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King: Peace deal ensures regional security, stability

HM King reaffirms support for the two-state solution in UN General Assembly address TDT | Manama

The normalisation of ties with Israel by Bahrain and the UAE has “en-

hanced opportunities for peace” and reduce tensions in the re-gion, which is best for the fu-ture of the people here, said His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.

Bahrain establishing ties with Israel has sent a ‘civilised mes-sage’ to the world, also affirming that “our hands are extended for a just and comprehensive peace,” HM King added.

HM, the King was addressing the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York via video call.

Calling UAE’s “historic peace agreement” with Israel, bro-kered by the USA, as a “coura-geous step”, HM King said the deal is a “cornerstone for achiev-ing a just and comprehensive peace leading to the establish-ment of an independent Pales-tinian state, with East Jerusalem as its capital.”

In this context, HM King urged intensified efforts to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict under the two-state solution.

The signing of the UAE-Israel deal was conditioned upon Isra-el stopping the annexation of the Palestinian lands.

By doing so, HM the King said,

UAE has enhanced opportunities for peace while preserving its firm position on the Palestinian issue.

King Hamad also commended the efforts of the United States of America in accomplishing these strategic steps.

In this regard, HM the King hailed the pioneering role of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Ab-dulaziz Al Saud in laying the foundation for security and peace in the region.

He underlined the firmness of Bahrain to stand alongside Saudi Arabia on all positions and circumstances and with Egypt

to consolidate regional security and stability,

Referring to the Libyan peace initiative, HM King said: “The initiative gave hope to the broth-

erly Libyan people to confront and resist foreign interference.”

His Majesty also congratulat-ed Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres for strengthening the

role of the organisation in set-tling disputes, proposing solu-tions and initiatives o reach a global order.

On the COVID-19 pandemic, HM the King said the challenge has proved to the international community the need to put aside differences and strengthen sol-idarity to improve future read-iness to prevent such risks and properly fortify our societies.

In this regard, HM the King hailed the ceasefire call made by the Secretary-General of the United Nations in all conflict ar-eas in the world. Bahrain, Ham-ad, said has extended a hand to countries and organisation around the world to facing these difficult circumstances.

“We have formed a national task force, headed by our Crown Prince, to develop and imple-ment an integrated emergency plan to preserve, first and fore-most, the health and safety of citizens and residents alike.”

His Majesty said the Kingdom has also taken steps to mitigate the economic and social impacts of the pandemic and are work-ing tirelessly to support pro-grammes in this regard.

On this note, King Hamad called on to accelerate efforts to achieve human prosperity by strengthening areas of solidarity and consensus under the um-brella of global goals.

We consider this a cornerstone for achieving a just and comprehensive

peace leading to the establishment of an

independent Palestinian state, with East

Jerusalem as its capital, based on the resolutions

of international legitimacy and the Arab

Peace InitiativeHM MAJESTY THE KING

Key takeaways • Kingdom’s relations with Israel are for achieving peace in

the region• His Majesty praised the UAE-Israeli peace agreement• Called for intensifying efforts to end the Palestinian-Is-

raeli conflict as per the two-state solution• Demanded a solution to the Palestinian issue per inter-

national resolutions and the Arab Peace Initiative• HM King backed full rights of Palestinians • Affirmed Bahrain’s united stance with Saudi Arabia in all

circumstances

UAE reopens all seven regions to foreign visitorsReuters | Dubai

The United Arab Emirates will resume issuing visas

to foreign visitors to all seven of its regions yesterday after a six-month suspension im-posed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Dubai had already lifted its own visa ban in July.

The Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship said

the decision was taken as part of the easing of COVID-19 re-strictions as well as efforts to support economic recov-ery plans. All six Gulf Arab countries have lifted internal curfews and lockdowns, but restrictions on gatherings and foreign travel remain in the oil-producing region, where the total number of COVID cas-es stands at over 800,000, with more than 6,800 deaths.

US ups pressure on Iran with new sanctions

• Iran opens a new naval base along the Strait of Hormuz

TDT | Agencies

The United States is prepar-ing new sanctions on Iran,

which has dramatically escalat-ed tensions by opening a new naval base over the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

Dubbed the “Martyr Seyed

Majid Rahbar”, the new base Iran said will give it “full con-trol” of various vessels that use

the world’s busiest oil transit routes.

The base lies in the south-ern province of Hormozgan, near the entrance to the nar-row Strait of Hormuz through which a fifth of world oil out-put passes. “This base has been built with the purpose of total dominance over the entry and exit of extraterritorial aircraft and naval vessels” at the en-trance to the Gulf, Guards com-mander Major General Hossein Salami said on Wednesday.

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A US aircraft carrier through the Strait of Hormuz on Friday after Washington threatened to enforce “UN” sanctions without the backing of Security Council partners Logan C. Kellums

Gulf Air resumes direct flights to Amman

TDT | Manama

Gulf Air, the national carrier of Bahrain, an-

nounced resuming its direct flights to and from Amman’s Queen Alia International Airport starting yesterday.

The airline has been oper-ating direct flights between Bahrain and Jordan since 1982. Amman has always been an important route for the Gulf Air’s network in the Middle East.

Gulf Air currently flies to and from London, Par-is, Frankfurt, Manila, Ath-ens, Cairo, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Kuwait, Peshawar, Islamabad, Lahore, Kara-chi, Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), Cochin, Calicut, Delhi, Dhaka and Amman.

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HM King Hamad’s initiative a giant

step towards peace, reconciliation and

comprehensive development in the

region SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

Advisor to His Majesty the King for Media Affairs Nabil bin Yacoob Al Hamer during a discussion yesterday with Bahraini Ambassador-designate to Egypt Hesham bin Mohammed Al Jowder. Al Hamer praised the historical Bahraini-Egyptian relations at all levels, led by His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. He wished Al Powder all success in his duties.

US prepares sanctions on Iran judge(Continues from page 1)

His remarks come days after a US aircraft carrier passed

the waterway to enter the Gulf , amid Washington threats to enforce United Nations sanc-tions on Iran.

Meanwhile, US Special Rep-

resentative for Iran and Vene-zuela Elliott Abrams said yes-terday it is slapping sanctions on a judge who sentenced Ira-nian wrestler Navid Afkari to death.

“The US is committed to holding accountable those who deny freedom and jus-

tice to people of Iran and later today United States will an-nounce sanctions on several Iranian officials and entities including the judge who sen-tenced Navid Afkari to death,” Abrams said during a hearing at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

BD20 fine for not wearing face mask

TDT | Manama

Those who fail to wear face masks in public places in the Kingdom

will now attract a fine of BD20.Interior Minister General

Shaikh Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa announced the new de-cision as the Kingdom delayed school reopening and in-door dining services to battle a re-cent spike in virus infections.

The Government Executive Committee chaired by HRH Prince Salman has called on citizens and residents to limit gatherings to members of the same household and close so-cial circle for two weeks until

1 October 2020 to reduce virus transmission.

Announcing the decision, In-terior minister said the move aims at obliging people to wear

masks at public places, indus-trial and commercial facilities and all other places.

He warned that violators are required to pay the fines on spot to law enforcement officers.

Those refusing pay fines will face legal actions of public pros-ecution, said the ministry of In-terior. Face coverings are man-datory in public places, public transport, shops, salons, offices, schools, as well as a range of other locations.

Officials have earlier warned that complacency in following COVID-19 precautionary meas-ures would result in Bahrain re-versing some of the now-eased lockdown measures.

Interior Minister

Bahrain, UAE, Israel peace deal will deescalate conflicts: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

TDT | Manama

Peace Initiatives by Bah-rain, the UAE and Israel would de-escalate con-

flicts in the region, said Indi-an spiritual leader, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

Speaking during a virtual fo-rum organised on the sidelines of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 75), Sri Ravi Shankar described HM King Hamad’s initiative as a giant step towards peace, rec-onciliation and comprehensive development in the region.

He indicated that HM the King had opened the king-dom to all religions, and paved the way for their followers to perform the rituals of their religions with complete free-dom, which reflects the King’s far-sighted vision.

“We must strive for one glob-al community and one global family, and this must be in-stilled in the minds of young-sters,” he said.

He stressed the need to focus on the language of dialogue and pluralism to ensure peace and reconcile humanity under the

banners of love and respect for religious freedoms.

Themed “Why Freedom of Religion or Belief Is Vital for Peace? The Kingdom of Bahrain as a Historical Model”, the vir-tual forum included clerics and representatives of international non-profit organisations as par-

ticipants. UK Prime Minister’s Special

Envoy on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Rehman Chishti, con-firmed that Bahrain provides a living example of the extent to which everyone can live to-gether within an atmosphere of mutual love and respect.

He recalled his visits to Bah-rain, where he witnessed the

unique combination of various houses of worship.

Meanwhile, Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Cen-tre, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, highlighted the tremendous efforts made by the kingdom to promote the best human values all over the world.

Second Deputy Chairper-son of the Board of Trustees of King Hamad Global Centre for Peaceful Coexistence and President of This Is Bahrain Society, Betsy Mathieson, Asso-ciate Executive Vice President of the New York Board of Rab-bis, Rabbi Diana S. Gerson, The Principal Representative of the Bahá’í International Communi-ty to the UN, Bani Dougal, Chief Rabbi Moshe Lewin, from Paris, France, Director of the Office of Ecumenical and Interreli-gious Affairs for the Archdio-cese of New York, Father Brian McWeeney, Vice President of the Albanian Islamic Cultural Centre and Imam, Dr Tahir Ku-kaj, Rev. William Devlin, Exec-utive Director of the Interfaith Centre of New York, Dr Chloe Breyer, and New York-based Hindu cleric, Umang Govind, took part.

His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa hailed the webinar organised by the King Hamad Global Centre for Peaceful Coexistence, in collaboration with “This Is Bahrain”, for its continuous efforts to spread Bahrain’s message of peace, tolerance and peaceful coexistence.

The Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism Zayed bin Rashid Al Zayani participating in the 59th meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)’s Commercial Cooperation Committee. The committee discussed various issues on its agenda, including ways of boosting GCC joint work after the coronavirus pandemic, achieving food security in the GCC member states and amending the Patent Law.

Lane closures on Highways TDT | Manama

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The lanes one and two on stages will remain closed from Thursday at 11 pm to Sunday at 5 am.

Lanes two and one will be opened for traffic movement

from Sunday from 11 pm to 5 am, for five days.

The ministry a lso an-nounced the closing of the fast lane on King Hamad Highway between Hawar Highway ( Askar Junction) and Road 5225 for northbound traffic. One lane will remain open for traffic movement. The closure will be effective from Thursday at 10 pm to Sunday at 9 am.

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Zero COVID-19 deaths

TDT | Manama

Zero COVID-19 deaths were reported by Bah-

rain yesterday keeping the Kingdom’s toll of the coro-navirus battle at 231.

However, the spike in cas-es continued yesterday too with the Health ministry reporting 687 new COVID-19 patients.

Among them, 133 are ex-patriate workers, 550 are contacts of active cases, and four are travel related.

Meanwhile, recoveries also increased. Ministry recorded 736 recoveries, taking the total number of people cured of their infec-tions here to 60,853.

There are currently 6,617 active coronavirus patients in the Kingdom, out of which 6,558 are health wise stable.


Three friends die in horrific car crash in SaudiVictims include a student of Laurels Centre for Global Education Bahrain

TDT | Manama

A student of Laurels Centre for Global Education Bahrain,

and two of his friends, lost their lives in a horrific crash on the Saudi Dammam-Alkhobar high-way, early morning yesterday.

The victims Ansif (22), Sanad (22) and Mohammed Shefeeq (22) are all hailing from the south-India state of Kerala.

They were on their way back after participating in Saudi Na-tional Day celebrations when the mishap occurred. Saudi Arabia celebrated its 90th National Day on Wednesday with massive air shows, fireworks, and several

other events across the King-dom.

