicants can contact 36499997 or [email protected]

NATIONAL CONCRETE COMAPNYW.L.L has a vacancy for the occupation of SEAMAN , suitably qualified applicants can contact 17786665 or [email protected]

FRESH BITES has a vacancy for the occupation of WORKER , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39861914 or [email protected]

WADI DELMON FOR SALE AND TRADE OF CLOTHING has a vacancy for the occupation of SALESMAN , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39784878 or [email protected]

ALMAYOUN AUTO SERVICES has a vacancy for the occupation of MECHANIC , suitably qualified applicants can contact 39617647 or [email protected]

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C L A S S I F I E D S

Authorities last year released more than

5,000 Taliban prison-ers to help kick start peace talks in Doha,

but negotiations have so far failed to reach any political settle-ment, and the latest

offensives suggest the insurgents are now set on a military victory.

KNOW WHAT

Taliban offers 3-month ceasefire for releasing 7,000 prisoners• A spokesman for the Taliban said he was only aware of the suggestion of a ceasefire over the forthcoming Eid al-Adha holiday

• Local Afghan leaders and the Taliban agreed on a ceasefire in the western province

AFP

The Taliban have offered a three-month ceasefire in exchange for the release

of 7,000 insurgent prisoners, an Afghan government negotiator said yesterday, as Pakistan con-firmed the militant group had control of a key border crossing.

“It is a big demand,” said Na-der Nadery, a key member of the government team involved in peace talks with the Talib-an, adding the insurgents also demanded the removal of their leaders’ names from a United Nations blacklist.

It was not immediately clear how the government would re-act to the ceasefire offer, or how new it was, and it comes as the United States accelerates the pace of a troop withdrawal due to be finished by August 31.

A spokesman for the Talib-an, whose leaders are scattered across the region, said he was only aware of the suggestion of a ceasefire over the forthcoming Eid al-Adha holiday.

Local Afghan leaders and the Taliban agreed on a cease-fire in the western province of Badghis, its governor said yes-terday.

“The ceasefire between Af-ghan security forces and the Taliban began at around 10am

today. The ceasefire was bro-kered by tribal elders,” Badghis governor Hesamuddin Shams told AFP, adding the truce had no specific time frame.

Tear gas to disperse crowdsNadery’s revelation came as

Pakistan security forces used tear gas Thursday to disperse hundreds of people who tried to force their way across the border from Chaman to Spin Boldak in Afghanistan.

On Thursday, Pakistan’s for-eign ministry confirmed the border crossing was in thehands of the Taliban.

“They have taken control of Spin Boldak border crossing,” said ministry spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri, a day after the Taliban seized the town.

The border was c losed Wednesday by Pakistan officials after the Taliban seized Spin Boldak and raised insurgent flags above the town.

“An unruly mob of about 400 people tried to cross the gate forcefully. They threw stones,

which forced us to use tear gas,” said a security official on the Pakistan side.

He said around 1,500 peo-ple had gathered at the border

Wednesday waiting to cross.Jumadad Khan, a senior gov-

ernment official in Chaman, said the situation was now “un-der control”.

“We are talking to Pakistani authorities. A formal meeting to open the border is scheduled for today, and hopefully, it will open in a day or two,” he said. 

Later on Thursday, a Pakistani border official said that the bor-der would open Friday.

The crossing provides direct access to Pakistan’s Balochistan province -- where the Taliban’s top leadership has been based for decades -- along with an un-known number of reserve fight-ers who regularly enter Afghan-istan to help bolster their ranks.

A major highway leading from the border connects to Paki-stan’s commercial capital Kara-chi and its sprawling port on the Arabian Sea, which is consid-ered a linchpin for Afghanistan’s billion-dollar heroin trade that has provided a crucial source of revenue for the Taliban’s war chest over the years.

Supporters of the Taliban carry the Taliban’s signature white flags in the Afghan-Pakistan border town of Chaman, Pakistan

Blue Origin says will fly 18-year-old to space on July 20AFP | Washington

Blue Origin said yesterday an 18-year-old paying cus-

tomer will fly to space on the company’s maiden crewed spaceflight on July 20, be-coming the youngest ever as-tronaut.

Oliver Daemen, who grad-uated from high school last year and holds a private pi-lot’s license, joins Blue Ori-gin founder Jeff Bezos, the tycoon’s brother Mark and barrier-breaking female avia-tor Wally Funk as the fourth member of the crew.

He is not, however, the win-ner of a $28 million auction followed keenly by space en-thusiasts, who has asked to remain anonymous and will fly on a future mission because of a scheduling conflict, the company said.

“This marks the beginning of commercial operations for New Shepard, and Oliver rep-

resents a new generation of people who will help us build a road to space,” said Bob Smith, CEO of Blue Origin.

New Shepard, named for the first American astronaut in space, Alan Shepard, is Blue Origin’s reusable rocket sys-tem.

Smith also thanked the auc-tion winner for their support of Club for the Future, Blue Origin’s foundation which this week announced it was donat-ing $1 million to 19 nonprofits that promote science and en-gineering.

