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El Paso shooting: Suspect ‘confessed to targeting Mexicans’Texas

The suspect accused of killing 22 peo-ple at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, has confessed that he was targeting

“Mexicans”, say US media. An arrest report obtained by some news

outlets sheds light on his arrest and his interviews while in police custody.

Officials believe the alleged gunman, Patrick Crusius, is the author of an online post decrying Hispanic migrants.

The shooting came just hours before another mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio.

The two incidents have prompted a na-tional debate about gun laws, with Re-publicans indicating they may be open to tightening background checks on buyers.

Federal officials say they are considering hate crime charges against Mr Crusius, who could face the death penalty if found guilty of the mass murder. The Washington Post and Associated Press, which received the arrest report filed by El Paso Detective Adrian Garcia, reported that he document was written last Sunday, one day after the attack on the Walmart shoppers.

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His Highness Shaikh Mohamed bin Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa attended the Commissioning Parade of Shaikh Duaij bin Khalifa bin Duaij Al Khalifa at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. His Highness Shaikh Mohamed praised the programmes and training capabilities offered by the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and the high levels of skill and competence displayed by its graduates from the Kingdom. His Highness noted their commitment to serve the Kingdom and achieve excellence on all levels, under the leadership of His Majesty King Hamad. Shaikh Khalifa bin Duaij Al Khalifa, President of the Court of the Crown Prince and Shaikh Fawaz bin Mohamed Al Khalifa, the Kingdom of Bahrain’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom, also attended the Commissioning Parade. The parade also marked the commissioning of Shaikh Saud bin Abdulla Al Khalifa and Abdulla Isa Al Noaimi.

A moment of pride Senior Houthi family member assassinated

Sanaa

Ibrahim Badreddin Al Houthi, the brother of Yemen’s Houthi rebel lead-

er Abdulmalik Al Houthi, was assassinated this week, several outlets reported yesterday.

Reuters, quoting a Yemeni security source, said the sen-ior leader was found dead in a house near the capital, Sanaa.

The Houthi owned Al Ma-sirah channel announced the killing on Friday, blaming “the treacherous hands affiliated with the US-Israeli aggression and its tools assassinated Ibra-him Badreddin Al Houthi.”

But Al Alrabiya news station released its own detailed ac-count of the killing, claiming Ibrahim Al Houthi was assassi-nated in his car on Wednesday at 8pm local time while en route from Omran to Sanaa.

It said the killing was an in-side job in a battle between dif-ferent Houthi wings, and added that the senior figure was killed along with nine of his guards.

Sources linked with the Arab Coalition said that he was killed in an airstrike on the borders between Saudi and Yemen.

However, a source in Sanaa told The National anonymously that the young Houthi leader was found dead in his house and attributed his murder to deep rifts among the senior leaders in the Houthi movement.

The murder is a signal of deep rifts between senior leaders within

the group itself. SOURCES

Hajj pilgrimage begins More than two million Muslims descend on Mecca

• Riyadh blames Tehran for the attacks on commercial shipping.

• The scale of the pilgrimage presents vast security and logistical challenges.

Makkah

More than two million Muslims begin the an-nual Hajj yesterday as

the Saudi hosts seek to deter politicisation of the pilgrimage against a backdrop of simmering Gulf tensions.

The Hajj, one of the world’s largest religious gatherings, is one of Islam’s five pillars and must be undertaken by all Mus-lims with the means at least once in their lives.

It consists of a series of reli-gious rites which are completed over five days in Islam’s holi-est city and its surroundings in western Saudi Arabia.

“All of the arms of state have been deployed (and) we are proud to serve as ‘God’s hosts’,” said security forces spokesman Bassam Attia.

In total some 2.5 million faith-

ful, the majority from abroad, will undertake the pilgrimage this year, according to local me-dia.

“More than 1.8m visas were delivered online without the

need for middlemen. It’s a suc-cess,” said Hajj ministry official Hatim bin Hassan Qadi.

Makkah, built in a desert valley, is home to the Kaaba, a cube structure that is the focal

point of Islam and draped in a gold-embroidered black cloth.

Muslims around the world pray toward the Kaaba, which is located in the Grand Mosque, and pilgrims walk around it sev-en times.

Worshippers will participate in weekly prayers late on Friday morning.

During the pilgrimage sepa-rate streams of men and wom-en, grouped by nationality, will travel to Mina on foot or in buses provided by the authorities.

A district of Makkah, Mina sits in a narrow valley surround-ed by rocky mountains and is transformed each year into a vast encampment for pilgrims.

A total of “350,000 air-condi-tioned tents have been pitched,” said a Saudi official.

Worshippers wil l c l imb Mount Arafat, also known as the “Mount of Mercy,” for hours of prayers and Qur’an recitals.

After descending, they will gather pebbles and perform the symbolic “stoning of the devil.”

That marks the beginning of Eid Al Adha, the festival of sac-rifice, marked on Sunday.

The annual Hajj pilgrimage draws millions of visitors each year, making it the largest yearly gathering of people in the world.

‘Serious’ talks on gun control New York

US President Donald Trump says “serious dis-

cussions” are taking place be-tween congressional leaders on “meaningful” background checks for gun owners fol-lowing two mass shootings.

On Twitter, Mr Trump also said he had spoken to the gun lobby group National Rifle Association (NRA) so their views can be “represented and respected”.

The NRA opposes extensive checks.

Democrats want the Senate to be recalled from recess to enact immediate legislation on gun control.

Mr Trump - who did not specify which steps he would support - weighed in after days of disagreement on how the US should respond to its latest mass shootings.

Hizbollah financier sentenced Washington, DC

The US justice depart-ment has sentenced a

Lebanese businessman and Hizbollah financier to five years in prison and ordered to pay $50 million.

Kassim Tajideen, 63, was arrested by Moroccan au-thorities in 2017 and from there extradited to the US.

He has now pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to launder money to evade US sanctions. The Justice Depart-ment announced the ruling late on Thursday by US Dis-trict Judge Reggie B Walton of the District of Columbia.

In 2009, the Treasury Department designated Mr Tajideen as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist based on his tens of millions of dollars of financial sup-port of the Lebanese armed group Hizbollah”.

The defendant stated once inside the store he opened

fire using his AK-47 shooting multiple innocent victims.

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HH Shaikh Nasser receives commemorative gift from YPOManama

Representative of His Majesty the King for Charity Work and Youth

Affairs and Chairman of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports His Highness Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa received a commemorative gift from Qutub Dadabhai, Young Presidents Organisation MENA Chair, in recognition of his out-standing role in supporting the youth and sport sector, charity work and humanitarian initi-atives.

HH Shaikh Nasser affirmed

his unflinching support to the youth and initiatives aimed at boosting investment and serv-ing the national economy.

The YPO Chief Executive thanked HH Shaikh Nasser for his unwavering keenness to support the youth and sport sector and the initiatives aimed at developing human resources and tapping on the youngsters’ potentials.

The commemorative gift is a horse statue designed by Son-al Ambani, which symbolises “time passing as a force that can never be stopped but only be directed”.HH Shaikh Nasser receives Mr Dadabhai.

Shakeel Ahmed Sabrahadi presented two books (in Hindi and Urdu) on legendary poet and lyricist Majrooh Sultanpuri to Honourable President of India Ram Nath Kovind in Rashtrapati Bhawan (Presidential House). The books were researched and compiled by Asif Azmi under the aegis of Majlise Fakhr-e-Bahrain. A six member delegation led by MP, Advocate and Poet Majeed Memon and comprising Majlis’ Founder Shakeel Ahmed Sabrahadi, Author Asif Azmi, Prof Jitendra Srivastava (IGNOU), Prof Kidwai Shafey (AMU) and Zunaira Ambreen (Publisher) met the President of India exclusively for the book presentation. The president expressed his greetings for the exemplary work, especially for translating the work into Hindi.

Saudi efforts lauded Minister stresses advanced facilities for Hajj pilgrims

London

Information Minister Ali Al Romaihi, the Board of Trus-tees Chairman of Bahrain In-

stitute for Political Development (BIPD), commended the efforts of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, under the leadership of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, in caring for the pilgrims and facili-tating performance of their reli-gious rituals in an environment of comfort and spirituality.

In a statement to London-based Al Sharq Al Awsat newspaper, the Information Minister expressed

thanks and respect of the King-dom of Bahrain and the Islamic World for the efforts made by the Saudi authorities to ensure security and comfort for the pil-grims and provide them with the needed facilities to perform their religious rituals easily and safely.

He pointed out the remarkable extension projects of the Holy Mosque and sacred sites as well as development of the infrastructure and healthcare services.

Mr Al Romaihi underlined the high status of the Kingdom of Sau-di Arabia for all Muslims, stress-ing the advanced facilities and comprehensive and renewable

equipment provided for the pil-grims to facilitate performance of their religious rituals in the most sacred site.

He also affirmed that the King-dom of Saudi Arabia has always been giving throughout history the most wonderful lessons in good organisation, hospitality, serving the pilgrims and promot-ing security and justice.

He also lauded the kingdom’s efforts to foster moderation, Arab and Islamic solidarity, tolerance and peace while confronting courageously and decisively all plots against the Arab and Is-lamic nation.

Saudi Arabia has always worked to

foster moderation, Arab and Islamic

solidarity. MR AL ROMAIHI

Cabinet Affairs Minister, Mohammed Al Mutawa met, in the presence of the Chairman of the Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa Award for Sustainable Development, Shaikh Hussam bin Isa Al Khalifa, the Norwegian Foreign Affairs Minister, Ine Eriksen Soreide. The Norwegian Foreign Minister welcomed the visit of the Cabinet Affairs Minister and his accompanying delegation, noting that her country is looking forward to strengthening its co-operation with Bahrain. Minister Al Mutawa praised Norway’s distinguished experience in the field of social services, as well as its contributions to prompting the culture of peace and stability in the world, stressing that the Norwegian experience is a model to be emulated.

World Malayalee Council Bahrain Province Committee held a condolence meeting over the death of Sushma Swaraj, former external affairs minister of India. Acting Chairman Pradeep Puravankara spoke on the occasion. Senior members Soman Baby, Sevi Mathunni, Balachandran Kunnath, Praveen, Shailaja Devi, Mridula Balachandran and Sushma attended. Council Secretary Jyothish Panikkar delivered the welcome address while Vice-President Jagath Krishnakumar thanked the meeting attendees.