According to police, all the victims died at the spot.

The mishap occurred when the car they were travelling lost

control and rammed on to a di-vider, while entering a highway, and turned turtle in the process.

Sa n a d , w h o h a i l s f ro m Kozhikode, Kerala, was pursuing his studies in Laurels Centre for Global Education Bahrain.

According to Laurels’ officials, he had cleared his exams and

was about to collect his certifi-cates in a week.

The news of his sad and un-timely demise was received with shock by his friends and teach-ers.

Anif and Shefeeq are natives of Wayanad and Malappuram, respectively.

According to reports, their bodies are at the Dammam med-ical complex hospital. Families will receive bodies after comple-tion of the medical procedures.

All of them were together during their schooling from the Indian school in Saudi.

Their families are residing in Saudi Arabia.

Mohammed Shefeeq, Ansif, Sanad

The mishap occurred when the car they

were travelling lost control and rammed on to a divider, while entering a highway, and turned turtle in

the process

US navy base school to reopen SundayTeachers union raises health risk concerns

• One-third students enrolled for eClasses

• Base eased risk level to HPCON-Bravo

• More easing when there are less than 50 cases per 100,000 residents per week

TDT | Manama

Students are all set to return to Bahrain School at the UN Navy base this Sunday,

despite teachers there raising health safety concerns, reports Stars and Stripes.

Classes will restart for ele-mentary and middle school stu-dents, the report confirms, as the base eased its coronavirus risk level from Health Protec-tion Condition-Charlie to HP-CON-Bravo.

Charlie indicates sustained community transmission while Bravo specifies a risk of in-creased virus transmission, the stripes adds.

However, the report also con-firms that not all students would return for schooling this Sunday, as one-third of them are in for virtual school.

Which means, students from 9 to 12 grade will continue re-mote learning, for the time be-

ing, the report said quoting Ste-phen Smith, a DODEA-Europe spokesman.

The US Navy closed ‘Bahrain school’ in February when the virus infection began to gain strength.

The functioning of the school,

which houses students from kindergarten through to 12th grade, is overseen by the US De-partment of Defense Education Activity-Europe.

HPCON levelNavy statement says the base

may lower its HPCON level to Bravo when there are less than 50 cases per 100,000 residents per week.

Easing the health threat lev-el is “also based on our ability to conduct testing and to care for those who are infected by the coronavirus,” Stripes quot-ed Navy Capt. Gregory Smith, the base commanding officer, as saying.

Last week, the Government Executive Committee chaired by HRH the Crown Prince called on citizens and residents to limit gatherings to members of the same household and close social circle for two weeks until the start of next month, to reduce virus transmission.

The private school in the Kingdom resumed its activities last week, while the government postponed public school reopen-ing by two more weeks until 11 October 2020.

The delay is to facilitate the testing of all administrative, technical and teaching staff for coronavirus (COVID-19).

Classes are either held in per-son, online, or both, based on the recommendations of the nation-al medical taskforce.

A fifth grade class at Bahrain School in September 2019. (Courtesy of Stars and Stripes)

What do the teachers say?

Stripes say that the teach-ers are worried about re-

suming classes, as the King-dom is currently witnessing “the highest surge in cases since the pandemic began.”

Linda Hogan, the presi-dent and executive director of the Overseas Federation of Teachers, the union rep-resenting DODEA teachers working in Spain, Turkey, Bahrain and Italy, told Stripes that the authorities should delay reopening “until the current health conditions in Bahrain improve.”

The report further says that students returning will have to wear masks, and will be seated 6 feet apart along with other safety precaution-ary measures.

Last week, the Government Executive Committee chaired by HRH the Crown Prince called on citizens

and residents to limit gatherings to members of the same household and close social circle for two

weeks until the start of next month, to reduce virus transmission

Proposal to create a National registry for cholesterol patients TDT | Manama

A proposal has been tabled before the National Com-

mittee to Combat Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases to establish a national registry of cholesterol patients in the King-dom. Dr Nisreen Al Sayed, En-docrinologist and Lipidologist, President-Elect at American Association of Clinical Endo-crinologists, Gulf Chapter, was behind the move.

Tabling the proposal to the National Committee to Combat Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases, Dr Al Sayed said such a database is required to reinforce

and support medical studies, research and action plans for diagnosing and treating lipid imbalance and high cholesterol.

The development came during the second meeting this year of the National Committee to Combat Chronic Non-Commu-nicable Diseases, held virtual-ly, chaired by Health Minister Faiqa bint Saeed Al Saleh,

Lipid imbalance in simple terms means a person has high blood levels of low-density lipo-protein (LDL) cholesterol, and fats called triglycerides or both. High levels of these substances increase your risk of developing

heart disease.The meeting also reviewed

the latest developments in the healthy cities programme in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the results of the health mall project under the supervision and follow-up of the Health Pro-motion Department, presented by Dr Wafa Al Sharbti, Director of Health Promotion.

The meeting discussed the results of the study on investing in the prevention of non-com-municable diseases in Bahrain by Dr Najat Abu Al Fateh, the Director of Public Health at the Ministry of Health.

Health minister and participants during a meeting of the National Committee to Combat Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases


The high levels of cyberattacks in Bahrain and the GCC show that while the pandemic has dominated all of our lives during the

first half of 2020, it’s not slowing down the cybercriminals

ASSAD ARABI, COUNTRY MANAGER – BAHRAIN, TREND MICRO

COVID-19 not slowing CybercriminalsBahrain experienced 2,423,846 digital threats in H1, Trend Micro report says

• The new report calls for developing cybersecurity strategies to account for increased threats

• It also urges to refresh training courses

TDT, agencies

Bahrain blocked a total of 2,423,846 digital attacks during the first half of

2020, revealed a new report. The high level of attacks in

Bahrain, espcially during the outbreak, the report by Trend Micro said, show that the pan-demic is “not slowing down the cybercriminals.”

The annual mid-year roundup report singles out COVID-19 re-lated threats as the largest type of threats in the first half of the year.

According to Assad Arabi, Country Manager – Bahrain, Trend Micro: “The high levels of cyberattacks in Bahrain and the GCC show that while the pandemic has dominated all of our lives during the first half of 2020, it’s not slowing down the cybercriminals.”

Bahrain, the report said, ex-perienced 2,062,919 threats through email, 299,423 URL vic-tims, 561 URL hosted and 60,943 malware detections.

In this scenario, Arabi urg-es the Information technology leaders in Bahrain to develop

digital security strategies to keep pace with the increasing threats and to “protect remote

endpoints, cloud systems, user account login data and virtual private network systems.”

He also throws light on the need for updating training courses, to “transforming di-vergent workforces into a more effective first line of defence.”

The report said that in total, Trend Micro blocked 27.8 billion cyber threats in the first half of 2020, 93 per cent of which were email-borne.

The mid-year report further points out that the Cybercrimi-nals shifted their focus between January and June to exploit-

ing the global focus on the pan-demic. Security vulnerabilities caused by the transition of employees to remote work en-hanced the threats.

During the first half, the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) countries witnessed 56,870,977 digital threats via email, web addresses, and malware. “Cy-berthreats included 41,236,550 email threats, 13,181,016 URL victims, 2,392,097 malware de-tections and 61,314 URL hosted threats.”

Trend Micro said it blocked a total of 27.8 billion cyber threats in the first half of 2020, of which

93pc came via e-mail. Incidents of corporate email breaches de-tected in the first half increased by 18 per cent compared to the second half of the last year 2019. The increase, according to the report, is relatively due to fraud-ulent attempts to exploit em-ployees ’work from their homes, as they are more likely to fall victim to fraud attempts based on social engineering principles.

Picture courtesy of AlAyam

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Facing the menace called waste dumping People are dumping all kind of wastes at whatever places they want without any restraint or

concern for nature, slowly turning the island into a dump yard, says an AlAyam reportTDT | Manama

Construction waste, sin-gle-use plastics, broken

containers, food wastes, dam-aged electronic goods and more.

Bahrain is fighting to deal with the piles of these left be-hind by unethical people, leav-ing authorities and residents baffled, days after days.

The pictures with this article, shot by Abdullah Hassan for AlAyam from various parts of Bahrain, speaks volumes on this menace we are facing.

During his drive around the streets of Bahrain, Hassan says has witnessed people throw-ing all kind of things on to the Street.

He asks, “Why does a person want to destroy the environ-ment he lives?

He, with a heavy heart, also points out that among the cul-prits are many Bahrainis.

When an expatriate who is here for the goal of making some money does this, it is painful, but when a Bahraini, who is supposed to protect the nation, does this, it is excruciatingly painful and hard to digest.

After dumping their wastes on streets here and destroying nature, the same person, Has-san says, is also on a constant lookout for countries, where he can travel to enjoy the pristine nature.

Recalling an incident hap-pened months ago, where he

saw a construction worker dumping tons of the debris un-der a tree, he said even though he had reported the incident to authorities nothing changed.

“I still see all those debris suffocating nature whenever I drive past that tree.”

“I feel sorrow and regret.”Similarly, I clicked a man

throwing wastes from a chicken farm on to the streets and send it to authorities, nothing changed.

“They are still throwing.”Concerned authorities are yet

to make a move.

“I believe this delay is encour-aging people to repeat their of-fences.” The problem is assum-ing gigantic proportions, and there is an urgent need to end this to prevent Bahrain from turning into one big garbage dump, Hassan tells AlAyam.

Pictures taken from various parts of Kingdom (courtesy of AlAyam)

AUBH, WFC join hands The deal to offer football-related opportunities to AUBH students

TDT | Manama

The American University of Bahrain (AUBH) and Win-

ners Football Center (WFC) signed a Memorandum of Un-derstanding (MoU) on Sep-tember 16, 2020, on AUBH’s 75,000 square meter campus in Riffa.

AUBH Chief Operating Of-ficer, William D. Hurt and WFC Managing Director, Fawaz Al-binmohamed formalized the relationship aiming to expand the University’s sports offer-ings on campus.

Students will have access to extensive training and activi-ties, along with both national and international football-re-lated opportunities.

Chief Operating Officer, William D. Hurt commented: “With health and wellness at the heart of AUBH’s mission and vision, we are thrilled to welcome WFC to the AUBH

community. We look forward to kicking off a series of soc-cer activities on campus very soon.”

Fawaz Albinmohamed, Managing Director of WFC, said: “Winners always urges young athletes to continue their academic development and balance between sports and education to ensure a brighter future in their athletic and working career.

The relationship comple-ments AUBH’s vision of holis-tic experiences including the “sound mind, sound body” approach to wellness, with students participating in both individual and team sports. The AUBH Sports Center fuses athletics and wellness in a spa-cious fitness facility featuring cardio and strength training, alongside a basketball court, a well-lit soccer field and group exercise rooms.

WFC Managing Director Fawaz Al-binmohamed (left) and AUBH Chief Operating Officer, William D. Hurt during the deal signing

Batelco launches unlimited business mobile packages• Unlimited voice calls to all national operators

• New package provides customers with up to 75GB data

• Targets business customers including entrepreneurs, SMEs and large corporations

TDT | Manama

Batelco has unveiled its latest business mobile packages in a complete

refresh of its existing packages, targeted at business customers including entrepreneurs, SMEs and large corporations.

The new business mobile

packages from Batelco allow cus-tomers to benefit from unlimit-ed voice minutes to all national operators at competitive prices, with packages starting from BD7 monthly.

The new packages also pro-vide customers with up to 75GB of data to suit the growing needs for digital communication.

Commenting, Abderrahmane Mounir, General Manager En-

terprise Division at Batelco, said, “At Batelco, we realise the im-portance of having the freedom to manage a business remotely. So this new unlimited national calls feature adds to the other productive services which we have launched recently such as the Cloud Unified Communi-cations.”