Oliver Daemen

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CHANGE OF NAME

MARRIAGE NOTICE

I, MAHENOOR wife of YASIR UDDIN QUADARI holder of Indian Passport No. R9161997, issued in India on 05/02/2018, permanent resident of R-203-A/2,Block-R,Joga Bai Extn,Jamia Nagar,Delhi,India and presently residing at Flat No 24, Bldg. 696, Road 3519, Block 335, Um Al Hassam, Kingdom of Bahrain, hereby changes my name as, MAHENOOR(given name) QUADARI(surname). Objection(s), if any, may be forwarded to Embassy of India, P.O. Box 26106, Al Seef, Kingdom of Bahrain

I , Mr. Midhun Madhu, S/o. Mr. M K Madhu, holder of Indian Passport No. S2894460 issued at Bahrain on 15/01/2018 and permanent residence at Mannanil House, Koottar P.O, Idukki,Kerala - 685552, India and temporary resident of Flat 1, Bld 3635, Rd 649, Blk 606, Sitra, Bahrain and Ms. Sangeetha Joseph, holder of Indian Passport No. N0690440 issued at Cochin on 07/07/2015 , permanent residence at Vallappurackal House, Nedumkandam P.O, Idukki, Kerala - 685553, India and temporary resident of Flat 15, Bld 867, Rd 1323, Blk 513, Saar, Bahrain intend to solemnize our civil marriage during July 2021 at the Embassy of India, Building 1090, Al Seef, P.O Box 26106, Kingdom of Bahrain under the Foreign Marriage Act 1969 of India.Objection(s), if any, may be forwarded to the Embassy of India, Kingdom of Bahrain within a period of 30 days from the date of publication of this notice.

C L A S S I F I E D S

Authorities last year released more than

5,000 Taliban prison-ers to help kick start peace talks in Doha,

but negotiations have so far failed to reach any political settle-ment, and the latest

offensives suggest the insurgents are now set on a military victory.

KNOW WHAT

Taliban offers 3-month ceasefire for releasing 7,000 prisoners• A spokesman for the Taliban said he was only aware of the suggestion of a ceasefire over the forthcoming Eid al-Adha holiday

• Local Afghan leaders and the Taliban agreed on a ceasefire in the western province

AFP

The Taliban have offered a three-month ceasefire in exchange for the release

of 7,000 insurgent prisoners, an Afghan government negotiator said yesterday, as Pakistan con-firmed the militant group had control of a key border crossing.

“It is a big demand,” said Na-der Nadery, a key member of the government team involved in peace talks with the Talib-an, adding the insurgents also demanded the removal of their leaders’ names from a United Nations blacklist.

It was not immediately clear how the government would re-act to the ceasefire offer, or how new it was, and it comes as the United States accelerates the pace of a troop withdrawal due to be finished by August 31.

A spokesman for the Talib-an, whose leaders are scattered across the region, said he was only aware of the suggestion of a ceasefire over the forthcoming Eid al-Adha holiday.

Local Afghan leaders and the Taliban agreed on a cease-fire in the western province of Badghis, its governor said yes-terday.

“The ceasefire between Af-ghan security forces and the Taliban began at around 10am

today. The ceasefire was bro-kered by tribal elders,” Badghis governor Hesamuddin Shams told AFP, adding the truce had no specific time frame.

Tear gas to disperse crowdsNadery’s revelation came as

Pakistan security forces used tear gas Thursday to disperse hundreds of people who tried to force their way across the border from Chaman to Spin Boldak in Afghanistan.

On Thursday, Pakistan’s for-eign ministry confirmed the border crossing was in thehands of the Taliban.

“They have taken control of Spin Boldak border crossing,” said ministry spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri, a day after the Taliban seized the town.

The border was c losed Wednesday by Pakistan officials after the Taliban seized Spin Boldak and raised insurgent flags above the town.

“An unruly mob of about 400 people tried to cross the gate forcefully. They threw stones,

which forced us to use tear gas,” said a security official on the Pakistan side.

He said around 1,500 peo-ple had gathered at the border

Wednesday waiting to cross.Jumadad Khan, a senior gov-

ernment official in Chaman, said the situation was now “un-der control”.

“We are talking to Pakistani authorities. A formal meeting to open the border is scheduled for today, and hopefully, it will open in a day or two,” he said. 

Later on Thursday, a Pakistani border official said that the bor-der would open Friday.

The crossing provides direct access to Pakistan’s Balochistan province -- where the Taliban’s top leadership has been based for decades -- along with an un-known number of reserve fight-ers who regularly enter Afghan-istan to help bolster their ranks.

A major highway leading from the border connects to Paki-stan’s commercial capital Kara-chi and its sprawling port on the Arabian Sea, which is consid-ered a linchpin for Afghanistan’s billion-dollar heroin trade that has provided a crucial source of revenue for the Taliban’s war chest over the years.

Supporters of the Taliban carry the Taliban’s signature white flags in the Afghan-Pakistan border town of Chaman, Pakistan

Blue Origin says will fly 18-year-old to space on July 20AFP | Washington

Blue Origin said yesterday an 18-year-old paying cus-

tomer will fly to space on the company’s maiden crewed spaceflight on July 20, be-coming the youngest ever as-tronaut.

Oliver Daemen, who grad-uated from high school last year and holds a private pi-lot’s license, joins Blue Ori-gin founder Jeff Bezos, the tycoon’s brother Mark and barrier-breaking female avia-tor Wally Funk as the fourth member of the crew.

He is not, however, the win-ner of a $28 million auction followed keenly by space en-thusiasts, who has asked to remain anonymous and will fly on a future mission because of a scheduling conflict, the company said.

