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Afghan president fleesTaliban ‘enter’ Presidential Palace in Kabul; Embassies rush to evacuate staff

• Ghani departure signals ‘end’ for embattled government

• Talks on formation of transitional government ongoing

Kabul

The president of Afghan-istan, Ashraf Ghani, fled Kabul yesterday as Af-

ghans and foreign embassy staff rushed to leave the capital af-ter news broke the Taliban had reached its outskirts.

According to a CNN report, Taliban fighters entered the country’s Presidential Palace hours after Ghani fled the coun-try, as the US deployed troops to evacuate thousands of people, government officials said.

One unit of the insurgent group shared pictures of the pal-ace interior – intact, but empty and apparently abandoned by Afghan officials – on an official Telegram account.

Afghans on social media branded their president a “cow-

ard.” Ghani said he left to “pre-vent a flood of bloodshed” and that “countless patriots would be martyred and the city of Ka-bul would be destroyed” if he had stayed behind.

“The Taliban have won with the judgement of their swords and guns, and are now respon-sible for the honour, property and self-preservation of their countrymen,” he said in a Face-book post.

He did not say where he had travelled to, but leading Afghan media group Tolo news suggest-ed he had gone to Tajikistan.

His departure, however, sig-nals a likely end for his embat-tled government.

Abdullah Abdullah, the head of the Afghan National Recon-ciliation Council, said Ghani

had left and blamed him for the country’s situation.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken rejected comparisons to the America’s withdrawal from Vietnam as helicopters flew in and out of the US compound in Kabul. He said embassy staff in Kabul were leaving the com-pound and heading to the air-port.

Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, said the militants had ordered its fighters to en-ter the Afghan capital Kabul to prevent looting after local police deserted their posts.

Earlier, Mujahid said the Tal-iban had no intention of “enter-ing Kabul by force or war, but is holding talks with the other side for a peaceful entrance to Kabul.”

He did not explain who the “other side was” but assured Af-ghans that “life, honor and prop-erty of people will be protected”, before ordering the Taliban to “remain at the gates of Kabul and avoid revenge.”

Acting interior minister Abdul Sattar Mirzakawal, said: “The people of Kabul should not wor-ry, the city is secure. Whoever

causes disorder will be dealt with decisively.”

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President Ghani attends a security meeting on the eve of his departure

Bahrain moves to Orange Alert LevelTDT | Manama

The Kingdom of Bahrain will move to the Orange Alert Level during the Ashura holiday, which falls

on 18-19 August.The National Medical Taskforce for Combatting

the Coronavirus (COVID-19) made the decision yes-terday in line with the previous announcement that some dates may be designated at higher alert levels if deemed necessary to protect public health.

The Yellow Alert Level will be re-adopted on Friday, 20 August, and will remain the lowest Alert Level able to be reached until at least 80% of individuals aged 40 who are eligible for a booster shot have received the dose.

The Taskforce stressed the importance of adhering to the measures and procedures within the Orange Alert Level, which were previously announced in accordance with the COVID-19 Alert level Traffic Light System.

(Orange Alert Level Infographics on Page 2)

TDT | Manama

His Royal Highness Prince Sal-man bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the

Crown Prince and Prime Minister, yesterday issued a circular regarding the Ashura commemoration holiday.

According to the circular, the King-dom’s government agencies, depart-ments and public institutions will be closed on Wednesday and Thursday, 18 and 19 August.

Bahrain condemns Houthi missile attack in SaudiTDT | Manama

Bahrain condemned the terrorist Houthi mili-

tia’s launch of a ballistic missile towards Najran, Saudi Arabia, targeting ci-vilians and civil facilities.

The Foreign Affairs Min-istry commended the vigi-lance of the Coalition Forc-es Supporting Legitimacy in Yemen, which were able to intercept and destroy the missile.

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Indian Embassy celebrates Independence Day in style

TDT | Manama

The Embassy of India in the Kingdom of Bahrain cele-

brated the momentous occasion of the 75th Independence Day of India in a befitting manner yesterday.

Flag-hoisting ceremony was held in the Embassy complex at 7.30am, followed by the na-tional anthem and reading of message of Honoble President of India by Ambassador Piyush Srivastava.

The ceremony was telecast live on the Embassy’s social media accounts. Due to the COVID-19 situation and the pre-vailing local guidelines regard-ing social distancing norms and restrictions on large gatherings, it was restricted to members of the Embassy.

The Embassy also organised a special event in the evening which saw a virtual gathering of prominent members of the Indian community, Bahraini dignitaries and friends of India and Indian schools in Bahrain.

The virtual event includ-ed snippets of flag hoisting at the Embassy, followed by re-marks by the Ambassador and K.G.Baburajan, the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awardee in 2021.

The event was graced by

Abdulnabi Al Sho’ala, former Labour Minister and member of the Shura Council, as Chief Guest who gave a keynote ad-dress.

A short video clip on In-dia’s history of independence struggle, cultural heritage, im-pressive strides in social, eco-nomic, industrial and techno-logical advancement was also screened on the occasion. The event was streamed live on

social media accounts of the Mission.

The Embassy building was illuminated with tricolour to commemorate this historic day.

Ambassador Srivastava visit-ed a labour camp on 14 August, during which the Embassy in association with Indian Com-munity Relief Fund (ICRF) also distributed food kits containing dry ration to the needy mem-bers of our community.

02MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 2021

Speaker receives Labour Minister

Education Minister receives US Charge d’Affaires

Shura Chairman receives Chancellor Ali Abdullah Al Aradi

Speaker Fawzia bint Abdullah Zainal received Labour and Social Development Minister Jamil bin Mohammed Ali Humaidan. The Speaker confirmed the parliamentary support for the National Programme for Employment, and all projects and initiatives that seek to accelerate the pace of employment for job seeking citizens, noting the effective cooperation between the council and the government to develop the labor and employment legislative system, in light of the comprehensive development process of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. She also praised the strategies, projects, initiatives and programs offered by the government, headed by His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister, and the outstanding efforts in supporting wages in the private sector, and providing vocational training for job seekers, especially during the pandemic.

Shura Council Chairman Ali bin Saleh Al Saleh received yesterday Chancellor Ali Abdullah Al Aradi on the occasion of the end of his term as member of the Shura Council’s Advisory Board. He praised his efforts at the Shura Council’s Secretariat General which reflected his competence in the legal field. He also wished him continued success in his professional life to continue serving the nation. Chancellor Al Aradi expressed thanks to the Shura Council Chairman for his support during his work at the Secretariat General. The meeting was attended by Shura Council Secretary General Osama Ahmed Al Asfoor, the Chairman of the Legal Advisors Authority and the Assistant Secretaries General.

