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365,467 citizens eligible to vote in upcoming elections• The final list of candidates will be announced on November 7.

Manama

A total of 365,467 citizens have been confirmed el-igible to vote in the up-

coming elections, the Executive Committee of the 2018 elections announced.

This came as the voters’ lists were confirmed after the High Civil Court of Appeals complet-ed the examination of all the ap-

peals submitted to it by voters against the decisions of heads of supervisory centres.

The committee said that there are 81,892 eligible voters in the 10-constituency Capital Gover-norate, 79,213 in the 8-constit-

uency Muharraq Governorate, 125,870 in the 12-constituency Northern Governorate and 78,492 in the 10-constituency Southern Governorate.

The executive committee pointed out that 21 appeals had been submitted to the court, which upheld 12 decisions of the judges of supervisory centres, and overturned nine others.

The committee also renewed its call for all those wishing to run for parliamentary or mu-nicipal elections to submit their nomination applications to the supervisory centres across the kingdom’s governorates between October 17 and 21, from 05 pm to 09 pm, stressing that they should

meet the legal eligibility terms and bring all the required nomi-nation documents.

The committee also announced that the nominee lists for both the parliamentary and municipal elections would be displayed for three days, from October 22 to 24,

and that the supervisory centres’ judges will have taken their final decisions regarding the correc-tion and objection requests by October 27.

The nominees may challenge the decisions of the supervisory centres at the court until Oc-tober 30, the committee said, adding that the appeals will have been examined by November 6, and that the final list of can-didates will be announced on November 7.

The eligibility terms and re-quired documents for nomi-nation for parliamentary and municipal are available on the elections’ official portal www.vote.bh 2018.

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Old, strong allies Pompeo thanks King Salman for commitment to transparent probe into Khashoggi’s disappearance

• The US chief diplomat was greeted at Riyadh airport by Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al Jubeir and ambassador to Washington Prince Khalid bin Salman.

• Pompeo will hold talks in Turkey today, the Turkish foreign ministry said, after his visit to Riyadh.

Riyadh

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with King Salman in the Saudi cap-

ital yesterday, before arriving at Riyadh’s royal palace to talk with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Pompeo thanked Saudi King Salman for his commitment to a thorough, transparent inves-tigation of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance, while the Crown Prince assured him that the US and Saudi Arabia

are “old, strong allies.”The US chief diplomat was

greeted at Riyadh airport by Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al Jubeir and ambassador to Washington Prince Khalid bin Salman.

“I hope you are comfortable here,” the Saudi King told Pom-peo, according to the reporters. Pompeo responded, “Thank you for accepting my visit on behalf of President Donald Trump.”

Later, Trump said he had spo-

ken with Crown Prince Moham-med and been assured that a full probe into Khashoggi’s disap-pearance was underway.

“Just spoke with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia who to-tally denied any knowledge of what took place in their Turkish Consulate,” Trump tweeted.

He “told me that he has al-ready started, and will rapid-ly expand, a full and complete investigation into this matter. Answers will be forthcoming shortly”.

Pompeo will hold talks in Tur-key today, the Turkish foreign ministry said, after his visit to

Riyadh.The top American diplomat

will meet his Turkish counter-part Mevlut Cavusoglu to discuss bilateral and regional issues in-cluding Syria, the Turkish for-eign ministry said in a statement.

Meanwhile, Saudi Cabinet yesterday welcomed Turkey’s acceptance of the Kingdom’s request to form a joint team of specialists from both countries to investigate the circumstanc-es behind the disappearance of Saudi citizen Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul.

At a session chaired by King Salman at Al Yamamah Palace in Riyadh, the Cabinet thanked all countries, organisations, par-liaments, authorities and people who prefer the search for truth rather than jumping to conclu-sions, spreading rumours and making accusations.

“The Kingdom’s commitment to the UN Charter and the prin-ciples of international legitima-cy are the cornerstones of its foreign policy,” the Cabinet said.

The ministers reiterated the Kingdom’s support for the elimination of nuclear weapons worldwide, particularly in the Middle East.

Pompeo with King Salman.

Thank you for accepting my visit on behalf

of President Donald Trump.

POMPEO

Bahrain backs boycott Uber call Dubai

Foreign Minister has called for a boycott of

the ride-hailing company Uber Technologies after its chief executive officer said he will not attend a business conference in Saudi Arabia.

Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa tweeted two hashtags calling for a boy-cott of Uber in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, as well as a broader hashtag urging fol-lowers to “boycott anyone who boycotts Saudi Arabia”.

US sanctions on Iranian network Washington

The US Treasury an-nounced new sanctions

against Iran’s Bank Mellat and Mehr Eqtesad Bank yesterday.

The Treasury also an-nounced sanctions against Iran Tractor Manufacturing Company, Esfehan’s Mobar-akeh Steel Company, as well as other firms.

According to the Treas-ury, the group make up a multibillion-dollar financial network that supports an Iranian paramilitary force that recruits and trains child soldiers for the country’s powerful Islamic Revolu-tionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

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His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa yesterday received the credentials of five new ambassadors, during a ceremony held at Al Sakhir Palace. The newly-appointed ambassadors are German Kai Thamo Boeckmann; Pakistani Afzaal Mahmood; Belgian Piet Heirbaut; Greek Andreas Papadakis and Polish Pawel Lechowicz. HM the King hailed strong bilateral relations and steadily-growing cooperation binding the Kingdom and the ambassadors’ friendly countries in all fields. He wished the new envoys every success in their diplomatic duties to further strengthen relations of cooperation and friendship with the Kingdom of Bahrain.

His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa received at Gudaibiya Palace yesterday His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander and First Deputy Premier. They underlined the status of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as a global political and economic power, stressing its influential Arab and Islamic role. They pointed out the importance of the Future Investment Initiative forum, which will be hosted by Saudi Arabia, in exploring future economic opportunities in the region and the world. HRH the Crown Prince will head Bahrain’s delegation to the summit which aims to boost international investment cooperation and economic development.

Islamic nations urged to support Saudi Arabia

Unfair campaign being staged against Saudi Arabia, says HRH the Premier

Manama

His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa has reiterated Bahrain’s supportive

stance towards sisterly Saudi Arabia in the face of the unfair campaign staged against it.

HRH the Premier called on Arab and Islam-ic countries to stand firmly by Saudi Arabia in appreciation of its services to the whole world, and bold stances in support of just rights everywhere.

HRH Premier made the statements while receiving, at the Gudaibiya Palace yesterday, Royal Family members and officials, with whom he discussed regional and global issues.

The Premier stressed that Bahrain’s rich na-tional memory reflects the long history and authenticity of the kingdom and its people, laud-ing the dedicated efforts exerted by Bahrainis to preserve and document the national history and heritage.

HRH Premier stressed the need to be constant-ly aware, draw lessons from the on-going events in other countries and be more determined and resolved to achieve more progress and prosperity to the nation.

The Prime Minister lauded the Bahraini press, and the tremendous efforts it is exerting for the sake of serving society and highlighting the Bah-raini citizens’ aspirations and remarks.

The Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council Dr Abdullatif Al Zayani yesterday attended an event organised at the GCC headquarters by the committee for improving and developing performances, led by Abdulaziz Al Nasser, the GCC Director General for Information and Strategic Planning. The Secretary-General was briefed on the event segments and objectives.


Zero waste, zero hungerBahrain marks World Food Day; vows to combat food wastage

TDT | ManamaHarpreet Kaur

Marking the World Food Day yesterday, many communities, social

groups and government de-partments discussed ways of combatting food wastage in the Kingdom.

According to a statement is-sued by Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning Minister Essam Khalaf, the Kingdom wastes nearly 195,000 tonnes of food annually, which constitutes 35.2 per cent of the total domestic waste generated.

Speaking to Tribune, Mi-chelle Bailey, founder of Feed the Need Bahrain said, “It is time to rethink how we grow, share and consume our food. If done right, agriculture, forestry and fisheries can provide nutri-tious food for all and generate decent incomes while support-ing the people-centered rural development and protecting the environment.”

“Right now, our soils, freshwa-ter, oceans, forests and biodiver-sity are being rapidly degraded. Climate change is putting even more pressure on the resources we depend on, increasing risks associated with disasters, such as droughts and floods.

“Many rural women and men can no longer make ends meet on their land, forcing them to migrate to cities in search of op-portunities. Poor food security is also leading to malnutrition among millions of children.

“A profound change of the

global food and agriculture system is needed if we are to nourish the 815 million people who suffer from hunger and the additional two billion people expected to be undernourished by 2050.”

Michelle said investments in the field of agriculture are cru-cial to increase the capacity for agricultural productivity and sustainable food production sys-tems that are necessary to help alleviate the perils of hunger.

“It was a simple idea to in-volve the community to lessen waste and ease hunger. The simple idea of sharing food is one that goes back generations and Bahrain is known for its love

for communities.”Michelle said 40 per cent of

the food waste is generated from homes. “What Bahrain needs now is a full-time food bank to act as a conduit for any charity or organisation dealing with the hunger.

“A place for supermarkets and businesses to donate their food

every day. We need one hero to take this step and it will take us a long way to reaching our Zero Waste – Zero Hunger goal by 2025,” Michelle added.

Further, Michelle gives talks to schools and corporations in an effort to educate on the goal while continuously involving schools in food drives and pro-

jects to help those struggling.Similarly, communities in

the Kingdom are approaching sustainable ways to fight food wastage. The Bohra Commu-nity in the Kingdom has taken substantial steps in this regard.

Zulfikar Ali Moiz, a spokes-person of the Bohra communi-ty, told Tribune, “Through the approach ‘Till The Last Grain’, we are aiming zero tolerance on food waste.

“Moreover, our community practices zero food wastage policy. Through the initiative we aim to raise a generation of individuals who understand the importance of food.

The UN Secretary-General issued a statement yesterday stated, “In our world of plen-ty, one person in nine does not have enough to eat. About 820 million people still suffer from hunger and most of them are women.

“Some 155 million children are chronically malnourished and may endure the effects of stunting for their entire lives. And hunger causes almost half of the infant deaths worldwide.

“On World Food Day, let us commit to a world without hunger, a world in which every person has access to a healthy, nutritious diet.”

Investments in the field of

agriculture are crucial to increase

the capacity for agricultural

productivity and sustainable food production systems that are necessary to help

alleviate the perils of hunger.

MS MICHELLE

Our community practises zero food wastage

policy. Through the initiative we aim to raise a generation

of individuals who understand the importance of food. We are

aiming zero tolerance on food

waste.MR ZULFIKAR

The Bohra community was honoured for organising largest zero food waste based religious event.

Food packets are distributed to workers as part of Feed the Need initiative.


Plans to boost SME exports on the anvilProjects will be implemented as part of national strategies to boost SMEsTDT | Manama

Industry, Commerce and Tourism Ministry has an-nounced its plans to launch

a new project to further develop SME exports from the Kingdom.

The new project, titled ‘Bah-rain Exports’, is considered to be one of the main initiatives to be implemented by the min-istry as per the instructions of the Coordination Committee, headed by the Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander and First Deputy Prime Minis-ter His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa.

The ministry held the fifth Small and Medium Enterpris-es (SMEs) Development Board

meeting, chaired by Minister Zayed Al Zayani, and discussed the means to support national exports.

The attendees reviewed a plan to be implemented in cooperation with a number of

specialised local, regional and international companies in the field of supporting the exports of SMEs.

The supportive programmes and services to be soon imple-mented through the ‘Bahrain

Exports’ initiative were also discussed during the meeting.

The preparations to host the Global Entrepreneurship Con-gress (GEC), which is organised the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN), in the Kingdom

were also discussed.The congress is organised in

cooperation with the World Bank Group and the Labour Fund (Tamkeen). It will take place on April 15-18, 2019 and will include several ministeri-al meetings and other events, meetings and activities of the GEN. The congress is believed to attract some of the pioneer-ing global names in the field of entrepreneurship.

The ministry said in a state-ment that the implementation of the national strategy for the development of SMEs is pro-ceeding according to the best plan, thanks to the cooperation of all concerned parties in this vital sector.

Mr Al Zayani chairs the meeting.

Flying car attracts visitors at GITEX TDT | DubaiMohammed Zafran

A car that can fly was among the innovations and futuristic technol-

ogies showcased at this year’s edition of GITEX being held in Dubai World Trade Centre.

Thousands of people includ-ing hundreds from Bahrain are attending the prime technol-ogy event of the Middle East, where top industry players from around the world are exhibiting

their best offerings.One of the main attractions is

an autonomous car that can fly. Bypassing traffic congestion by flying over the high traffic areas is one of the main ideas behind the vehicle. The car was manu-factured through a collaboration between Audi and Airbus.

A representative of the com-pany behind the concept told Tribune that the idea behind the innovation was sprouted to solve the issue of traffic congestion.

“One of the biggest problems

in big cities is the traffic conges-tion and this is what we want to be solved. We came up with the idea of flying over traffic. The car can go on the ground as well as fly in the air.

“The vehicle can combine these two modes depending on the needs. For example if you are being picked up from somewhere you could go the first 10 km on land and if you reach a high traf-fic zone you can fly over the traf-fic,” the representative said.

“In future, municipalities can provide this as a service to their citizens. The citizens can sub-scribe to this service and book the services thorough an app,” he said.

When asked about its safe-ty, he said, “Safety is one of the issues that our developers are trying to ensure.”

He added that it will take a

few years to test its safety by conducting test flights in real world scenarios. “We are now in Dubai because it is an ideal place for us to test this vehicle.”

Another attraction was an au-

tonomous ‘self-driving grocery store’. Explaining the concept behind the store Ali Ahmed, Founder and CEO of Robomart, said, “This is a grocery store that comes to you.

“People can order groceries through an app and the self driving autonomous vehicle will arrive at the destination upon which the customer can pay for the item and take the food.” The self-driving grocery store.