Labour and Social Development Minister Jameel Humaidan received Master’s graduate Ali Isa Moosa, who presented a copy of his dissertation in business management. The thesis focuses on analysing the positive impact of enhance the performance of the workforce employed in the financial sector, based on the findings of international studies in conducting the survey, in addition to personal interviews. The minister commended the efforts exerted by the researcher in conducting the academic thesis and congratulated him on obtaining the master’s degree, hailing youth contribution to spurring national development and progress.


• Iran’s efforts remain primarily focused on the under-protected US corporate sector and US allies.

• Last year it emerged that Bahrain was one of the countries being targeted by an Iran based cyber-spies group Leafminer.

TDT | Manama

Amidst rising tension be-tween Iran and Western nations over the Iranian

aggression in the Strait of Hor-muz, Tehran is stepping up cy-berattacks against the Kingdom, Wall Street Journal reported.

As ever in the cyber domain, there is always some level of activity, but the WSJ reports that such activity has now risen “above the normal level of Irani-an cyber activity.”

The recent attacks have tar-geted many governmental as well as private institutions.

According to the WSJ, US intel-ligence has suggested Tehran is the likely culprit, with a Bah-rain Ministry of Interior spokes-person assuring that “robust safeguards are in place,” adding that “in the first half of 2019, the authorities had successful-ly intercepted over six million attacks and over 830,000 mali-cious emails”.

While these attacks have re-portedly been against targets in Bahrain, the message will have been received by other states in

the region as well as by the US and its allies more broadly.

For the time being, though, Iran’s efforts remain primarily focused on the under-protected US corporate sector (including critical infrastructure) and US allies.

Two weeks after US Cyber Command hit Iran’s command and control structure in the

aftermath of the downing of a US surveillance drone, came a warning that an Iranian-led hack was targeting the millions of unpatched Microsoft Outlook systems, Forbes reported.

“And since then we have seen attacks on LinkedIn as well. An attack in one domain led to re-taliation in another. This is a ma-jor hybrid warfare development

seen this year,” a US official was quoted by the magazine.

The WSJ cites US officials “fa-miliar with the matter,” who confirmed the cyber breaches in Bahrain—saying that at least three entities had suffered in-trusions.”

Obvious parallels were drawn with the Shaman attacks from 2012, which targeted state oil

and gas companies in Saudi Ara-bia.

In June, the US Department of Homeland Security warned of a”recent rise in malicious cy-ber activity directed at United States industries and govern-ment agencies by Iranian regime actors and proxies.”

The National Security Agency has also warned of malicious Iranian cyber actions, telling AP “in these times of heightened tensions, it is appropriate for everyone to be alert to signs of Iranian aggression in cyberspace and ensure appropriate defences are in place.”

Information and eGovern-ment Authority (IGA) Chief Ex-ecutive Mohamed Ali AlQaed said that iGA has not had any issues in dealing with the at-tacks, and so far all attacks have been dealt with success without causing any downtime to gov-ernment or private entities.

“Bahrain and this whole re-gion have been under the attack constantly in the past few years and we have been dealing with them as needed. The positive aspect is that there has been no major downtime because of these attacks.

“Organisations and businesses did not have to close for any con-siderable period of time because of these attacks. Normal oper-ations have continued despite these attacks,” he said.

Last year it emerged that Bah-rain was one of the countries being targeted by an Iran based cyber-spies group Leafminer.

The cyber espionage group Leafminer released a threat actor to target many countries in the region and Bahrain was one of them, according to US cyber-security firm Symantec.

HRH Premier’s peace initiatives hailed Manama

His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa

received a cable of congratula-tions from Secretary General of the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) Dr Abdullatif Al Zayani on the UN’s proclamation of April 5 as the Universal Day of Con-science in response to His Royal

Highness’s initiative to encourage peaceful solution of conflicts.

The GCC Secretary General expressed pride in the nation-al achievement, which demon-strates the great respect and high international status enjoyed by HRH the Prime Minister.

He added the accomplishment also reflects HRH the Premier’s keenness to launch noble initia-tive to foster global peace, resolve

conflicts and lay the bases of sus-tainable development for the sake of mankind.

He wished HRH the Prime Minister abundant health and happiness and more progress and prosperity to Bahrain under the leadership of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.

Separately, HRH the Premier received a cable of thanks from the Board of Directors Chairman

of the Bahrain Bar Society (BBS), Lawyer Hassan Ahmed Bedaiwi.

BBS chief extended deepest thanks and gratitude to HRH the Prime Minister for receiving BBS board chairman and members, and praised the warm welcome accorded to them by the Premier.

He also hailed HRH Premier’s keenness to listen to their de-mands with open-mindedness, especially those related to the

issuance of a new law on the legal profession.

He also lauded HRH the Prime Minister’s interest and keenness in resolving any problems facing them, and discussing any sug-gestions that would achieve the interests of the Judiciary, and enable lawyers to carry out their duties of establishing the right and justice for the citizens and residents.

Hackers were targeting key sectors in the Kingdom.

It is appropriate for everyone to be

alert to signs of Iranian aggression in cyberspace and

ensure appropriate defences are in

place. NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY

HRH the Premier

Tehran ‘stepping up cyber attacks’ against Kingdom

IGA says it has been successfully dealing with the attacks

New mosque opened in East Riffa

Manama

Chairman of the Sunni En-dowments Council, Dr Shaikh Rashid bin Mo-

hammed Al Hajeri, yesterday opened the ‘Al Noor’ Mosque, in the presence of scores of citizens and dignitaries from the Buku-

wara region in East Riffa. The move is within the goals

of the Sunni Endowments Di-rectorate to build and revamp houses of worship across the kingdom.

Dr Shaikh Rashid extended sincere thanks and apprecia-tion to His Majesty King Hamad

bin Isa Al Khalifa for his unwa-vering interest in the houses of worship, as well as for paving the way for establishing reli-gious monuments, which, he said, paved the way for donors to participate in the construction of these mosques.

He expressed gratitude to the

members of Al Sada family, who built the mosque, based on the recommendation of their late father, Hashim bin Abdullatif Al Sada, who was keen to re-build the Al Noor Mosque, given its great importance in Riffa, in particular, and the Kingdom, in general.

He also extended similar thanks to all those who contrib-uted to the reconstruction of the mosque, paying tribute to the President of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, the Justice, Islamic Affairs and Endowments Minister and the Secretary- General of the Sunni

Endowments Council.Covering an area of 600

square metres and accommo-dating 1,000 worshippers, the mosque contains a housing unit for the muezzin and a library.

It also uses energy-saving electrical appliances as well as solar energy.

Al Noor Mosque is located in East Riffa. Dr Shaikh Rashid with religious figures and dignitaries.

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Rain wreaks havoc in keralaKey airport closed as Indian state faces repeat flood crisis

• Cochin International Airport closed until Sunday 3pm

• At least 37 deaths reported so far in Kerala

• Major landslide reported in Wayanad

• Red alerts issued for several districts in the state

• Gulf Air cancels flights on 9th and 10th to Kochi

TDT, agencies | Manama

Incessant rains across in Ker-ala has disrupted the travel plans of Indian expatriates

in the Gulf countries with the airport authorities in Kochi an-nouncing the closure of the main

So far 37 deaths have been reported from various parts of Kerala as the south Indian state confronted a second straight

A heavy landslide has been re---

cals say had a housing colony of plantation labourers. Many are feared missing or dead. Rescue officials from National Disaster Response Force are yet to reach

The Cochin International Air-port on Friday announced that the suspension of flight opera-tion leaving hundreds of passen-gers stranded as rising waters

“Kochi airport operation is

temporarily suspended due to waterlogging in the apron area,” a statement by the CIAL PRO said.

The airport apron or tarmac is the area of an airport where aircraft are parked, unloaded or loaded, refuelled, or boarded.

Sixty per cent of the operating area of the airport is lying sub-merged and areas including the fire station, goods carrying area and taxiway of Terminal 3 have been inundated.

Earlier on Thursday, flight operations were suspended for four hours till midnight as a pre-cautionary measure because of heavy rains.

Reports say travellers who took tickets to celebrate Eid-Al-Adha and other emergency caus-es are stranded in large numbers

at various airports across the Gulf with them having hardly

In Kerala, Eid Al-Adha or Bakr-Id celebrations will be held on Monday. Most of the stranded passengers were aiming to join their families on the occasion by paying almost four-times the

Passengers say they are trying to find seats on other carriers but not successful as almost all

Air India, reports said, has started refunding passengers. All of the airline’s offices in the Gulf witnessed heavy rush yesterday.

Kerala CM tweets The official Twitter handle of

Kerala CM tweeted, “CIAL has

informed that the operations of the Cochin International Air-port, Kochi (COK) will remain suspended till 1500 hrs of Sun-

The airport announced di-verting flights from Qatar to Trivandrum, Saudi to Calicut, Oman to Trivandrum, Emirates Air to Trivandrum and Etihad Air to Calicut/Trivandrum yes-

Gulf Air, CIAL said, has can-celled its flights on 9th and 10th to Kochi.

Emergency contact numbers are 0484 3053500, 9072604009.

Last year, the Cochin Airport was closed from August 15 to Au-gust 29 as floodwaters inundated the runway and damaged nearly

The operations were suspend-ed as there was a rise in water levels in the Periyar river and a canal adjacent to the airport.

Dam gates may open With predictions of freak

rains continuing for several days, Kerala’s chief minister Pi-narayi Vijayan warned the pub-lic that dam gates may have to be opened soon.

The Kerala Disaster Manage-ment Authority had issued a ‘Red Alert’ warning for Idukki, Malappuram and Kozhikode districts. Moreover, Thrissur, Palakkad, Wayanad, Kannur and Kasaragod were issued ‘Orange Alerts’.

20 landslides More than 20 landslides had

already been reported and high level alerts ordered in nine dis-tricts, he said, adding that sev-eral people were feared trapped under the mud.

Officials said 22 deaths had been confirmed, but media re-ports gave a figure of 29 dead for

just Thursday.More than 23,000 people have

already moved into 315 emer-gency camps set up across the state, Vijayan said.

Heavy rains have been batter-

Closure of the main airport in the popular tourist state has also disrupted the travel plans of Indian expats in almost all of

Travellers stranded in UAEIn UAE, the airport closure has

affected several expats who had booked tickets for a long week-

Ashalatha Gangaprasad is shattered with the develop-ments back home. She was set to rush home to see her ailing mother, who is in critical con-dition.