Ambassador Srivastava attends the flag-hoisting ceremony at the Indian Embassy

Education Minister Dr Majid bin Ali Al Nuaimi received the Chargé d’Affaires of the United States Embassy in Bahrain, Margaret Nardi. They discussed areas of cooperation between the two countries in education, higher education and teacher training. The meeting reviewed hosting a number of academic programs that are consistent with the programs that will be offered at Isa Al Kabeer’s “Al Hidaya Alkhalifia” University. The minister briefed the Charge d’Affairs on the educational services provided by the ministry and its development projects.


Road development projects and people’s needs discussed

Southern Governor presides over remote Coordination Council’s eighth meeting

• Projects include maintenance, paving and painting of sidewalks on main roads

• Plans to construct market in West Riffa area and social centre for elderly care

• Royal leadership praised for supporting initiatives for benefit of the people

TDT | Manama

The stages of road devel-opment projects and the needs of people in

the southern governorate were discussed yesterday at the Co-ordination Council, chaired by Governor His Highness Shaikh Khalifa bin Ali bin Khalifa Al Khalifa.

Taking part in the virtual eighth meeting of the Council in its third session for the year 2021 were Deputy Governor, Brigadier General Issa Tham-er Al Dosari, and a number of members from representatives of various government agencies.

The results of field visits to various areas and projects were also discussed, which included the maintenance, paving and painting of sidewalks on sev-eral main roads in Riffa Street, Mashtan Street and Smouh Crown Prince Street.

HH Shaikh Khalifa stressed the importance of providing services to the people which is the essence of the governorate’s work, as this reflects positively on its urban development goal.

The Council also discussed plans to establish a number of service facilities within the gov-ernorate, which includes the

proposal to establish a market in the West Riffa area, a social centre for elderly care, as well as a modern walkway for prac-tising sports.

The Governor said that the proposals discussed during the meeting are in line with the gov-ernorate’s approach aimed at continuing sustainable devel-opment to serve all citizens and residents.

He praised the directives and patronage of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and the follow-up of His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister, to supprort the development projects for the benefit of the people.

He noted HRH the Crown Prince and Prime Minister’s keenness towards following up the implementation of the development programmes and improvement of the quality of services provided to the peo-ple in cooperation with various competent authorities.

HH Shaikh Khalifa was briefed on the precautionary

measures being taken by au-thorities to prevent the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) and ways to enhance them to ensure the health and safety of everyone.

The Governor also followed up on the most prominent stag-es of health projects in the gov-ernorate.

Among these are the stages of completion of the Shaikh Ab-dullah bin Khalid Al Khalifa Kidney Centre and the Shaikh Abdullah bin Khalid Al Khalifa Health Centre.

Their role in providing health services and the comprehen-sive medical facilities they will provide in the Riffa area were discussed.

The Governor also stressed the importance of completing the construction of the Khalifa City Health Centre as it is one of the most important pioneering projects that provide medical, health and social services to the people of the governorate.

He praised the continuous cooperation and coordination with the Ministry of Works, Mu-nicipalities Affairs and Urban

Planning and the Ministry of Health in implementing such advanced service project that meets the needs of citizens in various regions of the southern governorate.

In another matter, His High-ness the Governor was shown a visual presentation by Engineer Asim Abdullatif Abdullah, Di-rector General of the Southern Region Municipality, on the re-organisation of the scrap areas in line with security and safety standards and requirements.

HH Shaikh Khalifa discusses with the Council the development projects in the Southern Governorate

HH Shaikh Khalifa stressed

the importance of providing services

to the people which is the essence of

the governorate’s work, as this reflects

positively on its urban development

goal.

Courts for children headquarters set up

TDT | Manama

The establishment of the C o r re c t i o n a l Ju st i c e

Courts for Children’s head-quarters has been completed.

This was announced by the Assistant Undersecretary for Courts and Documentation Affairs at the Ministry of Jus-tice, Islamic Affairs and En-dowments, Muhammad Abdul Rahim Bujairi.

It is in preparation for the implementation of the Chil-dren’s Restorative Justice Law which takes effect on August 18.

Bujairi expressed his thanks and appreciation to the Min-istry of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning for the completion of this project.

The design of the headquar-ters takes into account the pro-vision of privacy required for this type of case to suit the situation of the child, the most important of which is the psy-chological and social aspects.

It is following the best en-gineering specifications in a manner appropriate to the cir-cumstances and for the con-duct of legal cases related to children.

Bujairi also thanked the Su-preme Judicial Council and the Public Prosecution for its role in the implementation of this project.

He pointed out that the children’s correctional justice courts are separated from oth-er courts to give them more

privacy during the perfor-mance of their tasks and the presence of children and their families.

Bujairi stressed the impor-tance of the Children’s Re-storative Justice Law and its protection from ill-treatment, which is one of the fruits of the reformist approach of His Majesty the King, and a quali-tative addition to the modern criminal legislation approved by the Kingdom of Bahrain, in accordance with relevant international principles and standards, especially the Unit-ed Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The court for legal cases related to children

Distribution of Al Buhair housing project units delayed

• Will lead to financial losses for Ministry and citizens: MP Al Ansari

TDT | Manama

Representative Ahmed Al Ansari is surprised by the

delay of the Housing Ministry in distributing the units of Al Buhair housing project.

It comes despite the benefi-ciaries receiving their certif-icates of entitlement and the completion of the project and infrastructure.

MP Al Ansari noted that the delay will lead to financial losses for the Ministry and the citizens who have ceased from receiving their housing allowances and are still paying their rents.

He appealed to His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister, to intervene by issuing his gener-ous directives to the Ministry to expedite the distribution of housing units to citizens.

MP Al Ansari stressed that the people of Al Buhair, Isa Town and Riffa have been waiting impatiently for the housing project, as the re-

quests for the beneficiaries have reached more than 15 years of waiting.

In May, MP Al Ansari made an inspection visit to Al Buhair housing project with Housing Minister Basem bin Yaqoub Al Hamar.

The project has two phases. The first includes 227 units, while the second will have about 700 units.

MP Al Ansari called for set-ting a date for the start of the project’s second phase as part of the action plan to provide 25,000 housing units accord-ing to the government’s cur-rent programme.

He praised the efforts of the Ministry in accelerating the pace of work on the project, in addition to its keenness to provide the appropriate living environment for those entitled to commercial services, green spaces and an outlet to practise various hobbies in the region.

MP Al Ansari

The Children’s Re-storative Justice Law is important in pro-

tecting children from ill-treatment, which is one of the fruits

of the reformist ap-proach of His Majesty the King, and a qual-

itative addition to the modern criminal legislation approved

by the Kingdom of Bahrain, in accord-ance with relevant

international princi-ples and standards,

especially the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the

Child.