The ‘flying car’ that was showcased at the expo.

Flying car is a solution to heavy traffic

congestion witnessed by all major cities across the world.

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Kingdom’s first cryptocurrency exchange to be launched soonTDT | ManamaMohammed Zafran

Bahrain’s first ever cryptocurrency exchange will soon be launched, it was revealed.

‘Rain’ will be one of the first crypto-ex-change in the region, officials revealed.

The Bahrain-based cryptocurrency exchange will be looking to expand throughout the GCC by securing a full operational licence across the region in 2019.

The exchange has already opened its waiting list on its website after spend-ing a year in Central Bank of Bahrain’s regulatory sandbox.

The exchange will facilitate the pur-chase, sale and storage of crypto-cur-rencies. Rain, founded in 2016 by four

entrepreneurs – Yehia Badawy, Abdul-lah Almoaiqel, AJ Nelson and Joseph Dallaga, is backed by big names in the industry including Bitcoin core de-veloper Jimmy Song and Cumberland Mining founder Mike Komaransky.

According to Rain founders, it is still very hard to obtain digital currency in the Middle East and Rain aims to solve this issue.

“The ‘Rain’ team was united by the belief that Bitcoin (and other digital currencies) will lead to a financial sys-tem that is fast, inexpensive, and acces-sible to everyone.

“We hail from the digital currency industry having spent time at Abra, Bit-Gulf, Bitquick, Digital Cotton, Glidera, and Kraken. In order for Bitcoin and

digital currencies to reach mainstream adoption, the industry needs exchanges all around the world to provide access to the network.

“Through our research, we found many companies serving this function around the world; however, it became clear the Middle East was under-

served,” the founders stated.“Over the last two years we have

spoken with regulators, banks, and built meet-up communities in the Middle East to help legitimise this new tech-nology.

“After conversations with many re-gional regulators, it was clear to us that the Kingdom is the best home for an early digital currency exchange in the region.

“We began working closely with the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB), as well as other forward thinking institutions, such as the Economic Development Board (EDB) and Bahrain FinTech Bay (BFB).

“In September of 2017, we were invit-ed to join the CBB’s regulatory Sandbox.

‘Rain’ was the very first digital currency exchange to be admitted to the Sand-box, a historic moment for the industry and one that we are very proud of.”

When launched, the exchange will allow users to buy and sell several fiat currencies including Bahrain Dinar, Kuwaiti Dinar, Saudi Riyal, Oman riyal and US dollars and digital currencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Lite-coin.

‘Rain’ is subject to the capital reserve requirements, cybersecurity require-ments, and banking compliance stand-ards set forth by the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB).

‘Rain’ is headquartered in the King-dom with satellite offices in Riyadh, Cairo, and San Francisco.

Over the last two years we have spoken with regulators,

banks, and built meet-up communities in the Middle East to help legitimise this

new technology.FOUNDERS

ISB Induction Ceremony set TDT | Manama

The Induction ceremony of the new Executive Commit-

tee of the Indian School Bahrain (ISB) for the year 2017-2020 will be held today at the ISB Jashan-mal auditorium at 6 pm.

The full panel with 13 mem-bers has been formed after the Education Ministry nominated three parent members to the EC for the year 2017-2020.

The following are the mem-bers of the executive committee: Prince S Natarajan (Chairman), Saji Antony (Secretary), Jaya-far Maidani (Vice-Chairman), Adv Binu Mannil Varughese (Member, Finance), Moham-mad Khursheed Alam (Mem-ber, Academics and Procure-ment), Premalatha N S (Mem-ber, Projects and Maintenance), Rajesh M N (Member, Sports and Discipline), Ajayakrishnan V (Member, Health and Envi-ronment), Ministry Nominees Saji George (Member- Trans-port, Isa Town Campus), Deepak Gopalakrishnan (Member- IT) , Mohammed Nayaz Ullah (Mem-ber- Transport, Riffa Campus) and Staff Representative Johnson K Devassy. Principal will be the ex-officio member of the EC.


Minister lays foundation of two oil projectsManama

Minister of Oil, Shaikh Mohammed bin Khal-ifa Al Khalifa, yester-

day inaugurated the Wetland Water Treatment Project in the Sakhir area and the Hunainiyah Project.

The event was attended by Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Cli-mate Change, senior government officials and representatives of oil companies.

The Oil Minister said the launch of two projects high-lights the vital role played by the oil sector in the Kingdom’s economy.

He also praised the pioneering role played by the Kingdom at the regional and international levels in addressing the climate change phenomenon, which captures the greatest interest in the discus-sions of presidents and ministers

in forums and meetings. “The Wetland Water Treat-

ment Project is located on an area of 110 hectares to create a natural

water treatment system through the removal of pollutants through a range of natural processes me-diated by complex interactions

between water, plants, micro-or-ganisms, soil, gravel and air.

“The project will help im-prove the capacity to adapt to

climate change through the use of new innovative technologies to treat wastewater amounting to 80,000 cubic meters, and reduces groundwater extraction and sup-plement groundwater recharge.

“Wetland technology pro-vides a natural and sustainable solution to the environment and the oil and gas sector. Through which this project will reduce the release of 100,000 tonnes of carbondioxide per year due to water injection operations in deep wells.”

He added that the environmen-

tal benefits of this project are the use of water produced in irriga-tion for agriculture and landscap-ing, including green surfaces, the cooling of the surrounding area and the creation of a man-made value-added habitats for mi-gratory and resident birds and other wild animals, as well as making the region attractive for ecotourism and environmental education.

He said that this project would help to address the negative im-pact of climate change phenome-na by taking advantage of treated effluent that can be reused. This project will create an attraction for ecotourism and environmen-tal education, and will also create a valuable human-made habitat for migratory and resident birds and other wildlife. According to biologists, more than 64 species of birds feed in the cane beds, of which at least 13 species repro-duce in or around these wet-lands.

Shaikh Mohammed and Ms Espinosa, lay the foundation stone for the Wetland Water Treatment Project.

The project will help improve the capacity to adapt to climate change through the use of new innovative technologies

to treat wastewater. SHAIKH MOHAMMED

Man acquitted in embezzlement case ‘owing to lack of evidence’ Company accused ex-employee of stealing BD10,000 after collecting rents of buildings

• The company officials revealed that they discovered the misconduct in space of 10 days after performing audits on the cash flow.

• The High Criminal Court said in its ruling that the pieces of evidence gathered in the case were insufficient to hold him guilty.

TDT | Manama Ali Tarif

The High Criminal Court has acquitted a 69-year-old retired Bahraini

man of embezzling BD10,000 from his former employers fol-lowing conflicts in the state-ments of prosecution witness-es as well as lack of evidence.

The defendant was put on trial after he was accused of pocketing money the company received in rents for the build-ings it owned.

The company officials re-vealed that they discovered the

misconduct in space of 10 days after performing audits on the cash flow.

However, the Bahraini man described the case against

as malicious because it was lodged after he demanded a retirement package.

“I told them I am getting old and I need to retire. I asked them for my end-of-service package but they refused. I was told that I had obligations with the company. I gave them back the car key and my office key as well as other belongings,” the 69-year-old man said.

Standing by the company’s claims was the employee af-fairs chief at the firm, who told judges that the defendant em-bezzled BD11,982.

However, the number wasn’t

matching the one he revealed to prosecutors, as he told them that the defendant pocketed BD10,299.

“He was responsible for col-lecting rental money of several buildings. However, he didn’t hand over the money to us. And we later realised that he stole it,” the prosecution wit-ness told prosecutors.

However, the High Criminal Court said in its ruling that the pieces of evidence gathered in the case were insufficient to hold him guilty as it assured that the defendant didn’t com-mit the crime.

Ambitious of going to heaven, Bangladeshi man goes to jail! TDT | Manama Ali Tarif

A Bangladeshi man met three clerics in Dhaka Airport while he was

waiting for his flight to Bah-rain, and they gave him five re-ligious books, the court heard.

They asked him to deliv-er them to a man in Bahrain, pledging that he would cer-tainly go to heaven for the “no-ble act”.

However, a few hours lat-er, the customs officers in the Kingdom arrested the Bangla-deshi man for bid to smuggle marijuana into the Kingdom.

The accused was put on tri-al before the High Criminal Court which will issue its rul-ing in the case on November 21, 2018.

“I was asked to deliver the books. I didn’t know it contained marijuana pack-ets. The three clerics prom-ised me that I would go to

heaven for delivering the books,” the defendant told po-lice officers.

“They gave me the phone number and the name of the man who is supposed to re-ceive the books,” he revealed to them.

And he shared them with the officers questioning him. But the receiving party denied knowing anything about the books, though police officers arrested him too and referred him for trial.

The Bangladeshi man’s sa-liva was tested negative for banned drugs.

I told them I am getting old and I need to retire. I asked them for

my end-of-service package but they

refused. ACCUSED

Maximum sentence sought in Qatar conspiracy case TDT | Manama Ali Tarif

The Public Prosecution has urged the High Appeals Court to hand

down maximum punishment to Shai-kh Ali Salman, the former secretary general of the now dissolved Al Wefaq National Islamic Society for conspiring with Qatar against the Kingdom, while judges adjourned the case until No-vember 4, 2018, to announce the ruling.

Three opposition members have been tried in this case, Shaikh Ali Salman and two former Al Wefaq MPs – Hassan Ali Sultan and Ali Al Aswad.

They have been accused of spying on behalf of a foreign country.

They were cleared by the High Criminal Court, but Attorney Gener-al Osama Al Oufi lodged the appeal, citing “adequate proof to upturn their acquittals”.

He himself delivered the Public Pros-ecution’s closing argument yesterday in the presence of Shaikh Ali Salman and his lawyers.

In coordination with the Civil Defence Force, Airport Rescue and Firefighting Services conducted a fire evacuation exercise at Bahrain International Airport to evaluate the effectiveness of current response procedures and identify areas for improvement. Held in accordance with National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 101 standards, the exercise saw all personnel from the designated area evacuated to a safe assembly point. Its objectives were to familiarise new BIA staff with fire safety protocols, test the procedures for an abrupt stop to Passport Control operations, identify weaknesses in emergency communications procedures and systems, evaluate the efficiency of Fire Evacuation Wardens (FEW), and pinpoint any delays in the reaction plan.

The three clerics promised me that I would go to heaven for delivering the

books. DEFENDANT

Fire evacuation exercise

Staff and management of the different tenants of Galleria Mall in Zinj came together to mark the spirit of #TeamBahrain, pledging to work in solidarity with the vision of the Kingdom’s leaders as a contributor to the nation’s growth.

We support #TeamBahrain

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Robot in UK parliament invites ‘Maybot’ mockery

AFP | London, United Kingdom

A walking and talking robot appeared in Britain’s par-liament for the first time

yesterday, prompting Twitter users to seize the chance to heap more mockery on Theresa May.

The latest round of public amusement at the expense of the British premier came during a committee hearing on artificial intelligence (AI) and “the fourth industrial revolution”.

MPs on the education commit-tee invited a robot named Pepper -- a white female creation with an excruciatingly thin waist and a tablet computer stuck to her chest -- to answer some basic questions.

Asked whether humans would have a place in a brave new world where AI reigns supreme, Pepper responded in a reassur-ing voice.

“Robots will have an impor-tant role to play, but we will al-ways need the soft skills that

are unique to humans: to sense, make, and drive value from tech-nology,” the robot said.

She was asked about a few more completely unscripted matters before panelists moved

on to discuss ethics and social injustice.

Pepper listened and twirled

her head a few times.Comparisons to the premier’s

propensity to dance in a robotic manner and speak with method-ic precision -- traits that earned her the nickname “Maybot” -- quickly appeared on Twitter.

“Thats fantastic....but can it

do the Maybot,” asked someone named Hugh Duffy.

“Theresa May is looking al-most human these days,” Bene-dict Smyth offered.

And even the popular Politics Home website chipped in with: “NEW: A witness gave a robotic performance in front of a Com-mons committee… but it wasn’t Theresa May.”

The British leader has turned into a subject of periodic jokes on social networks as she strug-gles for pull her country out of the European Union without causing too much damage.

She has particularly taken to dancing -- something she did twice during an August trade mission to Africa and then at a Tory party conference this month.

Her moves did not earn high marks from bemused Britons. They also spawned an entire family of Maybot Twitter ac-counts pretending to speak in the prime minister’s name.

A video grab from footage broadcast by the UK Parliament’s Parliamentary Recording Unit (PRU) shows a robot called Pepper attending an Education Select Committee hearing in London

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May speaking in the House of Commons

Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’ to be restored - liveAFP | Amsterdam, Netherlands

Amsterdam’s famous Ri-jksmuseum is to restore the

Rembrandt masterpiece “The Night Watch” under the full gaze of the public, as well as lives-treaming it online, the museum said yesterday.

The unique project starting in July 2019 will let art lovers see behind the normally secretive process as one of the world’s best loved paintings is brought back to its full glory.

The multi-million-euro res-toration starting in July 2019 will be open to the two million people a year who come to the gallery in the capital of the Neth-erlands to see the Dutch mas-ter’s 1642 tableau.

But the painstaking work on the piece, which hangs in the

gallery of honour in the muse-um, will also be carried online so people around the world can see it be restored inch by inch.

“The Night Watch by Rem-brandt is one of the most famous paintings in the world and we feel we have to preserve it for fu-ture generations,” Rijksmuseum General Director Taco Dibbits told AFP.

“Over two million people a year come to see The Night Watch, it’s a painting that every-body loves, and we feel that the world has the right to see what we will do with it.”

The last restoration work was carried out 40 years ago after a mentally ill man slashed the painting with a knife.

Since then experts have no-ticed a white haze appear on parts of “The Night Watch”, es-

pecially in the area around the knife damage, where it is bleach-ing out the figure of a small dog.