There is an increase in the de-mand for telecom and ICT solu-

tions from businesses in various sectors in Bahrain. According to the 2019 Bahrain Economic Re-port published by the Ministry of Finance and National Economy, the private sector in Bahrain has witnessed a growth of 1.7 per cent in 2019 when compared to the previous year, and the Hotels and Restaurants sector achieved the highest year-on-year growth of 6.5pc.


Batelco strives to adapt to the ever-changing needs of businesses in Bahrain and to offer the latest digital solutions that adds joy to customers’ experience and also contribute

towards the efficiency of thebusinesses of Bahrain

ABDERRAHMANE MOUNIR

GENERAL MANAGER ENTERPRISE DIVISION AT BATELCO,

Businesses welcome Batelco’s initiative to waive 500 SME’s

broadband bills TDT | Manama

Several business owners have extended their appre-

ciation to Batelco for the fi-nancial support towards their fixed internet cost for three months in a media report that was broadcasted recently on social media.

The initiative, which sup-ports business customers most affected by the pandemic, aim to lessen their financial bur-dens and provide them suffi-cient time to adapt to the new challenges.

Batelco initiated the pro-cess by identifying companies eligible for support from its customer database and made the selection based on a set of criteria. The selected compa-nies were informed that the billed amounts were deposited into their accounts registered for Batelco’s Fixed Broadband service.

General Manager of Corpo-rate Communications & CSR, Shaikh Bader Bin Rashid Al

Khalifa, said, “We are delight-ed with the success of our ini-tiative in which we offered 500 SMEs in the business sector fi-nancial support towards their fixed internet costs for three months.”

Khalid AlRashdan, the own-er of Angham Beirut Café and Restaurant, who benefited from the Batelco initiative, said: “We highly value the na-tional role Batelco plays in pro-viding support to the Bahraini market throughout these dif-ficult times. We consider their active participation as one of the main encouraging motives for us to continue working and contributing towards reducing the impacts faced in light of the pandemic.”

Since the emergence of the Coronavirus in Bahrain, Batel-co has launched a set of initi-atives to support the national campaign against Coronavirus and the efforts of Bahrain to limit the spread of the virus while benefitting multiple seg-ments of society.

Harley deepens restructuring with India exitReuters

Harley-Davidson Inc said on Thursday it would

discontinue its sales and man-ufacturing operations in In-dia, effectively abandoning the world’s biggest motorcy-cle market after a decade of unsuccessful efforts to gain a foothold. Harley had spent recent months moving dealer-ships in the country to cheaper locations, and the announce-ment followed speculation in Indian media a month ago that executives had played down.

The move involves $75 mil-lion in restructuring costs, some 70 redundancies and the closure of its Bawal plant, walking away from a market worth about 17 million bike and scooter sales a year.

It will retain only a scaled-down sales office in Gurgaon, south of New Delhi.

Harley has been scrambling for years to grow sales in the United States and has not post-ed retail sales growth there in the past 14 quarters.

Harley said it now expects total restructuring costs of about $169 million in 2020, but warned that the restruc-turing program - referred to internally as “The Rewire” - was likely to incur more charges.

In United States Dollars (‘USD’) Share Statutory Foreign Accumulated Investment Total Non- Total capital reserve currency losses fair value controlling equity translation reserve interest reserve 2020Balance at 1 January 58,000,000 1,356,312 (790,772) (8,954,930) 796,250 50,406,860 7,403,814 57,810,674 Foreign currency translation reserve - - (206,587) - - (206,587) (89,408) (295,995)

Investment fair value reserve - - - - (152,546) (152,546) (64,509) (217,055) - - - 972,527 - 972,527 16,006 988,533

Balance at 30 June 58,000,000 1,356,312 (997,359) (7,982,403) 643,704 51,020,254 7,265,903 58,286,157 2019 Balance at 1 January 58,000,000 1,324,137 (844,795) (9,209,322) 934,484 50,204,504 7,398,343 57,602,847 Foreign currency translation reserve - - 62,541 - - 62,541 21,967 84,508 Investment fair value reserve - - - - (133,449) (133,449) (60,310) (193,759)

- - - 268,610 - 268,610 21,704 290,314 Balance at 30 June 58,000,000 1,324,137 (782,254) (8,940,712) 801,035 50,402,206 7,381,704 57,783,910

In United States Dollars (‘USD’) Accumulated Foreign currency reserve Total2020Balance at 1 January (41,351,931) 327,866 (41,024,065)Surplus for the period 1,006,127 2 1,006,129 Foreign currency translation reserve - 213,933 213,933 Balance at 30 June (40,345,806) 541,801 (39,804,005)2019 Balance at 1 January (42,172,208) 375,698 (41,796,510)

(3,458,912) - (3,458,912)Foreign currency translation reserve - (41,718) (41,718)Balance at 30 June (45,631,120) 333,980 (45,297,140)

In United States Dollars (‘USD’) Six months ended 30 June 2020 2019Contributions (reviewed) (reviewed)Gross contributions 36,342,335 38,442,415 Retakaful share of gross contributions (6,225,781) (6,188,709)Retained contributions 30,116,554 32,253,706 Unearned contributions adjustment 596,014 (4,051,656)Net earned contributions 30,712,568 28,202,050 Policy issuance fee 159,215 170,759 Policy acquisition costs (2,545,024) (2,265,413)Re-takaful discount 1,394,631 1,175,530 Net acquisition costs/ discount income (991,178) (919,124)Unearned acquisition costs / discount income adjustment- net (472,882) (21,401)Net earned acquisition costs / discount income (1,464,060) (940,525)Net earned revenue 29,248,508 27,261,525

Claims Gross claims paid 22,019,879 24,794,333 Retakaful share of claims paid (1,287,425) (2,766,710)Change in outstanding claims - gross 444,094 7,539,460 Change in outstanding claims - retakaful share (19,151) (5,569,757)Net claims 21,157,397 23,997,326 Net earned revenue over net claims incurred 8,091,111 3,264,199 Wakala fee (5,484,955) (5,076,540)General and administrative expenses under mudarib model (1,667,336) (1,718,625)

from takaful operations 938,820 (3,530,966) 188,823 202,916

Mudarib share (40,967) (46,894)Other expense (80,547) (83,968)SURPLUS/(DEFICIT) FOR THE PERIOD 1,006,129 (3,458,912)

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN PARTICIPANTS’ FUND

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF PARTICIPANTS’ REVENUE AND EXPENSES

In United States Dollars (‘USD’) 30 Jun 2020 31 Dec 2019 (reviewed) (audited)ASSETS Cash and cash equivalents 12,218,587 9,949,749 Statutory deposits 5,175,877 5,976,578 Deposits more than 3 months 9,446,151 9,602,642 Investments 13,245,441 13,401,551 Contributions receivable 22,674,163 20,358,792 Receivable from takaful and retakaful companies 3,923,454 3,972,436 Deferred acquisition cost 4,706,811 5,046,814 Deferred retakaful share of contribution 5,899,299 5,599,471 Retakaful share of outstanding claims 25,555,785 25,829,100 Property and equipment 633,328 728,485 Other assets 5,379,841 6,530,228 Total assets 108,858,737 106,995,846

LIABILITIES, PARTICIPANTS’ FUND AND SHAREHOLDERS EQUITY Liabilities Technical reserves 71,047,941 71,476,470 Payable to takaful and retakaful companies 3,621,416 3,763,900 Other liabilities 15,707,228 14,968,867 Total liabilities 90,376,585 90,209,237 Participants’ fund

(40,345,806) (41,351,931)Foreign currency translation reserve 541,801 327,866 Total of participants’ fund (39,804,005) (41,024,065) Equity Share capital 58,000,000 58,000,000 Statutory reserve 1,356,312 1,356,312 Investment fair value reserve 643,704 796,250 Foreign currency translation reserve (997,359) (790,772)Accumulated losses (7,982,403) (8,954,930) 51,020,254 50,406,860 Non- controlling interest 7,265,903 7,403,814

Total shareholder’ equity 58,286,157 57,810,674

TOTAL LIABILITIES, PARTICIPANTS’ FUND AND SHAREHOLDERS EQUITY 108,858,737 106,995,846

In United States Dollars (‘USD’) Six months ended 30 June

2020 2019Income (reviewed) (reviewed)Wakala fee 5,484,955 5,076,540

170,767 184,921 Mudarib share 40,967 46,894 Other income 117,172 166,868 Total income 5,813,861 5,475,223 Expenses General and administration expenses 4,824,291 5,183,509 Total expenses 4,824,291 5,183,509

for the period before contribution to KFAS 989,570 291,714 Contribution to KFAS (489) (662)Zakat (548) (738)NET PROFIT FOR THE PERIOD 988,533 290,314

attributable to: Owners of the parent 972,527 268,610

Non-controlling interests 16,006 21,704

NET PROFIT FOR THE PERIOD 988,533 290,314

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF SHAREHOLDERS’ INCOME

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION

t’azur Company b.s.c. (c)INTERIM CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED INFORMTION FOR THE

PERIOD ENDED 30 JUNE 2020

More new deals sweeten 13th-anniversary offer of LuLu TDT | Manama

The second phase of LuLu Hypermarket’s 13th-anni-

versary promotion began yes-terday and will continue to bring more goodies and deals to shoppers in Bahrain till October 6.

LuLu Hypermarket is cel-ebrating its 13th anniversa-ry of being a retail leader in Bahrain with a grand ‘Shop and Win’ e-raffle promotion offering BD 150,000 in LuLu Shopping Gift Card prizes to winners.

Shoppers will get an e-raffle

entry in their names for every BD 5 spent at any of the eight LuLu Hypermarkets in the Kingdom. A fortnightly draw worth BD 25,000 will take place every 15 days and winners will get Lulu shopping cards valued at BD 50, BD 25 or BD 10.

In this period, customers can

shop for great new bargains in electronics, white home goods, cosmetics, personal hygiene and a wide range of food items at special prices. From one, two and three day offers to hour-ly surprise offers and general promotions, from luxury smart-phones and wide-screen tele-

visions to chocolates, cheese and meat, from toys and fitness equipment to personal hygiene items, there is something every household will need which is on special offer. In addition, customers can get two e-raffle entries for every BD 5 spent on specific brands, thus doubling

their winning chances.After October 21, the ‘Shop &

Win’ promotion will continue till December 15 as part of fes-tive season and National Day celebrations.

LuLu Hypermarkets are locat-ed in all the four Governorates of the Kingdom – Dana Mall,

Juffair Mall and Galleria Mall in the Capital Governorate; in the Ramli Mall in A’ali-Isa Town of the Northern Governorate; in Riffa in the Southern Governo-rate; in Atrium Mall in Saar, in the Southern Governorate and in Hidd and in Muharraq Central in the Muharraq Governorate.

1.8EU talks to agree on 1.8 trillion euros worth of the bloc’s next budget and a linked pandemic

recovery.

1,851Spot gold fell 0.6 per cent to $1,851.85 per ounce by

0929 GMT, extending falls into a fourth session


AIB names Al Subaihi as Grand Prize winner of BD300,000 Unveils alBarakat prizes’ new scheme

TDT | Manama

Al Baraka Islamic Bank (AIB) named the winners

of alBarakat account, including the grand prize winner of BD 300,000 Ahmed Al Subaihi.

The bank also unveiled the new scheme of alBarakat ac-count prizes, scheduled to launch from October until De-cember 2020 and expected to include over 180 winners.

During September, a total of 41 winners emerged in alBarakat account raffle draw, including the winner of the Grand Prize. Additionally, 40 winners re-ceived a monthly prize of BD 500 each.

The draw was held at Al Bara-ka headquarters in Bahrain Bay.