Preparations for new school yearTDT | Manama

A meeting was held to dis-cuss the ongoing prepa-

rations for the new school year 2021-2022 particularly focus-ing on the main educational and administrative operations.

They include the precau-tionary measures to receive students and staff, teaching and learning, following up on students’ mastery of school subjects through feedback and assessment methods, and al-locating teachers’ timetables

and educational and adminis-trative tasks.

Attending the meeting were School Affairs at the Educa-tion Ministry Director-Gen-eral, Dr Mohammed Mubarak bin Ahmed, and a number of government school principals in the first educational district.

Also present were the Ed-ucation Ministry’s Undersec-retary for Policies, Strategies and Performance, Nawal Ibra-him Al Khater, assistant un-dersecretaries, directors and advisors.

Indian School Bahrain celebrates Independence Day

The Indian School Bahrain (ISB) celebrated the 75th Independence Day of the country with patriotic fervour yesterday. The celebrations commenced with ISB Hon. Chairman Prince S Natarajan unfurling the Indian national flag at the Isa Town campus ground. Hon. Secretary Saji Antony, Hon. Vice-Chairman Jayafar Maidani, Hon. Member-Finance Adv. Binu Mannil Varughese, Hon. Members Ajayakrishnan V, Saji Mangad, Principal VR Palaniswamy, Riffa Campus Principal Pamela Xavier, Vice- Principals and staff attended the ceremony. The flag-hoisting ceremony was followed by the singing of national anthem.

Terror attack in Nigeria condemnedTDT | Manama

The Kingdom of Bahrain has strongly condemned

the terrorist armed attack in Plateau State in Nigeria, which resulted in the death and in-jury of dozens of innocent people.

In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs extended deepest condolences to the

families of the victims and the people and government of Ni-geria, wishing the injured a speedy recovery.

The Ministry affirmed that this is a terrorist act that contradicts moral and hu-manitarian values, stressing Bahrain’s solidarity with Ni-geria in the measures it takes to maintain its security and stability.


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Improving work environmentBahrain Airport Company reaches landmark agreement with newly formed Free Trade Union

• A move to strengthen relations between management and workers

• Focus on issues related to work, workers and working conditions

• Regular meeting will be held once every three months

TDT | Manama

The Bahrain Airport Com-pany, which is managing and operating the Bah-

rain International Airport, has signed an agreement with the newly formed Free Trade Un-ion of BAC workers to develop a detailed organisational structure

for the negotiation mechanism between the two parties.

This step aims to strengthen the relations between the airport management and union mem-bers. It allows the two parties to conduct meaningful negoti-ations to improve all issues re-

lated to the conditions of work and workers.

The agreement-signing cere-mony was attended by BAC Chief Executive Officer Mohammed Yousef Al Binfalah, Free Trade Union Board of Directors Chair-man Mohammed Abdul Rahman Al Jowder and a number of rep-resentatives from both sides.

Al Binfalah said that the BAC places a priority on establish-ing meaningful dialogue and interactive relationships with its employees and workers at all levels, and strives to ensure that all conditions within the workplace are facilitated in a manner that helps preserve their physical and mental health.

He noted that the agreement emphasises the company’s con-tinued commitment to listening

to the opinions of its employees and solving any problems that may encounter.

Al Binfalah explained that the new agreed organisational struc-ture contributes to creating a bridge for mutual transparent communication and improv-ing the existing partnership between the company and the union.

“The Free Trade Union of Bahrain Airport Company work-ers will have an important role in enhancing our relentless efforts to improve the work environ-ment for the company’s employ-ees,” said Al Binfalah.

“I welcome the appointment of two female members of the Board of Directors, which re-flects the pivotal role that wom-en play within our organisation

and at the level of society as a whole. There is no doubt that the dynamic nature of the Bah-rain Airport Company requires special treatment on the part of the union. In turn, the company will make every effort to sup-port the association’s activities through official and administra-tive channels. I wish the union every success in its endeavour to protect the interests of its members.”

Within the framework of the agreement, a negotiating team will be formed consisting of the committee representing the BAC, whose members will be appointed by Al Binfalah, as well as the trade union team whose members will be selected by the union to be on its board of direc-tors. The said committee will act

as a point of contact between the union representatives and the management of the BAC.

Al Jowder said: “The forma-tion of trade unions is a legiti-mate right that is protected by the Trade Unions Law in accord-ance with the Constitution of the Kingdom of Bahrain. Studies have proven that these unions have a tremendous positive im-pact on the well-being of em-ployees, their compensation and the overall quality of life.

“Hence, this agreement pro-vides more protection for the Bahrain Airport Company’s workers, as well as giving them a voice to express them and communicate their views to the management and cooperate with it to overcome the challenges they face.”

He added: “The union aims to lay the foundations for an in-tegrated work environment for workers. Therefore, all members of the Free Trade Union of Bah-rain Airport Company Workers are ready to provide a helping hand in all matters that serve the interests of Bahrain Internation-al Airport employees.”

A meeting will be held once every three months to discuss topics and issues related to work, workers and working con-ditions. Any decisions that will be taken will address the issues in the interest of the company and workers in the short and long term.

Al Binfalah and Al Jowder with BAC and union representatives at the agreement-signing ceremony

Improving the operations and services at the airport

The Free Trade Union of Bahrain Airport

Company workers will have an important

role in enhancing our relentless efforts

to improve the work environment for the company’s

employees.” MOHAMMED YOUSEF AL BINFALAH, BAH-

RAIN AIRPORT COMPANY CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Bahrain not included in Philippines’ travel banTDT | Manama

Bahrain is not included in the list of 10 countries

where travellers coming from them are banned from entering the Philippines.

This comes as the Philip-pines decided to extend a ban on travellers from India and nine other countries until the end of August be-cause of concerns posed by the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus.

The travel ban, which was first imposed on April 27, has been rolled over several times and expanded to include: India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malay-sia, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand and the UAE.

All arriving passengers com-ing from, or who have been to the travel-restricted countries within the last 14 days shall not be allowed entry into the Phil-ippines.

Arriving Filipinos, under the repatriation programme of the Philippine government, coming from the travel-restricted coun-tries shall undergo an absolute 14-day facility-based quaran-tine and be required a negative Reverse Transcription-Poly-

merase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) result.

Those who: (a) transited or who have a mere lay-over at the airport of travel-restricted countries (lay-over only at the airport and with no immigra-tion admission at said coun-tries; and (b) not coming from these countries may be allowed entry, provided they are au-thorised to enter the country thru relevant resolutions of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging In-fectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) and subjected to existing test-ing and quarantine protocols issued by the Department of Health.