“This marks the beginning of commercial operations for New Shepard, and Oliver rep-

resents a new generation of people who will help us build a road to space,” said Bob Smith, CEO of Blue Origin.

New Shepard, named for the first American astronaut in space, Alan Shepard, is Blue Origin’s reusable rocket sys-tem.

Smith also thanked the auc-tion winner for their support of Club for the Future, Blue Origin’s foundation which this week announced it was donat-ing $1 million to 19 nonprofits that promote science and en-gineering.

Oliver Daemen

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Reese Witherspoon celebrates 20 years of ‘Legally Blonde’ with rare photosANI | Washington

Two decades after the pop-ular rom-com ‘Legally Blonde’ first hit theatres,

the beloved film is still near and dear to star Reese With-erspoon’s heart. And her latest Instagram post is proof of that!

The 45-year-old actor, who played Elle Woods in the hit 2001 comedy, celebrated the movie’s 20th anniversary on Tuesday by sharing several rare behind-the-scenes pictures from the film on her Instagram account.

“Omigod you guys ....#Legal-lyBlonde premiered 20 years ago TODAY!” Witherspoon wrote in the post’s caption.

The Oscar winner went on to say that “playing Elle Woods was the role of a life time and I’m so honoured to have been a part of sharing her story with you all.”

She said, “Time flies when you’re busy using legal jargon in your every day life. But truly... playing Elle Woods was the role

of a life time and I’m so honored to have been a part of sharing her story with you all. Every meme, graduation cap, musical number, halloween costume and bend and snap has brought me so much JOY over these past two decades! I wonder... what will Elle do next?”

Some of the images Wither-spoon shared included shots from the movie’s alternate end-ing, which featured Elle sharing a kiss with Emmett (Luke Wil-son) on the courthouse steps and a blonde Vivian (Selma Blair).

“Originally it ended at the courthouse right after the tri-al,” ‘Legally Blonde’ co-writer Karen McCullah told Entertain-ment Weekly of that particular ending back in 2018.

“Everyone was congratulating Elle, and Emmett came up and gave her a big kiss. Then there was a tag where it was a year in the future and she and Vivian, who was now blond, had started the Blonde Legal Defense Fund

and they were in the quad hand-ing out pamphlets,” McCullah added.

Blair, also celebrated ‘Legally Blonde’ turning 20 on Tuesday by sharing rarely-seen photo-graphs from her time on set.

“This was a time before cameras on p h o n e s ,” s h e wrote on her I n s t a -g r a m , p o s t i n g t h r o w -back pho-tos of her-self hang-ing out with her costars in between takes.

She add-e d , “ I w a l k e d a r o u n d w i t h a t i n y v i n t a g e camera but never remembered to take many. I was too busy hanging out with Matt Da-vis talking in my trailer, or watching Reese work.”

Some of the images Witherspoon shared included shots from

the movie’s alternate ending, which featured Elle sharing a kiss with Emmett (Luke Wilson)

on the courthouse steps and a blonde

Vivian (Selma Blair)

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“Deadpool is officially in Marvel Cinematic Universe!” : Ryan Reynolds announces in

quirky teaserANI | Washington

Deadpool has finally made its way to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, according

to the quirky teaser of ‘Free Guy’ unveiled on Wednesday.

The nearly five-minute-long promotional teaser of Ryan

Reynolds’ upcoming action-packed film ‘Free Guy’ also unveiled Deadpool’s much-speculated news.

In the video, Ryan reprises his antihero role to promote the film with the help of Thor Ragnarok’s lovable character Korg, voiced by filmmaker-actor Taika Waititi who is also Ryan’s fellow star in ‘Free Guy’.

As the video continues, viewers can see Deadpool operating its own video channel

that reacts to movie trailers in the clip. The comic book character sits with Korg as the pair crack jokes about the film’s preview, including Ryan’s films too.

“Oh, his face is so punchable,” Deadpool jokes and later refers to Ryan as a “Cana-dian Cumberbatch”.

IANS | Los Angeles

Actress Margot Robbie was not aware that her popular character Harley Quin did not make it in film-maker Zack Snyder’s long antici-pated “Justice League”.

However, the film’s epilogue reveals that, in the alternate

“Knightmare Timeline”, Quinn died. This was a revelation Robbie was unaware of, ac-cording to Entertainment Weekly, in a report on the new “The Suicide Squad” film, scheduled to be out on August 6, reports vulture.com.

“Whaaat? I didn’t know that. Thank you for telling

me!” Robbie replied when the magazine told her of Quinn’s fate.

T h e n e w s comes in the wake of the actress tell-ing Enterta in-ment Weekly that she needs “a break from Harley”, af-ter 2020’s “Birds Of

Prey” and now “The Suicide Squad”, be-

cause she’s “exhaust-ing”“I don’t know when

we’re next going to see her,” added Robbie.

Margot Robbie didn’t know Zack Snyder killed off Harley Quinn

Nicolas Cage says Joe Exotic role in Amazon series isn’t happeningFox | Los Angeles

It looks like Nicolas Cage won’t be stepping into the cowboy

boots of Joe Exotic after all. Following the immense suc-

cess of the highly improbable Netflix documentary series “Ti-ger King: Murder, Mayhem and

Madness” in 2020, the eclectic actor was

tapped for an eight-part dramatization of the life of the

ser ies ’ subject , Joseph Mal-

donado-Pas-sage, better k n o w n a s Joe Exotic.