On this occasion, Ahmed Al Subaihi, the winner, said he was pleasantly surprised by this an-nouncement that brought joy to his whole family.

Chief Executive Officer of Al Baraka Islamic Bank, Hamad Abdulla Al Oqab, said: “The new edition of alBarakat ac-count will offer more customers the opportunity to win greater cash prizes. We look forward to new customers entering the upcoming raffle draws which will be held in October and throughout the remainder of the year.”

In conjunction, the bank an-nounced the new prize draw schedule unti l December 2020, which includes a larg-er number of monthly win-ners with 60 prizes distribut-ed weekly, to be drawn for 20 cash prizes worth BD 500 per week.

Besides, the new scheme will include a monthly Grand Prize of BD 10,000 in October and November, as well as a Grand Prize winner of BD 100,000 for December.Officials with the Grand Prize winner

Global economic outlook ‘somewhat less dire’ than expected: IMFReuters | Washington

The global economic out-look is not quite as dark

as expected even just three months ago, a top Interna-tional Monetary Fund official said yesterday, citing better than anticipated economic data from China and other ad-vanced economies.

However, IMF spokesman Gerry Rice told reporters the overall global outlook re-mained challenging as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on many eco-nomic sectors.

The situation remained “precarious” in many devel-oping countries and emerging markets other than China, he said, noting that the IMF was also concerned about rising debt levels.

Restaurant seats stand empty in Covent Garden in London, Britain

EU chair Germany tells parliament to get COVID recovery cash throughReuters | Brussels

Germany, the current holder of the European Union’s

rotating presidency, urged the European Parliament yes-terday to speed up talks and work on weekends to agree on 1.8 trillion euros worth of the bloc’s next budget and a linked pandemic recovery.

The European Parliament must endorse the package agreed by EU governments af-ter a tortuous four-day summit in July, before the money can start flowing to help revive the EU economy from the deepest recession in the bloc’s history.

But in exchange for its con-sent, the EU parliament wants governments to spend more money on research and devel-opment and to provide a le-gally binding timetable for the introduction of new EU-wide

taxes to pay for the stimulus spending.

Crucially, parliament also wants a clear link between the EU money and observing the rule of law -- a condition watered down by Poland and Hungary, both under EU in-vestigations for flouting dem-ocratic checks and balances.

“I am very concerned that the negotiations are current-ly progressing too slowly. We must increase the frequency of negotiations significantly. We have offered the Europe-an Parliament to negotiate through the weekends as well,” German ambassador to the EU, Michael Clauss, told Reuters.

But Armin Wisdorff, a Euro-pean Parliament spokesman, said it was EU governments, called the Council, that ham-pered progress by lumping all issues together.

50 and 20 Euro banknotes are displayed in this picture illustration

Fire hits ONGC plant in W. Gujarat• Gas supplies to industries hit

Reuters | New Delhi/Ahmedabad

A fire at an Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) plant

caused by a pipeline rupture has cut gas supplies to customers including power and fertiliser companies, gas marketing firm GAIL (India) Ltd said yesterday.

The fire broke out yesterday morning at ONGC’s Hazira gas processing plant in western Gu-jarat state and has since been extinguished, ONGC said, adding that there were no casualties.

The plant, which produces liquefied petroleum gas and

other products such as naphtha, has been closed but ONGC said it is working to resume normal operations.

GAIL, India’s biggest gas mar-keting firm, supplies the bulk of gas produced at ONGC’s west-ern offshore fields to customers in the states of Gujarat, Goa, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

It supplies about 60 million standard cubic metres of gas daily to these customers.

In a statement, GAIL said ONGC had shut off the supply of 30 million standard cubic me-tres a day (mmscmd) of gas to GAIL’s north-western pipeline network to contain any further damage.

“Supply cuts of up to 40 per

cent against current allocations have been imposed on down-stream customers,” it said, add-ing that supplies to households had not been disrupted and the pipeline grid, which supports about 80 mmscmd of gas, had not been damaged.

India’s biggest utility NTPC Ltd shut its 656 megawatt gas-based power plant at Kawas near Hazira and a 657 megawatt Jhanor-Gandhar plant due to gas supply disruption, a person at the company said.

Capacity utilisation at fer-tiliser maker KRIBHCO fell to 50pc and Jadish Prasad Verma, general manger for production at the company’s Hazira plant, said they were trying to secure gas from other local suppliers.

Gas supplies to customers have temporarily closed due to safety reasons, an ONGC spokes-man said.

“There could be some impact on our production... We are in-vestigating the cause of fire, and extent of damage.”

The logo of Oil and Natural Gas Corp’s (ONGC) is pictured along a roadside in Ahmedabad, India

Gold slides to two-month low as dollar extends rally• Platinum rose 0.3pc

• Silver fell as much as 5.4pc

Reuters

Gold dropped to a more than two-month low on Thursday, weakened by

a robust dollar and as analysts said the lack of additional stim-ulus measures reduced the met-al’s appeal.

Spot gold fell 0.6 per cent to $1,851.85 per ounce by 0929 GMT, extending falls into a fourth session. Earlier in the day, it hit its lowest since July 22 at $1,847.99.

US gold futures were down 0.8pc to $1,854.30.

“As long as the greenback is recovering strength, bullion is going to lose out,” said Ac-tivTrades chief analyst Carlo Alberto De Casa.

While it would be premature to declare the “start of new

bearish movement,” the coming days will be decisive in wheth-

er gold can rebound to $1,860 or will continue to decline, he added.

The dollar index held recent gains, making bullion more expensive for holders of other currencies.

Adding to the uncertain out-look for gold, US Federal Re-serve officials reaffirmed their low interest monetary policy until the labour market recov-ers or inflation rises to 2pc, but failed to offer a path for further stimulus.

“It seems the Fed has pretty much tied themselves into no immediate action... So, the stim-ulus side of this trade is looking rather bleak in the short term,” Edward Moya, a senior market analyst at OANDA, said.

Gold is viewed as a hedge against inflation and currency debasement.

It also tends to thrive in times of broader economic weakness, but its fall on Thursday was de-spite increased doubts about an economic recovery and data showing business activity in the United States and Europe cooled in September.

Investors await US week-ly jobless claims data, due on Thursday, which is expected to show a slight decline in claims but are likely to remain high.

Elsewhere, silver fell as much as 5.4pc to $21.64 per ounce, its lowest since July 22, and was last down 3.3pc to $22.12.

Plat inum rose 0.3pc to $840.99 per ounce, but hit a more than two-month low of $827.5 earlier and palladium dipped 0.1pc to $2,218.52.

Gold bars at the Austrian Gold and Silver Separating Plant in Vienna, Austria,

1.8EU talks to agree on 1.8 trillion euros worth of the bloc’s next budget and a linked pandemic

recovery.

1,851Spot gold fell 0.6 per cent to $1,851.85 per ounce by

0929 GMT, extending falls into a fourth session


AIB names Al Subaihi as Grand Prize winner of BD300,000 Unveils alBarakat prizes’ new scheme

TDT | Manama

Al Baraka Islamic Bank (AIB) named the winners

of alBarakat account, including the grand prize winner of BD 300,000 Ahmed Al Subaihi.

The bank also unveiled the new scheme of alBarakat ac-count prizes, scheduled to launch from October until De-cember 2020 and expected to include over 180 winners.

During September, a total of 41 winners emerged in alBarakat account raffle draw, including the winner of the Grand Prize. Additionally, 40 winners re-ceived a monthly prize of BD 500 each.

The draw was held at Al Bara-ka headquarters in Bahrain Bay.

On this occasion, Ahmed Al Subaihi, the winner, said he was pleasantly surprised by this an-nouncement that brought joy to his whole family.

Chief Executive Officer of Al Baraka Islamic Bank, Hamad Abdulla Al Oqab, said: “The new edition of alBarakat ac-count will offer more customers the opportunity to win greater cash prizes. We look forward to new customers entering the upcoming raffle draws which will be held in October and throughout the remainder of the year.”

In conjunction, the bank an-nounced the new prize draw schedule unti l December 2020, which includes a larg-er number of monthly win-ners with 60 prizes distribut-ed weekly, to be drawn for 20 cash prizes worth BD 500 per week.

Besides, the new scheme will include a monthly Grand Prize of BD 10,000 in October and November, as well as a Grand Prize winner of BD 100,000 for December.Officials with the Grand Prize winner

Global economic outlook ‘somewhat less dire’ than expected: IMFReuters | Washington

The global economic out-look is not quite as dark

as expected even just three months ago, a top Interna-tional Monetary Fund official said yesterday, citing better than anticipated economic data from China and other ad-vanced economies.

However, IMF spokesman Gerry Rice told reporters the overall global outlook re-mained challenging as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on many eco-nomic sectors.

The situation remained “precarious” in many devel-oping countries and emerging markets other than China, he said, noting that the IMF was also concerned about rising debt levels.

Restaurant seats stand empty in Covent Garden in London, Britain

EU chair Germany tells parliament to get COVID recovery cash throughReuters | Brussels

Germany, the current holder of the European Union’s

rotating presidency, urged the European Parliament yes-terday to speed up talks and work on weekends to agree on 1.8 trillion euros worth of the bloc’s next budget and a linked pandemic recovery.

The European Parliament must endorse the package agreed by EU governments af-ter a tortuous four-day summit in July, before the money can start flowing to help revive the EU economy from the deepest recession in the bloc’s history.

But in exchange for its con-sent, the EU parliament wants governments to spend more money on research and devel-opment and to provide a le-gally binding timetable for the introduction of new EU-wide

taxes to pay for the stimulus spending.

Crucially, parliament also wants a clear link between the EU money and observing the rule of law -- a condition watered down by Poland and Hungary, both under EU in-vestigations for flouting dem-ocratic checks and balances.

“I am very concerned that the negotiations are current-ly progressing too slowly. We must increase the frequency of negotiations significantly. We have offered the Europe-an Parliament to negotiate through the weekends as well,” German ambassador to the EU, Michael Clauss, told Reuters.

But Armin Wisdorff, a Euro-pean Parliament spokesman, said it was EU governments, called the Council, that ham-pered progress by lumping all issues together.

50 and 20 Euro banknotes are displayed in this picture illustration

Fire hits ONGC plant in W. Gujarat• Gas supplies to industries hit

Reuters | New Delhi/Ahmedabad

A fire at an Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) plant

caused by a pipeline rupture has cut gas supplies to customers including power and fertiliser companies, gas marketing firm GAIL (India) Ltd said yesterday.

The fire broke out yesterday morning at ONGC’s Hazira gas processing plant in western Gu-jarat state and has since been extinguished, ONGC said, adding that there were no casualties.

The plant, which produces liquefied petroleum gas and

other products such as naphtha, has been closed but ONGC said it is working to resume normal operations.

GAIL, India’s biggest gas mar-keting firm, supplies the bulk of gas produced at ONGC’s west-ern offshore fields to customers in the states of Gujarat, Goa, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

It supplies about 60 million standard cubic metres of gas daily to these customers.

In a statement, GAIL said ONGC had shut off the supply of 30 million standard cubic me-tres a day (mmscmd) of gas to GAIL’s north-western pipeline network to contain any further damage.

“Supply cuts of up to 40 per

cent against current allocations have been imposed on down-stream customers,” it said, add-ing that supplies to households had not been disrupted and the pipeline grid, which supports about 80 mmscmd of gas, had not been damaged.

India’s biggest utility NTPC Ltd shut its 656 megawatt gas-based power plant at Kawas near Hazira and a 657 megawatt Jhanor-Gandhar plant due to gas supply disruption, a person at the company said.

Capacity utilisation at fer-tiliser maker KRIBHCO fell to 50pc and Jadish Prasad Verma, general manger for production at the company’s Hazira plant, said they were trying to secure gas from other local suppliers.

Gas supplies to customers have temporarily closed due to safety reasons, an ONGC spokes-man said.