Rembrandt Van Rijn was com-missioned in 1642 by the mayor and leader of the civic guard of Amsterdam, Frans Banninck Cocq, to paint the picture of the officers and other members of the militia heading out on The Night Watch.

Dibbits said it was special be-cause it is the first painting of its kind to show such a group in motion, rather than in static poses, and that the restoration would show this to full effect.

“Conservation is usually done behind closed doors, but this is such an important painting, we feel that the public who owns it has the right to see it and we want to share this very impor-tant moment,” he said.The masterpiece is due for maintenance

Like a ‘concrete block on chest’AFP | Moscow, Russia

Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin yesterday said

the G-force during last week’s emergency landing of the Soyuz spacecraft felt like a concrete block on his chest but he and NASA astronaut Nick Hague are now in “great” health.

Ovchinin and Hague were forced to make an emergen-cy landing after an accident on their rocket minutes after blast-off to the International Space Station, with the rapid deceleration subjecting them to a painful G-force overload. In an

interview with state Rossiya-24 television, Ovchinin said that “the direction of this (G-force) overload during the descent was from the chest to the back, so imagine that somebody put a big concrete block on your chest that is seven times your weight.”

The 47-year-old cosmonaut who has already flown into space once before in 2016, nev-ertheless said that the G-force was “not that big, a bit less than 7G.” 7G is below what cosmo-nauts have to withstand dur-ing training and has not caused long-term ill-effects. “I am feel-

ing well, so is my colleague, US astronaut Nick Hague,” Ovchin-in said.

“The doctors concluded that our health is good, even great.”

Both are now waiting for the results of an investigation into why the Soyuz rocket malfunc-tioned.Ovchinin said he and Hague understood something was wrong when emergency lights came on in the cabin and used their training to get through it.

“For the most part, the rescue system worked automatically, and we just followed the sys-

tem,” he said.In footage of the flight re-

leased by the Russian space agency Roscosmos Ovchinin can be heard calmly telling mis-sion control that there has been an “accident” and even quip-ping about a particularly “short flight” before the feed is cut off.

“There was no time to be nervous, because we had to work,” he said.

“We had to go through the steps that crew has to take and prepare for emergency landing... so that the crew is still function-ing after landing.”

Egyptians farmed fish 3,500 years ago: studyJerusalem, Undefined

Egyptians practised fish farming more than 3,500

years ago, according to a joint German-Israeli study released on Tuesday.

Scientists studied 100 fish teeth found at archaeologi-cal sites across modern-day Israel to conclude they had been plucked from a lagoon in Egypt’s Sinai thousands of years ago.

“The sample of teeth cov-

ered a chronological period extending over 10,000 years, from the early Neolithic period through to the early Islam-ic period,” said a statement from Israel’s Haifa University, one of the participants in the study.

Farmers at the time found a lagoon which fish were enter-ing and barricaded it for a few months, Guy Bar-Oz, one of the authors of the report and archaeology professor at the University of Haifa.

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The rise of Antara The legendary Arab poet is now reborn as a comic book superhero

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

In a red cape, dark hair blow-ing in the wind, he crosses

the dunes under a blazing sun: Antara, the famed 6th century Arab poet born a slave, is now a superhero.

A pre-Islamic poet, Antara is celebrated in the collective memory of Arabs as well as in pop culture -- a child born to a tribal leader and his Abyssinian slave who rose as a warrior-poet to free himself and demand his father recognise him as his son, and a free man.

Now, he stars in his own comic strip, reimagined as a shield-wielding, cape-wearing superhero by Egyptian writer Mumen Hilmi and renowned Indian illustrator Ashraf Ghuri.

The story of Antara breaks across the class and race lines that frequently dominate so-ciety, the “perfect example of what it means to be a superhero,” writer Hilmi says.

“Arabs like the exaggerated personality traits of heroes, and we thought why not transform Antara into a superhero like those you see in the US, Europe, Japan.”

“Antara” is the first comic strip to be published by Kalimat, a publishing house based in the UAE emirate of Sharjah which specialises in Arabic translations of Japanese manga and US car-toonist Nick Seluk’s series, “The Awkward Yeti” and “Heart and Brain”.

The story weaves a tale of bravery, slavery, freedom, loy-alty and love -- and co-stars his beloved Abla, daughter of a trib-al sheikh and object of Antara’s undying affection.

‘Cowards run’

Antara casts off the shackles of his early life to rise as a warrior and claim his rightful place as the son of Shaddad, leader of the Banu Abs tribe.

But the facts of Antara’s life remain unclear: one tale holds that Antara ibn Shaddad al-Absi was born to an Ethiopian prin-cess; another more popular tale holds that he was born to a dark-skinned Abyssinian slave.

Antara’s father, a tribal chief from what is today western Sau-di Arabia, refused to recognise his son, who was thus born a slave. Antara rebelled against

his status as a slave when, after valiantly defending his tribe, he was given only half the compen-sation granted to warriors.

He went into self-imposed exile in the desert and refused to participate in the defence of his tribe -- until he was one day called on to come to the aid of his people.

Legend has it that that was how Antara earned his freedom.

The comic strip narrates “the

beginning of his life as a slave, mistreated by his tribe because of the colour of his skin and the status of his mother, to become a hero on the frontline,” Hilmi says.

Antara’s strength is matched only by his poetry, which has two main themes: his wartime exploits, and his love for his cousin Abla, the daughter of a tribal sheikh.

Whether Antara and Abla’s

love story had a happy ending, or ended in tragedy, no one knows.

But Antara’s famed poetry is still taught in curricula across the Arab world, with his “Mu’al-laqa” -- part of the pre-Islamic canon of Arabic poetry -- hung in the holy city of Mecca and still the source of many a catch-phrase in popular culture.

“Often I’ve defended/the women of Amir/ their legs slim/

and tender as stalks from the onslaught of armed raiders,” reads an English translation of Antara’s “War Songs”, published by NYU Press.

“I won’t be able to outrun Fate when she comes.

“Cowards run. I stand my ground.”

‘Slave or son?’Antara has served as the inspi-ration for artists and musicians around the world, with 19th cen-tury Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov dedicating a symphony in four movements to his story.

The creators of the “Antara” comic strip believe the legend will resonate with modern au-diences both within the Arab world and across the globe.

“This story has universal ap-peal,” said Hilmi, particularly as it deals with racism.

“We incorporated illustrations of what we imagined to be An-tara’s childhood, when he first faced discrimination and mis-treatment at the hands of his peers and his father.”

The cause of Antara’s death is also a matter of debate, with some saying the warrior died of natural causes and others pointing to evidence that he was killed by a poisoned arrow.

The comic strip does not offer answers.

While it leaves questions of Antara’s life and demise hang-ing, the creators’ focus is quite clear.

In a face-off with his father, a bearded Antara clenches his fist and stands tall: “I want nothing but what every child wants of his father.

“Tell me, am I slave or son?”

Comic artist Mumen Hilmi poses in his office with his illustrated comic book “Antara” in the Gulf emirate of Sharjah. - Antara, an Arab poet and war hero who suffered from racism and rejection because of his dark skin color, is now a star of an Arabic comic book.

Female car mechanic driving change in PakistanAFP | Multan, Pakistan

Since picking up a wrench as one of the first female car

mechanics in conservative Pa-kistan, Uzma Nawaz has faced two common reactions: shock and surprise. And then a bit of respect.

The 24-year-old spent years overcoming entrenched gen-der stereotypes and financial hurdles en route to earning a mechanical engineering degree and netting a job with an auto repairs garage in the eastern city of Multan.

“I took it up as a challenge against all odds and the meagre financial resources of my fami-ly,” Nawaz said.

“When they see me doing this type of work they are really sur-prised.”

Hailing from the small, im-poverished town of Dunyapur in eastern Pakistan’s Punjab prov-ince, Nawaz relied on scholar-ships and often skipped meals

when she was broke while pur-suing her degree.

Her achievements are rare. Women have long struggled for their rights in conservative pa-

triarchal Pakistan, and especially in rural areas are often encour-aged to marry young and devote themselves entirely to family over career.

“No hardship could break my will and motivation,” she says proudly.

The sacrifices cleared the way for steady work at a Toyota

dealership in Multan following graduation, she adds.

Just a year into the job, and promoted to general repairs, Nawaz moves with the ease of a seasoned pro around the deal-ership’s garage, removing tyres from raised vehicles, inspecting

engines and handling a variety of tools -- a sight that initially jolted some customers.

“I was shocked to see a young girl lifting heavy spare tyres and then putting them back on ve-hicles after repairs,” customer Arshad Ahmad told AFP.

But Nawaz’s drive and exper-tise has impressed colleagues, who say she can more than hold her own.

“Whatever task we give her she does it like a man with hard work and dedication,” said cow-orker M. Attaullah.

She has also convinced some of those who doubted her ability to make it in a male-dominated work environment, including members of her own family.

“There is no need in our so-ciety for girls to work at work-shops, it doesn’t seems nice, but it is her passion,” said her father Muhammad Nawaz.

“She can now set up the ma-chinery and can work properly. I too am very happy.”

Pakistani motor mechanic Uzma Nawaz, 24, fixes a car at an auto workshop in Multan.

KNOW WHAT

The 24-year-old spent years over-

coming gender stereotypes and financial hurdles

en route to earning a mechanical engi-

neering degree

A pre-Islamic poet, Antara is celebrated

in the collective memory of Arabs as well as in pop cul-ture -- a child born to a tribal leader

and his Abyssinian slave who rose as a warrior-poet to free himself and demand his father recognise him as his son, and a

free man.

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MAKING MONEY IS ART AND WORKING IS ART AND GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART.ANDY WARHOL

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MONICA DE BOLLE

Driven by anger, resentment and a desire to obliterate the establishment, Bra-

zilians chose on Oct. 7 two presi-dential candidates at the extreme ends of the ideological spectrum. Jair Bolsonaro, a hard-right fire-brand who has spoken fondly of the country’s bygone military dictatorship, and the left-wing Fernando Haddad, from the cor-ruption-mired Brazil’s Worker’s Party, will now face off in a sec-ond round of voting on Oct. 28.

The next president will con-front daunting challenges. Chief among them is a limp economy that could spiral into a major fiscal crisis.

The economy has not fully re-covered from the recession of 2015-16, the worst ever to hit the country. Growth has resumed, but not enough to create jobs for the more than 13 million unem-ployed Brazilian workers. Infla-

tion has been contained, despite recent financial market turbu-lence, but wages are stagnant.

Most ominous, Brazil has high and uncontrolled deficits and a ratio of debt to gross domestic product that are unsustainable.

These challenges require com-prehensive action: spending cuts and tax increases, accompanied by pension reform. Without ur-gent moves, debt could reach 100% of GDP in the next two years, leaving the government unable to finance itself. A fiscal crisis would tip the country back into recession, slashing even more jobs in an already grim la-bor market.

Bolsonaro or Haddad will have no choice but to face up to this dire outlook. But so far, neither candidate seems willing to do so.

Although austerity could hurt growth in the short term, the only way to reduce the widen-ing gap between revenues and expenditures is by paying the price of a weaker economy now to guarantee the return of stabil-ity and growth later. The politics of the moment will complicate this prescription.

The next president will face a

highly fragmented Congress; 30 political parties will have seats in the next session, up from 28. And neither candidate has the right political experience to build sta-ble coalitions.

Bolsonaro’s party, the Social Liberal Party, known as the PSL, made big gains on Oct. 7, winning 52 seats to the lower house of Congress. It’s now the second biggest party in Congress, behind Haddad’s PT. And Bolsonaro’s supporters also look likely to win governorships in key states, such as São Paulo and Minas Gerais, Brazil’s most populous state, in the runoff on Oct. 28.

But Bolsonaro has promised to halve the number of cabinet positions to reduce costs, and this may hurt his ability to forge a stable coalition. Brazil has some 29 cabinet posts — much too many. Coalitions are built by handing off cabinet jobs to allied parties. If there are fewer cabinet positions on offer, the incentive for political parties to align with the president is lowered, making legislation much more difficult to pass.

Haddad’s PT holds 56 seats in Congress, a decrease from 2014

but still the most in Congress. As president, he would face hostil-ity from Bolsonaro-supporting

governors, who have a lot of in-fluence in Congress, helping to shape policies or hampering re-

form. Haddad, if elected, would also have to confront anger to-wards his party for recent cor-

NASRULLAH MAMBROL

The Oxford Dictionaries define “post-truth” as “re-lating to or denoting cir-

cumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shap-ing public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” In this, they underline that the prefix “post” is meant to indicate not so much the idea that we are “past” truth in a temporal sense (as in “postwar”) but in the sense that truth has been eclipsed—that it is irrelevant. These are fighting words to many philosophers, but it is worth noting that this is much more than an academic dispute. In 2005, Stephen Colbert coined the term “truthiness” (defined as being persuaded by whether something feels true, even if it is not necessarily backed up by the facts) in response to George W Bush’s excesses in relying on his “gut” for big decisions—such as the nomination of Harriet Miers for the US Supreme Court or going to war in Iraq without adequate proof of weapons of mass destruction. When the term was coined, “truth-iness” was treated as a big joke, but people aren’t laughing anymore.

The word “post-truth” is irre-ducibly normative. It is an expres-sion of concern by those who care

about the concept of truth and feel that it is under attack. But what about those who feel that they are merely trying to tell the “other side of the story” on controver-sial topics? That there really is a case to be made for alternative facts? The idea of a single ob-jective truth has never been free from controversy. Is admitting this necessarily conservative? Or liberal? Or perhaps it is a fusion, whereby largely leftwing relativist and postmodernist attacks on the idea of truth from decades ago have now simply been co-opted by right-wing political operatives.