“I have Sharjah-Kochi 2.05 am Air India Express flight on Sat-urday. My mother is in hospital. I was counting hours to reach there and now an update that

Kochi airport is shut till Sun-day. I was set to leave alone as this is an emergency and ticket fares are very high for my fam-ily to travel,” she told Khaleej

Dubai resident Bose Prathap is set to reschedule his travel to Kochi with his family.

“I have tickets booked for ear-ly morning flight on Monday. With Kochi Airport shut till Sun-day and heavy rain scheduled for the next few days, I have to reconsider my travel plans.”

100 domestic flights per dayMore than 100 domestic and

international flights operate from the Kochi airport in a day.

Though the airport staff was pumping out water from the tax-iway and the sides of the airport, nine aircraft that arrived here on Thursday night are still parked in the bay, unable to fly out.

Nearly 500 people died in the 2018 floods, believed to be the worst in a century.

Airplanes are pictured as they are parked next to flood waters on the tarmac of the international airport in Kochi in southern Kerala state

Men pass through flood waters at Eloor area in Ernakulam district, in the south Indian state of Kerala

A damaged area is pictured following a landslide in Meppadi, Wayanad district

Operations Diverted/Cancelled due to flood (CIAL)1. Air Asia Intl. today cancelled

2. Oman flights on 10,11,12 will be operated from TVM

3. Kuwait 9th, 10th flight cancelled

4. Gulf Air cancelled on 9th and 10th

5. All Air India flights on 10 th will be operating from TVM

People walk through flood waters after a landslide in Meppadi, Wayanad district, Kerala

Local contact numbers (CIAL) AIR INDIA 1860 233 1407, 044 6692 1455, 022 2706 7001

AIR ARABIA 022-7100 4777

AIR ASIA 080-6766 2222,080 4666 2222

ETIHAD 1800 209 0808, 0484-2611 770, 0484-2611771

EMIRATES 91670 03333

FLY DUBAI 0484-4855 588

GULF AIR 00 97317373737

KUWAIT 0484-2382 574, 0484-238 2575, 0484-2382576

OMAN 012 4642 1111, 0096 8245 31111

SAUDIA 0484-2371012, 0484-2373536, 0484- 2352689, 0484-2372199

SRI LANKAN 0484-236 20 42 / 43 / 44, 0094 7102 12 324


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France says ‘needs no permission’ for Iran dialogue

Paris, France

France said yesterday that it “needs no permission” to

work towards easing tensions between Iran and the US, after President Donald Trump ac-cused his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron of med-dling in the dispute.

“On Iran, France speaks with complete sovereignty. It is working hard for peace and security in the region, it is working to facilitate a de-esca-lation in tensions and it needs no permission to do so,” For-eign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said in a statement.

In a tweet Thursday, Trump claimed that Iranian officials want “desperately to talk to the US, but are given mixed signals from all of those purporting to represent us, including Presi-dent Macron of France.”

“I know Emmanuel means

well, as do all others, but no-body speaks for the United States but the United States itself. No one is authorized in any way, shape, or form, to rep-resent us!” he said.

Le Drian said the worsening tensions between Tehran and Washington called for initia-tives to try to restore dialogue.

“That’s what President Ma-cron is doing, in full transpar-ency with our partners, above all our European partners,” he said, adding that Macron was “obviously keeping American authorities informed”.

Trump has reimposed crip-pling sanctions on Iran after pulling out of an internation-al deal aimed at curbing the country’s nuclear ambitions.

The dispute with Iran is ex-pected to be one of the major talking points at a G7 summit in the French city of Biarritz later this month.

Macron and Trump (file)

Chad president Idriss Deby Itno

Dozens dead in fresh Chad ethnic fightingN’Djamena, Chad

At least 37 people have been killed in fresh fighting

this week between farmers and herders from rival ethnic groups in Chad, President Id-riss Deby said yesterday.

The violence broke out over three days in the province of Ouaddai, a strategic area on the eastern border with Sudan, he said.

“The intercommunal con-flict has become a national concern,” Deby told a press conference to mark the coun-try’s independence day. “We are witnessing a terrible phe-

nomenon.”Eastern Chad is in the grip

of a cycle of violence be-tween nomadic camel herd-ers -- many from the Zagha-wa ethnic group from which Deby hails -- and sedentary farmers from the Ouaddian community.

Trash for tickets on Indonesia’s ‘plastic bus’Jakarta, Indonesia

Dozens of people clutching bags full of plastic bottles

and disposable cups queue at a busy bus terminal in the Indo-nesian city of Surabaya -- where passengers can swap trash for travel tickets.

The nation is the world’s sec-ond-biggest marine polluter behind China and has pledged to reduce plastic waste in its waters some 70 percent by 2025 by boosting recycling, raising public awareness, and curbing usage.

The Surabaya scheme has been a hit in the city of 2.9 mil-lion, with nearly 16,000 pas-sengers trading trash for free travel each week, according to authorities.

“This is a very smart solution. It’s free and instead of throwing away bottles people now col-lect them and bring them here,”

explains 48-year-old resident Fransiska Nugrahepi.

An hour-long bus ride with unlimited stops costs three large

bottles, five medium bottles or 10 plastic cups. But they must be cleaned and cannot be squashed.

There is a steady stream of

people squeezing past sacks full of recyclables to deposit plastic in four bins behind the small office and claim their tickets.

Franki Yuanus, a Surabaya transport official, says the pro-gramme aims not only to cut waste but also to tackle traf-fic congestion by encourag-ing people to switch to public transit.

“There has been a good re-sponse from the public,” insists Yuanus, adding: “Paying with plastic is one of the things that has made people enthusiastic because up until now plastic waste was just seen as useless.”

Currently the fleet consists of 20 near-new buses, each with recycling bins and ticket officers who roam the aisles to collect any leftover bottles.

Authorities said roughly six tons of plastic rubbish are col-lected from passengers each

month before being auctioned to recycling companies.

Nurhayati Anwar, who uses the bus about once a week with

her three-year-old son, said the trash swap programme is chang-ing how people see their throw-away cups and bottles.

“Now people in the office or at home are trying to collect (rub-bish) instead of just throwing it away,” the 44-year-old account-ant told AFP after trading in sev-eral bottles for a free ride.

“We now know that plastic is not good for the environment -- people in Surabaya are starting to learn.”

Other parts of Indonesia, an archipelago of some 17,000 is-lands, are also trying to tackle the issue.

Bali is phasing in a ban on sin-gle-use plastic straws and bags to rid the popular holiday island of waste choking its waterways, while authorities in the capital Jakarta are considering a similar bylaw to rid the city of plastic shopping bags.

Commuters exchanging plastic bottles for Suroboyo bus tickets at a terminal in the Indonesian city of Surabaya.

A 2016 report by the Ellen MacArthur Foun-dation warned there

would be more plastic than fish, by weight,

in the seas by 2050. It estimated eight million tonnes of plastics enter

oceans annually.

Hong Kong leader rules out concessions as protesters stage airport sit-inHong Kong, China

Hong Kong ’s leader Carrie Lam yesterday

ruled out concessions to “silence the violent pro-testers”, as pro-democracy activists who have staged months of demonstrations rallied at the city’s airport.

Her comments came as she warned that the demon-strations now in their third month were causing eco-nomic chaos in the interna-tional financial hub.

Lam, whose support for a bill to allow extradition to mainland China sparked the unrest, said the econom-ic impact threatened to be worse than the 2003 SARS outbreak or the 2008 finan-cial crash for the city.

“Compared to the eco-nomic downturn caused by SARS that we handled pre-viously, even to the (2008) economic crisis, the situ-ation this time is more se-vere,” she said at an abrupt-ly-organised press confer-ence on Friday afternoon.

“In other words, the eco-nomic recovery will take a very long time.”

Armed man in body armor arrested at Missouri WalmartWashington, United States

A 20-year-old man armed with an assault rifle

has been arrested at a Wal-mart store in the midwest-ern US state of Missouri and charged with making a “terrorist threat,” police said.

Dmitriy Andreychenko, who was wearing body ar-mor and fatigues, was de-tained by an armed off-duty firefighter who held him until police arrived, police said.

No shots were fired and no injuries were reported in the incident on Thursday in the city of Springfield, which has a population of around 160,000.

Neymar ‘relieved’ after rape case dismissedSao Paulo, Brazil

Brazilian football star Ney-mar said he was “relieved”

on Friday after a judge in Sao Paulo dismissed the rape case against the Paris Saint Germain forward citing insufficient evi-dence.

“I’ll be sincere and I’m not going to say I’m happy, but yes, relieved,” said Neymar in an Instagram post.

The decision -- the final ep-isode in the rape case hanging over the superstar since June -- comes on the recommenda-tion of prosecutors just over a month after police dropped the case citing lack of evidence.

Neymar vehemently denied allegations he raped a Brazilian woman in a Paris hotel in May.

Judge Ana Paula Vieira de Moraes “accepted prosecutors recommendations and demand-

ed the case be dismissed,” a court spokesman told AFP.

Neymar said he would “never forget” this incident due to the “PAIN it caused me, my family and the people who really know me.”

He added: “This scar will remain to remind me at what point people are capable of doing good things, but also of doing BAD things.”

Prosecutor Flavia Merlini had argued that the plaintiff Najila Trindade, a Brazilian model, had provided no con-clusive evidence of rape against the PSG player.

“What happened between four walls is impossible to know, we have her word against his,” Merlini told reporters. “We have decided to ask for the closure of the case.”

However Merlini said dis-missal was not equivalent to acquittal for Neymar, 27, the world’s most expensive foot-baller.

The case could be reopened at any time should new evi-dence emerge, she said.

Paris Saint-Germain’s Brazilian forward Neymar

Employees of the morgue at the HJRA hospital carrying a coffin containing the remains of Britain’s nineteen-year-old Cambridge University student Alana Cutland

British student was ‘depressed’ before jumping from planeAntananarivo, Madagascar

A British student in Mad-agascar who apparently jumped from a plane af-

ter opening the aircraft’s door mid-air was “depressed” and disappointed by her studies, the African island police said Thursday.

Cambridge University stu-dent Alana Cutland, 19, who was on a research trip, fell from a light aircraft shortly after it took off from an airport in re-mote northwestern Madagas-car last month.

Her body was found by villag-ers on Tuesday in the Mahad-rodroka forest, and transported to the capital Antananarivo on Thursday.