“There could be some impact on our production... We are in-vestigating the cause of fire, and extent of damage.”

The logo of Oil and Natural Gas Corp’s (ONGC) is pictured along a roadside in Ahmedabad, India

Gold slides to two-month low as dollar extends rally• Platinum rose 0.3pc

• Silver fell as much as 5.4pc

Reuters

Gold dropped to a more than two-month low on Thursday, weakened by

a robust dollar and as analysts said the lack of additional stim-ulus measures reduced the met-al’s appeal.

Spot gold fell 0.6 per cent to $1,851.85 per ounce by 0929 GMT, extending falls into a fourth session. Earlier in the day, it hit its lowest since July 22 at $1,847.99.

US gold futures were down 0.8pc to $1,854.30.

“As long as the greenback is recovering strength, bullion is going to lose out,” said Ac-tivTrades chief analyst Carlo Alberto De Casa.

While it would be premature to declare the “start of new

bearish movement,” the coming days will be decisive in wheth-

er gold can rebound to $1,860 or will continue to decline, he added.

The dollar index held recent gains, making bullion more expensive for holders of other currencies.

Adding to the uncertain out-look for gold, US Federal Re-serve officials reaffirmed their low interest monetary policy until the labour market recov-ers or inflation rises to 2pc, but failed to offer a path for further stimulus.

“It seems the Fed has pretty much tied themselves into no immediate action... So, the stim-ulus side of this trade is looking rather bleak in the short term,” Edward Moya, a senior market analyst at OANDA, said.

Gold is viewed as a hedge against inflation and currency debasement.

It also tends to thrive in times of broader economic weakness, but its fall on Thursday was de-spite increased doubts about an economic recovery and data showing business activity in the United States and Europe cooled in September.

Investors await US week-ly jobless claims data, due on Thursday, which is expected to show a slight decline in claims but are likely to remain high.

Elsewhere, silver fell as much as 5.4pc to $21.64 per ounce, its lowest since July 22, and was last down 3.3pc to $22.12.

Plat inum rose 0.3pc to $840.99 per ounce, but hit a more than two-month low of $827.5 earlier and palladium dipped 0.1pc to $2,218.52.

Gold bars at the Austrian Gold and Silver Separating Plant in Vienna, Austria,

Australia plans disposal of hundreds of stranded whale carcassesReuters | Sydney

Australian officials began planning the grim task of

disposing of almost 400 whale carcasses as hopes faded there would be many more survivors of one of the world’s biggest mass strandings of the mam-

mals.Rescuers had managed to free

around 70 of the long-finned pilot whales beached off the country’s remote southern coast by yesterday afternoon. The ma-jority of those freed had reached deeper water, officials said, but four were likely to be eutha-

nised and others might return when the tide turns.

The clock was ticking for the remaining 20 whales still floun-dering in shallow water on a wide sandbank, four days after the 470-strong pod was first spotted off the northwest coast of the island state of Tasmania.

7 dead in botched Egypt prison breakAFP | Cairo

Egypt held military fu-nerals yesterday for

three policemen killed as they prevented four con-victs on death row from escaping a notorious Cairo prison.

The four men convicted to hang on terror charges were shot dead by securi-ty forces in the rare escape bid from the heavily-for-tified Tora prison com-plex, the interior ministry said.

It said the three police-men also died in the botched prison bust, without giving the circumstances.

Local press carried re-ports of families in mourn-ing as military funerals were held for the policemen.

Egypt has been battling a jihadist insurgency in its North Sinai province since the 2013 overthrow of president Mohamed Morsi.

In February 2018, secu-rity forces launched a na-tionwide operation against militants focused on the restive region in eastern Egypt.

North Korea shot dead South Korean defector: officialsThe killing of the South Korean is said to have happened in waters off the island of Yeonpyeong, at the border with North Korea

• It is the first killing of a Southern citizen by North Korean forces for a decade

AFP | Seoul

North Korean soldiers shot dead a suspected South Korean defec-

tor at sea and burned his body as a coronavirus precaution after he was interrogated in the water over several hours, Seoul military officials said yesterday.

It is the first killing of a South-ern citizen by North Korean forces for a decade, and comes with Pyongyang at high alert over the pandemic and inter-Ko-rean relations at a standstill.

The fisheries official dis-appeared from a patrol vessel near the western border island of Yeonpyeong on Monday, a South Korean military official told AFP.

More than 24 hours later, North Korean forces located him in their waters and ques-

tioned him from a patrol boat, he said, with Yonhap news agency adding his interrogator wore protective equipment.

He was killed around six hours after being found, accord-ing to the official.

“He was shot dead in the wa-ter,” he said. “North Korean sol-diers poured oil over his body and burnt it in the water.

“We assess it was carried out under the North’s anti-corona-virus measure,” he added.

Pyongyang has closed its bor-

ders and declared an emergency to try to protect itself against the virus which first emerged in neighbouring China.

The man was wearing a life-jacket and his shoes had been found on board the South Kore-an boat, the official said -- indi-cators pointing to him entering the water voluntarily.

“We have obtained intelli-gence that he had expressed his intention to defect while being questioned,” he added.

He declined to go into detail

about the source of the infor-mation.

But the South Korean mili-tary is known to intercept radio communications by the North’s forces.

The killing took place after an “order from superior authority”, Yonhap cited South Korean offi-cials as saying.

Seoul’s defence ministry con-demned the shooting as an “out-rageous act”.

“We sternly warn North Ko-rea that all responsibilities for this incident lie with it,” it said in a statement.


A whale lies on the beach

News in brief u Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny’s bank accounts were frozen and

his Moscow apartment seized as part of a lawsuit while he was recovering from a suspected poisoning in a Berlin hospital, his spokeswoman said. His assets were seized on Aug. 27 in connection with a lawsuit filed by the Moscow Schoolchild catering company, spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said in a video posted on Twitter. The politician and

his allies have been involved in a long-running dispute with the company.

u More than 120 people were arrested overnight in the US city of Louisville, officials confirmed, as the announcement that no one would be charged with the killing of Breonna Taylor sent fresh demands for racial justice billowing across the US. Protests were held in cities including New York, Washington and Los Angeles Wednesday, but the focal point was Taylor’s hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, where the 26-year-old black woman was shot dead in her apartment by police earlier this year.

u Japan’s new prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, spoke to South Korea’s president for the first time, calling for both countries to repair their frayed ties and cooperate to counter any threat from North Korea. Relations between the two US allies have deteriorated sharply over the past year over war-time history and trade, in particular the issue of Korean labourers forced to work at Japanese firms during Japan’s 1910-1945 colonial rule.

u The United Nations and Britain said they would co-host a global climate summit on December 12, the fifth anniversary of the landmark Paris Agreement. The announcement came days after Chinese President Xi Jinping told the UN that the world’s largest greenhouse gas polluter would peak emissions in 2030 and attempt to go carbon neutral by 2060, a move hailed by environmentalists.

u President Alexander Lukashenko is not the legitimate president of Belarus, the European Union said, saying his abrupt swearing-in on Wednesday went directly against the will of the people. The ceremony accelerated EU plans to boycott Lukashenko following the disputed Aug. 9 election, as the

European Parliament had earlier decided not to recognise the veteran leader from November, when his term as president was due to end. “The so-called ‘inauguration’ ... and the new mandate claimed by Aleksander Lukashenko lack any democratic legitimacy,” the EU’s 27 states said in a statement.

u A crocodile bit a man on the head and neck as he was snorkelling off an island on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. The 33-year-old was flown to hospital after Wednesday’s attack by what is believed to be a two-metre (six-foot) saltwater crocodile near the Lizard Island resort, a Queensland state official said in a statement.

Navalny’s bank accounts frozen, apartment seized

More than 120 arrested after

Breonna Taylor shooting protests

UN, Britain to co-host climate

summit on December 12

Japan’s new PM calls for better ties

with S Korea

In November 2010, Pyongyang’s military

bombarded Yeonpyeong island -- close to this

week’s incident -- killing two civilians and two

marines

985,585

23,830,646

Deaths

Recovered:

New cases

New deaths +243,942

+4,304

Covid-19 Cases:

Country Total cases

new cases

Total deaths

New Deaths

Total recovered

Active cases

Serious, Critical

Tot cases/1m pop

Egypt 102,375 5,822 91,843 4,710 41 996

Saudi Arabia

331,857 +498 4,599 +30 314,793 12,465 1,090 9,499

UAE 88,532 +1,002 407 +1 77,937 10,188 8,927

Kuwait 101,851 +552 592 +2 92,961 8,298 101 23,769

Oman 95,907 +568 885 +10 86,765 8,257 185 18,675

Qatar 124,425 +250 212 121,263 2,950 62 44,314

Middle East

Country Total cases

Newcases

TotalDeaths

New deaths

1 USA 7,172,570 +33,017 207,262 +669

2 India 5,816,103 +85,919 92,317 +1,144

3 Brazil 4,634,468 +6,688 139,294 +229

4 Russia 1,128,836 +6,595 19,948 +149

5 Colombia 784,268 24,746

6 Peru 782,695 31,870

7 Mexico 710,049 +4,786 74,949 +601

8 Spain 704,209 +10,653 31,118 +84

9 South Africa 667,049 +1,861 16,283 +77

10 Argentina 664,799 14,376

11 France 497,237 +16,096 31,511 +52

12 Chile 451,634 +1,731 12,469 +124

13 Iran 436,319 +3,521 25,015 +175

14 UK 416,363 +6,634 41,902 +40

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Vladimir Putin nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Agencies | Moscow

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been nominated

for the Nobel Peace Prize, his spokesman said yesterday.

A group of Russian writers led by Sergey Komkov said they had submitted the strong-man’s nomination to Oslo on Sept. 10, according to the Tass news agency.

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Putin was not nominated by the Kremlin.

“You all know that com-pletely different people are nominated for this award, this is an initiative of those submit-

ting the nomination,” he said.“In this case, [the nomina-

tion was submitted by] the aforementioned writer,” he added, referring to Komkov. “If this decision is made (to award Putin the prize), great, if not, it’s no problem as well.”

In 2013, Putin was nominat-ed for the prize by parliament member Iosif Kobzon — who was known as the “Russian Frank Sinatra” — and the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooper-ation of Peoples for “partici-pation in resolving the Syrian conflict and trying to stop the US military invasion of Syria,” Newsweek reported.

Vladimir Putin is seen in his office (file photo)

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Trump hedges on transferring power if he loses US voteUS President Donald Trump refused to clearly guarantee a peaceful power transfer at surreal press briefing

• The president has repeatedly cast doubt on the legitimacy of the election, asserting without evidence that mail-in voting would lead to fraud and a “rigged” outcome

AFP | Washington

US P re s i d e n t D o n a l d Trump refused to guar-antee that he will transfer

power if he loses the November election, earning scorn from his Democratic challenger Joe Biden and even from within his own party.

“Well, we’re going to have to see what happens,” Trump re-sponded when asked at a White House press conference wheth-er he is committed to the most basic tenet of democratic rule in the United States -- the peace-ful handover of power upon a change of president.

Biden, who holds a steady lead over the Republican incum-bent in opinion polls ahead of the November 3 vote, expressed incredulity.

“What country are we in?” the former vice president said, when asked about Trump’s comment by reporters.

“Look, he says the most irra-tional things. I don’t know what to say.”

Republican Senator Mitt Romney, a frequent but rare par-ty critic of Trump, went further,

saying that any hesitation on the core constitution guarantee was “unthinkable and unaccept-able.”

“Fundamental to democra-cy is the peaceful transition of power; without that, there is Belarus,” he tweeted.

‘Get rid’ of ballots Trump followed up his re-

marks -- unprecedented in mod-ern times for a US president -- by resuming his near daily com-plaint about the fairness of the election.