Health and quar-antine protocols for government and non-govern-ment repatriations and for vaccinated and non-vaccinat-ed passengers from Green countries shall be observed.

Authorities in the Phil ippines are scrambling to contain a jump in coronavirus cases to a four-month

high, with infections staying above the 12,000 mark since last week, and hospitals in some areas nearing capacity.

President Rodrigo Duterte approved the recommendation of the coronavirus task force to extend the travel restrictions from Aug. 16 to Aug. 31.

The Manila capital region, an urban sprawl of 16 cities that is home to 13 million people, re-mains under a strict lockdown to contain the spread of Delta, while the government ramps up its vaccination drive.

With about 11% of the coun-try’s 110 million people fully immunised, millions remain highly vulnerable to COVID-19.

Government procurement requests worth BD2.8mTDT | Manama

Strategic procurement re-quests valued at approxi-

mately BD2.8 million were dis-cussed at the 47th Information and Communication Technol-ogy Governance Committee (ICTGC) meeting.

Held virtually, the meeting

reviewed several projects, most notably requests by the Min-istry of Education to prepare public schools for the 2021-2022 school year, including pro-viding computers and portable devices to faculty, management, and school labs, as well as sup-porting IT equipment such as printers, scanners, and projec-

tors. These projects, including the Ministry’s requirement for new school buildings, are part of the Digital Empowerment in Education programme.

The Committee reviewed the National Bureau for Revenue (NBR)’s data analysis project, which aims to develop a system for preparing financial reports.


Alba, NVTC to strengthen youth development initiatives • Meeting mulled learning and development opportunities for the Bahraini youth both in NVTC and on the Alba campus

• A Board of Trustees chaired by HH Shaikh Nasser governs NVTC

TDT | Manama

Enhancing learning and development opportuni-ties for Bahrain youth was

the focus of a high-level discus-sion held between Aluminium Bahrain and Nasser Vocational Training Centre.

“As a responsible corporate citizen, we want to develop our Bahraini employees and prepare them to lead in the

future; we believe that edu-cating our people is the passport to a better future of Alba – this comes in line with

Bahrain’s Economic Vision 2030,” Ali Al Baqali, the Chief Executive Officer of Alba told Dr Abdulla Nasser Al Noaimi, the director of NVTC, during a meeting.

Alba’s Director of Adminis-tration, Hamad Al Shaibeh and Alba’s Human Resources and Training Senior Manager and NVTC Board of Trustees Mem-ber, Rawdha Salman Al Aradi were present during the meeting held on 11 August 2021.

They discussed several topics of mutual interest and explored means of further cooperation,

including learning and devel-opment opportunities for the Bahraini youth both in NVTC and on the Alba campus.

“By cooperating with one of Bahrain’s blue-asset companies such as Alba, we are aiming to make Nasser Vocational Train-ing Centre the leading centre in technical education in the region to supply the qualified work-force for the labour market,” said Dr Al Noaimi, the director of NVTC.

He added: “We are as strong as the companies we work with and we trust that this bond be-tween us and Alba will cement

further areas of partnerships.”A Board of Trustees chaired

by HM the King’s Represent-ative for Humanitarian Work and Youth Affairs, HH Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, governs NVTC.Ali Al Baqali, Alba’s CEO, meets with Dr Abdulla Nasser Al Noaimi, the Director of Nasser Vocational Training Centre.

Bapco’s Chairman & Chief Executive Dr Dawood Nassif received yesterday in Al-Dar, Awali the President of the Royal University for Women (RUW), Professor Yusra Mouzughi, and her accompanying delegation. The two sides reviewed several issues of mutual interest and means of boosting cooperation in expertise exchange, scientific research and academic programmes. The RUW President lauded Bapco’s efforts in fostering the industrial drives in the Kingdom and wished Bapco continued success and prosperity. Also present were Bapco’s Chief Financial Officer, Afaf Zainalabedin and RUW’s Business Development Manager, Aysha Murad.

Banking shares bolster most Gulf marketsReuters

Major stock markets in the Gulf ended high-er yesterday, largely

driven by gains in financial companies and led by Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia’s benchmark index rose 0.3%, with Al Rajhi Bank and petrochemical maker Saudi Basic Industries Corp both gaining 0.7%.

Shares of financial and ener-gy companies in the Gulf have both benefited from recent gains in oil prices.

Elsewhere, Saudi Arabian su-permarket group BinDawood Holding finished 0.4% higher despite an almost 50% decline in second-quarter net profit and on expectations that the decline in profit will be tem-porary.

In the second quarter of last year the company “benefited enormously from pantry-buy-ing in response to lockdowns and in the lead-up to the VAT (value-added tax) hike which came into effect from 1 July 2020,” the company’s CEO said in a statement.

Dubai’s main share index re-versed early losses to close 0.1% higher, supported by a 5.5% jump in Amanat Holding after the investment firm posted a net profit of 203.8 million dir-hams ($55.49 m) compared to a loss of 5.2 m dirhams a year ago.

Among other gainers, DA-MAC Properties rose 0.8% after narrowing second-quarter net losses.

However, the index’s gains were limited by losses at Na-tional Central Cooling Co, which retreated 3.1%.

Last week, the firm reported second-quarter net profit of 135.1 million dirhams, down from 142.4 m dirhams a year ago.

In Abu Dhabi, the index edged up 0.1%, with the coun-try’s largest lender First Abu Dhabi Bank rising 0.4%.

Meanwhile, Israel and the United Arab Emirates, which normalised relations a year ago, are looking to Dubai’s Expo world fair in October to boost bilateral trade, which now stands at around $712 m.

The Qatari benchmark added 0.1%, with Commercial Bank rising 1.4%.

Outside the Gulf, Egypt’s blue-chip index advanced 1.3%, led by a 3.1% leap in top lend-er Commercial International Bank.

Egypt received a new batch of about 1.7 million AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses through the global COVAX initiative, the health ministry said late on Fri-day.

Egypt has also received ship-ments of the Sputnik, Sinop-harm, Sinovac and Johnson & Johnson shots. It also recently began locally producing Sino-vac’s COVID-19 vaccines.75th Indian Independence day celebrated at Asgharali Perfumes head office

Closing Bell SAUDI 0.3% to 11,352

ABU DHABI 0.1% to 7,602

DUBAI 0.1% to 2,816

QATAR 0.1% to 10,933

EGYPT 1.3% to 11,023

BAHRAIN 0.3% to 1,636

OMAN 0.4% to 4,019

KUWAIT 0.2% to 7,220

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Ford counterattacks in ‘cruise’ dispute with General MotorsReuters | Detroit

Ford Motor Co said late on Friday it will ask the US Pat-

ent Office to rescind trademarks obtained by rival General Mo-tors Co for the terms “Cruise” and “Super Cruise,” escalating a brawl GM began by suing Ford over its use of “Blue Cruise” for an automated driving system.