The concept of truth in philoso-phy goes all the way back to Plato, who warned (through Socrates) of the dangers of false claims to knowledge. Ignorance, Socrates felt, was remediable; if one is ig-norant, one can be taught. The greater threat comes from those who have the hubris to think that they already know the truth, for then one might be impetuous enough to act on a falsehood. It is important at this point to give at least a minimal definition of truth. Perhaps the most famous is that of Aristotle, who said: “to say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.” Nat-urally, philosophers have fought for centuries over whether this sort of “correspondence” view is correct, whereby we judge the truth of a statement only by how well it fits reality. Other promi-

nent conceptions of truth (coher-entist, pragmatist, semantic) re-flect a diversity of opinion among philosophers about the proper theory of truth, even while—as a value—there seems little dispute that truth is important.

For now, however, the question at hand is not whether we have the proper theory of truth, but how to make sense of the different ways that people subvert truth. As a first step, it is important to acknowledge that we sometimes make mistakes and say things that are untrue without meaning to do so. In that case, one is uttering a “falsehood,” as opposed to a lie, for the mistake is not intentional. The next step beyond this is “will-ful ignorance,” which is when we do not really know whether some-thing is true, but we say it anyway, without bothering to take the time to find out whether our infor-mation is correct. In this case, we might justifiably blame the speaker for his or her laziness, for if the facts are easily available, the person who states a falsehood seems at least partially responsi-ble for any ignorance. Next comes lying, when we tell a falsehood with intent to deceive. This is an important milestone, for we have here crossed over into attempting to deceive another person, even though we know that what we are saying is untrue. By definition, every lie has an audience. We may not feel responsible for uttering a falsehood if no one is listening (or if we are sure that no one will

believe it), but when our intent is to manipulate someone into believing something that we know to be untrue, we have graduated from the mere “interpretation” of facts into their falsification. Is that what post-truth is about?

In its purest form, post-truth is when one thinks that the crowd’s reaction actually does change the facts about a lie. Even though it seems important to illuminate their differences and understand that there are many ways one can fit underneath the post-truth um-brella, none of this should be ac-ceptable to those who genuinely care about the notion of truth. But the tricky part is not to explain ignorance, lying, cynicism, indif-ference, political spin, or even delusion. We have lived with these for centuries. Rather, what seems new in the post-truth era is a chal-

lenge not just to the idea of know-ing reality but to the existence of reality itself. When an individual is misinformed or mistaken, he or she will likely pay the price; wishing that a new drug will cure

Brazil can’t afford to ignore its dire economic outlookNeither of the two presidential candidates has offered a comprehensive plan for an increasingly shaky economy

The word ‘post-truth’ is irreducibly normative

In its purest form, post-

truth is when one

thinks that the crowd’s

reaction actually does

change the facts about a

lie

If one looks at the Oxford definition, and how all of

this has played out in recent public debate, one gets

the sense that post-truth is not so much a claim that truth does not exist as that facts are subordinate to our

political point of view.

1604Kepler’s Supernova: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes a supernova in the constellation Ophiuchus.

1610French king Louis XIII is crowned in Reims Cathedral.

1660Nine regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered.

1662Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for 40,000 pounds.

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@realDonaldTrump

I muted all the crypto and blockchain words.

There’s nothing for me to gain tweeting about that stuff just got both the troll accounts and real people in the space upset. Bonus is feed is cleaner. Let me know if you still want commen-tary but will prob leave it alone for bit.

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Read Priya Ramani’s husband on what

kind of courage it takes to take on a powerful male sexual predator & call him out in our soci-ety. Priya & many other women have picked up that courage & we must thank & support them

@pbhushan1

He hadn’t tweeted WITCH HUNT (tm)

since mid September. Something is agitating him/concerning him this morning.

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ruption scandals. Many former members of PT’s leadership are in prison, including former Pres-ident Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Despite these political chal-lenges, we still have little idea what the candidates would do for the economy, less than three weeks from the runoff. In pre-vious elections, candidates pre-sented comprehensive economic plans. Not this time. Bolsonaro and Haddad have been vague and general when discussing the economy.

To be fair, Brazilian voters have been mainly concerned about corruption and violence. Rio de Janeiro, which hosted the Olympic Games in 2016, has had such a spike in violence that federal government ordered a military intervention. Brazilians have wanted to hear candidates’ plans for cleaning up the gov-ernment and restoring law and order.

Bolsonaro, in choosing a prom-inent, pro-market chief econom-ic adviser, has hinted that he plans to embrace a more liber-al economic philosophy. But he is known to have nationalistic views, with a preference for state

intervention to drive growth — not unlike policies that the PT has pursued in the recent past.

Some observers appear to be-lieve that his views have changed — but in the absence of detailed plans, there’s little reason to be-lieve that.

Haddad has also failed to offer much substance. Although he has vowed to study the pension crisis, he has not recognised that reform is necessary. Moreover, he has defended the need for a strong public investment pro-gram to create jobs, but he has

not explained where the mon-ey will come from. Haddad has talked loosely about the need for tax reform, but there’s no clar-ity on what measures it would entail. It is likely that he would need to bow to the wishes of the left-wing PT leadership and thus avoid politically unpopular fiscal reforms.

Following Bolsonaro’s strong showing on Oct. 7, the currency rallied and stock markets rose. Markets dipped on Oct. 10, as they did around the globe, but enough investors appear to be-lieve that Bolsonaro, if elected, will deliver pension and fiscal reform. Yet we don’t have good reason to be sure.

No matter what happens on Oct. 28, the economic outlook is bleak. Brazil’s problems are far from over, and the two pres-idential candidates don’t appear to have the plans or the political capital to make the necessary reforms. There is still too little to cheer in Latin America’s largest economy.

(Monica de Bolle is the director of Latin American Studies at

Johns Hopkins University. )

our heart disease will not make it so. But when leaders are in denial over basic facts, the consequences can be world shattering.

If one looks at the Oxford defi-nition, and how all of this has played out in recent public de-bate, one gets the sense that post-truth is not so much a claim that truth does not exist as that facts are subordinate to our political point of view. The Oxford defi-nition focuses on “what” post-truth is: the idea that feelings sometimes matter more than facts. But just as important is the next question, which is why this ever occurs. Someone does not dispute an obvious or easily confirmable fact for no reason; he or she does so when it is to his or her advantage. When a per-son’s beliefs are threatened by an “inconvenient fact,” sometimes

it is preferable to challenge the fact. This can happen at either a conscious or unconscious level (since sometimes the person we are seeking to convince is our-selves), but the point is that this sort of post-truth relationship to facts occurs only when we are seeking to assert something that is more important to us than the truth itself. Thus post-truth amounts to a form of ideological supremacy, whereby its prac-titioners are trying to compel someone to believe in something whether there is good evidence for it or not. And this is a recipe for political domination.

But this perspective can and should be challenged. Do we want to live in a world where policy is made based on how it makes us feel rather than how well it will work in reality? The human an-imal may be wired to give some credence to our superstitions and fears, but this does not mean that we cannot train ourselves to embrace better standards of ev-idence. There may be legitimate theoretical questions about our ability to know objective truth, but this does not mean that epis-temologists and critical theorists do not go to a physician when they get sick. Neither should govern-ments build more prisons because they “feel” that crime is going up.

So what to do? The first step in fighting post-truth is to under-stand its genesis. It may seem to some commentators that the idea of post-truth simply burst onto

the scene in 2016, but that is not the case. The word “post-truth” may have seen a recent uptick—as a result of Brexit and the US presi-dential election—but the phenom-enon itself has deep roots that go back thousands of years, to the evolution of cognitive irrationali-ties that are shared by liberals and conservatives alike. As previously suggested, it also has roots in ac-ademic debates over the impossi-bility of objective truth that have been used to attack the authority of science. And all of this has been exacerbated by recent changes in the media landscape. But in trying to understand the phenomenon of post-truth we are fortunate to have a ready-made road map to guide us.

Although it may seem alien and perplexing, the phenomenon of post-truth is neither opaque nor impenetrable. Yet neither is it so simple that it can be understood in a single word: Trump. In a world in which politicians can challenge the facts and pay no political price whatsoever, post-truth is bigger than any one per-son. It exists in us as well as our leaders. And the forces behind it have been building up for quite some time. Although the Brex-it vote and the US presidential election may seem inextricably tied up with post-truth, neither was the cause of it—they were the result.

(Nasrullah Mambrol is an academician and blogger.)


The word ‘post-truth’ is irreducibly normativeA special committee of the World Meteorological Organization maintains lists of names to be used for tropical cyclones – around the world.

Wide Angle

Typhoons, Hurricanes and Cyclones: What’s in a name?

The devastation wreaked by Hurricane Michael, across the Florida-panhandle of USA this week, was too much of nature’s fury, to see.

The video footage I watched on a website, shot by a drone, showed houses demolished, boats destroyed, streets flooded and cars pulverized; and any viewer can understand that the affected people must be emo-tionally shattered.

Just a few days ago, Hurricane Florence had hit the Carolinas, in the same country. And now, here’s a new wave of destruction unleashed by Hurricane Michael.

On India’s east coast too, this week, Cyclone Titli ruined the coastal regions of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha states.

Cyclone Luban made the landfall on the coast of Yemen, on 14 October. And, as I write this, Cyclone Leslie is slamming into Portugal.

Super Typhoon Trami too, will hit southern Japan this weekend, and it could be very dangerous, accord-ing to some meteorologists.

While Typhoons, Cyclones and Hurricanes are re-gional terms for the same devastating and destructive whirlwinds, the naming system itself, I thought, could be an interesting thing to investigate; for interested readers.

After a bit of exploration for information in cyber-space, given below is a composition of what I found share-worthy.

Until the 20th century, there was no proper Inter-national naming system.

The San Mateo Hurricane of 1565, which decimated the French fleet on its way to attack the Span-ish settlement in St. Augustine (in current day Florida), got its name because it had made landfall a day after the feast of St. Matthew.

The hurricane that devastated Galveston, Texas, in 1900, killing 6,000–12,000 people, is called the Great Galveston Hurricane; with-out any person’s name.

Naming with people’s names started with Clement Wragge, an Australian meteorolo-gist, who in the 1890s entertained himself by naming storms after women, mythical figures, and politicians that he did not like.

Following his method, according to Ency-clopedia Britannica, meteorologists had con-tinued using women’s names—often those of wives or girlfriends—instead of cumbersome designations based on latitude and longitude.

As the names were short and quickly under-stood, and as they were easier to transmit over the radio, and easier to follow - if there was

more than one storm in a given area - it became a norm.Since 1953, when the National Weather Service has

put together, an alphabetical list of female names to be used, for storms in the Atlantic basin, it had become a practice. But male names were added to the list only since 1979, when women’s groups pointed out the sexism in the nomenclature.

Today, Male and female names are alternately used.A special committee of the World Meteorological

Organization maintains lists of names to be used for tropical cyclones – around the world.

The names on the list must be short, distinctive, and relevant to their cultural and geographic areas so that they are easy for people to remember.

For the Atlantic basin there are six alphabetical lists of 21 names each, and the lists cycle yearly.

So, it is very likely, that many of the names on the 2018 list, which starts with Alberto, Beryl, Chris, Deb-by, Ernesto, and Florence will recur in 2024.

Usually they leave out Q, U, X, Y and Z, as names starting with these letters are not easy to find.

In the listing of Northern Indian Ocean tropical cy-clone names, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Myanmar, Oman, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Thailand contribute by sending names. Cyclone Titli is an Indian contribution and Cyclone Luban is Oman’s contribution

The only time that there is a change in these lists is when a storm is so deadly or so costly that the future use of its name would be inappropriate for reasons of sensitivity. The names would be retired.

Names such as Katrina (USA, 2005), Mitch (Hondu-ras, 1998), Tracy (Darwin, 1974), Haiyan (Philippines, 2013) and Sandy (USA, 2012) are all retired. I hope Hurricane Michael will retire too.

JOEL INDRUPATI

1604Kepler’s Supernova: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes a supernova in the constellation Ophiuchus.

1610French king Louis XIII is crowned in Reims Cathedral.

1660Nine regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered.

1662Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for 40,000 pounds.

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Is it really possible that Bruce Ohr, whose wife

Nellie was paid by Simp-son and GPS Fusion for work done on the Fake Dossier, and who was used as a Pawn in this whole SCAM (WITCH HUNT), is still working for the Department of Justice????? Can this re-ally be so?????

@realDonaldTrump

I muted all the crypto and blockchain words.

There’s nothing for me to gain tweeting about that stuff just got both the troll accounts and real people in the space upset. Bonus is feed is cleaner. Let me know if you still want commen-tary but will prob leave it alone for bit.

@AdamSinger

Read Priya Ramani’s husband on what

kind of courage it takes to take on a powerful male sexual predator & call him out in our soci-ety. Priya & many other women have picked up that courage & we must thank & support them

@pbhushan1

He hadn’t tweeted WITCH HUNT (tm)

since mid September. Something is agitating him/concerning him this morning.

@maggieNYT

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

editorial stances)

ruption scandals. Many former members of PT’s leadership are in prison, including former Pres-ident Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Despite these political chal-lenges, we still have little idea what the candidates would do for the economy, less than three weeks from the runoff. In pre-vious elections, candidates pre-sented comprehensive economic plans. Not this time. Bolsonaro and Haddad have been vague and general when discussing the economy.

To be fair, Brazilian voters have been mainly concerned about corruption and violence. Rio de Janeiro, which hosted the Olympic Games in 2016, has had such a spike in violence that federal government ordered a military intervention. Brazilians have wanted to hear candidates’ plans for cleaning up the gov-ernment and restoring law and order.

Bolsonaro, in choosing a prom-inent, pro-market chief econom-ic adviser, has hinted that he plans to embrace a more liber-al economic philosophy. But he is known to have nationalistic views, with a preference for state

intervention to drive growth — not unlike policies that the PT has pursued in the recent past.

Some observers appear to be-lieve that his views have changed — but in the absence of detailed plans, there’s little reason to be-lieve that.