Cage was an obvious choice to take on the f lamboy-ant former Oklahoma zookeep-er, who is

c u r re n t l y serving time

behind bars for his part in or-

chestrating a failed murder-for-hire plot against his rival, Big Cat Rescue CEO Carole Baskin. However, speaking to Variety, the 57-year-old actor implied that Amazon Studios is scrap-ping the project largely because the hype surrounding “Tiger King” has mostly passed.

“We should clear the record,” Cage told the outlet. “I read two excellent scripts, which I did think were excellent, but I think Amazon ultimately felt that it was material that had become past tense because it took so long for it to come together. They felt at one point that it was lightning in a bottle, but that point has since faded into the distance and

it’s no longer relevant.”Fortunately for those who

were hoping to see Nicolas Cage take on the now infamous role, sources told the outlet that Im-agine and CBS Studios, which were producing the series, are keen to shop it around to oth-er streaming platforms or net-works.

However, that could end up being a tall order given that there’s already another “Tiger King” project in the works at Peacock starring Kate McKinnon and John Cameron Mitchell as Baskin and Maldonado-Passage respectively. The latter was pho-tographed for the first time in full Joe Exotic attire during a PDA-filled scene in front of a pet shop in Brisbane on Sunday.

In the event that the Nicolas Cage version of Joe Exotic makes its way to TV screens, it will mark the Oscar-winning actor’s first foray into the world of television. Unfortunately, despite his name recognition and storied Holly-wood career, Cage was not on the real-life Joe Exotic’s shortlist of actors to portray him in film or TV.

Ryan ReynoldsReese Witherspoon

Margot Robbie Nicolas Cage

Joe Exotic

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Bahrain Victorious riders’ hotel rooms raided by French police

• Team: Riders’ hotel rooms searched on Wednesday evening after Tour de France’s 17th stage

AFP | London

The hotel rooms of riders from Team Bahrain Victo-

rious were searched by French police on Wednesday night, just hours ahead of the Tour de France’s 18th stage.

This was revealed yester-day by the team, which said that they were “monitored by a number of officers following their arrival after stage 17 to the team hotel in [the com-mune of ] Pau.”

According to reports, train-ing files were taken and the team’s bus was searched. A source indicated that up to 50 police officers were on the scene until the early hours of the following morning.

Team Bahrain Victorious said on its website: “The in-vestigation involved a search of riders’ rooms as part of the process. Despite being unaware of the investigation reasons, the team was also re-quested to provide all training files which were compiled and presented to the officers as requested.”

Team Bahrain Victorious technical director Vladimir

Miholjevic was quoted as saying: “Following stage 17, we were greeted by several French police officers. We were not given a warrant to read through, but the team complied with all the officers’ requests.

“We are committed to the highest level of profession-alism and adherence to all regulatory requirements and will always be cooperating in a professional manner. The pro-cess had impacted our riders’ recovery and meal planning and as a professional team, the well-being of our team is a key priority.”

Later yesterday, French po-lice reportedly confirmed that a preliminary investigation has been opened into possible dop-ing allegations at the team.

It was reported that a state-ment from the Marseille pros-ecutor’s office said the inves-tigation was opened on July 3 into the possible “acquisition, transportation, possession and importing of a prohibited substance or method for use by an athlete without justifi-cation by members of Team Bahrain Victorious, currently in action at the 2021 Tour de France.”

The investigation is being carried out by the office re-sponsible for public health based in Marseille, where the investigation was for-mally opened by a public prosecutor.

Olli Santalahti out to become the best welterweight of all time at BRAVE CFTDT | Manama

The name of Canada’s Georg-es St. Pierre will pop in

most of the “Greatest Fighters of All Time” lists in the MMA community, often in the first place. That happens to be the case with BRAVE CF 52’s Olli Santalahti, who has “Rush” as his biggest inspiration.

Much like GSP himself, Santa-lahti started in Karate and then transitioned to other martial arts, until eventually landing in MMA. The way St. Pierre’s done it, though, is his goal.

For more than a decade, de-

spite having karate as his main background, the Canadian man-aged to out wrestle, outbox, and submit dozens of opponents, showing one of the most amaz-ing levels of athleticism seen in MMA in the process.

That was Olli Santalahti’s mentality when he got a call to join BRAVE Combat Federation for a fight on his 27th birth-day, back in March: to show that he was a well-rounded, finished product, ready to climb the mountain and become an international superstar.

“The amazing”, as he’s also known as, left quite a first im-pression, emerging victorious in a gruesome back-and-forth match against Georges Eid, which he won via split decision.

Having the blueprint from one of the greatest but seeking his own goals, Santalahti ex-pects to write his own success story in the world of Mixed Martial Arts, and the next chap-ter will be written on August 1st, in Milan, Italy, as he takes on Switzerland’s Kevin Ruart at BRAVE CF 52.

Marsh stars as Australia salvage some pride in West IndiesMitchell Marsh paces Australia in first win over West Indies in T20 series

• Australia beat West Indies by four runs in fourth T20

• Mitchell Starc bowls fine final over to secure victory

AFP | St Lucia

An outstanding all-round performance by Mitch-ell Marsh earned Aus-

tralia their first victory of the five-match T20 International series as the visitors hung on for a four-run victory over the West Indies in the fourth match at the Daren Sammy Stadium in St Lucia on Wednesday.