The chief investigator said they found anti-malarial pills in her bag, but only two were tak-en, although it is unclear when exactly she took those.

Some sleeping pills were also found in her hotel room.

“We found in her bag, a box of anti-malaria medication and we were told that she also had sleeping pills on the table in her hotel room,” the lead investiga-tor Spinola Edvin Nomenjana-hary said by phone.

He said she had mumbled

during a phone call with her parents who then suggested she return home.

“The parents had difficul-ties recognising their daughter during their last phone con-versation and had asked her to take the same flight as Mrs Ruth Johnson, a British woman who was staying at the same hotel as her,” said Nomenjanahary.

“Before leaving, on July 25th, (Johnson) went looking for her in her room, and found Alana, sitting on a chair, looking lost and staring into space,” added Nomenjanahary.

Cutland’s uncle previously said she had become ill during her trip, possibly due to pre-scription medication, according

to British newspaper reports. She also contacted her super-

visor, according to police.She was “disappointed” when

her parents asked her to drop the research and return to Lon-don, he said.

Around five minutes into the flight, which took off from a small airport at Anjajavy to the capital Antananarivo, she ap-parently opened the plane door and jumped.

The pilot and Johnson, who was a passenger on the flight, say they tried in vain to stop her.

“She jumped, no one pushed her,” said Ralaivaonary.

Anjajavy villagers only found her body two weeks after the incident.

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society

The Rotary Club of Sulmaniya held a regular lunch meeting at the Golden Tulip Hotel. The guest speaker was Past President of Rotary club of Adliya Durry Atassi who spoke about “My Journey with Bahrain Youth”.

The Allied Bahrain Communicators Toastmasters Club (ABC TC) recently celebrated its 100th meeting and the 4th year anniversary at Fraser Suites Diplomatic Area. The celebrations were attended by Executives on Area, Division and District levels, filled with inspiring speeches, special awards announcements and a delicious cake cutting ceremony. For the occasion of the 100th meeting the Club released a Newsletter. It’s a special issue where the members share their inspiring experiences of the Toastmasters Journey.

Chief of Public Security, Major-General Tariq Al Hassan attended a graduation ceremony for the participants training courses of the Public Security Sports Association. The training was part of the annual plan of 2019 that also included workshops and lectures. The Chief hailed the directives of Interior Minister that led to the fulfilment of the goals of the association, mainly enhancing the physical fitness of personnel. He valued the role of the association in organising courses and awareness workshops and providing qualified trainers. The Chief highlighted the importance of physical fitness of staff to improve their competency in performing tasks.


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BDF Chief-of-Staff Lt-General Dhiyab bin Saqr Al Nuaimi received Chief of Public Security Major-General Tariq bin Hassan Al Hassan. The joint cooperation and coordination was reviewed during the meeting.

The Police Training Institute of the Royal Academy of Police (RAP) has concluded a five-week training course for commissioned-officers from various directorates. The Commander of the Institute and the Director of Admission attended the event. The course aimed to train the participates in carrying different tasks with accuracy and high performance.

General Secretary of Bahrain Red Crescent Society Dr Fawzi Amin held a meeting with “Sahabat Amal Team” to discuss the mechanisms of building a volunteer medical team that includes students and graduates of human medicine in Bahrain, whose primary mission is to provide medical, health, relief and humanitarian assistance to the needy around the world.

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business


Batelco launches mobile package ‘Mazeej’ TDT | Manama

Batelco said has introduced its latest mobile package,

Mazeej combining the benefits of both PostPaid and PrePaid (SimSim) packages.

Mazeej package offers 8GB of data as well as 500 minutes across all local operators. For any additional minutes, data or other services, top up the same line with a Prepaid SimSim voucher.

Batelco Consumer Division General Manager, Maha Ab-dulrahman commented, “This

new package was developed in response to a demand we identified for greater flexibil-ity in meeting our customers’ monthly usage requirements.”

GPIC Managing Director Samir A. Al Abdrabbuh along with Dr Abdulrahman Jawahey GPIC President presented a certificate and an award to Ahmed Nass from the Human Resources and Corporate Communications Department, who has been named the Employee of the Month for February 2019. Ahmed joined the Company in 2000 and is a Time Management Officer in the Human Resources and Corporate Communications Department

On the occasion of Eid Al-Adha, The Avenues-Bahrain Management organised a visit to UCO Parents Care Centre in Al-Hidd area. The visit aimed to spread the Eid spirit, share the joy with the elderly on this happy occasion. Gifts were presented to the centre’s guests and staff

Trump says US ‘not ready’ to make trade deal with ChinaWashington, United States

President Donald Trump said yesterday he was not

ready to finalize a trade deal with Beijing and signaled he might cancel talks set for September, raising the stakes in the intensifying US-China trade war.

“We’ll see whether or not we keep our meeting in Septem-ber,” Trump told reporters at the White House before head-ing out on vacation at his New Jersey golf resort.

Relations have soured fur-ther in the past week after

Trump announced a new round of punitive tariffs on Chinese goods, despite a truce agreed with President Xi Jin-ping, and Beijing responded by halting all purchases of US agricultural goods.

The US Treasury then de-clared China a currency ma-nipulator, after the yuan lost value in the face of the new round of tariffs due to take effect September 1.

“We’re not ready to make a deal but we’ll see what hap-pens,” Trump said. “We have all the cards. We’re doing well.”

Markets sink on Italy, UK, trade war woesLondon, United Kingdom

Stock markets slumped and the pound hit a fresh two-year low against the euro

Friday as traders reacted to a sudden Italian political crisis, a British economic contraction and a new twist in the US-China trade war.

Equities have fallen for much of August amid lingering con-cerns of a global economic slowdown as Washington and Beijing continue to exchange trade blows.

US President Donald Trump raised the stakes again on Fri-day, saying he was not ready to finalise a trade deal with China and even indicating he might cancel talks scheduled in Sep-tember.

“We’re not ready to make a deal but we’ll see what hap-pens... We have all the cards. We’re doing well,” Trump told reporters at the White House before heading out on vaca-tion at his New Jersey golf resort.

Analyst David Madden at trading firm CMC Markets UK said: “Beijing won’t like the lat-est development, so the uncer-tainty is likely to spill over into next week.”

Wall Street shares dove after the announcement, as did Eu-ropean markets, which were already headed downward over Italian political ructions and data showing the UK’s Brex-it-facing economy is on the brink of recession.

“Political uncertainty in It-aly has rocked stock markets around Europe,” Madden said.

Milan’s stock market closed down more than two per cent after Italy’s far-right Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini pulled his support for the coun-try’s coalition government on Thursday and called for snap elections.

The heightened political ten-sions in the heavily-indebted country -- the eurozone’s third largest economy -- also caused yields to rise on Italian govern-ment bonds.

In currency trading, the

pound’s woes helped propel the euro to a two-year high at 92.86 pence.

Adding to Britain’s economic troubles, official data released Friday showed the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) fell 0.2 pc in the second quarter, the first time it has contracted in almost seven years.

Another decline in the third quarter would put Britain in recession ahead of the nation’s expected withdrawal from the EU on October 31.

“All in all, today’s disappoint-ing GDP figure is set to raise alarm bells over Brexit dragging the UK economy deeper into the abyss,” said Lukman Otunu-ga, senior research analyst at FXTM.

Volatile week

Elsewhere, Frankfurt’s DAX 30 index sank 1.3 pc after data showed German exports in June were eight pc lower than a year earlier, the country’s latest weak economic indicator.

In Asia, stock markets large-ly reversed early gains from a bargain-hunting push as inves-tors remained wary about the US-China trade war.

It was a volatile week for markets, with equities ham-mered on Monday after Bei-jing allowed the yuan to slide against the dollar following Trump’s announcement of fresh tariffs on Chinese goods starting September 1.

Oil prices surged on Friday, boosted by reports that Saudi Arabia was trying to get fel-low OPEC members to bolster prices.

Key figures around 1555 GMTLondon - FTSE 100: 0.4 pc at 7,253.85 points (close)

Frankfurt - DAX 30: 1.3 pc at 11,693.80 (close)

Paris - CAC 40: 1.1 pc at 5,327.92 (close)

Milan - FTSE MIB - 2.5 pc at 20,324.23 points (close)

EURO STOXX 50: 1.2 pc at 3,333.74

New York - Dow: 0.9 pc at 26,145.07

Tokyo - Nikkei 225: 0.4 pc at 20,684.82 (close)

Hong Kong - Hang Seng: 0.7 pc at 25,939.30 (close)

Shanghai - Composite: 0.7 pc at 2,774.75 (close)

Euro/pound at 92.86 pence from 92.15 pence

Pound/dollar: at $1.2081 from $1.2138

Euro/pound: at 92.84 pence from 92.12 pence

Euro/dollar: at $1.1216 from $1.1182

Dollar/yen: at 105.49 yen from 106.06 yen

Brent North Sea crude: $1.32 cents at $58.70 per barrel

West Texas Intermediate: $1.91 cents at $54.45 per barrel

A trader looks on while working on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street in New York City

Huawei unveils own operating systemDongguan, China

Chinese telecom giant Hua-wei unveiled its own op-

erating system yesterday, as it faces the threat of losing ac-cess to Android systems amid escalating US-China trade ten-sions.

Richard Yu, the head of Huawei’s consumer business, told a press conference in the southern city of Dongguan that the new system, called HarmonyOS or HongMeng in Chinese, would “bring more harmony and convenience to the world”.

Yu said the new system was a “future oriented OS” to be

“more smooth and secure”, which he said was “completely different from Android and iOS”.

Huawei said the first ver-sion of the operating system would launch later this year in its smart screen products.

Over the next three years it will be developed across a range of smart devices includ-ing wearable technology.

Richard Yu

Economic uncertainty threatens oil demand: IEAParis, France

Concerns over the health of the global economy,

marked by the US- Chi-na trade dispute, forced the International Energy Agency yesterday to lower its growth forecast for oil demand for 2019 and 2020.

“There have been con-cerns about the health of the global economy expressed in recent editions of this re-port and shown by reduced expectations for oil demand growth,” the Paris-based agency said in its monthly report.

“Now, the situation is becoming even more un-certain: the US-China trade dispute remains unresolved and in September new tar-iffs are due to be imposed.”

“Tension between the two has increased further this week, reflected in heavy falls for stock and com-modity markets. Oil prices have been caught up in the retreat.”