Haddad has also failed to offer much substance. Although he has vowed to study the pension crisis, he has not recognised that reform is necessary. Moreover, he has defended the need for a strong public investment pro-gram to create jobs, but he has

not explained where the mon-ey will come from. Haddad has talked loosely about the need for tax reform, but there’s no clar-ity on what measures it would entail. It is likely that he would need to bow to the wishes of the left-wing PT leadership and thus avoid politically unpopular fiscal reforms.

Following Bolsonaro’s strong showing on Oct. 7, the currency rallied and stock markets rose. Markets dipped on Oct. 10, as they did around the globe, but enough investors appear to be-lieve that Bolsonaro, if elected, will deliver pension and fiscal reform. Yet we don’t have good reason to be sure.

No matter what happens on Oct. 28, the economic outlook is bleak. Brazil’s problems are far from over, and the two pres-idential candidates don’t appear to have the plans or the political capital to make the necessary reforms. There is still too little to cheer in Latin America’s largest economy.

(Monica de Bolle is the director of Latin American Studies at

Johns Hopkins University. )

our heart disease will not make it so. But when leaders are in denial over basic facts, the consequences can be world shattering.

If one looks at the Oxford defi-nition, and how all of this has played out in recent public de-bate, one gets the sense that post-truth is not so much a claim that truth does not exist as that facts are subordinate to our political point of view. The Oxford defi-nition focuses on “what” post-truth is: the idea that feelings sometimes matter more than facts. But just as important is the next question, which is why this ever occurs. Someone does not dispute an obvious or easily confirmable fact for no reason; he or she does so when it is to his or her advantage. When a per-son’s beliefs are threatened by an “inconvenient fact,” sometimes

it is preferable to challenge the fact. This can happen at either a conscious or unconscious level (since sometimes the person we are seeking to convince is our-selves), but the point is that this sort of post-truth relationship to facts occurs only when we are seeking to assert something that is more important to us than the truth itself. Thus post-truth amounts to a form of ideological supremacy, whereby its prac-titioners are trying to compel someone to believe in something whether there is good evidence for it or not. And this is a recipe for political domination.

But this perspective can and should be challenged. Do we want to live in a world where policy is made based on how it makes us feel rather than how well it will work in reality? The human an-imal may be wired to give some credence to our superstitions and fears, but this does not mean that we cannot train ourselves to embrace better standards of ev-idence. There may be legitimate theoretical questions about our ability to know objective truth, but this does not mean that epis-temologists and critical theorists do not go to a physician when they get sick. Neither should govern-ments build more prisons because they “feel” that crime is going up.

So what to do? The first step in fighting post-truth is to under-stand its genesis. It may seem to some commentators that the idea of post-truth simply burst onto

the scene in 2016, but that is not the case. The word “post-truth” may have seen a recent uptick—as a result of Brexit and the US presi-dential election—but the phenom-enon itself has deep roots that go back thousands of years, to the evolution of cognitive irrationali-ties that are shared by liberals and conservatives alike. As previously suggested, it also has roots in ac-ademic debates over the impossi-bility of objective truth that have been used to attack the authority of science. And all of this has been exacerbated by recent changes in the media landscape. But in trying to understand the phenomenon of post-truth we are fortunate to have a ready-made road map to guide us.

Although it may seem alien and perplexing, the phenomenon of post-truth is neither opaque nor impenetrable. Yet neither is it so simple that it can be understood in a single word: Trump. In a world in which politicians can challenge the facts and pay no political price whatsoever, post-truth is bigger than any one per-son. It exists in us as well as our leaders. And the forces behind it have been building up for quite some time. Although the Brex-it vote and the US presidential election may seem inextricably tied up with post-truth, neither was the cause of it—they were the result.

(Nasrullah Mambrol is an academician and blogger.)


The word ‘post-truth’ is irreducibly normativeA special committee of the World Meteorological Organization maintains lists of names to be used for tropical cyclones – around the world.

Wide Angle

Typhoons, Hurricanes and Cyclones: What’s in a name?

The devastation wreaked by Hurricane Michael, across the Florida-panhandle of USA this week, was too much of nature’s fury, to see.

The video footage I watched on a website, shot by a drone, showed houses demolished, boats destroyed, streets flooded and cars pulverized; and any viewer can understand that the affected people must be emo-tionally shattered.

Just a few days ago, Hurricane Florence had hit the Carolinas, in the same country. And now, here’s a new wave of destruction unleashed by Hurricane Michael.

On India’s east coast too, this week, Cyclone Titli ruined the coastal regions of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha states.

Cyclone Luban made the landfall on the coast of Yemen, on 14 October. And, as I write this, Cyclone Leslie is slamming into Portugal.

Super Typhoon Trami too, will hit southern Japan this weekend, and it could be very dangerous, accord-ing to some meteorologists.

While Typhoons, Cyclones and Hurricanes are re-gional terms for the same devastating and destructive whirlwinds, the naming system itself, I thought, could be an interesting thing to investigate; for interested readers.

After a bit of exploration for information in cyber-space, given below is a composition of what I found share-worthy.

Until the 20th century, there was no proper Inter-national naming system.

The San Mateo Hurricane of 1565, which decimated the French fleet on its way to attack the Span-ish settlement in St. Augustine (in current day Florida), got its name because it had made landfall a day after the feast of St. Matthew.

The hurricane that devastated Galveston, Texas, in 1900, killing 6,000–12,000 people, is called the Great Galveston Hurricane; with-out any person’s name.

Naming with people’s names started with Clement Wragge, an Australian meteorolo-gist, who in the 1890s entertained himself by naming storms after women, mythical figures, and politicians that he did not like.

Following his method, according to Ency-clopedia Britannica, meteorologists had con-tinued using women’s names—often those of wives or girlfriends—instead of cumbersome designations based on latitude and longitude.

As the names were short and quickly under-stood, and as they were easier to transmit over the radio, and easier to follow - if there was

more than one storm in a given area - it became a norm.Since 1953, when the National Weather Service has

put together, an alphabetical list of female names to be used, for storms in the Atlantic basin, it had become a practice. But male names were added to the list only since 1979, when women’s groups pointed out the sexism in the nomenclature.

Today, Male and female names are alternately used.A special committee of the World Meteorological

Organization maintains lists of names to be used for tropical cyclones – around the world.

The names on the list must be short, distinctive, and relevant to their cultural and geographic areas so that they are easy for people to remember.

For the Atlantic basin there are six alphabetical lists of 21 names each, and the lists cycle yearly.

So, it is very likely, that many of the names on the 2018 list, which starts with Alberto, Beryl, Chris, Deb-by, Ernesto, and Florence will recur in 2024.

Usually they leave out Q, U, X, Y and Z, as names starting with these letters are not easy to find.

In the listing of Northern Indian Ocean tropical cy-clone names, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Myanmar, Oman, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Thailand contribute by sending names. Cyclone Titli is an Indian contribution and Cyclone Luban is Oman’s contribution

The only time that there is a change in these lists is when a storm is so deadly or so costly that the future use of its name would be inappropriate for reasons of sensitivity. The names would be retired.

Names such as Katrina (USA, 2005), Mitch (Hondu-ras, 1998), Tracy (Darwin, 1974), Haiyan (Philippines, 2013) and Sandy (USA, 2012) are all retired. I hope Hurricane Michael will retire too.

JOEL INDRUPATI

Bahrain bags top global tax transparency rating

Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes ranks Kingdom as “compliant”

• The rating first in the region

• Enhances Kingdom’s status as leasing financial centre

• The ratings based on second round of review

TDT | Manama

Bahrain is fully “compliant’ with the internationally agreed tax trans-parency and exchange of informa-

tion standards, according to the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes.

In its latest review by the Global Fo-rum, which ranks countries by its ability to exchange information for tax purpos-es, the Kingdom is rated high also for the first time in the region.

In 2013, Bahrain was considered only “largely compliant”. The Global Forum completed its first round of peer reviews in 2016.

The first review looked into the legal and regulatory framework of countries, while the second review evaluated the extent to which the regulations were

implemented. Each essential element is rated as “compliant”, “largely compliant, “partially compliant”, or “non-compli-ant”.

In this round, the Global Forum completed 268 peer reviews and as-signed compliance ratings to 119 juris-dictions that have undergone both Phase 1 and Phase 2 reviews or the Fast-Track Review procedure.

The review considers the ability to

exchange ownership information, ac-counting records, bank information, ac-cess powers, rights and safeguards, net-work of agreements, and confidentiality among others.

“This rating, the first in the region, enhances Bahrain’s status as a leading

financial centre,” said Rana E. Faqihi, Assistant Undersecretary Assistant Un-dersecretary for Development and Rev-enue Policies at the Ministry of Finance.

The Global Forum has approved Bah-rain’s Second Round Exchange of Infor-mation on Request Peer Review Report with an overall rating of “Compliant”.

Rana E. Faqihi stressed that the ratings based on the second round of review leave a positive impact on the financial and banking sector in Bahrain.

The United States, United Kingdom, Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, India, Germany, Cayman Islands, Canada, Bra-zil, Austria, Australia are some of the other major nations in the group. They are rated as “Largely Compliant” as per the second Round of EOIR peer reviews, which is ongoing.

During the nine-month-long evalua-tion process, the Global Forum thorough-ly assessed Bahrain’s ability and effec-tiveness in exchanging tax information on request with its treaty partners.

Bahrain has signed 50 bilateral ex-change of information mechanisms, of which 48 are in force, along with the multilateral Convention on Mutual Ad-ministrative Assistance in Tax Matters, which entered into force for Bahrain on 1 September 2018.

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Profits up 10pc at India’s InfosysMumbai, India

India’s second-largest software services export-

er Infosys reported a 10.3-per cent rise in quarterly profits yesterday, beating estimates thanks to a slew of major new deals.

“We are delighted with our broad-based growth across all business segments and geographies during the quarter,” Infosys chief Salil Parekh said in a statement.

Net profit in the three months to September 30 came in at 41.10 billion rupees ($558.04 million), above the 37.26 billion ru-pees in the same period last year.

“Large deal wins at over $2 billion during the quarter demonstrate our increased client relevance and also give us better growth vis-ibility for the near-term,” Parekh added.

It maintained its forecast for earnings growth of six to eight percent in dollar terms for the current fiscal year.

Ethiopian PM hands half of cabinet to womenAddis Ababa, Ethiopia

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed yesterday

unveiled a downsized cabi-net where, in a first, half the members are women, a top official said.

Women occupy key po-sitions in the 20-member cabinet that includes a new-ly created Ministry of Peace to oversee the federal police and intelligence agencies, Abiy’s Chief of Staff Fitsum Arega said.

The new Minister of Na-tional Defence, Aisha Mo-hammed, is the first woman to hold the post. The previ-ous cabinet had 28 minis-ters, of which only five were women.

The shakeup is the latest in a series of dramatic re-forms implemented by Abiy since he took office in April.

Bahrain joined the Global Forum in 2010, which now

has more than 150 members and ensures

the implementation of internationally

agreed standards of transparency and ex-

change of information in areas relating to

taxation.

Rana E. Faqihi

Electricity and Water Affairs Minister Dr Abdulhussain Mirza with a delegation from BCG Consulting International led by the company’s Managing Director Arun Bruce. Representatives of government organisations concerned with advancing the technological revolution in Bahrain were present. The visitors thanked the minister and said the meeting contributed to the recognition of the plans and projects of electricity, water and renewable energy sectors.

Tamkeen honours ‘Bahrain Tech Awards 2018’ winnersTDT | Manama

Dr Ibrahim Mohammed Jan-ahi, the Chief Executive of

the Labour Fund (Tamkeen), honoured the winners of the Bahrain Tech Awards at a cer-emony held on the sidelines of the Bahrain National Pavilion at GITEX. The IT event is cur-rently ongoing in Dubai with the participation of 40 Bahraini IT-specialist enterprises and 20 startups, supported by Tamkeen for the eleventh year in a row.

Dr Janahi stated that the award aims to motivate Bah-raini technology companies to develop their services according to international standards.

Esam Hadi, Chairman of the Bahrain Technology Award, said: “The award highlights Bahrain’s products and services in the field

of information technology and progress in this field.”

The award honoured five IT companies: CTM360, FAME,

Syskode, Microcenter and AlAmthal, and five Bahraini startups including Nakheel, Nabdaa, Equalibria, TimecTech-

nologies and Snapcomms were honoured. At the regional and global level, eight companies were awarded: Skolera, Centra

Hub, InfoWatch, Embarc, Ulti-mit, Avanza Innovations, Cog-nitive Pilot, The Shipping Spot and Rology.

Winners with officials during a group photo session following the award ceremony held on the sidelines of the Bahrain National Pavilion at GITEX

China fines pharma firm $1.3bn in vaccine scandalAFP | Beijing, China

Chinese authorities have slapped penalties totalling a whopping $1.3 billion on a pharmaceutical com-

pany over a vaccine scandal that fuelled public fears of domestically-made medicine, drug regulators said yes-terday. The massive fine and asset seizure is the latest move by authorities to punish Changchun Changsheng Biotechnology company, based in northeast Jilin prov-ince, over the faulty rabies vaccine.

The firm’s chairwoman and 14 other people were arrested in connection with the scandal in July, while more than a dozen national, provincial and local officials have been sacked.

The manufacturer of rabies vaccines was ordered to cease production after it was found to have fabricated records.


$80.28 a barrel was the price of

Brent crude by 1320 GMT

Ticking Point

NITIN NOHRIA/ MICHAEL E. PORTER

Dimensions of the CEO’s role and influence The data on CEOs’ time use reveals that the sheer complex-

ity of their role — the myriad types of work, activities and constituencies — is much greater than has previously been documented or perhaps even understood.

In examining the CEO’s role, we have come to see that their work entails six dimensions of influence. Each involves a dual-ity — a seeming contradiction, akin to yin and yang — that CEOs must manage simultaneously in order to be effective.