The legal fight between the two Detroit automakers turns on whether “cruise” is a generic term for technology that allows

the car to take over some share of driving tasks from a human motorist.

The clash underscores the in-tensity of competition among established automakers to be seen as leaders in automated driving technology, competitive with Silicon Valley rivals Tesla Inc, Alphabet Inc ‘s Waymo unit and others.

GM filed a federal suit against Ford on July 24, accusing Ford of violating GM trademarks by using the name “Blue Cruise” for a system that enables hands-free driving.

GM had previously trade-marked “Super Cruise” for its hands-free, partially automat-ed driving technology. It also has trademarked “Cruise,” the name of its robo-taxi unit in San Francisco.

Ford reiterated on Friday its position that GM’s suit is frivo-lous. The effort to nullify GM’s trademarks for the use of the word “cruise” takes the fight to a new level.

“To defend itself, Ford has no

choice but to ask the US Patent and Trademark Office to rescind both of GM’s “Cruise” and “Super Cruise” trademark registrations that should have never been reg-istered in the first place,” Ford said. “Any number of companies use the word ‘cruise’ in connec-tion with driver assist technol-ogy.”

Among the examples Ford cited: “Predictive Cruise,” mar-keted by Mack Trucks; “Smart Cruise Control” marketed by

Hyundai Motor Co, and Au-tocruise, used by auto supplier ZF Friedrichshafen AG.

GM said Friday that Super Cruise “has had a well estab-lished commercial presence since 2017,” and added in a state-ment that the company “remains committed to vigorously defend-ing our brands and protecting the equity our products and technology have earned over several years in the market and that won’t change.”

Blood and billions of dollars: NATO’s long war in AfghanistanTaliban fighters entered Kabul yesterday and an official said President Ashraf Ghani left the Afghan

capital for Tajikistan, capping the militants’ lightning push for power. Here are some facts about NATO’s military involvement in support of the United States:

“THE HUMAN RACE HAS ONE REALLY EFFECTIVE WEAPON, AND THAT IS LAUGHTER”MARK TWAIN

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We’re concerned about the

increasingly deteriorating situation in

Afghanistan...We have not taken any decision to

close our embassyPAKISTANI FOREIGN OFFICE SPOKESMAN ZAHID HAFEEZ

CHAUDHRY

Conflict and instability in the

region will sooner or later spill over

to Europe and thus to Austria

AUSTRIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ALEXANDER SCHALLENBERG

The clock has run out on how long we can wait to adopt

the complete overhaul of

Europe’s migration and asylum rules

we needEU COMMISSIONER MARGARITIS

SCHINAS

One more year, or five more years, of US military presence would

not have made a difference if the Afghan military cannot or will

not hold its own country. And an endless American presence in the middle of another country’s civil conflict was not acceptable to me

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UAE 701,776 +1,189 2,001 +4 679,760 20,015

Kuwait 406,234 2,386 396,641 7,207

Oman 300,194 +163 3,993 +9 288,389 7,812

Qatar 229,168 +187 601 226,012 2,555

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Country Total cases Total deaths

1 USA 37,435,835 637,439

2 India 32,205,973 431,558

3 Brazil 20,350,142 568,833

4 Russia 6,600,836 170,499

5 France 6,449,863 112,612

6 UK 6,267,437 130,953

7 Turkey 6,059,806 53,005

8 Argentina 5,080,908 108,936

9 Colombia 4,864,629 123,356

10 Spain 4,693,540 82,470

11 Italy 4,440,669 128,432

12 Iran 4,425,821 97,828

13 Indonesia 3,854,354 117,588

14 Germany 3,825,232 92,370

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News in brief u The death toll in Haiti’s powerful earthquake jumped to over 700 yesterday as crews desperately dug through collapsed buildings for survivors in the Caribbean nation still reeling from its president’s assassination. At least 724 people were killed in the 7.2-magnitude tremor that struck Saturday about 100 miles (160 kilometers) to the west of the densely populated capital Port-au-Prince, which was devastated in a massive 2010 quake. Churches, businesses, schools and homes crumbled in Saturday’s quake that trapped hundreds of victims under rubble and left at least 2,800 people injured, the country’s civil protection agency said in an update.

u Thousands of protesters in cars and on bikes massed in Bangkok’s central shopping district yesterday, one of several mobile

rallies across Thailand demanding Premier Prayut Chan-O-Cha resign over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The kingdom is grappling

with its worst outbreak so far, registering record numbers of daily infections each week as hospitals struggle to cope. In total, it has reported more than 907,000 cases and 7,551 deaths from Covid-19. A sluggish vaccine roll-out -- coupled with financial woes from weeks-long restrictions on businesses -- has fanned anger at Prayut’s administration.

u All 16- and 17-year-olds in England will be offered their first COVID-19 vaccine dose by Aug. 23, according to a target set by British Health Secretary Sajid Javid. Javid said on Sunday that offering young people the vaccine by that date will allow the teenagers in that age bracket the two weeks necessary to build maximum immunity before returning to school in September. “I have asked the NHS in England to ensure they offer a first dose of the vaccine to everyone aged 16 and 17 by next Monday, Aug. 23, this will make sure everybody has the opportunity to get vital protection before returning to college or sixth form”, Javid said in a statement yesterday.

u Eight people were killed and dozens injured when a passenger bus crashed on the M7 motorway en route to Budapest in the early hours yesterday, police said in a statement. Police said the Hungarian bus rolled over for unknown reasons at 0255 GMT 70 km (43.5 miles) west of Budapest. State news agency MTI said the bus, which had a Hungarian licence plate and carried more than 50 passengers, had crashed into an overpass pillar.

Thousands join convoy protests against Thai PM

All 16-, 17-year-olds in England to be offered first COVID vaccine dose by Aug. 23

Eight people killed, dozens injured in

Hungary bus crash

Death toll in massive Haiti quake jumps to

724: govt

With Lebanon deep in eco-nomic crisis, hospitals have warned that fuel shortages

may force them to shut down in coming days, and

have also reported low sup-plies of medicines and other

essentials.

KNOW

BETTER

Emirates flight to Kabul diverts to Dubai, flydubai suspends services

Reuters | Dubai

Emirates airline said a flight to Kabul yester-

day was diverted due to the temporary closure of the runway at the airport, while fellow Dubai state-owned carrier flydubai suspended services.