With half-centuries already in the first two matches of the series, Marsh flayed the Carib-bean bowlers for 75 off 44 balls with six sixes and four fours to pace his team to a challenging total of 189 for six after choosing to bat first.

He put on 114 for the second wicket with Aaron Finch, the Australian captain contributing 53 as leg-spinner Hayden Walsh once again led the West Indies bowling effort with figures of three for 27.

Lendl Simmons led off the West Indies chase with a bois-terous innings of 72 at the top of the order but when he fell to Marsh, one of three wickets for the experienced all-rounder,

the balance of the match began to tilt in favour of an Australi-an side seeking to avoid an un-precedented four consecutive defeats in the same T20 series.

Spectacular hitting by Fabian Allen and Andre Russell gave the West Indies hope going into the final over after they com-bined to take 25 runs off the pe-nultimate over bowled by Riley Meredith.

But needing 11 runs to win in the last over with Russell on strike Mitchell Starc was right on target to earn the tourists a measure of consolation after already surrendering the series.

For Marsh, whose contri-butions of 75 and three for 24

were both personal bests in T20 Internationals, the pitch con-ditions on a night when light showers twice interrupted his innings suited him perfectly.

“I’m from WA (Western Aus-tralia), so a bit of pace off the pitch suited me nicely and really allowed me to get away,” he ex-plained after receiving the Man of the Match award.

“We knew it was always going to be a challenge to contain the West Indies big-hitters, what-ever total we got, and I’m just grateful to be able to make use-ful contributions with bat and ball.”

Simmons was Marsh’s third wicket as he had earlier ac-

counted for Chris Gayle, West Indies’ match-winner in the third fixture two days earli-er, and Nicholas Pooran, who continues in the role of captain in place of the injured Kieron Pollard.

“It was disappointing to fall short in the end but it’s still all good for us going forward be-cause we continue to see good performances from key players,” said Pooran in putting a positive spin on his team’s first setback in this series.

“There are a lot of guys here looking to make a statement be-fore the World T20 and Hayden (Walsh) is one of those who keeps putting his hand up. He was outstanding again.”

The final match of the series will be played on Friday, again at the Daren Sammy Stadium, after which the teams travel to Barbados for a three-match One-Day International series starting next Tuesday.

We knew it was always going to be a challenge

to contain the West Indies big-hitters,

whatever total we got, and I’m just grateful to be able to make useful contributions with bat

and ballMITCHELL MARSH

Having the blueprint from one of the great-

est but seeking his own goals, Santalahti expects to write his own success story in the world of Mixed

Martial Arts, and the next chapter will be

written on August 1st, in Milan, Italy, as he

takes on Switzerland’s Kevin Ruart at BRAVE

CF 52

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Mitchell Marsh (L) of Australia looks towards the boundary while Oshane Thomas (R) of West Indies express disappointment

Olli Santalahti celebrates after a victory (file photo)

India’s Pant on ‘way to recovery’ after positive Covid test in England

AFP | London

India wicketkeeper Rish-abh Pant is “on his way

to recovery” after testing positive for Covid-19 as the squad prepares for a Test se-ries in England, the Board of Control for Cricket in India said yesterday.

India’s players, led by captain Virat Kohli, are cur-rently in London but en-tered a bio-secure bubble and left for Durham later yesterday for a tour match next week.

The first Test begins in Nottingham on August 4.

India’s squad remained in England after a defeat by New Zealand in the inaugu-ral World Test Champion-ship final last month.

Jay Shah, the BCCI secre-tary, recently warned play-ers in England to “avoid” crowded places including the Wimbledon tennis and European football champi-onships.

Rishabh Pant

After last-minute drama in June, Mineiro makes quick return at BRAVE CF 53 in Kazakhstan

TDT | Manama

The former BRAVE Combat Federation world cham-

pion Lucas “Mineiro” Mar-tins had a real rollercoaster of emotions back in June, when he was scheduled to make his comeback fight after a two-year hiatus and saw the fight against Marcel Grabinski be cancelled literally minutes pri-or to the walkout.

On the occasion, Grabinski fell ill and was deemed una-ble to compete by the med-ical staff, having his partic-ipation in the main event of the evening for BRAVE CF 51: The Future Is Here, in Belarus vetoed.

But Mineiro will make a quick return, as BRAVE CF of-ficials confirmed the former champion will be part of the upcoming BRAVE CF 53 fight card, scheduled for August 21st, in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

It is yet to be confirmed the opponent of Martins in the upcoming Lightweight bout, if he’s gonna be rebooked against Grabinski or meet a new op-ponent.

The full fight information will be confirmed in the up-coming days. BRAVE CF 53 marks the second visit of the truly global MMA promotion to Kazakhstan and will be held in association with the local promoters of Octagon League.

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On to the Olympics!Bahrain’s senior men’s national handball team depart this evening for Japanese capital for historic participation in Tokyo Olympic Games

• Bahrain’s handball delegation to be headed by team manager Ismail Baqer

• Bahrainis to play friendly on Monday against Argentina as part of final lead-up to Games

TDT | Manama

Bahrain’s senior men’s national handball team depart this evening for

Japan to participate in the To-kyo Olympic Games, which gets underway in just over a week’s time.