Apparently referring to the increased use of mail-in ballots due to the coronavirus pandem-ic, he said: “You know that I’ve been complaining very strongly about the ballots and the ballots are a disaster.”

Trump frequently claims that mail-in ballots are vulnerable to mass fraud and are being en-

couraged by Democrats to rig the election.

However, there is no evidence that ballots sent through the postal service have ever led to significant fraud in US elections.

At the press conference, Trump seemed to suggest an-nulling what are expected to be the huge numbers of mailed-in ballots, noting that in such a scenario, he would remain in power.

“Get rid of the ballots and you’ll have a very peaceful -- there won’t be a transfer, frank-ly. There’ll be a continuation,” he said.

Trump’s latest insistence that there cannot be a free and fair presidential election came as pressure mounts over his plan to put a new, right-leaning justice on the Supreme Court.

Trump is set to nominate a replacement on Saturday for

the late liberal-leaning justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last week.

His Republican Party, which has a majority in the Senate, is then expected to quickly con-firm the nominee.

If they succeed, the nine-jus-tice court would then likely have a strongly pro-conservative bent for years to come.

Democrats are crying foul, saying that the process should wait until the results of the elec-tion are known, allowing the winner to shape the Supreme Court.

With Trump and the Republi-cans mounting a series of court challenges against the use of mail-in ballots, the chances of a contested election result are considered high.

On Wednesday, Trump said he thinks the election “will end up in the Supreme Court.”

Democrats have encour-aged voting by mail as a way to cast ballots safe-ly during the coronavi-rus pandemic. Millions of Americans, including

much of the military, have cast absentee

ballots by mail for years without problems

Stolen plane in Mexico flies to Venezuela before crashing in Guatemala Reuters | Mexico City

A business jet that was reported stolen in Mex-

ico crashed in a Guatemalan jungle near a hidden airstrip after making a mysterious trip to Venezuela, leaving two men dead near an on-board stash of drugs and weapons.

In a statement, the Gua-temalan military confirmed the crash of the Hawker 800 twin-engine jet in a moun-tainous area in the Central American country’s Alta Ve-rapaz region, but said the men had not yet been iden-tified. Next to their bodies, 3 kilograms of cocaine were found in three packages along with some guns.

The jet took off from the Cuernavaca airport, located about 45 miles (72 km) south of Mexico City, around midday on Tuesday without authorization or a flight plan, then landed at Zulia airport in northwest-ern Venezuela near the bor-der with Colombia several hours later, the Guatemalan military said.

New York’s Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration to go virtual

Reuters | New York

New York’s Times Square will bid farewell to 2020

without the usual huddled masses jamming the streets on New Year’s Eve, as celebration organizers responded to the global pandemic with plans for a scaled-back, virtual event.

In a “preliminary teaser” of what was to come on Dec. 31, the Times Square Alliance said that watching the famous ball come down to usher in 2021 will be a digital affair for all but a very limited group of socially distanced, in-person honorees.

“People all over the globe are ready to join New York-ers in welcoming in the new year with the iconic ball drop,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement. “A new year means a fresh start, and we’re excited to celebrate.”

The New Year’s Eve celebra-tion in Times Square is among the biggest in the world, typi-cally drawing about 1 million people, with more than 1 bil-lion more tuning in on televi-sion to watch the lighted ball atop One Times Square de-scend as the new year arrives.

Many of the details and the live entertainment that make up a good portion of the hours-

long celebration leading to the year-end countdown are still being determined, said the Times Square Alliance, which co-produces the event.

But alliance President Tim Tompkins promised viewers “significantly new and en-hanced virtual, visual and dig-ital offerings” in a celebration of the “courageous and crea-tive spirits” who helped people get through a year many would just as soon forget.

“No one needs to be re-minded of what the dominant news of 2020 has been so far: COVID-19 and a host of racial, economic and climate crises,” he said.

Nobel winners to get $110,000 raise as prize money increasedReuters | Stockholm

Winners of the prestigious Nobel prizes this year

will receive an extra 1 million crowns ($110,000), the head of the foundation which oversees the awards said yesterday.

Prize money will increase to 10 million crowns this year, daily Dagens Industri reported.

“The decision has been made due to the fact that our costs and capital are in a stable re-lation in a completely differ-ent way than previously,” the head of the Nobel Founda-tion, Lars Heikensten, told the paper.

Dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel left around 31 million crowns - about 1.8 billion crowns in today’s money according to the Foundation - to

fund the prizes, which have been awarded since 1901.

The prize amount has varied over time, starting at 150,000 crowns and reaching 1 million crowns in 1981.

The value rose sharply in the 1980s and 1990s, jumping to 9 million crowns in 2000 and 10 million a year later.

But the global credit crunch of 2008-9 hit the Foundation’s investments and Heikensten, a

former central bank chief, was brought in to get its finances in order.

The prize money was cut to 8 million crowns in 2012 only to rise again to 9 million in 2017.

Heikensten, who steps down at the end of this year to be re-placed by former Norwegian foreign minister Vidar Hel-gesen, said the Foundation would continue to raise the amount of the prize money “from time to time”.


Confetti flies around the ball and countdown clock in Times Square in the Manhattan borough of New York (file photo)

A bronze bust of Alfred Nobel is pictured before the Nobel Prize ceremony at Stockholm Concert Hall, in Stockholm

31million crowns -- about

1.8 billion crowns in today’s money -- was left

by dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel to fund the prizes, which have been

awarded since 1901

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US President Donald Trump takes a swing with a bat in the grand foyer of the White House (file photo)

People all over the globe are ready to

join New Yorkers in welcoming in the new year with the iconic ball drop. A new year means

a fresh start, and we’re excited to

celebrateBILL DE BLASIO

NEW YORK MAYOR

Polish sculptor unveils ‘superhuman’ John Paul IIAFP | Warsaw

An unusual sculpture de-picting Saint John Paul

II holding up a meteorite was unveiled in Warsaw yesterday -- an artistic response to a con-troversial statue showing the rock striking down the late pope.

Jerzy Kalina’s installation outside the National Muse-um, titled “Poisoned Source”, shows the Polish pope hold-ing the meteorite high over a pool of red water representing blood.

“In Kalina’s view, John Paul II is not a powerless old man crushed by a meteorite, but a titan of superhuman strength,” the museum said in a state-ment on its website.

The installation has already prompted online derision and criticism from art commenta-tors who said it simply reflects the ultra-Catholic outlook of Poland’s populist government.

One image shared on social media transforms the statue into a depiction of a plane pas-senger trying to put a suitcase into an overhead compart-ment, while another showed people fleeing the advance of a giant version of the statue.

Italian artist Maurizio Cat-

telan drew controversy in Po-land for his wax statue shown at the 1999 Venice Biennale depicting pope John Paul II -- then living -- being crushed by a meteor.

When the sculpture, titled “La Nona Ora”, was exhibited at the Zacheta National Gal-lery of Art in Warsaw in 2000, two lawmakers tried to remove the rock and stand the statue upright, according to media reports.

The head of the museum was forced to resign.

Kalina’s statue is intended to mark the 100th anniversary of John Paul II’s birth.

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Mariah Carey: My kids help me heal Bang Showbiz | Los Angeles

Mariah Carey’s kids “help her heal” from past heartbreaks.

The ‘All I Want For Christ-mas Is You’ singer has nine-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe with former husband Nick Cannon and believes that their “unconditional love” is only matched by her diehard fans.

In a clip from a new inter-view with Oprah Winfrey, which aired on Wednesday’s (23.09.20) episode of the ‘To-day’ show, Mariah said: “Every time we have a moment that feels and authentic and gen-uine, it’s loving them uncon-ditionally.”

Mariah is the latest guest on Oprah’s AppleTV+ series, ‘The Oprah Conversation’, and a trailer shows the pair discuss-ing the singer’s romantic his-tory with ex-husbands Tommy Mottola and Cannon.

She says of one of her past loves: “I did feel that I was held captive in that relation-

ship.”C a r e y a n d

Winfrey are also seen discuss-ing topics ranging from the time the ‘We Belong Together’ singer was held in the backseat of a police car to a moment of her life where Mariah didn’t feel “worthy of existing”.

The 50-year-old singer tells Oprah in the clip: “I wouldn’t have gone here if I hadn’t been treated as an ATM machine with a wig on.”

It is not made clear what she is discussing, but Oprah, 66, responds: “The loneliness and sadness behind the facade, I now understand it.”

The trailer also hints that the pair will chat about some-thing that Mariah has “never spoken about”.

Carey’s appearance on the

s h o w c o m e s just be-fore the release of her high-l y- a n t i c i -pated mem-o i r, ‘ T h e M e a n i n g o f M a r i -ah Carey’, w h i c h i s due out on September 29.

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Tom Cruise is officially going to space for his next movie• Plans for Tom Cruise’s outer space film with Elon Musk have been finalised, with the trip now scheduled for 2021

Fox | Los Angeles

Tom Cruise will officially take on his biggest stunt yet in October 2021

when he travels to outer space to film a new movie.

The Space Shuttle Almanac tweeted Wednesday that pre-vious reports that Cruise would lead the first movie filmed in outer space on the Interna-tional Space Station (ISS) are coming to fruition. The 58-year-old actor will be joined by “The Bourne Identity” di-rector Doug Liman next year as part of Elon Musk’s Axiom SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule.

Together, they’ll head to the ISS and begin production on the first major movie

ever shot in space. Although the movie doesn’t yet have a title or plot, it will mark Cruise’s most ambitious stunt in a decade-slong career of death-defying on-screen moves.

“So its [sic] confirmed that @CommanderMLA is flying the @Axiom_Space @SpaceX #CrewDragon tourist mission with Director @DougLiman & Tom Cruise. One seat still to be filled. They are to launch in Oc-

tober, 2021,” the Space Shuttle A l m a n a c ’ s tweet reads.

N e i t h e r representa-

tives for Cruise nor NASA im-

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sponded to Fox News’ request for comment

In past “Mission: Impossible” installments, Cruise performed daring stunts such as hanging off the side of a jet plane and scaling skyscrapers. Howev-er, it was previously reported that the project he’s blasting off the planet for is not related to the “Mission: Impossible” franchise, which is currently filming its seventh installment after Cruise personally paid for cast and crew to live on cruise ships amid the coronavirus pan-demic.

NASA administrator Jim Bri-denstine previously confirmed the news that the star was an-gling to go into space to further his impressive acting career. Cruise has been nominated for three Academy Awards throughout his career and is set to appear in the sequel to his hit flick “Top Gun,” which is scheduled to debut in 2021.

“NASA is excited to work with @TomCruise on a film aboard the @Space_Station,” the tweet read at the time. “We need popular media to inspire a new generation of engineers and scientists to make @NASA’s ambitious plans a reality.”

John Cena to star in ‘Suicide Squad’ spinoff ‘Peacemaker’ on HBO MaxFox | Los Angeles

Comic book fans can rejoice as “Su-icide Squad” star, John Cena, is in

line for his own streaming series.HBO Max announced on Wednesday

that it has ordered a spinoff of the upcoming James Gunn film which features Cena, 43, as the “Peacemaker” from the pages of DC Comics supervil-lain team-up. The eight-episode series will skip shooting a pilot and proceed right to series production.

Gunn will write all of the episodes and is said to be helming most of them, according to Deadline.

The former WWE star will also serve as a co-executive producer.

The series is expected to explore the origins of Cena’s “Suicide Squad” character, whose name is Christopher Smith, a pacifist diplomat and son of a Nazi death camp commandant who fights dictators and warlords as the founder of the Pax Institute.

“James Gunn has the unique ability to create an expansive universe while also bringing to life the soul and wit of each character. We look forward to a deep dive into the world of ‘Peacemak-er,’” said Casey Bloys, Chief Content Officer for HBO and HBO Max.