The Emirates Boeing 777-300 flight circled over the Afghanistan capital, aircraft tracking website FlightRa-dar24 showed, before re-turning to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

“We are monitoring de-velopments around the sit-uation in Afghanistan and are working closely with all the relevant authorities to ensure the safe operation of our services,” an Emirates spokesperson said.

Flydubai said earlier that a Boeing 737 service to Ka-bul on Sunday returned to Dubai mid-flight and that the airline had suspended its services to the city until further notice.

he Taliban militant group entered Kabul earlier on Sunday

A Boeing 737 MAX aircraft bearing the logo of flydubai is parked at a Boeing production facility in Renton, Washington

At least 28 killed in Lebanon fuel tank explosion • Army had seized a fuel storage tank hidden by black marketeers and was handing out gasoline to residents when the explosion occurred

• About 200 people were nearby at the time of the explosion

Reuters | Beirut

At least 28 people were killed and 79 injured when a fuel tank exploded in

northern Lebanon early yester-day, the health ministry said.

Military and security sources said that the army had seized a fuel storage tank hidden by black marketeers and was handing out gasoline to residents when the explosion occurred.

Lebanon is suffering from a se-vere fuel shortage, leading to long lines at gas stations and extended blackouts. The disaster happened in the town of Altalil, in the Akkar region that is one of Lebanon’s poorest areas.

About 200 people were nearby at the time of the explosion, eye-witnesses said.

Caretaker Health Minister Hamad Hassan said the worst cases of burns probably needed quick treatment abroad to save their lives.Army and security forces personnel were among the casualties, sources said.

Accounts varied as to what caused the explosion.

“There was a rush of people,

and arguments between some of them led to gunfire which hit the tank of gasoline and so it exploded,” said a security source.

Local Al-Jadeed TV channel reported from eyewitnesses that it was caused by a person who ignited a lighter.

Abdelrahman, whose face and body was covered in gauze as he laid in Tripoli’s al-Salam hospital, was one of those in line to get gasoline.

“There were hundreds gath-ered there, right next to the tank, and God only knows what hap-pened to them,” he said.

The father of another casualty at the hospital said he had two other sons he still hadn’t located.

The Red Cross said its teams were still searching the explo-sion site.

Angry residents in Akkar gath-ered at the site and set fire to two dump trucks, according to a Reu-ters witness.

“The Akkar massacre is no dif-ferent from the port massacre,” said former Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri on Twitter, referring to last year’s massive explosion at the port in Beirut. He called on Lebanese officials including the president to take responsibility and resign.

Reactions as the Taliban entered Kabul

UK parliament to be recalled next week to discuss AfghanistanReuters | London

The British parliament will be recalled from its summer

recess next week to discuss the situation in Afghanistan, a source at Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Downing Street office said yester-day, as Taliban insurgents entered Kabul.

The entry into the capital

caps a lightning advance by the Islamist militants, who were ousted 20 years ago by the United States after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Britain’s interior ministry said earlier that it was working to pro-tect its citizens and help other eligible former UK staff to leave Afghanistan.

On Sept. 12, 2001, NATO allies invoked their mutual

defence clause for the first, and so far only time in the Western

alliance’s seven-decade history, after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States by al Qae-

da militants.

NATO’s troop presence peaked in 2011, with more than 130,000 foreign troops from 51 allied and partner countries in

Afghanistan. Since 2003, NATO has trained hundreds of thousands of Afghan troops and police officers, including establishing an Afghan

air force.

Germany deployed the second largest military contingent in Afghan-

istan after the United States. In the northern Afghan province of Kunduz, a stronghold of the Taliban, Germany

lost more of its troops in combat there than anywhere else in the world

since the end of World War Two.

The United States alone spent more than $140 billion in overall aid for Afghanistan since 2002, according to US Congress data.

The Pentagon estimated the cost of US combat operations, including

support for the Afghan forces, at more than $820 billion for the same

period.

Afghanistan remains one of the poorest countries in the world. It

ranks 169 of 189 countries in the Hu-man Development Index published by the United Nations Development

Programme, with an average life expectancy of 64 years and a gross

national income per capita of $2,200.

After US-led forces defeated Taliban leaders harbouring al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, the architect of the Sept. 11 attacks, NATO took command of an international coalition

in 2003. It aimed to restore peace to Afghanistan and build up Afghan security forces. In 2015, the mission, known as ISAF,

was replaced by a training operation, Resolute Support. As of April, it numbered around 10,000 troops from 36 nations.

The international military coalition has suffered over 3,500 fatalities since 2001, among them around 2,400 Americans, according to US Congress data. More than

20,000 US troops were wounded in action. The website www.icasulaties.org puts the total number of fatalities

at 3,577. Tens of thousands of Afghan police and soldiers were killed.

Burns, tears as Beirut medics treat fuel blast victimAFP | Beirut

Anger and grief collided in a crowded Beirut hospital

yesterday as relatives of burn victims from a fuel tanker ex-plosion in north Lebanon waited breathlessly for news of loved ones.

Geitawi hospital, which has one of the country’s two burn centres, saw an influx of patients injured in the overnight blast that killed at least 28 people in the Akkar district village of Al-Tleil.

Dozens of people had flocked to the village to get petrol, a scarce and increasingly costly resource the army was distrib-uting after confiscating it in ef-forts to combat stockpiling by distributors.

The official National News Agency said the explosion fol-lowed scuffles between resi-dents clamouring to get some petrol, but the exact cause of the blast remains unclear.

The burns unit in Beirut, some 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of the blast site, was seen as a last hope for families turned away from overstretched med-ical facilities in the north.

Sawsan Abdullah tracked down her son, a soldier, as he was transferred from one hos-pital to another for treatment after being caught up in the ex-plosion.

She burst into tears at Geitawi hospital when a doctor informed

her that her son was in a critical condition.

“You told me he was okay! I want to see him, I only have him, he’s my only son!” she yelled, falling to the floor as relatives rushed to help her.

Speaking afterwards, she said her son had only been looking for petrol so he could go to his work in the army.

‘A failed state’“We live in a failed state,

which loves neither its people, nor its soldiers,” said Sawsan, whose husband, who was also a soldier, died in clashes with an Islamist group in north Lebanon in 2000.

Lebanon is grappling with an economic crisis branded by the World Bank as one of the plan-et’s worst in modern times, and has been hit by severe fuel short-ages since the start of summer.

These have aggravated power

cuts which now last more than 22 hours a day, threatening hos-pitals and businesses with clo-sure.

Sawsan’s 26-year-old daugh-ter Sandy blamed the country’s leaders for negligence that led to her brother ending up in hos-pital.

“He is my only brother, my only support... I have already been denied a father since I was five,” she said.

At the entrance to the hospi-tal’s emergency room, doctors, nurses and even police tried to restrain relatives clamouring to enter.