The Bahrainis are set to make their historic debut appearance in the men’s handball tourna-ment at the Olympics. They are the first athletes from the King-dom to have qualified for a team sport at any Olympic Games.

The nationals have been train-ing daily under head coach Aron Kristjansson for the event at the Bahrain Handball Association arena in Um Al Hassam.

Kristjansson has named a 16-player squad that will be travelling to Tokyo. The ros-ter includes skipper Hussain Al Sayyad, Mohammed Mirza, Mohammed Abdulhussain, Ali Mirza, Mohammed Abdulredha, Hassan Al Samaheeji, Moham-med Habib Madan, Ahmed Al Maqabi, Al Eid, Bilal Basham, Mahdi Saad, Kumail Mahfoodh, Ahmed Jalal, Mohammed Habib Nasser, Hassan Mirza and Hus-san Mahfoodh.

The handball team delegation

is headed by manager Ismail Baqer.

“The Olympic Games are the biggest sporting event in the world and something that ath-letes and coaches work hard on to not only participate in, but to win medals in too,” Kristjansson was quoted as saying. He quali-fied for the 2004 Olympics as a player on the Iceland national team but missed out on partici-pating due to injury.

“I didn’t have the opportunity to go to Athens 2004, but I qual-ified for the Olympics again as a coach. I always want to win. You just want to do your best job every time and try to use every possibility to achieve the best result.

“The Olympic spirit is very special.”

Following their arrival at the Japanese capital, the Bahrainis will play a tune-up game against

Argentina on Monday as part of the final lead-up to the start of competition.

Bahrain are in Group B of the Olympics’ first phase in men’s handball. They open their cam-paign against Sweden on July 24 before taking on Portugal on July 26. They then face reigning World and Olympic champions Denmark two days later. The Bahrainis square off

with fellow-Asian side Japan on July 30, before completing the preliminaries against Egypt on August 1.

Group A consists of Norway, France, Germany, Brazil, Spain and Argentina. The top four from each pool move on to the knockout quarter-finals.

The Bahrainis booked their berth at the Tokyo Olympics after winning the Men’s Asian Qualification Tournament held in Doha in October of 2019, de-feating South Korea 34-29 in the final.

Bahrain are taking part in five sports at the Tokyo Olympics. Aside from handball, the others are athletics, swimming, shoot-ing and boxing.

More than 200 nations will be represented at the Japanese capital, with athletes vying for medals in over 300 events across more than 30 sports.

India have caught up with the best, says captain ManpreetReuters | Tokyo

The Indian men’s hockey team have a long way to go

before they can even be men-tioned in the same breath as the squads which won gold medals at eight Olympics but captain Manpreet Singh told Reuters the current group have a genu-ine medal chance in Tokyo.

The most successful hockey nation in Olympic history, India are now mired in a drought that saw them win their last medal at the 1980 Moscow Games when they topped the podium.

While hockey now shrinks in cricket’s shadow, Manpreet, who will be the country ’s flag-bearer in Tokyo, said his team mates are ready to restore some pride in the sport.

“We have a very good chance of a podium finish in Tokyo,” the 29-year-old said in a telephone interview.

“There can never be enough preparation, but I don’t think we could have prepared any bet-ter. We are fitter than ever and fiercely competitive.”

Currently ranked fourth in the world, India have never fin-ished higher than fifth since Moscow but Manpreet said they had narrowed the gap on their rivals significantly.

“In recent times, we’ve beat-en all the top teams and our confidence is pretty high,” the midfielder added, referring to their performance in the FIH Pro League 2020-21.

India registered wins against Argentina and Belgium, who won gold and silver in the 2016 Rio Games, and drew against powerhouse Australia in the nine-team tournament.

Coached by Australian Gra-ham Reid, India have also man-aged to get rid of some of their bad habits, such as their suscep-tibility to late goals.

That weakness particularly hurt them in the semi-finals of the 2018 Asian Games with Malaysia scoring a last minute

equaliser and then prevailing on penalties.

“We learnt from that loss and I don’t think we’ve conceded late goals in recent times,” said Manpreet.

“Graham tells us, ‘attack can win us matches, but defence will win us tournaments’. We’ve worked really hard on our de-fence.

“Instead of conceding those last-minute goals, we’re now scoring them. It shows how much we’ve improved stamina and fitness-wise.”

Their attack is a lot sharper too, with Reid demanding “out-come” from every raid into the opponent’s circle.

“In the past, our attacks often

fizzled out in the circle. Now the idea is to make every attack count,” Manpreet said.

“If we can’t score a field goal, we should be able to force a pen-alty corner and try to score from there.

“What’s the use of having some of the best drag-flickers in the world if you cannot utilise their skills?”

Manpreet knows what a med-al in Tokyo, regardless of its hue, could do for the game’s pro-file in India. While it may not be enough to regain past glory, hockey could at least win back some of the ground it has con-ceded to cricket.

Al Sayyad to carry Bahrain flag at Olympics opening ceremony

TDT | Manama

Bahrain national handball team captain Hussain Al

Sayyad has been selected to carry the Kingdom’s flag at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games later this month.

This was announced yester-day by the Bahrain Handball Association.

Speaking on the occasion, Al Sayyad said that it is a great honour to have been chosen as the flag-bearer. He thanked General Sports Authority chairman and Bahrain Olym-pic Committee president His Highness Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa for the op-portunity.