It also noted the Inter-national Monetary Fund’s recent downgrading of its economic outlook.

The IEA thus revised downwards its estimates for growth in global oil demand for this year by 0.1 million barrels per day to 1.1 mbd.

For 2020, growth was also predicted to be slightly down, by 50,000 barrels per day to 1.3 mbd.

It warned “the outlook is fragile with a greater likeli-hood of a downward revi-sion than an upward one”, and noted growth was al-ready “sluggish” in the first half of the year.

However, it noted that the market balance has been tightened slightly in the short-term by a reduc-tion in supply from OPEC countries.

The IEA also said it was closely monitoring oil se-curity in the Gulf, where OPEC member Iran last week seized the third for-eign tanker in less than a month as part of a bitter dis-pute with the United States.

The Kitchen: three caged birds go wildly, witlessly freeThe film tells the story of mob wives who turn mobster in a drama that’s just like ‘Widows’

• Melissa McCarthy, Elisabeth Moss, and Tiffany Haddish star as a trio of fed-up wives who take over the family business in ‘70s-era New York

The Kitchen is an American crime drama film written and directed by Andrea Berloff, in her direc-

torial debut. The film stars Melissa McCarthy, Tif-

fany Haddish, and Elisabeth Moss as the wives of Irish mobsters who take over organized crime operations in the 1970s in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood after the FBI arrests their husbands.

The film also features Domhnall Glee-son, James Badge Dale, Brian d’Arcy James, with Margo Martindale, Common, and Bill Camp in supporting roles.

Yes, this is a story about three women who run a mob. Yes, they threaten and off a few people. And yes, it might be kind of a, well, surprise for some, to see a major motion picture serving them up to us in a sympathetic light. But before everybody goes racing to post their moral outrage, let me remind you: the story of The Kitch-en, based on a comic book series, was

inspired by real women who ruled New York’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood back in the 1970’s.

Andrea Berloff ’s film introduces us to our anti-heroines just as their husbands are nabbed during an armed robbery. Left

with little money and fewer options, the women develop a system of their own, offering “security” to neighborhood busi-nesses. The vying Westies gang isn’t hap-py, but the women are. And pretty soon, they’re not just rich, they’re in trouble.

Even when the tone and sometimes awkward script jump abruptly, Berloff manages to tell her story with enough detail to engage us, similarly to the way a mob drama starring men would. Respect is paid, but this is no feminist manifesto.

This is a crime drama, albeit with a twist. And it’s got some nifty performances in it.

Elizabeth Moss is top notch in per-haps the most complex role. Melissa Mc-Carthy continues to impress with this, her second leading dramatic role. And wait till you see what Tiffany Haddish, starring in her first big screen drama, does here. Common, sadly, is not given a whole lot to do, but maybe it’s just that he’s up against competing-for-heartthrob Domhnall Gleeson, an actor who has giv-en some impressive performances before, but reveals a whole other side which is, shall we say, memorable.

THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE 2 (PG)(ANIMATION/ADVENTUREOASIS JUFFAIR (KIDS CINEMA): 12.30 + 2.30 + 6.30 + 8.30 PMOASIS JUFFAIR (KIDS CINEMA): (ARABIC DUBBED) : 10.30 AM + 4.30 PMCITY CENTRE: 11.30 AM + 1.45 + 4.00 + 6.15 + 8.30 + 10.45 PM + 1.00 AMCITY CENTRE (ARABIC DUBBED) : 11.00 AM + 1.15 + 3.30 + 5.45 + 8.00 + 10.15 + 12.30 MNSEEF (II): 11.30 AM + 4.00 + 8.30 + 10.45 PM + 1.00 AMSEEF (II):(ARABIC DUBBED) : 1.45 + 6.15 PMWADI AL SAIL: 11.45 AM + 2.00 + 4.15 + 6.30 + 8.45 + 11.00 PMSAAR: 2.15 + 6.45 + 11.15 PM

SUDEIKIS, JOSH GAD, AWKWAFINA

THE KITCHEN (15+)(CRIME) ههههه هههه OASIS JUFFAIR :2.00 + 7.15 + 9.30 + 11.45 PM + 2.00 AMOASIS JUFFAIR (VIP): 10.30 AM + 3.30 + 8.30 + 1.30 AMCITY CENTRE: 10.45 AM + 1.00 + 3.15 + 5.30 + 7.45 + 10.00 PM + 12.15 MN + 2.30 AMCITY CENTRE VIP (I): 10.45 AM + 3.45 + 8.45 + 1.45 AMSEEF (II): 10.15 AM + 12.30 + 2.45 + 5.00 + 7.15 + 9.30 + 11.45 PM + 2.00 AMWADI AL SAIL: 12.00 + 2.15 + 4.30 + 6.45 + 9.00 + 11.15 PM + 1.30 AMSAAR: 1.45 + 6.15 + 10.45 PM + 1.15 AM

MELISSA MCCARTHY, DOMHNALL GLEESON, TIFFANY HADDISH

WELAD RIZK 2 (15+)(ARABIC/ACTION/CRIME/THRILLER) OASIS JUFFAIR : 10.30 AM + 3.30 + 8.30 + 1.30 AMCITY CENTRE: 11.30 AM + 2.00 + 4.30 + 7.00 + 9.30 + 12.00 MN + 2.30 AMSEEF (II): 11.00 AM + 1.30 + 4.00 + 6.30 + 9.00 + 11.30 PM + 2.00 AMWADI AL SAIL: 11.45 AM + 4.30 + 9.15 + 2.00 AMSAAR: 12.00 + 5.15 + 10.30 PM

AHMAD EIZZ, AMR YOUSIF,

SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK (15+)(HORROR

OASIS JUFFAIR : 9.30 PM + 11.45 PM + 2.00 AMCITY CENTRE: 11.15 AM + 1.30 + 3.45 + 6.00 + 8.15 + 10.30 PM + 12.45 MN + 3.00 AMSEEF (II): 10.45 AM + 1.00 + 3.15 + 5.30 + 10.00 PM + 12.15 MN + 2.30 AM

WADI AL SAIL: 10.45 AM + 3.30 + 8.15 + 1.00 AMSAAR: 11.30 AM + 4.00 + 8.30 + 1.00 AM

ZOE MARGARET COLLETTI, MICHAEL GARZA, GABRIEL RUSH

JABARIYA JODI (PG-15)(HINDI/COMEDY/ROMANTICOASIS JUFFAIR : 11.30 AM + 2.15 + 5.00 + 7.45 + 10.30 PM + 1.15 AMCITY CENTRE: 11.15 AM + 2.00 + 4.45 + 7.30 + 10.15 PM + 1.00 AMSEEF (II): 12.00 + 2.45 + 5.30 + 8.15 + 11.00 PM + 1.45 AMWADI AL SAIL: 11.15 AM + 2.00 + 4.45 + 7.30 + 10.15 PM + 1.00 AMSAAR: 2.30 + 7.45 + 1.00 AM

SIDHARTH MALHOTRA, PARINEETI CHOPRA, APARSHAKTI KHURANA

NIGHT HUNTER (NOMIS) (PG-15)(ACTION/THRILLER/CRIME) SEEF (II): 2.45 + 6.45 + 10.45 PM + 2.45 AM

HENRY CAVILL, BEN KINGSLEY, ALEXANDRA DADDARIO

THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN (PG-13)(DRAMA CITY CENTRE: 10.30 AM + 3.00 + 7.30 + 12.00 MNWADI AL SAIL: 2.15 + 7.00 + 11.45 PM

KEVIN COSTNER (VOICE OF ENZO THE DOG), AMANDA SEYFRIED, MILO VENTIMIGILA

HELLO, LOVE, GOODBYE (PG-15)(FILIPINO/DRAMA OASIS JUFFAIR : 10.00 AM + 12.30 + 3.00 + 5.30 + 10.15 PM + 12.45 MNSEEF (II): 4.00 + 6.30 + 9.00 + 11.30 PM + 2.00 AM

KATHRYN BERNARDO, ALDEN RICHARDS, MAYMAY ENTRATA

THE BOAT (PG-13) (THRILLER) SEEF (II): 4.45 + 8.45 + 12.45 MN

JOE AZZOPARDI

BRING THE SOUL: THE MOVIE (PG)(DOCUMENTARY FROM 8th to 11th:OASIS JUFFAIR : 8.00 PMCITY CENTRE: 4.45 + 10.30 PMSEEF (II): 7.45 PM

SUPERSTAR (PG-13)(URDU/ROMANTIC/DRAMA) هههه SEEF (II): 2.45 + 8.15 + 1.45 AM

MAHIRA KHAN, BILAL ASHRAF

PAREY HUT LOVE (PG-15)(URDU/ROMANTIC) هه هههه هههSEEF (II): 12.00 + 5.30 + 11.00 PM

SHEHERYAR MUNAWAR SIDDIQUI, MAYA ALI, AHMAD ALI BUTT

FAST & FURIOUS: HOBBS & SHAW (PG-15)(ACTION/THRILLER OASIS JUFFAIR (ATMOS): 12.00 + 2.45 + 5.30 + 8.15 + 11.00 PM + 1.45 AMOASIS JUFFAIR (VIP): 12.45 + 5.45 + 10.45 AMCITY CENTRE: 12.15 + 3.00 + 5.45 + 8.30 + 11.15 PM + 2.00 AM + 2.45 AMCITY CENTRE (ATMOS): 11.45 AM + 2.30 + 5.15 + 8.00 + 10.45 PM + 1.30 AMCITY CENTRE (IMAX2D): 10.00 AM + 12.45 + 3.30 + 6.15 + 9.00 + 11.45 PM + 2.30 AMCITY CENTRE VIP (I): 1.00 + 6.00 + 11.00 PMCITY CENTRE VIP (II): 11.00 AM + 1.45 + 4.30 + 7.15 + 10.00 PM + 12.45 MNSEEF (I): 10.00 AM + 11.45 AM + 12.45 + 2.30 + 3.30 + 5.15 + 6.15 + 8.00 + 9.00 + 10.45 + 11.45 PM + 1.30 AM + 2.30 AMWADI AL SAIL: 12.00 + 2.45 + 5.30 + 8.15 + 11.00 PM + 1.15 AM + 1.45 AMSAAR: 11.00 AM + 1.45 + 4.30 + 7.15 + 10.00 PM + 12.45 MN