One man in military fatigues was searching for his brother-in-law, who was still missing in the wake of the blast.

“What am I going to tell my sister?” he yelled.

Another person waiting at the hospital cried: “There are peo-ple who have lost two of three

relatives.”Marwa al-Sheikh, 33, had two

male relatives caught up in the explosion.

Her brother was being treated for burns in Geitawi, but her brother-in-law, a retired army officer, was still missing.

She could barely hold back her tears.

“My brother-in-law has four children, the eldest is only five years old. We don’t know if he’s dead or if he’s still alive,” she said.

‘My son is burning’ Marwa said some bodies had

been charred beyond recogni-tion, so relatives could not de-termine whether he was among the dead.

“We’ll have to wait for DNA tests,” she said.

The latest tragedy drew in-evitable comparisons to last

summer’s monster explosion at Beirut port that killed more than 200 people and devastated swathes of the capital.

On August 4, 2020, a stock of carelessly stored ammonium nitrate fertilizer exploded in one of the world’s largest non-nucle-ar blasts.

Authorities from customs and port officials to senior members of parliament and government had all been accused of being aware of the threat from the cache but had failed to take ac-tion.

On Sunday, Geitawi hospital director Pierre Yared said the state was completely absent in the aftermath of the Akkar blast.

“The authorities are not re-sponding to our complaints... the hospitals are in critical con-dition, we lack everything,” he said.

Uday Khodr, another soldier, ended up in Geitawi after be-ing taken to three other facil-ities that were unable to treat him. He was badly burned in the blast.

His father Mamdouh wait-ed anxiously in the emergency room for news.

“My son paid a heavy cost for the scarcity of fuel,” he said.

“Where is the country going? Why can’t we live comfortably?”

Mamdouh blamed Lebanon’s leaders for what had happened.

“My son is burning while they destroy this country. I hope their hearts burn too.”

One man caught up in the explosion after being treated at Tripoli’s As-Salam Hospital in north Lebanon

Lebanese army soldiers and rescuers are seen at the site of a fuel tanker explosion in Akkar, in northern Lebanon,

Locals argue with soldiers at the site of the fuel tank explosion

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Modi says India will soon unveil $1.35 trillion infrastructure plan• The infrastructure programme, called “Gati Shakti”, will help boost productivity

Reuters | New Delhi

India will launch a 100 tril-lion rupee ($1.35 trillion) national infrastructure plan

that will help generate jobs and expand use of cleaner fuels to achieve the country’s climate goals, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday.

The infrastructure pro -gramme, called “Gati Shakti”, will help boost productivity of industries and boost the econo-my, Modi said during his speech at the Independence Day cele-brations in New Delhi.

“We will launch a masterplan for Gati Shakti, a big programme ... (it) will create job opportuni-ties for hundreds of thousands,” Modi said from the ramparts of the historic Red Fort in the capital city.

While Modi did not announce details of the plan, he said the plan will help local manufactur-ers compete globally and create

new avenues of future economic growth.

Boosting infrastructure in Asia’s third largest economy is at the heart of the Modi’s plan to pull back the country from a sharp economic decline wors-ened by the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the last fiscal year, India’s economic output fell by a re-cord 7.3% and a second wave of

COVID-19 has delayed economic recovery.

The prime minister also set a target to become energy inde-pendent by 2047, saying the goal can be achieved through a mix of electric mobility, moving to a gas-based economy and making the country a hub for hydrogen production.

Modi said the country spends

more than 12 trillion rupees an-nually on energy imports and becoming energy independ-ent was critical, as he also an-nounced the launch of a Nation-al Hydrogen Mission to boost the government’s clean energy plans.

“India is moving fast towards achieving its climate goals,” he said.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inspects the honour guard during Independence Day celebrations at the historic Red Fort in Delhi, India

Afghan soldiers seek Taliban amnesty after fall of Herat

AFP News

Thousands of Afghan sol-diers thronged the gov-

ernor’s office in the western city of Herat looking for the Taliban -- not to battle them but to seek amnesty.

Afghanistan’s third-big-gest city fell without a fight on Thursday as government forces retreated and Herat’s fa-mous warlord Ismail Khan was detained by the insurgents.

With fears of violent re-prisals growing as the Taliban get closer to a full takeover of the country, Afghan soldiers in Herat -- nearly all of them in civilian clothes -- gathered Saturday to try and get a letter of amnesty.

Inside the office that once housed the Herat governor, Taliban members sat on couch-es -- some cradling American military rifles -- as they jotted down names and reviewed lists spread on a glass-top coffee table.

On stationery with the Tali-ban letterhead, one wrote am-nesty notes -- some long-term, some valid for just a few days.

One Afghan soldier at the compound told AFP that his unit was surrounded by the Taliban before the fall of the city.

Now he just wanted security.“I have come here to get an

amnesty letter to go out of the city,” said Ahmed Shahidi.

“Until I find a place where I can stay safe in the future.”

Taliban member Najeebul-lah Karokhi said around 3,000 people were given amnesty.

“Those who are from other provinces will be provided a

three-day temporary amnesty

letter so they can get to their home provinces, where they need to get another long-term amnesty letter from our offi-cials,” he said.

In the shaded part of a court-yard on the compound, hun-dreds sat patiently as a man holding amnesty slips shouted names one by one for them to be collected.

The banal bureaucratic pro-cess belied the shocking speed and efficiency of the Taliban’s victories across Afghanistan.

Just weeks ago, a defiant and angry Ismail Khan -- who ruled Herat as his fiefdom -- had vowed to defend the city with his militia, and called on government forces to show more backbone.

But the city’s defences seem-ingly evaporated overnight as troops retreated to a base outside the city and Khan was captured by the Taliban.

The warlord’s spokesman said he had been allowed to re-turn to his residence following talks with the Taliban, but it was unclear exactly what deal had been cut between the two.

“We had to leave the city in order to prevent further de-struction,” a senior govern-ment security source from Herat said.

The fear of Taliban revenge is not unfounded: the insur-gents have imposed brutal punishments on opponents, and anyone who violated their harsh brand of Islamic law when they were in power from 1996 to 2001.

They have recently been accused of committing war crimes, including massacres of civilians and soldiers outside combat.

Taliban fighters stand guard in front of the provincial governor’s office in Herat, where the insurgents issued amnesty letters to Afghan soldiers

Taliban show off US-made war spoils in reclaimed spiritual homeAFP News

The Taliban have released footage showing captured

US-made Afghan military hel-icopters at Kandahar airport, until recently one of the most important US bases in the coun-try.

The insurgents have been quick to show off their war spoils in the southern city -- their spiritual birthplace and now one of the biggest prizes in a countrywide blitz that has left the capital Kabul surrounded by Taliban fighters.