The opening ceremony is scheduled for July 23 at the Olympic Stadium in the Japa-nese capital.

Al Sayyad will be follow-ing in the footsteps of other prominent athletes who have carried the Bahrain flag in past Olympics. In 2016 in Rio de Ja-neiro, swimmer Farhan Saleh had the chance, while in 2012 it was women’s shooter Azza Alqasimi. In Beijing in 2008,

multi-titled women’s sprinter Ruqaya Al Ghasra led the team out in the Parade of Nations; in 2004, Bahrain’s flag-bearer was former hurdler Ahmed Hamada for a second time; and in 2000, it was swimmer Dawood Jassim.

Previously, Mohamed Al Sada (1996), Khalid Rabeeah (1992), Hamada (1988) for his first time and Youssef Mubar-ak (1984) were the flag-bear-ers.

Tokyo marks Bahrain’s 10th participation in the Summer Olympics. The nationals are competing in five sports, in-cluding handball, athletics, swimming, shooting and box-ing.

Bahrain have won three Olympic medals in the past, including two gold and one silver. The gold medals were claimed by Maryam Yusuf Jamal at the London Olym-pics in 2012 for the Women’s 1,5000m and Ruth Jebet at the Rio Olympics in 2016 for the Women’s 3,000m Stee-plechase. That same year, Eunice Kirwa claimed the Women’s Marathon silver medal.

Evans drops out of Olympics after positive Covid-19 test

AFP | Tokyo

Dan Evans, the top-ranked British man, said on

Wednesday that he has with-drawn from the Olympics after testing positive for Covid-19.

“I will not be able to pre-pare and get myself ready for the Olympic Games in Tokyo,” Evans posted on social media. The 31-year-old is 28th in the ATP rankings. “I am hugely disappointed and currently self-isolating according to guidelines set out by the gov-ernment,” he wrote,

Evans had been selected to play in the singles in Tokyo along with reigning Olympic champion Andy Murray and to partner Neal Skupski in the doubles. “I want to wish the entire GB team all the very best for the games and look forward to being back on the court in the near future,” he concluded. Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Serena Williams and Domi-nic Thiem have all pulled out of the Olympic tennis, while newly-crowned Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic put his chances of playing in Tokyo at “50/50”.

Dan Evans in action during a match

John Jermyn (IRL) of Ireland (L) competes with Manpreet Singh (IND) of India

Hussain Al Sayyad

The Olympic Games are the biggest sporting

event in the world and something that athletes

and coaches work hard on to not only

participate in, but to win medals in too

ARON KRISTJANSSON

India registered wins against Argentina and

Belgium, who won gold and silver in the 2016 Rio Games, and drew against power-

house Australia in the nine-team tourna-

ment

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Bahrain’s senior men’s national handball team prior to their departure for Tokyo

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Child’s play Pogacar dominates on Tour de France mountain again AFP | Paris

Overall leader Tadej Poga-car again proved his dom-

inance on the Tour de France as he won a second consecutive mountain stage in the Pyrenees yesterday and said “it’s a game for me.”

On a short final mountain stage of 130km, Pogacar out-ran his two closest rivals, Jo-nas Vingegaard and Richard Carapaz, just as he did on the previous day.

The 2020 champion contin-ued the most dominant run in recent Tour memory, by climb-ing on to the post-race podium four times -- as stage winner, as best young rider, best climb-er and as the runaway overall leader.

But by the time an Ineos quartet were leading the rem-nants of the pack up the final climb of this Tour de France, however, the focus was on the possible challenges to the lead-er on the road.

“It was full gas racing today, Ineos were pressing from deep,” the leader said of what was like-ly Carapaz’s last chance to un-seat him.

“We had nothing to lose to-day, so we are happy,” said the

Ecuadorian.“Our goal was to win the

stage, I think we put up a good fight.”

With 3km left Pogacar, Vingegaard and Carapaz were left to cross swords in a pul-sating uphill bat-tle to a finish line above the clouds at the ski resort of Luz Ardiden with hun-dreds of thousands of fans along

the roadside and cycling-loving French President Emmanuel Macron in the director’s car at the head of the action.

The struggle was quickly set-tled.

Pogacar raced ahead with ease over the last kilometre and slowed down to take a look over his shoulder as he crossed the line for his third stage win on this edition.

“I felt good and I’m really happy with the win. It’s a game for me, I’m enjoying playing it,” said the 22-year-old who has dominated in the moun-tains and on the all important time-trials, just as Span-iard Alberto Contador and Briton Chris Froome did in their time.

‘No sign’ Ronaldo wants to leave JuventusAFP | Milan

Cristiano Ronaldo has given no indication he wants to

leave Juventus and is expected back in Turin later this month, club director Pavel Nedved said on Wednesday.

“Cristiano is on holiday. We have no signal from his entou-rage that he wants to leave. We’re waiting for him and he will return around July 25 as scheduled,” Nedved said at the unveiling of the calendar for the 2021-2022 season.

The 36-year-old Portuguese international has one year left in his contract.

His future had been in doubt after a difficult campaign dur-ing which Juventus lost their Serie A crown after nine years, exited the Champions League in the last 16 and only sealed fourth place and elite European football on the final day.

Juventus open next season at Udinese with Massimilano Allegri fired up as he returns as coach two years after being sacked despite winning five consecutive league titles with the Turin club.