G u n n a d d e d , “‘Peacemaker’ is an opportunity to delve into current world issues through the lens of this super-hero/supervillain/and world’s big-gest douchebag. I’m excited to ex-pand ‘The Suicide Squad’ and bring this character from the DC film universe to the full breadth of a series.”

Matthew McConaughey reacts to his ‘Dazed and Confused’Fox | Los Angeles

Matthew McConaughey is taking a stroll down

memory lane.The 50-year-old Oscar

winner recently watched his audition tape for the f i lm “Dazed and Con-fused” for the first time and shared his reaction on Twitter.

The movie was one of McConaughey’s first Hol-lywood gigs and is cred-ited with launching his career.

A c c o r d i n g t o I M D b,

“Dazed and Confused” is only the actor’s third role, the first being an episode of “Unsolved Mysteries” fol-lowed by a Trisha Yearwood music video.

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Charli XCX donates $50k to LA Alliance for Human Rights

Bang Showbiz | Los Angeles

Charli XCX do-nated $50,000 to the LA Al-

l iance for Human Rights.

The 28-year-old singer’s recent al-bum ‘How I’m Feel-ing Now’ was written, recorded and release during quarantine in Los Angeles and - after

being inspired by the organisation’s work to

help the city’s homeless population - she decided to donate all profits from the

LP’s merchandise to the cause.Daniel Conway - a policy advisor

with the LA Alliance - said: “LA Alli-ance for Human Rights brought this lawsuit because we want to see a hu-mane and collaborative approach to rapidly getting the neediest amongst us off of the streets.

“If more artists and leaders would step up the way Charli has, we would start to see real improvements in Los Angeles’ homelessness crisis.

“The LA Alliance i s g ra t e f u l t o Charli and her team for their i n c r e d i b l e generosity.”

As well as t h e a l b u m profits, she a l s o a u c-tioned off a r t w o r k created for the record, while ad-d i t i o n a l funds were raised by a special B o i l e r Room lives-tream.

Hamilton vows to boost diversity in motorsportAFP | London

Lewis Hamilton pledged yes-terday to grow the number

of black people in motor rac-ing, announcing members of his Hamilton Commission that aims to tackle the lack of diver-sity at all levels of the sport.

The British six-time Formula One world champion, who has been vocal in his support of the Black Lives Matter movement, launched the initiative in June.

The 14-member body in-cludes Hamilton’s former McLaren boss Martin Whit-marsh, former sports minister Tracey Crouch and Hayaatun Sillem, the chief executive of the Royal Academy of Engi-neering.

Hamilton, who will attempt to equal Michael Schumacher’s record of 91 Grand Prix wins in Russia this weekend -- is the only black driver in Formula One.

Red Bull’s British-born Thai Alexander Albon is the sport’s only other non-white compet-itor.

“What is more concerning is that there are still very few peo-ple of colour across the sport as a whole,” Hamilton said in a statement.

“In F1, our teams are much bigger than the athletes that front them, but representation is insufficient across every skill set -- from the garage to the engineers in the factories and design departments.”

Hamilton said change was not coming quickly enough and

it was important to know why.“This is why I wanted to set

up the commission,” he said. “And I’m proud to be work-ing with the Royal Academy of Engineering and our incred-ible board of commissioners to identify the barriers facing

young black people to take up STEM (science, technology, en-gineering and maths) careers in motorsport.

“We are dedicated to this cause and, together, we will make a change.”

Sillem, of the Royal Academy of Engineering, said it was a “truly unique opportunity to drive transformational change on this crucial issue and, in the process, to learn more about how we can enrich diversity in other parts of engineering and society”.

Hamilton has led fellow driv-ers in taking the knee at races this season following the death of George Floyd in the United States.

His Mercedes team have painted their cars black for this season, instead of their trade-mark silver, to signal their com-mitment to greater diversity and inclusion.

Ibrahimovic in quarantine after positive coronavirus testAFP | Milan

AC Milan star Zlatan Ibrahi-movic has been placed in

quarantine after testing positive for coronavirus, the Italian club disclosed yesterday.

Ibrahimovic, who turns 39 on October 3, is self-isolat-ing at home following the test carried out ahead of the team’s Europa League third qualifying round t i e a g a i n s t Norwegian club Bo-do-Glimt i n t h e San Siro yester-day.

“Ibra-h i m o v i c has tested positive for Covid-19 fol-lowing a sec-ond round of swab tests ahead o f t o n i g h t ’ s game against Bodo/Glimt,” the Serie A side said.

“The club has informed the relevant authorities and the player has been promptly placed in quar-antine at home. All other team members and staff have tested

negative.”The second round of tests

were carried out after AC Mi-lan’s Brazilian defender Leo Duarte tested positive for Cov-id-19 on Wednesday.

Swede Ibrahimovic will not only skip yesterday’s game but any Europa League play-offs

and the next two Serie A games against Crotone and

Spezia. Ibrahimovic will most like-ly be available again after

the international break for the Milan derby

against city rivals In-ter on October 17.

Ibrahimovic has scored three goals in two games so far this season -- a double in AC Milan’s Serie A opener against

Bologna last weekend hav-ing also net-

ted against Irish side Shamrock Rovers in the Europa League.

The forward re-joined Milan in

January on a six-month contract after leaving Los Angeles Galaxy, on a deal worth 3.5 million euros

($3.9 million) with the

option for an additional season.The former Manchester

United, Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona player had a big impact, scoring 11 goals in 20 games.

Last month he reached an agreement on a new deal for an-other season reportedly worth 7 million euros ($8.3m).

“I think that we can all see that Ibra has played an impor-tant part in our season and our growth,” AC Milan CEO Ivan Gazidis said of last season.

The seven-time European champions moved up from 11th on his arrival to sixth, finishing the league season on a 12-game unbeaten run.

Ibrahimovic also helped Mi-lan to the last of their 18 Serie A titles in 2011.

He also won three league titles with Inter and two with Juventus which were both revoked because of the ‘Calciopoli ’ match-fixing scandal.

Lampard hails ‘leader’ Thiago Silva after Chelsea romp

AFP | London

Frank Lampard hailed Thia-go Silva’s “perfect 60 min-

utes” after the veteran Brazil defender made his debut for Chelsea in the League Cup on Wednesday.

The former Paris Saint-Ger-main centre-back made an immediate impression as Lampard’s men overwhelmed Barnsley 6-0 in the third round of the League Cup at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday.

Lampard was the delighted with the performance of the 36-year-old, who joined on a free transfer from PSG last month.

“It was a perfect 60 min-utes for him,” he said. “He will show the qualities he has. Of course, he will get fitter and better.

“He also gave us something -- for me on the night, in the

dressing room and on the pitch -- of a leader with authority of his demands on others.”

Kai Havertz scored a hat-trick to get off the mark for his new club as Chelsea swept past their outclassed Champion-ship opponents, with Tammy Abraham, Ross Barkley and Olivier Giroud also finding the net.

Callum Hudson-Odoi, who continues to receive inter-est from long-term suitors Bayern Munich, was given a rare start and impressed his boss.

“Callum did well,” said Lampard. “It’s not easy when you’re coming in and haven’t had so many minutes.

“But I thought in parts he looked fresh and sharp and he was pressing hard and he showed a really good work ethic.”


Rahul leads Punjab to a majestic win over BangaloreKL Rahul’s century, bowlers help KXIP vanquish RCB by 97 runs in IPL

• Rahul hits highest-ever score by an Indian in IPL history on sombre day

ANI | Dubai

KL Rahul’s century before the bowlers’ stunning performance against Roy-

als Challengers Bangalore (RCB) cruised Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) to a sumptuous 97-run win in the Indian Premier League (IPL) match yesterday.

Rahul played an unbeaten knock of 132 runs off just 69 balls and then bowlers bundled out RCB on just 109 runs. Ravi Bishnoi and Murugan Ashwin took three wickets each in the match.

Chasing a massive target of 207 runs, RCB got off to a poor start as they gave away three wickets in quick succession. Sheldon Cottrell dismissed Devdutt Padikkal and Virat Kohli in the first and third over of the innings respectively while Mohammed Shami dismissed Josh Philippe in the second over.

The fall of wickets did not stop as Aaron Finch too was sent back to the pavilion in the

eighth over. Bishnoi bowled Finch, who scored 20 runs. In the next over, Ashwin got hold of AB de Villiers, reducing RCB to 57/5.

Shivam Dube and Washington Sundar then took the field but KXIP continued to dominate the game. Both formed a 26-run partnership before Glenn Max-well bowled Dube (12).

Continuing their dominance in the match, RCB lost anoth-er wicket as Bishnoi bowled Umesh Yadav. In his next over, Bishnoi got hold of Sundar, who was the highest run-getter from RCB, scoring 30 runs.

Dale Steyn and Navdeep Saini were the next batsmen but their

partnership also did not last long as the latter was bowled by Ashwin in the 17th over. As a result, KXIP were just one wick-et away from the win.

Rahul-led team did not take much time to claim the victory as Ashwin dismissed Yuzvendra Chahal in the same over, taking Punjab over the line.

Earlier, after being asked to bat first, KXIP managed to post a total of 206 with the help of Rahul’s magnificent ton. With this knock, he also achieved the highest individual score by an Indian player in the IPL.

KXIP had a decent opening stand of 57-run for the first wicket between Rahul and Ma-

yank Agarwal. Meanwhile, Ra-hul, who was two short of 2,000 runs in the IPL, became the fast-est Indian to reach the 2,000 run-mark in the tournament.

Rahul broke an eight-year-old record held by Indian batting legend and former Mumbai In-dians player Sachin Tendulkar, who reached the milestone in 63 innings. Rahul reached the milestone in his 60th IPL in-nings.

Spinner Yuzvendra Chahal broke the opening partnership in the seventh over as he scalped Agarwal on 26. Nicholas Pooran joined Rahul in the middle. The duo had a 57-run partnership for the second wicket.

All-rounder Shivam Dube dis-missed Pooran (17) in the 14th over as he was caught at mid-off by AB de Villiers.

KL Rahul plays a shot

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Hamilton vows to boost diversity in motorsportAFP | London

Lewis Hamilton pledged yes-terday to grow the number

of black people in motor rac-ing, announcing members of his Hamilton Commission that aims to tackle the lack of diver-sity at all levels of the sport.

The British six-time Formula One world champion, who has been vocal in his support of the Black Lives Matter movement, launched the initiative in June.

The 14-member body in-cludes Hamilton’s former McLaren boss Martin Whit-marsh, former sports minister Tracey Crouch and Hayaatun Sillem, the chief executive of the Royal Academy of Engi-neering.

Hamilton, who will attempt to equal Michael Schumacher’s record of 91 Grand Prix wins in Russia this weekend -- is the only black driver in Formula One.

Red Bull’s British-born Thai Alexander Albon is the sport’s only other non-white compet-itor.

“What is more concerning is that there are still very few peo-ple of colour across the sport as a whole,” Hamilton said in a statement.

“In F1, our teams are much bigger than the athletes that front them, but representation is insufficient across every skill set -- from the garage to the engineers in the factories and design departments.”

Hamilton said change was not coming quickly enough and

it was important to know why.“This is why I wanted to set

up the commission,” he said. “And I’m proud to be work-ing with the Royal Academy of Engineering and our incred-ible board of commissioners to identify the barriers facing

young black people to take up STEM (science, technology, en-gineering and maths) careers in motorsport.

“We are dedicated to this cause and, together, we will make a change.”

Sillem, of the Royal Academy of Engineering, said it was a “truly unique opportunity to drive transformational change on this crucial issue and, in the process, to learn more about how we can enrich diversity in other parts of engineering and society”.

Hamilton has led fellow driv-ers in taking the knee at races this season following the death of George Floyd in the United States.