First, CEOs clearly have direct influence over many issues and decisions, as their numerous reviews and one-on-one meetings reveal. However, the inherent limits on CEOs’ time and knowl-edge mean that much of their influence must also be indirect. Good CEOs are very much in charge but work through others using strategy, culture and effective organizational processes that drive sound analysis and alignment across the organization. CEOs need to learn how to marry direct and indirect influence.

Second, much of a CEO’s work necessarily involves internal constituencies and managerial tasks, and our data verifies the overwhelming amount of such work to be done. However, CEOs are unique in the degree to which they must also engage and influence numerous external constituencies and represent the company to the world. Effective CEOs connect their internal and external roles by bringing outside perspectives into the work of the company. They also need to make sure outside constitu-encies understand the company’s work and value.

Third, much of a CEO’s work is inherently proactive: It in-volves anticipating problems, gathering the facts, conducting analyses and making sound and timely choices. Here, the CEO sets and drives the agenda. However, reacting well to unplanned and unforeseen events and crises is some of the most important work CEOs do. Choices here, and the CEO’s personal presence or lack of presence, can have major consequences both outside and within the organization. Such periods can make or break a company and the CEO’s own capacity to lead.

Fourth, while CEOs have a great deal of leverage to exert because of their position in the hierarchy and access to resources, they also face numerous — and often unrec-ognized — constraints and com-plexities in exercising that lever-age. They are constrained in how often they can overturn decisions that have been brought to them for approval or how quickly they can drive changes without securing the support and buy-in of their senior team and board of directors. They must identify the group or people

who are needed to bring about a change and then figure out how to win over the leader that will mobilize them. CEOs must find the right balance between taking full advantage of the leverage they possess, while being equally sensitive to the constraints they must navigate and the constituencies they must bring along. Otherwise, resistance will emerge and come back to bite them.

Fifth, while much of the CEO’s influence is highly tangible, involving decisions about things like strategic priorities, budget targets and people selection, some of the CEO’s greatest influ-ence is symbolic. This comes from the meaning people attach to a CEO’s actions. What CEOs do (and don’t do), including every-day things like how they dress, what cars they drive, where they park, where they eat and whom they talk to and how — always sends implicit messages to the company and its constituencies. Everything a CEO does affects what the organization focuses on, its norms of behavior and its culture and values. The sym-bolic effects of CEOs’ choices can reach even further than their specific actions.

Sixth, CEOs hold a great deal of formal power and authority, and exercise it in the many ways we have described. However, power, authority, competence and even results are insufficient to truly ensure their success. Effective CEOs combine formal power and authority with legitimacy. CEOs achieve legitimacy when employees believe in them as people and as leaders. They earn legitimacy in multiple ways — by demonstrating values, ethics, fairness and a selfless commitment to the company and its people, among other things. Legitimacy gives rise to moti-vation that goes far beyond carrying out orders and can lead to extraordinary organizational performance. CEO time allocation, then, is not simply a matter of what happens in meetings and decision-making processes. It reflects the far broader set of ways in which the CEO as an individual engages with the or-ganization and its people.

In managing across these six dimensions of influence, it is easy for CEOs to overlook the less direct, less top-down, less tangible and more human aspects of their work. Without this awareness, though, CEOs give up some of their most powerful levers for driving change.

Michael E. Porter is a university professor at Harvard, based at Harvard Business School in Boston. Nitin Nohria is dean of Harvard Business School

CEOs clearly have direct influence

over many issues and decisions, as their numerous

reviews and one-on-one meetings

reveal

‘Khairat Bahrain’ on track: Mumtalakat

Mumtalakat’s CEO, Sudanese envoy discuss “Khairat Bahrain” developments

TDT | Manama

‘Khairat Bahrain’ pro-ject, Mumtalakat ’s first investment in

agriculture outside Bahrain, in Sudan is on track and is ex-pected to see positive outcomes next year, said a top Mumtalakat official.

The project, Mahmood H. Alkooheji, Chief Executive Of-ficer of Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company (Mumta-lakat) said, will contribute to the growth and enhancement of the Kingdom’s food security system both in terms of agriculture and livestock.”

Khairat Bahrain is located in the world’s richest expanse of groundwater (the great Nubian Sandstone Basin) occupying an area of approximately 100,000 feddans (400 sqkm).

“We invest in and for Bahrain as we always seek to invest in sectors that contribute to the development of the Kingdom’s economy. In the Arabian Gulf region alone, around 70% of our food consumption is imported.

That is why the food and ag-riculture sector is one of the key areas of focus for us,” added Alkooheji.

The CEO of the sovereign wealth fund of the Kingdom was speaking while meeting yes-terday the Ambassador of the Republic of Sudan to Bahrain, Ebrahim Mohamed Al Hasan.

The meeting reflected on

economic cooperation between Bahrain and Sudan in addition to the latest developments of “Khairat Bahrain,” Mumta-lakat’s agricultural investment in Sudan.

“I would like to extend my sincere thanks and gratitude to the Republic of Sudan, rep-resented by HE Ebrahim Mo-hamed Al Hasan for his warm

welcome and his continuous support for our investment in Sudan, in addition to the Suda-nese government’s strong en-dorsement,” Alkooheji told the ambassador.

Also present at the meeting were Mohamed ElMoutaz, Em-bassy Counsellor, Mohamed Ab-dulqader, Khairat Project Man-ager and Ahmed Baqer.

From right, Mohamed ElMoutaz, Ebrahim Mohamed Al Hasan, Mahmood H. Alkooheji , Mohamed Abdulqader, and Ahmed Baqer

Walmart trims forecast due to Flipkart dealNew York, United States

Walmart trimmed its full-year earnings

forecast yesterday due to its purchase of a majority stake in Indian online re-tailer Flipkart and signalled US sales growth could ebb next year.

The world’s biggest re-tailer cut its profit target for the current year to a range of $2.65 to $2.80 per share from the prior range of $2.90 to $3.05.

Walmart, which complet-ed its $16 billion acquisi-tion of a 77 pe rcent stake in Flipkart in August, pro-jected that comparable sales growth at US stores next year -- fiscal 2020 -- would be 2.5 percent to 3.0 per-cent. Walmart’s US sales are on track for 3.0pc growth this year.

Oil falls on US shale outputReuters | London

Oil prices fell yesterday on evidence of higher US oil

production and increasing US crude inventories, but reports of a fall in Iranian oil exports helped to limit losses.

Brent crude was down 50 cents a barrel at $80.28 by 1320 GMT. US light crude was 40 cents lower at $71.38.

“Shale oil production con-tinues unabated in the United States,” said Carsten Fritsch, commodities analyst at Com-merzbank. “Rising US oil pro-duction is one key reason why

the global oil market is likely to be amply supplied next year.”

Oil production from seven major US shale basins is expect-ed to rise by 98,000 barrels per

day (bpd) in November to a re-cord of 7.71 million bpd, the US Energy Information Adminis-tration (EIA) said.

The largest change is forecast in the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico, where output is expected to climb by 53,000 bpd to a new peak of 3.55 mil-lion bpd.

US oil production has in-creased steadily over the last five years, reaching a record high of 11.2 million bpd in the week to Oct. 5. But infrastruc-ture has not kept pace with rising output, filling domestic tanks.

“Once pipelines and oil ter-minals are built connecting the Permian to the US Gulf Coast, then there will be a big step up in US crude oil exports,” Harry Tchilinguirian, oil strategist at French bank BNP Paribas told Reuters Global Oil Forum.

US crude stockpiles are ex-pected to have risen last week for the fourth straight week, by about 1.1 million barrels, ac-cording to a Reuters poll ahead of reports from the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the US Department of Energy’s Energy Information Adminis-tration (EIA).

US alarmed by China’s ‘predatory’ practicesHanoi, Vietnam

The United States is alarmed by China’s increasingly

muscular military presence and “predatory economic practic-es” towards smaller countries in Asia, defence chief James Mattis has said on his way to the region.

Speaking as he flew out for a diplomatic tour that will take him to Vietnam and Singapore, the US Defense Secretary said Washington was not trying to hold back its Pacific rival.

“Obviously, we’re not out to contain China,” he told report-ers. “We’d have taken an alto-gether different stance had that been considered.”

“We’re two large powers, or two Pacific powers, two ecnom-ic powers. There’s going to be

times we step on each other’s toes, so we’re going to have to find a way to productively man-age our relationship,” he said.

But he highlighted key stick-ing points with Beijing, remark-ing that the same issues have also rattled some of China’s neighbours.

“We remain highly concerned

with continued militarisation of features in the South China Sea,” Mattis said on a flight to Ho Chi Minh City, the former capital of the US-backed south-ern regime.

China claims nearly all of the South China Sea -- building a growing roster of military in-stallations on reefs and artificial islands there -- even though Taiwan, the Philippines, Bru-nei, Malaysia and Vietnam all claim parts of strategic water-way.

Mattis also singled out what he described as “preda-tory economic behaviour” by Beijing “where massive debt is piled on countries that fis-cal analysis would say they are going to have difficulty, at best, repaying in the smaller countries”.

US Secretary of Defence James Mattis


Closing BellSAUDI 1.3% » 7,667

DUBAI 0.6% » 2,728

ABU DHABI 0.04% » 4,931

QATAR 2.0% » 10,032

KUWAIT 0.7% » 5,172

BAHRAIN 0.3% » 1,312

OMAN 0.2% » 4,452

EGYPT 1.2% » 13,689

Key figures around 1540 GMTLondon - FTSE 100: 0.4pc at 7,059.40 points (close)

Frankfurt - DAX 30: 1.4pc at 11,776.55 (close)

Paris - CAC 40: 1.5pc at 5,173.05 (close)

EURO STOXX 50: 1.5pc at 3,257.34

New York - Dow Jones: 1.4pc at 25,613.24

Tokyo - Nikkei 225: 1.3pc at 22,549.24 (close)

Hong Kong - Hang Seng: 0.1pc at 25,432.67 (close)

Shanghai - Composite: 0.8pc at 2,546.33 (close)

Euro/dollar: $1.1585 from $1.1569 at 0630 GMT

Pound/dollar: $1.3212 from $1.3147 at 0630 GMT

Dollar/yen: 112.17 from 112.06 yen at 0630 GMT

Audi to pay 800mn euro fine in GermanyFrankfurt am Main, Ger-many

Volkswagen said yes-terday its subsidiary

Audi had agreed to pay an 800-million-euro ($927 mil-lion) fine issued by German prosecutors to close a diesel cheating investigation.

“Audi AG has accepted the fine” investigators levied for “deviations from regulato-ry requirements in certain V6 and V8 diesel aggre-gates (motors) and diesel vehicles”, the group said in a statement, adding that “the fine will directly affect Volkswagen AG’s financial earnings” for 2018.

“The administrative pro-ceeding against Audi AG opened because of the die-sel scandal is hereby closed in a legally binding way,” Munich prosecutors said in their own statement.

Tuesday’s fine comes on top of total costs in fines, buybacks and refits of more than 27 billion euros that Volkswagen has had to pay out over its “dieselgate” scandal.

The Wolfsburg-based group’s 2018 earnings suffered another one-bil-lion-euro blow in June when it agreed to pay a simi-lar fine levied by Brunswick prosecutors over its own-brand vehicles.

VW admitted in 2015 to building so-called “defeat devices” into 11 million cars worldwide.

Such software allowed the vehicles to appear to meet regulatory emissions requirements under lab conditions, while in fact spewing many times more harmful gases like nitrogen oxides (NOx) on the road.

Investigators pursued Audi over V6 and V8 en-gines it built into its own vehicles, VW’s own-brand cars and models from fellow subsidiary Porsche, as well as over Audi vehicles fit-ted with cheating VW-built motors.

In total, the case dealt with almost five million cars worldwide built between 2004 and 2018.

Saudi market ends up• Saudi institutions absorb heavy sales by retail investors

• Saudi riyal rebounds against dollar

• Egypt blue-chip index rises sharply

• Dubai’s Deyaar jumps in highest volume since January

Reuters

Sa u d i A r a b i a n s t o c k s plunged early yesterday on weak investor sentiments,

but the market ended up after state-linked funds appeared to mount an operation to support it.

The Saudi index tumbled as much as 4.0 per cent in early trade as local retail investors, who account for the vast major-ity of trading activity, dumped shares.

But the index closed 1.3pc higher as state-linked funds came in to buy towards the close.

Trading volume yesterday was the highest since April.

Top petrochemical producer Saudi Basic Industries surged 4.9pc. Saudi Telecom added 5.3pc. The Saudi riyal rebound-

ed from a two-year low against the US dollar.

Most other major Gulf mar-kets rose. Egypt’s blue-chip index was up 1.2pc. Ibnsina Pharma jumped 7.3pc and Ju-

hayna Food Industries gained 5.9pc.

Property firms Madinet Nasr, up 1.1pc, and SODIC, down 5.3pc, continued to move in opposite directions after SODIC proposed

a merger of the two firms via a share swap that analysts said favoured Madinet holders.

Sarwa Capital, which had tumbled 15.1pc in its de-but on Monday, rebounded 4.0pc.

The Dubai index rose 0.6pc as real estate firms gained. Deyaar Development leapt nearly 10 pc in its highest volume since January, while Emaar Properties rose 1.9pc.

Qatar’s index jumped 2.0pc to 10,032 points, its highest since May 2017, testing tech-nical resistance just above 10,000 points, where it peaked in August and September this year.

A Saudi investor monitors the stock exchange at the Saudi Stock Exchange (Courtesy of Breitbart)

THSA Technology Bahrain, a leading UK technology company and corporate partner at Bahrain FinTech Bay, announced the launch of its brand-new data integration platform (Adsertor 2.0) on October 7 at the Bahrain International eGovernment Forum 2018. The platform, according to THSA Technology, will enable private and public sector organisations to centralise and consolidate their data into one system.