DWAYNE JOHNSON, JASON STATHAM, IDRIS ELBA

THE LION KING (PG)(ADVENTURE/DRAMA/FAMILY) ههههه OASIS JUFFAIR (KIDS CINEMA): 10.30 PM + 1.00 AMOASIS JUFFAIR : 11.30 AM + 2.00 + 4.30 + 7.00 PMCITY CENTRE: 10.00 AM + 12.30 + 3.00 + 5.30 + 8.00 + 10.30 PM + 1.00 AM + 2.15 AMSEEF (II): 10.30 AM + 1.00 + 3.30 + 6.00 + 8.30 + 11.00 PM + 1.30 AMWADI AL SAIL: 1.00 + 5.45 + 10.30 PMSAAR: 11.45 AM + 4.15 + 8.45 PM

DONALD GLOVER, SETH ROGEN, CHIWETEL EJIOFOR

ALADDIN (PG)(ADVENTURE) ههههه ههههCITY CENTRE: 11.30 AM + 2.15 + 5.00 + 7.45 + 10.30 PM + 1.15 AMSEEF (I): 12.45 + 5.45 + 10.45 PM

WILL SMITH, NAOMI SCOTT, MENA MASSOUD

CRAWL (18+)(THRILLER/HORROR) ههههه CITY CENTRE: 10.45 AM + 12.45 + 2.45 + 7.00 + 9.00 + 11.00 PM + 1.00 AM + 3.00 AM

KAYA SCODELARIO, BARRY PEPPER, ROSS ANDERSON

TOY STORY 4 (G)(ANIMATION/ADVENTURE/COMEDY) ههههه CITY CENTRE: 11.15 AM + 1.30 + 3.45 + 6.00 + 8.15 + 12.45 AMSEEF (I): 10.30 AM + 3.30 + 8.30 PM

TOM HANKS, TIM ALLEN, JOAN CUSACK

SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME (PG-15)(ACTIONههههه هه ه CITY CENTRE: 12.00 + 2.45 + 5.30 + 8.15 + 11.00 PM + 1.45 AM

TOM HOLLAND, SAMUEL L. JACKSON, ZENDAYA

MOHAMMED HUSSAIN (PG-15)(ARABIC/COMEDY)هههه هههه CITY CENTRE: 12.45 + 5.15 + 9.45 + 2.15 AM

MOHAMED SAAD, MAI SALEEM, MOHHAMED THARWAT

THE HUSTLE (PG-15)(COMEDY/CRIME) ههههه CITY CENTRE: 11.30 AM. + 3.45 + 8.00 + 12.15 MN

ANNE HATHAWAY, REBEL WILSON, ALEX SHARP

ANNABELLE COMES HOME (15+)(HORROR)ههههه ههه هههه CITY CENTRE: 1.30 + 5.45 + 10.00 PM

VERA FARMIGA, MCKENNA GRACE, MADISON ISEMAN

CHAL MERA PUTT (PG-15) (PUNJABI) OASIS JUFFAIR : 1.00 + 6.00 + 11.00 PMSEEF (II): 12.00 + 5.15 + 10.30 PM

HAQI ALI, SIMI CHAHAL, AMRINDER GILL

SINGHAM (PG-15)(PUNJABI)SEEF (II): 2.30 + 7.45 + 1.00 AM

SONAM BAJWA, KARTAR CHEEMA, PARMISH VERMA

THANNEER MATHAN DINANGAL (PG-13)(MALAYALAM) OASIS JUFFAIR : 10.30 AM + 1.30 + 4.30 + 7.30 + 10.30 PM + 1.30 AMSEEF (I): 12.15 + 3.00 + 5.45 + 8.30 + 11.15 PM + 1.30 AM + 2.00 AMAL HAMRA : 3.00 + 9.00 PM + ( 3.00 AM + 9.00 AM SUN/MON/TUES)

VINEETH SREENIVASAN, IRSHAD, MATHEW THOMAS

NERKONDA PAARVAI (PG-15)(TAMIL)(NEW)OASIS JUFFAIR : 10.00 AM + 1.00 + 4.00 + 7.00 + 10.00 PM + 1.00 AMSEEF (I): 10.30 AM + 1.30 + 4.30 + 7.30 + 10.30 PM + 1.30 AMAL HAMRA: 12.00 + 6.00 + 12.00 MN

VIDYA BALAN, AJITH KUMAR, SHRADDHA SRINATH

EVIDE (PG-15)(MALAYALAM) FROM MONDAY 12th SEEF (II): 10.15 AM + 12.30 NOON

ASHA SHARATH, SHEBIN BENSON, MANOJ K. JAYAN, BAIJU

MAN MADHUDU 2 ()(TELUGU) FROM FRIDAY 09 thOASIS JUFFAIR : 11.00 AM + 4.15 PMSEEF (II): 10.00 AM + 1.00 PM

NAGARJUNA AKKINENI, RAKUL PREET SINGH, VENNELA KISHORE


M O V I E R E V I E W

‘The Kitchen’ is a discordant mix of cli-

chus, incoherence and ill-used stars

Elisabeth Moss, Tiffany Haddish and Melissa McCarthy in ‘The Kitchen’

KNOW WHAT


Idris Elba, Caleb McLaughlin filming for ‘Concrete Cowboys’

Los Angeles

Glorying in the success of his latest release

‘Hobbs and Shaw’, Idris Elba is already working on his next feature ‘Concrete Cowboys ’ which also stars ‘Stranger Things’ actor Caleb McLaughlin.

The shooting for the film is underway, reported Deadline.

Other actors who are also a part of the feature are Jharrel Jerome, Lorraine Toussaint, and Byron Bowers.

‘Concrete Cowboys’ is in-spired by the real-life Fletcher Street Stables, a black urban horsemanship community which has remained in Phil-adelphia for more than 100 years. It is known for provid-ing a safe haven for the neigh-borhood.

I t f o l l o w s a 15-year- old Cole (McLaughlin) who is living with his estranged fa-ther Harp (Elba) in North Phila-delphia and gets acquainted with the city’s vibrant u r b a n c o w -boy subculture, which is thriving even with all the poverty, violence, and encroachment of gentrification around.

And to some ex-tent, the film is also

inspired by the novel ‘Ghetto Cowboy’ written by Greg Neri.

Ricky Staub is directing a screenplay written by him along with Dan Walser.

The film is being bankrolled by Lee Daniels Entertainment with Tucker Tooley Entertain-ment and Elba’s Green Door Pictures.

Shawn Mendes celebrates 21st birthday with Camila CabelloLos Angeles

As Shawn Mendes entered in his 21st year, he kicked off celebra-tions with a special someone.

The birthday boy was seen in New York City on Wednesday (lo-cal time) with his rumored girl-friend Camila Cabello, reported E!News.

According to an eyewitness, Cabello was “giggly and kinda all over Shawn”. “She saw a store she wanted to go into, pointed at it and wanted to go in and so he stayed outside while she went inside and he was on the phone,” the person added.

When they were able to rejoin, they walked to the end of the boule-vard hand-in-hand. “Both Shawn and Camila were laughing and talking a lot,” the eyewitness added.

As for Shawn’s actual birthday, which is being celebrated on Friday, E-News has learned the recent co-stars were spotted at Jack’s Wife Fre-da in New York City around 10 a.m. for a breakfast date.

Kristen Bell recalls her and Dax

Shepard’s awkward Met Gala night with Beyonce, Jay-Z

Los Angeles

Despite a c t o r K r i s -

t e n B e l l ’ s s k y - r e a c h i n g stardom, her hus-band Dax Shepard is the biggest fan-boy of Beyonce

and Jay-Z.A few years ago, the

actor accompanied her wife to the star-studded Met Gala and they happened to be seated at a table next to none other than Beyonce and Jay-Z, who Shepard is a huge fan of.

“We went to the Met Gala a couple of years ago and we were sitting right next to Jay-Z and Beyonce. When we found this out we

were, forget it, we were so ex-cited. And I was like, ‘Oh this

is going to be great, final-ly, after tonight, we’ll

have them in

our phones, and we’ll be best friends.’ And then we maneuvered the table so that Dax could sit right next to Jay-Z and Dax talked his ear off and I don’t think Jay was that interested,” Bell said on an episode of the ‘First We Feast,’ on Thursday (local time).

“But I was proud of him that he went for broke! Talk to the person you love. I think at one point he also hit him with a lyric, I think he was like, ‘Real recognize real!’ And I was like, Dax, Dax, don’t.’” she added, according to E!News.

Earlier too Shepard had expressed his ad-miration for the rapper, during ‘The L a t e L a t e Show With J a m e s Corden,’ saying, “ I a m t h e n u m -ber one J a y - Z f a n i n America.”

Krysten Ritter welcomes first child with Adam GranducielLos Angeles

Actor Krysten Ritter who is popu-lar for playing Jessica Jones has officially kicked off her newest

role as a mother.The actor recently gave birth to her

first child on July 29. According to the newborn’s birth certificate obtained by E-News, the ac-tress welcomed a baby boy whom she named Bruce Julian Knight Granofsky.

Ritter last flaunted her baby bump on the 2019 Oscars red carpet in February, simul-taneously confirming she was expecting a baby with her beau, ‘The War on Drugs’ musician Adam

Granduciel.“Surprise!!!” the mom-to-be wrote on Ins-

tagram at the time. Since then, the ‘Vamps’ star has been prepping up for baby and celebrated the arrival of the little one

with a music-themed baby shower.The gathering witnessed a re-

cord player-shaped cake and a variety of music-inspired cook-ies, a fitting theme given the new dad’s occupation.

“My best friends threw me a baby shower and my heart is ex-ploding,” Ritter wrote online.

With the third and final season of her Netflix series officially released, she is also marking one

personal chapter after shutting a professional one.

Copyright lawsuit filed against Lady Gaga’s ‘Shallow’ from ‘A Star is Born’Los Angeles

Pop icon Lady Gaga is fac-ing a copyright lawsuit for her song ‘Shallow’

from ‘A Star is Born’.The suit is filed by song-

writer Steve Ronsen who has claimed that Gaga stole the melody of the song from one that released back in 2012, re-ported Page Six.

Detailing his claim in the suit, Ronsen stated that a three-note progression in ‘Shallow’ is based on his song titled ‘Almost’. And as damag-es, Ronsen and his attorney have asked for millions of dol-lars for settlement.

To fight her case, the 33-year-old pop s i n g e r h a s hired a New York City law-yer Orin Sny-der, who says the superstar will not back down.