“There was a certain routine with (Allegri) for five years,” said Nedved. “Then he went for

two years to take a little holiday but now he’s back with great motivation.”

Former Czech Republic in-ternational Nedved agreed that Juventus had probably cele-brated more at finishing fourth at the end of last season than winning the ‘Scudetto’ in 2020 with Maurizio Sarri.

“I think it’s true when Sarri says we didn’t celebrate that Scudetto very much, because perhaps it came naturally as we had already won so much.

“We tried again with Andrea Pirlo (coach last season), but we ended in fourth. We celebrated that achievement after a com-plicated season perhaps more for the many sufferings.”

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Tadej Pogacar of Slovenia celebrates as he wins Stage 18

Juventus’ Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo holds the cup after Juventus won the final of the Italian Cup (file photo

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I felt good and I’m really happy with the

win. It’s a game for me, I’m enjoying playing it

TADEJ POGACAR

Cristiano Ronaldo’s future had been in

doubt after a difficult campaign during

which Juventus lost their Serie A crown af-ter nine years, exited

the Champions League in the last 16 and only

sealed fourth place and elite European football on the final

day

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Royal record in Spain endurance rideHH Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa spearheads Royal Endurance Team’s sweep of podium places in 120km race of Spain

International Endurance Championship

• Raed Mahmoud wins 160km race for Bahrain

• Isa Al Send claims first place in 100km event

TDT | Manama

His Majesty the King’s humanitarian work and youth affairs represent-

ative His Highness Shaikh Nas-

ser bin Hamad Al Khalifa has made history in Spain, by win-ning the 120km race of the Spain International Endurance Cham-pionship with a new time record as the Royal Endurance Team swept all the podium places.

Othman Al Awadhi came sec-ond in the 120km race, while teammate Mohammed Abdul-hameed Al Hashemi was third.

HH Shaikh Nasser set a new record after clocking six hours, 19 minutes and 35 seconds, one second ahead of Al Awadhi and two seconds ahead of Al

Hashemi.HH Shaikh Nasser managed to

fend off competition from Span-ish and Uruguayan jockeys en route to winning the event.

Speaking after the race, HH Shaikh Nasser hailed the sup-port to sports given by HM the King as well as His Royal High-ness Prince Salman bin Ham-ad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, which has helped the Royal Endurance Team achieve top honours.

HH Shaikh Nasser also re-ceived a phone call from UAE

Vice President and Prime Min-ister and Ruler of Dubai Sheikh

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum on the occasion. Sheikh Mohammed expressed his congratulations to HH Shai-kh Nasser for the great achieve-ment.

“We had a specific plan for this competition. It was well-studied and this has al-lowed the team to dominate the competitions. It was a bold plan,” HH Shaikh Nasser said.

“We are very happy with this well-earned victory. The team is back to dominate Europe-an competitions, especially in

Spain, where it always witness-es fierce competitions with the

presence of world-class jock-eys.”

HH Shaikh Nasser applaud-ed Al Awadhi and Al Hashemi for their performances and also praised Isa Al Sendi for winning the 100km race. Al Sendi com-pleted the race in five hours, nine minutes and 11 seconds.

The achievements adds to the accomplishments by the Bah-rainis, who also won the 160km race through Raed Mahmoud.

Bahrain’s non-resident Am-bassador to Spain Shaikh Fawaz bin Mohammed Al Khalifa at-tended the race to support HH Shaikh Nasser.

We are very happy with this well-earned victory.

The team is back to dominate European

competitions, especially in Spain, where it

always witnesses fierce competitions with the

presence of world-class jockeys

HH SHAIKH NASSER BIN HAMAD AL KHALIFA

HH Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa in action during the event

HM the King, HH Shaikh Khalid congratulate HH Shaikh Nasser on Spanish victoryTDT | Manama

His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa sent a

cable of congratulations to HM the King’s humanitarian work and youth affairs representative His Highness Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa on win-ning the 120-kilometre race in Spain’s International Endur-ance Championship, achieving a record time.

In the cable, HM the King ex-pressed pride in the landmark sporting achievement which builds on HH Shaikh Nasser’s accomplishments in interna-tional arenas.

He praised HH Shaikh Nas-ser’s performance, which ena-bled him to win the race with merit, and wished him success

to continue his achievements and honour Bahrain in upcom-ing championships.

Supreme Council for Youth and Sports first deputy presi-dent, General Sports Author-ity chairman and Bahrain Olympic Committee president HH Shaikh Khalid bin Ham-ad Al Khalifa also congratu-lated HH Shaikh Nasser on the top honours achieved by the Royal Endurance Team in Spain as well as in the Jor-dan International Endurance Championship.

HH Shaikh Khalid affirmed that these exceptional results came thanks to the sponsor-ship of HM King Hamad and the interest of His Royal High-ness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince and

Prime Minister, in endurance horseracing.

HH Shaikh Khalid stated that the victories achieved in Spain and Jordan reflect the keenness and care of HH Shaikh Nasser towards continuing exceptional efforts to make new successes under Bahrain’s name in order to realise the vision of HM the King.

HH Shaikh Khalid pointed out that the triumphs give a clear indication of the capabil-ities and abilities of the Roy-al Endurance Team, praising the performances showcased by the Bahraini riders in both competitions.

HH Shaikh Nasser also re-ceived a number of congrat-ulatory messages from other high-ranking officials.