His Mercedes team have painted their cars black for this season, instead of their trade-mark silver, to signal their com-mitment to greater diversity and inclusion.

Ibrahimovic in quarantine after positive coronavirus testAFP | Milan

AC Milan star Zlatan Ibrahi-movic has been placed in

quarantine after testing positive for coronavirus, the Italian club disclosed yesterday.

Ibrahimovic, who turns 39 on October 3, is self-isolat-ing at home following the test carried out ahead of the team’s Europa League third qualifying round t i e a g a i n s t Norwegian club Bo-do-Glimt i n t h e San Siro yester-day.

“Ibra-h i m o v i c has tested positive for Covid-19 fol-lowing a sec-ond round of swab tests ahead o f t o n i g h t ’ s game against Bodo/Glimt,” the Serie A side said.

“The club has informed the relevant authorities and the player has been promptly placed in quar-antine at home. All other team members and staff have tested

negative.”The second round of tests

were carried out after AC Mi-lan’s Brazilian defender Leo Duarte tested positive for Cov-id-19 on Wednesday.

Swede Ibrahimovic will not only skip yesterday’s game but any Europa League play-offs

and the next two Serie A games against Crotone and

Spezia. Ibrahimovic will most like-ly be available again after

the international break for the Milan derby

against city rivals In-ter on October 17.

Ibrahimovic has scored three goals in two games so far this season -- a double in AC Milan’s Serie A opener against

Bologna last weekend hav-ing also net-

ted against Irish side Shamrock Rovers in the Europa League.

The forward re-joined Milan in

January on a six-month contract after leaving Los Angeles Galaxy, on a deal worth 3.5 million euros

($3.9 million) with the

option for an additional season.The former Manchester

United, Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona player had a big impact, scoring 11 goals in 20 games.

Last month he reached an agreement on a new deal for an-other season reportedly worth 7 million euros ($8.3m).

“I think that we can all see that Ibra has played an impor-tant part in our season and our growth,” AC Milan CEO Ivan Gazidis said of last season.

The seven-time European champions moved up from 11th on his arrival to sixth, finishing the league season on a 12-game unbeaten run.

Ibrahimovic also helped Mi-lan to the last of their 18 Serie A titles in 2011.

He also won three league titles with Inter and two with Juventus which were both revoked because of the ‘Calciopoli ’ match-fixing scandal.

Lampard hails ‘leader’ Thiago Silva after Chelsea romp

AFP | London

Frank Lampard hailed Thia-go Silva’s “perfect 60 min-

utes” after the veteran Brazil defender made his debut for Chelsea in the League Cup on Wednesday.

The former Paris Saint-Ger-main centre-back made an immediate impression as Lampard’s men overwhelmed Barnsley 6-0 in the third round of the League Cup at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday.

Lampard was the delighted with the performance of the 36-year-old, who joined on a free transfer from PSG last month.

“It was a perfect 60 min-utes for him,” he said. “He will show the qualities he has. Of course, he will get fitter and better.

“He also gave us something -- for me on the night, in the

dressing room and on the pitch -- of a leader with authority of his demands on others.”

Kai Havertz scored a hat-trick to get off the mark for his new club as Chelsea swept past their outclassed Champion-ship opponents, with Tammy Abraham, Ross Barkley and Olivier Giroud also finding the net.

Callum Hudson-Odoi, who continues to receive inter-est from long-term suitors Bayern Munich, was given a rare start and impressed his boss.

“Callum did well,” said Lampard. “It’s not easy when you’re coming in and haven’t had so many minutes.

“But I thought in parts he looked fresh and sharp and he was pressing hard and he showed a really good work ethic.”


Rahul leads Punjab to a majestic win over BangaloreKL Rahul’s century, bowlers help KXIP vanquish RCB by 97 runs in IPL

• Rahul hits highest-ever score by an Indian in IPL history on sombre day

ANI | Dubai

KL Rahul’s century before the bowlers’ stunning performance against Roy-

als Challengers Bangalore (RCB) cruised Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) to a sumptuous 97-run win in the Indian Premier League (IPL) match yesterday.

Rahul played an unbeaten knock of 132 runs off just 69 balls and then bowlers bundled out RCB on just 109 runs. Ravi Bishnoi and Murugan Ashwin took three wickets each in the match.

Chasing a massive target of 207 runs, RCB got off to a poor start as they gave away three wickets in quick succession. Sheldon Cottrell dismissed Devdutt Padikkal and Virat Kohli in the first and third over of the innings respectively while Mohammed Shami dismissed Josh Philippe in the second over.

The fall of wickets did not stop as Aaron Finch too was sent back to the pavilion in the

eighth over. Bishnoi bowled Finch, who scored 20 runs. In the next over, Ashwin got hold of AB de Villiers, reducing RCB to 57/5.

Shivam Dube and Washington Sundar then took the field but KXIP continued to dominate the game. Both formed a 26-run partnership before Glenn Max-well bowled Dube (12).

Continuing their dominance in the match, RCB lost anoth-er wicket as Bishnoi bowled Umesh Yadav. In his next over, Bishnoi got hold of Sundar, who was the highest run-getter from RCB, scoring 30 runs.

Dale Steyn and Navdeep Saini were the next batsmen but their

partnership also did not last long as the latter was bowled by Ashwin in the 17th over. As a result, KXIP were just one wick-et away from the win.

Rahul-led team did not take much time to claim the victory as Ashwin dismissed Yuzvendra Chahal in the same over, taking Punjab over the line.

Earlier, after being asked to bat first, KXIP managed to post a total of 206 with the help of Rahul’s magnificent ton. With this knock, he also achieved the highest individual score by an Indian player in the IPL.

KXIP had a decent opening stand of 57-run for the first wicket between Rahul and Ma-

yank Agarwal. Meanwhile, Ra-hul, who was two short of 2,000 runs in the IPL, became the fast-est Indian to reach the 2,000 run-mark in the tournament.

Rahul broke an eight-year-old record held by Indian batting legend and former Mumbai In-dians player Sachin Tendulkar, who reached the milestone in 63 innings. Rahul reached the milestone in his 60th IPL in-nings.

Spinner Yuzvendra Chahal broke the opening partnership in the seventh over as he scalped Agarwal on 26. Nicholas Pooran joined Rahul in the middle. The duo had a 57-run partnership for the second wicket.

All-rounder Shivam Dube dis-missed Pooran (17) in the 14th over as he was caught at mid-off by AB de Villiers.

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BRAVE CF 42: Santella vs Torres ends in a draw, rematch will decide Flyweight Tournament semifinalistTDT | Manama

The opening round of BRAVE Combat Federation’s pres-

tigious Flyweight Title Tour-nament held during BRAVE CF 42, this Thursday (24) in Bah-rain, was full of emotion. The main event of the evening saw a shocking draw between Sean Santella and Jose Shorty Tor-res, who now will square off against each other once again to decide who will move to the semifinals.

The first round was a classic display of high-level grappling, especially by Sean Santella. With both men into a 50/50 position, Santella attacked the calf and the ankle of Torres, who responded by calmly defending and eventu-ally managing to leave the posi-tion. Immediately after, Santella took the back of a standing Jose Torres and remained there until the end of the round.

The second round began with Santella shooting for the leg but being denied by Torres. While Torres tried to counter, though, Santella took the opportunity and went for the back. They stayed like this for a while, until the end of the round. There was still time left for Santella to pull another trick, faking a takedown attempt and connecting a beau-tiful spinning heel hook in the

process.In the third and final round,

Jose Torres came ready to com-pensate for the first 10 min-utes. Denying every takedown attempt by Santella and taking advantage of the top position to unload punches and elbows, which gave him the edge on the third and made the score-cards even for two of the three judges.

With one judge scoring the bout 29-28 in favour of San-tella and two of them scoring 28-28, the bout was declared a Majority Draw. BRAVE CF Of-ficials have confirmed that a rematch between Santella and Torres will be scheduled for an upcoming event to be con-firmed and the winner will move forward in the Flyweight Title Tournament.

In the co-main event of the evening, Velimurad Alkhasov topped Brazil’s Flavio Queiroz and secured his spot in the semi-finals of the BRAVE CF Flyweight Tournament.

With a solid and consistent performance, Alkhasov was the dominant force during the bout’s 15 minutes and rocked Queiroz a few times, also almost sub-mitting the Brazilian with an omoplat.

Scheduled to face Zach Ma-

kovsky, who beat him in a ra-zor-thin decision back in Janu-ary, in the next round, Velimurad used the post-fight interview to send a message to his rival. “Be ready, Zach Makovsky, I’m com-ing for you”, he stated.

Kooheji remains undefeated in Bahrain

“The Pride of Bahrain” Hamza Kooheji remained un-defeated in his home turf, as he beat Wales’ Aidan James via split decision at BRAVE CF 42 in a very close contest.

Hamza Kooheji started the fight connecting the more powerful strikes and, despite having a reach disadvantage, was able to put pressure and make his opponent move back-wards through the five initial minutes.

In the second round, the tables turned and it was the time for Aidan to be the aggressor. In the third and final round, back-and-forth attacks made it as balanced as the previous two. But Hamza Kooheji managed to be more effective and took the edge on the judges’ scorecards.

In the post-fight interview, Kooheji said that after his sev-enth win inside BRAVE CF he sees himself ready for a title shot.

Hamza Kooheji beats Aidan James, edges closer to a BRAVE CF title shotBahraini hero is now in pole position to earn himself a world title shot against defending champion Stephen Loman

• Kooheji showcased tremendous resilience throughout the contest

TDT | Manama

Bahrain’s own Hamza Koo-heji earned perhaps the biggest victory of his ca-

reer as he walked away with a split decision win over Aidan James, from Wales, and is now in pole position to earn himself a world title shot against defend-ing champion Stephen Loman. Kooheji beat James at BRAVE CF 42, the second of three Kombat Kingdom events that the fast-est-growing MMA organization on the globe is putting together in Bahrain.

Even though he fought at home, it was a different feeling

for Hamza, as BRAVE CF 42 took place behind closed doors, so he couldn’t count on the thousands of Bahrainis that cheered him on in his last win, against Nahuel Gandolfi, at BRAVE CF 29.

Fighting a different type of opponent, Hamza adapted his gameplan and started using his hands more and not relying as much on his smothering wres-tling and takedown game.

A very tough James awaited him, and the Welshman proved to be Hamza’s biggest challenge, scoring with straight punches and threatening the Bahraini hero, who showcased tremen-dous resilience throughout the contest.

Hamza started to feel more at home inside the cage during the second round, as he started to score with calf kicks that seemed to knock James off balance and disturb his timing. Kooheji had

a late rally in the second round, landing several punches and guaranteeing that the second frame would be scored in his favour.

In the third and final round, with the first up in the air and the second on Hamza’s pocket, James tried to attack more, but was met with more weapons from The Pride of Bahrain, who went on to land more punches when they traded in the pocket and scored with several leg kicks as well.

After the fight, Hamza was adamant about the need for his title shot. Bahrain can become the home of BRAVE CF’s Ban-tamweight world champion very soon.

“I’m in the picture for a title for a long time now. I feel like I’ve done more than enough to get a shot and I’m going after Stephen Loman”. Hamza Kooheji celebrates his win

Sean Santella and Jose Torres react after the bout

BRAVE CF 42 ResultsFlyweight Tournament bout - Sean Santella and Jose Torres fight to a majority draw

Flyweight Tournament bout - Velimurad Alkhasov def. Flavio Queiroz via unanimous decision

Catchweight (63 kg) - Hamza Kooheji def. Aidan James by split decision

Welterweight - Ibrahim Mane def. David Jacobsson via unanimous decision

Lightweight - Rolando Dy def. Maciej Gierszewski via split decision

Amateur Featherweight - Ali Yaqoob def. Ariz Ahmed via unanimous decision

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