Snyder said, “Mr. Ronsen and his lawyer are trying to make easy money off the back of a successful artist. It is shameful and wrong. I ap-plaud Lady Gaga for having the courage and integrity to stand up on behalf of success-ful artists who find themselves on the receiving end of such [claims].”

Hitting back at Ronsen’s claims, Gaga’s legal team states that ‘Almost’ sounds nothing like ‘Shallow’ and the progres-sion he claimed to be similar is common and can be heard in musical pieces quite often.

‘Shallow’ is a track from Gaga and Bradley Cooper starrer ‘A Star is Born’ which released in 2018. The track is penned by Gaga along with Mark Ronson.

Michelle Williams hopes for more screen time in ‘Venom 2’Los Angeles

Michelle Williams has confirmed that she will

be coming back for “Venom” sequel but hopes she gets equal screen time with co-star Tom Hardy.

Williams portrayed Anne Weying opposite Hardy’s Eddie Brock aka Venom in the Ruben Fleischer-directed antihero film, which amassed over USD 700 million at the global box of-fice last year.

In an inter-view with Ya-hoo, Williams said she is look-ing forward to work with Andy Serkis, who takes over from Fleischer as the director of “Venom 2”.

“I’m in. I’m such a fan of Andy’s, and I’m so inspired by what he’s been able to ac-complish. He’s so gifted in such a specific way, and I’m very excited to learn from him and be around him,” the 38-year-old actor said.

Here’s sneak peek into Kylie Jenner’s birthday trip with Travis Scott

Los Angeles

As the countdown for Kylie Jenner’s 22nd birthday has begun, the makeup

mogul isn’t wasting any time in making the most out of her birth-day vacation.

According to E-News, the real-ity star and boyfriend Travis Scott are enjoying sweet sights of Italy. And yes, the duo isn’t alone in en-joying the special holiday period.

“Kylie and Travis left the Tran-quility yacht on Wednesday night for dinner in Positano. They took their small boat to shore and were taken to Il San Pietro Hotel for a meal at Zass on a cliff overlooking the sea. Kylie and Travis were joined by Kris Jenner and Corey Gamble along with Kylie’s friend Anastasia Karanikolaou,” shared an eyewitness.

As for daughter Stormi Web-ster, she stayed on the yacht with a nanny. Whereas the parents along with Scott Disick and Sofia Richie opted to walk around at Positano.

“Kylie and Travis were seated next to each other and chatted with Kris. They looked very com-fortable and happy to be there,” the eyewitness quoted by E!News shared.

They were also spotted enjoy-ing appetisers at a candlelit table.

“Kylie and Travis posed for many photos together and seemed to have a very nice time admiring the beautiful sur-roundings and the sea below. Af-ter dinner, they strolled through the garden taking more photos before heading back to their yacht,” a source shared.

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Serena, Osaka set up rematchSerena Williams and Naomi Osaka book US Open final rematch in Toronto

quarter-final

• Karolina Pliskova keeps no. 1 hopes alive by reaching Toronto quarters

AFP | Toronto

Serena Williams and Japan’s Naomi Osaka booked a rematch of last year’s US

Open final in the WTA Toronto quarter-finals after straight-set triumphs Thursday.

Reigning US and Australian Open champion Osaka broke at love in the final game to de-feat Polish teen Iga Swiatek 7-6 (7/4), 6-4 after one hour and 51 minutes.

World number 10 Williams was broken twice and dropped the first three games in 10 min-utes then battled back to defeat Russia’s 48th-ranked Ekateri-na Alexandrova 7-5, 6-4 in 91 minutes.

That set the stage for Wil-liams, a 37-year-old American who will try for a record-tying 24th Grand Slam singles title at the upcoming US Open, to again face Osaka after the con-troversial finish to their Grand Slam showdown last year in New York.

It would be the first match between Osaka and Williams since the Japanese star defeat-ed her childhood idol 6-2, 6-4 in last year’s US Open final, a match marred by an on-court dispute between Williams and the umpire that led to a game penalty against Williams.

Osaka was booed by some fans

during the awards ceremony and later dubbed what should have been her moment of glory “a little bittersweet.”

Williams spoke after her match but before she knew who she would face in the quarter-fi-nals, saying either Osaka -- who could return to the world num-ber one ranking next week -- or Swiatek would be worthy foes.

“It will be a good match, who-ever wins,” Williams said. “Both players are playing well in this tournament in particular, so I’ll be ready for her.”

Alexandrova broke Williams -- the 2001, 2011 and 2013 Cana-dian champion -- in the first and third games for a 3-0 edge only to have Williams roll through the next four games.

They held from there until the final game of the first set, when the Russian’s eighth double fault handed Williams the set after 46

minutes.“(Alexandrova) hit really, re-

ally hard and she was hitting a lot of winners, so I was just happy I was able to just fight through that,” Williams said.

Alexandrova broke Williams again to open the second set, but the US star pulled level in the sixth game and broke again in the 12th to advance after 91 minutes.

“I’m feeling good,” Williams said. “Just hopefully just being

able to stay in the rhythm and playing this week and next week would be good.”

Williams said she is struggling with the transition from clay to grass to hardcourts more than usual this year.

“I definitely feel like it takes a while to get back into the rhythm,” she said. “So it defi-nitely feels different, especially for me now. Usually I don’t feel that huge of a difference, but for whatever reason I do this year.”

Pliskova chases No. 1 Czech third seed Karolina

Pliskova kept the pressure on Osaka in the battle to take the world number one ranking by also reaching the quarter-finals.

Pliskova eliminated Estonia’s Anett Kontaveit 6-3, 7-5 to set up a last-eight clash with rising Canadian star Bianca Andrees-cu, who outlasted fifth-seeded Dutchwoman Kiki Bertens 6-1, 6-7 (7/9), 6-4.

Pliskova, 27, must reach the fi-nal to have any chance of taking the top spot next week. Other-wise, Osaka will claim the num-ber one berth.

French Open champion Ash-leigh Barty’s stint as the world’s top-ranked player was assured of ending after she was knocked out on Tuesday.

Defending champion and fourth seed Simona Halep of Romania, coming off a Wim-bledon title last month, beat Russia’s Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-2, 6-1 to book a quarter-final against Czech qualifier Marie Bouzkova, who ousted Latvia’s Jelena Ostapenko 6-2, 6-2.

Serena Williams, of the United States, returns the ball to Ekaterina Alexandrova, of Russia

Nadal, Federer deciside to re-enter ATP politics

AFP | Montreal

World number two Ra-fael Nadal said Thurs-

day that he and long-time rival Roger Federer made a joint decision to stand for the ATP Player Council.

The 33-year-old Spaniard, an 18-time Grand Slam singles winner, confirmed the choice by the pair of icons at the ATP Montreal Masters after reach-ing the quarter-finals.

Federer, a 20-time Slam singles champion, and Nadal were elected by fellow play-ers to fill two of the vacancies caused by the resignations of Robin Haase, Jamie Murray and Sergiy Stakhovsky prior to Wimbledon.

“We decided to be together out there,” Nadal said. “I will not be alone there. He will not be alone there.

“Both of us can (combine to) be a good power, good help for the sport in some way -- hope-fully in a better way.

“We are here to help and to know a little bit better what’s going on. Last year have been

some up and downs in a lot of things.”

Controversy has arisen over the past months concerning various issues, with ATP Coun-cil president Novak Djokovic often on the opposite side of discussions from Nadal and Federer.

The world number one Serb has clashed with many fellow players with disagreements centered on the decision to dispense with the services of ATP chief executive Chris Kermode, a popular figure in tennis.

Splits widened at Wimble-don when Djokovic was tak-en to task over his relation-ship with the disgraced Jus-tin Gimelstob. Former player Gimelstob, who has sat on the player council, pleaded no con-test to assault charges in Los Angeles earlier this year for attacking a man in front of his wife and children at Hallow-een in 2018.

Djokovic has come under fire for refusing to rule out a possible return to the board for Gimelstob.

Rain plays spoilsport as Gayle misses history bid against IndiaAFP | Providence, Guyana

Inclement weather forced the abandon-ment of the first one-day international

between the West Indies and India at the Guyana National Stadium on Thursday, after Chris Gayle was made to wait for the hosts’ ODI run-scoring record.

Only 13 overs were bowled after the home side were put in to bat when India captain Virat Kohli won the toss, with the West Indies reaching 54 for one before rain drove them off the field.

Having already started two hours late because of morning showers, the further

rain interruptions during the brief in-nings ended any hopes of a result and any lingering prospect of play was washed away by the latest downpour in mid-af-ternoon.

Veteran opening batsman Gayle was the lone wicket to fall, being bowled by left-arm wrist-spinner Kuldeep Yadav for just four, leaving him nine runs short of surpassing the tally of outstanding former batsman and captain Brian Lara of 10,405 as the most by a West Indian in ODIs.

Gayle, who has reversed a decision to retire from the 50 overs-per-side format

of the game after the World Cup, occu-pied 31 deliveries before being dismissed.

This is his 299th ODI, equalling Lara’s record for the most by a West Indian.

It therefore means that the 39-year-old will establish a new ODI record for West Indies appearances and also has the chance to surpass Lara’s run tally when the second match is played in Trinidad -- Lara’s homeland -- on Sunday.

In contrast to Gayle’s pedestrian in-nings, Evin Lewis was unbeaten on 40 off 36 deliveries (three sixes, two fours) in partnership with Shai Hope when the match was called off.

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Serena Williams

Switzerland’s Roger Federer (R) shakes hands and embraces Spain’s Rafael Nadal (L) after Federer won their men’s singles semi-final match on day 11 of the 2019 Wimbledon Championships

Evin Lewis (L) of West Indies hits 4 as Rishabh Pant (R) of India look on

Wolves close on Europa League group stage with thumping winAFP | Paris

Wolves moved a step closer to reaching the Europa

League group stage for the first time as Raul Jimenez scored twice in a 4-0 thrashing of Ar-menia’s Pyunik in the third qualifying round, first leg, on Thursday.

Nuno Espirito Santo’s Wolves, who made it into qualifying by finishing seventh in the Premier League last season as a new-ly-promoted club, made short work of their hosts in Yerevan.

Wing-back Matt Doherty, who scored eight goals last term, rolled in a 29th-minute opener, before Jimenez made it two three minutes before half- time.