Uber IPO value at $120bnReuters

Ride-hailing giant Uber Technologies Inc could be

valued at $120 billion, when it finally goes public next year according to proposals made by US banks bidding to run the offering, the Wall Street Jour-nal reported yesterday.

The proposed valuation of the company is about $50 bil-lion more than the company’s most recent valuation, setting the stage for what would be one of the biggest listings ever.

Reuters reported in late Sep-tember that Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley were in pole position to secure top roles in Uber IPO.

Uber and smaller rival Ly-ft’s initial public offerings, both expected in 2019, will

test investor tolerance for money losing technology unicorns.

Dara Khosrowshahi, who took over as Uber’s chief ex-ecutive last year, said in Sep-tember the company was on track for a 2019 IPO, adding that he was not concerned if Lyft went public first because he expected enough demand for both companies.

Both companies have taken hits to their bottom lines in or-der to attract drivers and enter new markets, although they have made strides in recent years in narrowing their losses.

Uber has been seeking new avenues of growth, including food delivery services, even as it battles intense competi-tion in its core business of ride hailing.

Stock markets advance as rate tensions easeLondon, United Kingdom

Global stock markets rose yesterday as tensions in

bond markets eased and the US corporate earnings season got off to a promising start, analysts said.

European equity markets benefited from an apparent fading of tensions between Italy and the EU over Rome’s spending, and there were also glimmers of hope that Brexit talks could see some progress.

“European equities are most-ly higher in afternoon action, with earnings season ramping up in the US and results mostly better than forecasted, while Italian budget and UK Brex-it concerns appear to be eas-ing,” analysts at the Charles Schwab brokerage said in a note.

London stocks, however, underperformed their euro-zone peers as a weak oil price

dragged down shares in ener-gy majors. Stock markets have been rocked in recent days by fears over spiking oil prices, ris-ing US long-term interest rates and an attack by President Don-ald Trump on the US central bank and its policies.

While none of the dan-gers have disappeared, in-vestors were grateful for

the reprieve from ongoing tension.

“Investors may not be feeling particularly comfortable yet but we are seeing some wel-come stability in the markets,” said Craig Erlam, an analyst at Oanda.

Tensions over Saudi Arabia have meanwhile eased, helping to calm the oil market.

Google CEO: ‘Important to explore’ China projectSan Francisco, United States

Google chief executive Sun-dar Pichai has acknowl-

edged publicly for the first time that the tech giant is consider-ing a search engine for China, saying it could offer “better in-formation” to people than rival services.

Speaking at the Wired 25th anniversary conference late Monday, Pichai said Google leaders “feel obliged to think hard” about China despite crit-icism over the possibly of coop-erating with Chinese censor-ship. “We are always balancing a set of values,” he said, while adding that “we also follow the rule of law in every country.”

Pichai described Project Dragonfly, which has drawn criticism from Google employ-

ees, lawmakers and human rights activists, as an effort to learn about what Google could offer if it resumed its search operations in China.

“It turns out we would be able to serve well over 99 percent of the (search) queries,” he said onstage in a question-and-an-swer session. “And there are

many, many areas where we would provide better informa-tion that what is available.”

Pichai offered no details on the status of the effort but said he was taking a “long-term view” on China.

“We don’t know whether we would or could do this in China but we felt it was important to explore,” he said.

“I think it’s important for us given how important the mar-ket is and how many users there are. We feel obliged to think hard about this.”

He said one area where Goog-le’s presence could help in Chi-na would be for information on medical treatments including for cancer. “Today people either get fake cancer treatments or they actually get useful infor-mation,” he said.

Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google Inc

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I, NITIN MEHRA father of DURGA NITIN MEHRA holder of India passport NO. K6793318, Issued at Bahrain on 27/11/2013, permanent resident of HOUSE NO.42 SHIVNAGAR,SODAL ROAD JALANDHAR PUNJAB INDIA and presently residing at FLAT 22 BUILDING 3930, ROAD 475 BLOCK 304 MANAMA BAHRAIN do hereby change my daughter’s name as (given name) DURGA NITIN (surname) MEHRA, objection(s), if any may be forwarded to Embassy of India. P.0.Box 26106 AI- Seef, Kingdom of Bahrain.

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MOHAMMED RAMADAN, YASMINE SABRI, FATHY

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Ben Stiller directs gritty prison drama

AFP | Cannes, France

Hollywood star Ben Still-er put away his clown face Monday to pre-

miere his directorial debut in Cannes, a stranger-than-fic-tion prison-break drama that is based on a true story.

The American actor best known for the “Zoolander” and “Night at the Museum” films di-rected all eight episodes of “Es-cape at Dannemora”, the first of which was screened at MIP-COM, the world’s top television and entertainment showcase in the French Riviera resort.

With a stellar cast that in-cludes Benicio del Toro, Pa-tricia Arquette and Paul Dano, Stiller puts on his auteur hat to tell the gritty and fascinating tale of a woman who helped two murderers escape from an upstate New York jail near the Canadian border.

Their 2015 break-out from the Clinton Correctional Fa-cility at Dannemora riveted America.

The interest grew still more intense when it became clear that middle-aged female super-visor in the jail, Tilly Mitchell, was having sex with both men and was smuggling hacksaw blades and burger meat into them.

Ben Stiller

Theron condemns TrumpIANS | Los Angeles

Actress Charlize Theron has con-demned US President Donald

Trump for mocking Christine Blasey Fords accusations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Ford accused Kavanaugh during his confirmation process. Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about her memories of the alleged as-sault -- testimony that Trump went on to mock during a rally in Mississippi.

Theron had some strong words con-demning Trump’s actions, reports va-riety.com.

“Extreme sadness because I can’t imagine if that was his daughter, how he would feel if somebody did that,” Theron said.

“And I think sometimes it’s real-ly hard for people to put themselves in that person’s shoes, and I don’t know why, it’s just plain empathy. You don’t have to agree with her,” she added.

“But you don’t have to belittle her, you don’t have to do that. For me, it’s worse than high school to see an adult

do that. Especially the leader of the free world. It’s sad.”

She elaborated on the effect of Time’s Up and #MeToo move-ments, explaining that for the first time, inappropriate conduct at the highest levels is starting to have consequences.

“I think we’ve lived in a world where women have been so let down for so many years; in a very un-healthy way, we’ve almost gotten used to it,” the “Atomic Blonde” actress said.

“So to see some account-ability for some of the ac-tions that are just deplor-able, is it feels like we are finally being heard and that things aren’t being brushed un-der the rug anymore. These are civil rights, this is just something that should have already been and we should have been done with.”

Idris Elba joins McCartney to raise breast cancer awarenessIANS | Los Angeles

Fashion designer Stella Mc-Cartney got actor Idris

Elba to create a moving video to raise awareness about breast cancer.

They both lost a parent to the disease.

On Monday, the British de-signer launched a video called “All Is Love” starring Elba as part of her campaign, reports hollywoodreporter.com.

The actor narrates the sol-emn and poetic video about breast cancer, with imag-es of female cancer survi-

vors and their bodies as he says, “Praise to the pow-er that cancer could not take”.

Along with the video, McCa-rtney announced the creation of Stella McCartney Cares, a UK charity that will support awareness of the cause. Her mother, Linda Louise McCa-rtney, died of breast cancer in 1998.

As part of the project, she will donate 1,000 post-opera-tive mastectomy compression bras, called the “Louise Lis-tening” style, named after her mother.

Kanye West gifts white sneakers to Uganda’s president

AFP | Kampala, Uganda

Kanye West and his wife Kim Kardashian

on Monday paid a visit to Ugandan President Yow-eri Museveni, gifting the 74-year-old leader a pair of white sneakers.

Rap megastar West is in the east African nation to finish recording his ninth studio album “Yandhi”, which was meant to drop two weeks ago, until his surprise decision to go and record in Africa to “feel the energy”.

You wouldn’t have been able to tell the

stories of all the characters... or have the chance to lay out their world and build

the tensionBEN STILLER

Nibali to meet French prosecutors over Tour de France crashAFP | Milan

Vincenzo Nibali will return to France on November 10

to speak with prosecutors over a complaint he filed after frac-turing his back in a crash which ruled him out of this year’s Tour de France, reports in Italy said yesterday.

The 33-year-old Bahrain-Me-rida team rider was in front of Sky’s Geraint Thomas when he came crashing down four kilo-metres before the summit of the race’s legendary Alpe d’Huez climb after being hindered by a fan with a camera.

Nibali recovered and finished 13 seconds behind the favour-

ites, but was later ruled out of the race he won in 2014. Brit-ain’s Thomas went on to win this year’s race.

The Sicilian’s lawyer Fausto Malucchi filed a complaint on behalf of the rider, who will give evidence as the injured party.

The competent prosecutor’s office is Grenoble, in southeast France, but the meeting could take place just over the border

in Italy, Gazzetta dello Sport reported.

Nibali -- whose four Grand Tour wins also include two Giro d’Italia and a Tour of Spain -- is said to be concerned he will never return to his previous level as a result of the injury.

He won the Milan-San Remo one-day classic in March and finished second in the sea-son-ending Tour of Lombardy last Saturday.

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Simona Halep pulls out of Kremlin CupAFP | Moscow

Romania’s world number one Simona Halep yes-terday withdrew from

the Kremlin Cup, a joint WTA and ATP event, due to con-cerns over an ongoing back injury.

“I tried everything I could to be ready here as I really want-ed to play,” Halep said. “But unfortunately the back is still causing me pain and I don’t want to take any unnecessary risks.”

The 27-year-old’s appearance in Moscow and the WTA Finals had been in doubt when she withdrew from Beijing two

weeks ago and was diagnosed with a herniated disk in her back.

Halep, who has already qual-ified for the WTA year-ending finals in Singapore, said she needed more time to recover completely from her back in-jury.

“While it’s disappointing to withdraw, I know it’s impor-tant to put my health first,” she added.

Halep this year played two Grand Slam finals, winning the French Open crown at Roland Garros, and won titles in Shen-zhen and Montreal, leading the rankings for 40 weeks this year.Simona Halep in action during a match in the China Open (file photo)

Spartan Fitness Bahrain extend support to athletesTDT | Manama

Spartan Fitness Bahrain has showcased the sup-

port towards the Bahrain National Team of Ama-teur Mixed Martial Arts. Spartan Fitness extended their support to the team who is preparing to repre-sent Bahrain at the largest combat sports festival in Asia.

Bahrain national team training at KHK MMA will compete in the upcoming IMMAF-WMMAA Unified World Championship of Amateur MMA 2018. The World Championships will be hosted during the Brave International Combat Week 2018 in Bahrain.

Spartan Fitness Bahrain has sponsored the KHK MMA Fight Team to utilise the facility leading towards the preparations. The spon-sorship support was an-nounced during the visit by the Secretary-General of the Bahrain Mixed Martial Arts Federation, Walid Khalid Sayar and the Director of the National Teams Com-mittee, Ahmed Khalid Al Wazzan, to Spartan Fitness Bahrain.

Brave CF champion featured in Roya SportsTDT | Manama

Jarrah Al Selawe, Welterweight champion of Brave Combat Fed-

eration was featured in the edition of Extra Time at Roya Sports. Jarrah Al Selawe is the first champion from the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in an International mixed martial arts organisation.

Al Selawe also holds the record for most number of wins in Brave Combat Federation by staying undefeated in the promotion winning all six appear-ances in the promotion. He achieved his historic championship victory at

the sixteenth edition of Brave Combat Federation which took place in UAE.

Al Selawe faced Carlston Harris for the welterweight championship and scored a knockout victory within the first round of the bout. The win made Jarrah Al Selawe to become the first athlete from the GCC to be crowned as a champion.

“Being featured in an interview at Jordan through Roya Sports, was a great experience, I believe such pro-grams will create awareness about the sport and will help towards the growth of the sports in the region. Now that I have the championship, I

have the responsibility to be a positive influence for the society and to be a role model for the coming genera-tion. This is not a privilege but a rare opportunity to showcase the richness of our culture to the whole world. The initiatives by Brave Combat Fed-eration under the leadership of HH Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa had brought so many developments in the region and had given opportunity for many athletes from around the world. The role of media in support-ing the growth of the sport had been amazing”, said Jarrah Al Selawe after the interview.

BOC celebrates Shaikh Nasser’s Ironman victoryTDT | Manama

The Bahrain Olympic Com-mittee celebrated the vic-

tory of HH Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa in the 2018 Ironman World Champion-ships held in Kailua Kona, Ha-waii.

The Representative of His Majesty the King for Chari-ty Works and Youth Affairs, Supreme Council for Youth and Sports Chairman, and BOC President had completed the event, which commenced with a 3.8km swim, followed by a 180km bike and was wrapped up with a 42km run, to win first place in the Executives Challenge category.

HH Shaikh Nasser, who com-peted in the age group of 30 to 34 years, took a total time of nine hours, nineteen min-utes and nine seconds to finish 251st out of 2,379 competitors.

To celebrate this achieve-ment, BOC general secretary Abdulrahman Askar awarded his staff a half-day off on Sun-day, while a breakfast cere-mony took place the following day at the committee premises in Seef.

During his meeting with the staff, Askar congratulated HH Shaikh Nasser on this unprec-

edented achievement, which is a clear result of the patronage and support of His Majesty the King to Bahraini sports and athletes, which contributed to his achievement of this level of competition and honourable accomplishment.

“The Bahrain Olympic Com-mittee has been keen to meet with its staff on all occasions. We are meeting today to cele-brate this historic achievement of our leader HH Shaikh Nass-er,” said Askar.

“Today’s celebration re-flects our love, appreciation and pride, when the leader is the hero in the field of sports, it makes us all proud and mo-tivated to work hand in hand and put more efforts in an at-tempt to raise the Bahrain flag high at international events”.