Mexican international Jime-nez grabbed his fourth goal of qualifying shortly after the restart, having also netted two against Crusaders in the previ-ous round.

New signing Patrick Cutrone was given a debut as a late sub-stitute, and won an injury-time penalty which Ruben Neves

converted to all but put the tie to bed.

Wolves, who lost to Totten-ham in the 1972 UEFA Cup final and are playing their first Eu-ropean campaign since 1980, will likely face a tricky play-off round against Torino should they complete the job against Pyunik and the Italians beat Be-larus’ Shakhtyor.

Torino, seventh-placed finish-ers in Serie A last season, cruised past Shakhtyor 5-0 with Italy striker Andrea Belotti scoring twice.Ruben Neves of Wolverhampton Wanderers scores a goal to make it 0-4 from a

penalty kick

Bayern romp to 23-0 win over amateur side

German champions Bay-ern Munich showed no

mercy to amateur side FC Rottach-Egern by romping to a 23-0 friendly win on Thursday, 12 months after beating the same side 20-2.

Among the scorers were Corentin Tolisso with four while Robert Lewandowski and Otschi Wriedt both grabbed hat-tricks with Thomas Mueller claiming a brace.

Bayern coach Niko Kovac made 10 changes at half-time, with New Zealand in-ternational Sarpreet Singh among the newcomers.

The 20-year-old talent, who arrived from Welling-ton Phoenix earlier this year, scored twice before the hour mark to pick up his first goals in a Bayern shirt.

Bayern’s record signing Lucas Hernandez also came on at half-time to make his first appearance for the club. The French World Cup winner joined Bayern for 80 million euros earlier this year, but has been out of action since February due to a knee injury.

Real Madrid go head-to-head with Barcelona for NeymarAFP | Madrid

Real Madrid will rival Barce-lona in the race to sign Paris

Saint-Germain striker Neymar this summer, according to re-ports in the Spanish press on yesterday.

Madrid have shifted focus to Neymar after the close of

the English Premier L e a g u e ’s t ra n s -

fer window on Thursday ended their hopes of

signing Manches-ter United midfielder Paul Pogba.

According to Marca, Ney-mar has “returned to the scene” with the club “be-lieving for some time that the team is lacking a big

star up front”. Sports newspaper AS

claims the Brazilian has been offered to Madrid by PSG, who are open to selling if they can either recoup the 222 million euros they spent on him in 2017 or receive half

that amount, with players included in the deal.

It means La Liga’s two great-est rivals are set to go head-to-head in the battle to sign Neymar before the Spanish transfer window closes on September 2.

Barcelona newspaper

Mundo Deportivo says the 27-year-old will wait until Au-gust 20 for Barcelona to make a decisive move, after which “PSG’s number 10 does not rule out any option in order to leave the French champions, where it is clear he does not want to stay any longer.”

But Mundo adds that “it is clear Neymar wants to play for Barcelona” while Diario Sport

agrees, writing that “ t h e w i n n i n g

card Barca con-tinues to hold

is the will of the striker to r u n i t e w i t h

players like Leo Messi and Luis Suarez. With them he has a great under-standing on the pitch and also a strong friendship off it.”

Marca believes Madrid also have factors in their favour. “Neymar’s priority is not to go to Barcelona. His priority is to leave the PSG,” wrote Mar-ca, also citing their “mag-nificent relationship” with PSG, “quite the opposite” of how the French club view

Barcelona. Luka Modric is mentioned as

a possible makeweight while Philippe Coutinho, who re-portedly rejected an offer from Tottenham this week, could be included in an offer from Barcelona.

Nadal, Thiem cruise on Rafael Nadal defeated Guido Pella to reach the ATP Montreal quarter-finals

• Thiem survives Cilic to extend winning streak

• Zverev pushes through

AFP | Montreal

Rafael Nadal stepped closer to a record 35th Masters 1000 title on Thursday,

dispatching Argentina’s Gui-do Pella 6-3, 6-4 Thursday to power into the ATP Montreal quarter-finals.

The Spanish world number two has now notched the most wins in the elite series, with his 379th Masters victory surpass-ing Roger Federer by one.

Nadal, an 18-time Grand Slam singles champion, could add an-other Masters footnote to his epic resume if he successfully defends his Canadian crown for the all-time trophy mark.

He ended the evening with an ace out wide on his fourth match point, moving into his ninth Ca-nadian quarter-final.

Nadal will play for a semi-fi-nal berth against Italy’s Fabio Fognini after the seventh seed beat France’s Adrian Mannarino 6-2, 7-5.

The victory came in blustery conditions, which Nadal said were not a huge bother. He made good on an impossible sky hook

reverse overhead at one point in the contest.

“It was a tough day in terms of wind, but we are used to play-ing like this,” he said. “It can be beautiful to play in tough con-ditions. The player with more options has the better chance to survive.”

Dominic Thiem reached the last eight by defeating Croatia’s Marin Cilic 7-6 (9/7), 6-4, the Austrian’s second victory in two days after waiting five years to break his duck in Canada.

Second seed Thiem, who oust-ed home hope Denis Shapovalov on Wednesday, faced two break points in the final game against the 2014 US Open champion be-fore securing the triumph on a third match point.

Thiem came to Canada af-ter winning the Kitzbuhel clay court title at home last weekend.

Thiem next for Medvedev The world number four

booked a last-eight clash against eighth seed Daniil Medvedev, who eased past unseeded Chris-tian Garin of Chile 6-3, 6-3.

Thiem beat the Russian in April to win the Barcelona title.

“He’s having a great season, playing unbelievable, solid ten-nis every week. It’s going to be very, very tough match.

“Barcelona was of course in my favour because it’s clay. We had a great, close match in St.

Petersburg, which was a very high level.

“I’ll watch that one again, see what I did great there, and try to play similar tomorrow.”

Medvedev beat Garin in 69 minutes, breaking the South American four times.

Zverev fights through Third seed Alexander Zverev

took some quick revenge by beating Nikoloz Basilashvili 7-5, 5-7, 7-6 (7/5) only 12 days after the German lost to the Georgian in Hamburg.

Zvereva, the 2017 Montreal winner who remains undefeated in the city, destroyed a racquet in frustration and almost lost his way in the final set.

Up a break, he sent over a 10th double-fault to lose serve, 4-4. Only a winning tie-breaker salvaged the victory and set up a last-eight clash with Karen Khachanov.

The Russian sixth seed earned his spot by ousting Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime on the youngster’s 19th birthday -- he shares one with Roger Federer,

now 38.Khachanov administered a 6-7

(7/9), 7-5, 6-3 victory then apol-ogized to the crowd after tak-ing out the last Canadian, but said he thought he got a raw deal from Canadian partisans.

Also advancing to a last-eight meeting were France’s Gael Monfils, who beat Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz 6-4, 6-0, and Span-ish 10th seed Roberto Bautista Agut, who dispatched French-man Richard Gasquet 7-5, 7-5.


Real Madrid have shifted focus to Ney-mar after the close of the English Premier

League’s transfer win-dow on Thursday ended their hopes of signing

Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba

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Inter hand Icardi’s number nine shirt to LukakuReuters | Milan

Inter Milan’s new signing Romelu Lukaku has been

handed the coveted number nine shirt which previously belonged to Mauro Icardi who was stripped of the captain-cy during the course of last season.

Inter posted a photograph of the Belgian forward wear-ing the shirt on the club’s In-stagram account one day af-ter confirming that they had signed him from Manchester United.

Icardi has been Inter’s lead-ing scorer for each of the last five seasons but new coach Antonio Conte, who replaced Luciano Spalletti after last sea-son, has already said the Ar-gentine is not part of his plans.

Other players to have worn the shirt include Brazilian Ronaldo, Cameroon forward Samuel Eto’o and Argentine Hernan Crespo.

Lukaku said that Conte, who won three successive Serie A titles with Juventus and an English Premier League and FA Cup with Chelsea, was one of the main reasons he signed for the club.

“Yes, the coach was a key factor. He’s the best coach in the world: he manages to im-prove his players, while his ca-reer speaks for itself,” Lukaku told Inter’s TV channel.

The 26-year-old was also

motivated by the challenge of helping to rebuild Inter, who have spent nearly a decade in the shadow of bitter rivals Ju-ventus.

Inter, who finished fourth in Serie A last season, have not won a major title since the Coppa Italia in 2011 while Juventus have won Se-rie A for the last eight seasons.

“ I n e e d e d t h e c h a l l e n g e where I could help the team build for the future and everything is present here to help me,” he said.

“ He r e , t h e foundat ions are there to do well. Through my commit-ment and my desire to per-form, I want to help this team a c h i e v e b i g things.”

Everton complete busy transfer window with Iwobi signingAFP | London

Everton sealed the dead-line-day signing of Ar-

senal forward Alex Iwobi on Thursday for a reported fee of £28 million ($40 million), completing a busy transfer window for the club.

Nigeria international Iwobi penned a five-year deal which was only an-nounced more than four hours after the transfer deadline of 1700 local time (1600 GMT).

The 23-year-old, capped 36 times by Nigeria, scored 15 goals in 149 appearances for Arsenal after making his first-team debut in 2015.

“He is still young but al-ready with a lot of top-level experience –- 100 Premier League matches, more in Europe and many interna-tional games,” said Everton manager Marco Silva.

Iwobi is the seventh new ar-rival at Goodison Park

in the close season, fol lowing Italy striker Moise Kean -- who joined from

Serie A cham-pions Juven-tus for 27.5 million euros ($31m, £25m) - - r i g h t -

back Djibril Sidibe, m i d f i e l d e r s A n -dre Gomes, Fabian Delph and Jean-Philippe Gbamin, as well as goalkeeper Jonas Lossl.

“Alex fits exactly the profile of player

I want in my model,” added Silva.

City’s Gundogan extends contract

Reuters | London

Manchester City mid-fielder Ilkay Gundo-

gan has signed a three-year contract extension which will keep him at the club un-til 2023, the Premier League champions said yesterday.

Gundogan, who was signed from Borussia Dort-mund in 2016 for 25 million pounds ($30.27 million), had one more year on his existing deal before he put pen to paper on the exten-sion.

The Germany internation-al made 50 appearances in all competitions for City last season, grabbing six goals and eight assists as the club achieved the domestic tre-ble of the league, FA C u p and League Cup.

“I have huge-ly enjoyed the last three years here at City and every-one at the club has h e l p e d make me feel at home from my very f i r s t d a y,” G u n d o g a n said.

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