When the leader is the hero in the field of sports, it

makes us all proud and motivated to

work hand in handABDULRAHMAN ASKAR

Vincenzo Nibali rides during Tour de France (file photo)

Nibali has won four Grand Tour including two Giro

d’Italia and a Tour of Spain

Wimbledon champ Kerber splits with coachAFP | Berlin

Reigning Wimbledon cham-pion Angelique Kerber

has split from coach Wim Fis-sette, the player’s entourage announced yesterday.

“Despite the success of the cooperation since the start of the season, this step is needed because of differences of opin-ion as the future direction,” a statement read.

Former coach of Kim Cli-jsters (2009–11), current world number one Simona Halep (2014) and Victoria Azarenka (2015–16), Fissette joined forc-es with Kerber in Nov. 2017.

With the Belgian by her side, the 30-year-old Kerber, who reached No.1 in the rankings in 2016 but now sits third, reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open before going on to win Wimbledon.

Tennis player Angelique Kerber at Wimbeldon (file photo)

Bolt offered deal by Maltese champsAFP | Sydney

Sprint king Usain Bolt could be making his way to Europe

after being offered a two-year professional football contract in Malta, reports said yesterday, with the club saying it want-ed to “write history” with the signing.

Bolt, 32, has been on trial with A-League club the Central Coast Mariners since arriving in Australia in August in his bid to pursue a boyhood dream of becoming a footballer after retiring from athletics last year.

The 100 metres world re-cord-holder scored his first two goals in professional football on Friday when he started a pre-season game against sec-ond-tier Macarthur South West United in Sydney.

Malta club Valletta FC said they had made a formal offer which includes playing in its upcoming cup final, with chief executive Ghasston Slimen say-

ing the move to snare Bolt was “about writing history”.

“Usain Bolt broke the record in Beijing (Olympics) in 2008, and I have followed him for the last year-and-a-half on his football journey,” Slimen told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

“We play the final of the Su-per Cup on December 13, which we will win... so can you im-agine Usain Bolt lifting the Su-per Cup trophy 10 years after he broke the record in Beijing?

“This isn’t about money, this is about history. This is some-thing that they will talk about in 50 or 100 years’ time.”

A group of investors from the Sanban Group in the Unit-ed Arab Emirates acquired a majority stake in the club last month, vowing to qualify for the group stages of Europe’s Champions League.

Slimen admitted Bolt still had to improve his footballing skills, but said he was inspired by the former sprinter’s jubilant cele-brations -- including the trade-mark lightning bolt victory pose -- after the goals.

“I don’t want him to be here on holiday, I want him training hard,” he said, adding that he wanted Bolt to be lifting tro-phies during his stint at Valletta.

Fakhar, Sarfraz lead Pakistan AFP | Abu Dhabi

Debutant opener Fakhar Zaman and skipper Sar-fraz Ahmed missed hun-

dreds by six runs each but still revived Pakistan on the first day of the second and final Test in Abu Dhabi yesterday.

Fakhar and Sarfraz scored 94 each and helped Pakistan recov-er from 57-5 to a total of 282 af-ter winning the toss and electing to bat on a slow turning pitch at Sheikh Zayed Stadium.

Before the close Pakistan grabbed two wickets, includ-ing that of Usman Khawaja for three, as Australia finished on 20-2, with Aaron Finch on 13 and nightwatchman Peter Sid-dle dismissed off the last ball of the day for four.

Australia trail Pakistan by 262 runs with eight wickets intact.

Fast bowler Mohammad Ab-bas had Khawaja -- who scored a fighting 141 to lead Australia’s fightback for a draw in the first Test in Dubai last week -- caught behind for his 50th Test wicket in 10 Tests.

Abbas became joint sec-ond-fastest Pakistani to the milestone of 50 wickets with Waqar Younis, Mohammad Asif and Shabbir Ahmed. The record is held by team-mate Yasir Shah who completed 50 wickets in nine matches.

Abbas then trapped Siddle to finish on 9-2.

Sarfraz was frustrated to miss his fourth Test hundred but hap-py with the fightback.

“Yes, its disappointing to miss a hundred but I am happy the way we revived the innings and then got two wickets, including that of Khawaja, so for me it is an even position,” said Sarfraz who was hit on the left forearm by a rising delivery from Mitch-ell Starc.

“At the moment I am feeling discomfort and if there is swell-ing tommorrow then we can summon reserve wicketkeeper as per the new rules,” said Sar-fraz.

Earlier Zaman and Sarfraz found form with fighting and innings-reviving knocks, tak-ing the attack to the Australian bowlers after spinner Nathan Lyon had rocked Pakistan in the morning, reaching lunch with figures of 4-12.

Zaman hit eight boundaries and a six in his enterprising knock as he and Sarfraz added 147 runs. Zaman was trapped leg-before by leg-spinner Mar-nus Labuschagne for 94, becom-ing the fourth Pakistan batsmen

to be dismissed in the 90s on his debut.

Sarfraz then holed out to La-buschagne, who finished with 3-45. Sarfraz hit seven bounda-ries in his 94.

In the first session, pace bowl-er Starc provided Australia with an early breakthrough in the third over when Mohammad Hafeez fell to a freakish catch at short leg by Labuschagne for four.

Lyon then took four wickets in six balls at the total of 57.

He dismissed Azhar Ali, caught and bowled for 15 in his fourth over, and next ball had Haris Sohail caught close to the wicket for nought.

In his next over, Lyon had Asad Shafiq caught at short leg and two balls later bowled Babar Azam, who had come dancing down the wicket.

Australia kept the same elev-en from the drawn first Test in Dubai while Pakistan replaced injured Imam-ul-Haq and Wa-hab Riaz with Zaman and Mir Hamza.


Pakistan 1st inningsFakhar lbw b Labuschagne 94M.Hafeez c Labuschagne b Starc 4 Azhar Ali c and b Lyon 15Haris Sohail c Head b Lyon 0Asad Shafiq c Labuschagne b Lyon 0Babar Azam b Lyon 0 Sarfraz c Siddle b Labuschagne 94Bilal Asif c Paine b Labuschagne 12Yasir Shah b M. Marsh 28Mohammad Abbas b Starc 10Mir Hamza not out 4Extras: (b 11, lb 6, nb 4) 21Total: (all out; 81 overs) 282Bowling: Starc 12-3-37-2 (2nb), Siddle 10-3-39-0 (1nb), M. Marsh 7-2-21-1 (1nb), Lyon 27-5-78-4, Holland 13-3-45-0, Labus-chagne 12-2-45-3

Australia 1st inningsUsman Khawaja c Sarfraz b Abbas 3A. Finch not out 13P. Siddle lbw b Abbas 4Total: (for two wkts; 7 overs) 20Bowling: Abbas 4-2-9-2, Hamza 1-0-4-0, Yasir 2-1-7-0

India Test hero Umesh Yadav gets ODI call upAFP | New Delhi

India yesterday called up Umesh Yadav, the

10 wicket hero of the Test triumph over West Indies, to replace injured bowl-er Shardul Thakur for the one-day squad to take on the Caribbean tourists.

Paceman Thakur suf-fered a groin injury bowling against West Indies in the second Test that India won inside three days on Sunday.

The Indian selection committee said in a state-ment that Yadav -- who took six wickets in the first inning and four in the sec-ond -- would take Thakur’s place for the first two of the five one day internationals.

The five match series starts in Guwahati on Sun-day.

India squad for first two ODIs against West Indies:

Virat Kohli (capt), Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, K.L. Rahul, Ambati Rayudu, Manish Pandey, M.S. Dhoni (wicket-keeper), Rishabh Pant, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuz-vendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Khaleel Ahmed, Umesh Ya-dav.

West Indies coach banned for two ODIs

AFP | Dubai

West Indies coach Stu-art Law will miss his

team’s two upcoming one-day internationals against India after a breach of the ICC code of conduct saw him banned by world crick-et’s ruling body yesterday.

The Australian was found guilty of breaching the code during Sunday’s play in the Hyderabad Test by making “inappropriate comments” to the umpires.

Those comments fol-lowed the dismissal of Ki-eran Powell, after which Law “went to the TV um-pire’s room and made in-appropriate comments. He then walked to the fourth umpire’s area and, in the presence of the players, again directed inappropri-ate comments at the fourth official”.

I always acted with integrity and transparency: Jayasuriya

Reuters | Colombo

Former Sri Lanka cap-tain and selector San-

ath Jayasuriya said he has always acted with integri-ty and transparency, a day after he was charged with two counts of breaching the International Cricket Coun-cil’s (ICC) anti-corruption code.

The sport’s world govern-ing body said in a statement on Monday that the former opening batsman had re-fused to cooperate with an investigation conducted by the ICC anti-corruption unit (ACU).

Pakistani cricketer Fakhar Zaman plays a shot

Usain Bolt during his trial at Australian club Central Coast Mariners

Mourinho charged by FA over abusive languageReuters | London

Manchester United man-ager Jose Mourinho has

been charged by the Football Association for abusive lan-guage following his side’s Pre-mier League win over Newcas-tle United this month, English soccer’s governing body said yesterday.

The Portuguese coach was reported to have directed an insult in his native language towards a camera which was live tracking him down the touchline after his side’s 3-2 comeback win at Old Trafford.

“It is alleged that his (Mour-inho’s) language at the end of the fixture, as captured by the broadcast footage, was abu-sive and/or insulting and/or improper. He has until 6pm on 19 October 2018 to respond to the charge,” the FA said in a statement.

Mourinho’s punishment, if found guilty, could include a touchline ban, which would mean him sitting in the stands for the game against his for-mer club Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.

Jose Mourinho

Spain dealt a ‘slap of reality’ by ruthless EnglandAFP | Seville, Spain

Luis Enrique had said he was ready for the criticism and

it fired from all angles after Spain were beaten by England on Monday for their first com-petitive defeat at home in 15 years.

Three wins out of three and 12 goals scored had launched Spain into a new era of optimism after their miserable World Cup last summer.

But La Roja were dealt a real-

ity check, losing 3-2, as England ran riot during a whirlwind first half in Seville.

Paco Alcacer’s header, and a Sergio Ramos goal with the last touch of the game, reduced the glare of the score but there was no doubting England were de-serving winners.

Raheem Sterling ’s double and a smart finish from Marcus Rashford made sure of that.

“Suddenly the Spain that seemed to be afloat again in this muddled League of Na-

tions collapsed with a crash and without remedy,” wrote El Pais yesterday. “Spain has taken a slap of reality,” said Marca.

This is the same team that looked rejuvenated after victo-ries over England, Croatia and Wales but one defeat, at home, has quickly altered the perspec-tive.

“When we put six past Croa-tia nobody told us we gave too many passes,” Dani Ceballos said. England’s Marcus Rashford scores their second goal


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Japan deal Uruguay double blow in Asia

AFP | Saitama, Japan

Japan stunned Uruguay 4-3 at home in a free-flowing international friendly yes-

terday to complete a miserable trip to the Far East for the South Americans.

Takumi Minamino netted twice against the World Cup quarter-finalists as Japan made it three wins out of three under new coach Hajime Moriyasu.

Uruguay suffered their sec-ond defeat in five days after go-ing down 2-1 to South Korea last Friday and were fortunate not to concede even more goals in Saitama.

Minamino opened the scor-ing after just 10 minutes with a neat turn and finish before Gaston Pereiro equalised from close range midway through the first half.

Yuya Osako put Japan back in front when he tucked away the rebound after Uruguay goalkeeper Fernando Muslera spilled a shot from Shoya Na-kajima.

Edinson Cavani restored par-ity 12 minutes into the second half, the Paris Saint-Germain forward pouncing on a horror back pass from Genta Miura as

a crowd of almost 60,000 fell silent.

But the Blue Samurai re-gained the lead just moments later when Ritsu Doan fired into the bottom corner, before Minamino smashed home his second of the game after Mus-lera had parried a Doan rocket into his path.

Substitute Jonathan Rodri-guez pulled one back for the

two-time World Cup winners in the 75th minute but Japan clung on to record their third straight victory since their surprise run to the last 16 of the World Cup under Akira Nishino.

“That will give us confidence for the Asian Cup,” said Mori-yasu, looking ahead to Asia’s showcase tournament in Jan-uary.

“The players have pulled

together and done a great job so far. And there’s still plenty of room for them to grow as a team.”

Minamino, who scored in Ja-pan’s 3-0 wins over Costa Rica last month and Panama last week in Moriyasu’s first two matches in charge, added: “I’m really just happy to contribute -- it’s my job to score goals and hopefully I’ll get more chances.”

Japan’s Shoya Nakajima shoots a goal during yesterday’s match against Uruguay

France defied poor stats at World CupAFP | Lausanne

Passing, running and ball possession were not key

in producing victories at the 2018 World Cup, but accu-rate shooting and clear tactics were, according to a FIFA re-port released yesterday.

It showed that champions France were only 19th among the 32 teams in possession per-centage, 16th in total number of passes completed and 28th in distance covered per game, but were second, behind only hosts Russia, in the percentage of shots that scored.

“France did not win the tro-phy on the back of one perfor-mance: they won it over seven matches,” said the report by FIFA’s seven-man Technical Study Group, including Dutch great Marco van Basten and Brazilian World Cup-win-ning coach Carlos Alberto Parreira.

“France did not rely on ball possession, but rather focused on getting into the opposition’s half as fast as they could. And they had the players to do just that.”

“The successful teams had a distinct way of playing based on their players and coaching philosophy,” Parreira, who led Brazil to victory in the 1994 tournament, said of the four semi-finalists. “They had a game plan and believed in it.”

The report also said that the World Cup was short of classic playmakers, but the two who caught the eye both reached the final.

“We saw less of the so-called playmakers at this World Cup, perhaps as a result of the way teams played,” the report said. “However, there were still some outstanding individu-als in this area, Paul Pogba of France excelled, but Luka Modric stole the show.”

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