The fall of Kandahar -- Af-ghanistan’s second-biggest city -- on Friday meant the insur-gents once again had full control of their ethnic Pashtun heart-land.

In footage posted on Taliban social media accounts Saturday, an insurgent is seen walking around a US-made Black Hawk military helicopter, which is in

brown-green camouflage with Afghan Air Force markings, pur-portedly at a Kandahar airport hangar.

He then walks out and an-

other Black Hawk is seen in the distance on the tarmac.

As he walks to the side of the hangar, two Russian military helicopters are seen as another person is heard saying “Mashal-lah” -- an Islamic term of praise.

It was not clear if any of the helicopters were airworthy.

The Black Hawk inside the hangar was seemingly in stor-age, with a black sheet covering its windshield and its left engine apparently missing.

The two Russian helicop-ters outside the hangar were missing their blades, with a sheet covering the front of one airframe.

One of the fighters is heard claiming there are five military helicopters at the airport, and several jets.

The United States supplied the Afghan military equipment worth billions of dollars, including Black Hawk helicopters

Cameron Diaz ‘feels whole’ after retiring from actingCover Media | Los Angeles

Speaking to Kevin Hart on his new talk show, Hart to Heart, the

There’s Something About Mary star discussed her decision to step away from acting after her last film, the 2014 Annie remake.

“When you do something at a re-ally high level for a long period of time, when you’re the person who’s delivering on this one thing, you’re the person on the screen, you’re the person who’s like ‘the talent’... every part of you that isn’t that, needs to be handed off to other people,” the 48-year-old began.

“For my personal, you know, spiritual self, I was realising that that one part of me that functioned at a high level wasn’t enough,” she said of the part of her life that was com-mitted to acting.

Diaz explained that she still “loves”

a c t -i n g a n d finds it “fun to do”, but that her life away from Hollywood became unmanageable after she hit 40. After the change, she started to “feel whole”.

Kit Harington gives insight into his life as new fatherANI | Washington

Actor Kit Harington recently gave a rare insight into his life as a new father, sharing what has surprised him the most about parenthood.

In February, this year, Kit welcomed his first child, a son with his wife Rose Leslie, who also starred with him in the popular HBO series ‘Game of Thrones’.

According to People magazine, he

recently appeared on The Tonight Show and spoke about how he is em-bracing his “new fatherhood” with his 6-month-old child.

“So much advice. Anyone who’s a parent will know, you get so much ad-vice leading up to it, and it’s all useless. It’s all useless. It’s stuff like, It’s gonna be great, you’re gonna love it, what a wonderful thing,” Kit told host Jimmy Fallon.

“No one tells you that essentially,

at first anyway, what it is you get a new roommate just dumped into your life who you’ve not interviewed, who doesn’t know any of your house rules, and then you fall in love with him so you can’t kick him out. That’s basically parenting, I think,” the 34-year-old actor added.

The ‘Pompeii’ star told that the baby boy “respects” Leslie, meanwhile, he will do “anything” to make his son laugh, even performing “a silly dance

for him while listen-ing to The Beatles”, which Kit demon-strated.

“In the future, I know he’s gonna mock me about it, and I’ll be like, ‘It’s your fault,’ “ the actor said in reference to his “dad dance.”

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So much advice. Anyone who’s a parent will know, you get so much advice leading up

to it, and it’s all useless. It’s all useless. It’s stuff like, It’s gonna be great, you’re gonna

love it, what a wonderful thingKIT HARINGTON

(To) have a family and be

married and have our little nucleus of a family. It’s

just completely the best thing... I don’t

have what it takes to give making a movie what it needs

to be made. All of my energy is here

CAMERON DIAZ

Emma Stone to return for ‘Cruella 2’ANI | Washington

Hollywood star Emma Stone i s c o m i n g

back for more dramat-ic fashion statements and dastardly deeds. The actor will reprise

her role as Cruella de Vil in the upcoming ‘Cruella’ sequel.

As per Variety, the 32-year-old actor will star in the sequel for Disney’s ‘Cruella’, which debuted in theatres and on Disney+ in late May and earned more than

USD 221 million at the worldwide box office.

The move is significant because it comes amid the

turmoil caused by actor Scarlett Johansson’s lawsuit against Dis-ney over her compensation for

‘Black Widow’, which like ‘Cruel-la’, debuted day-and-date in thea-tres and on Disney+.

The movie detailed the origin story of Stone’s Cruella before she wreaked havoc in Disney’s ani-mated ‘101 Dalmations’. The film, which also starred Emma Thomp-son, will see the return of its orig-inal director, Craig Gillespie, and screenwriter Tony McNamara.

News of the sequel’s develop-ment broke in early June, just weeks after the live-action prequel to the Disney animated classic ‘101 Dalmations’ opened in theatres. At the time, Gillespie and McNamara were both expected to return for the new movie, but a deal was not yet done for Stone.

“We are very pleased with Cru-ella’s box office success, in con-

junction with its strong Disney+ Premier Access performance to date,” a Disney spokesperson told the outlet at the time.

“The film has been incredibly well received by audiences around the world, with a 97 per cent Au-dience Score on Rotten Toma-toes in addition to A’s in every demographic from CinemaScore on opening weekend, ranking it among the most popular of our live-action reimaginings. We look forward to a long run as audiences continue to enjoy this fantastic film,” the spokesperson added.

Stone starred in and executive produced the film, which featured Thompson, Joel Fry, Paul Walter Hauser, Emily Beecham, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, and Mark Strong in supporting roles.

Ed Sheeran hopes his daughter won’t be a singerIANS | Los Angeles

Singer Ed Sheeran is reluctant that his daughter Lyra Ant-

arctica Seaborn Sheeran follows in her father’s footsteps and become a musician because he worries any songs s h e r e l e a s e d would always be

compared to his back tracks.

The ‘Shape of You’ hitmaker and

his wife Cherry Sea-born welcomed their first child Lyra Ant-arctica in August last year.

Speaking on the ‘Table Manners’ pod-cast, Sheeran said: “I think it’s from being

in the music industry - I’m like, ‘I would not wish this on my child.’ I would hate for her to be known as my daughter rather than just Lyra, I want her to have own identity.”

Lyra’s mother Cherry is a hock-ey player and Ed feels their

daughter is destined to be sporty like her, reports ace-showbiz.com.

“I think Lyra will be more sport I think,” he said.

Sheeran previously shared that he consid-ered retiring from music following the birth of his daughter in or-

der to be a great father, however,

after putting a lot of “time and effort” into the early days of father-hood, he felt his urge to write songs return.

Arnold Schwarzenegger slams anti-maskers: ‘Screw your freedom’ANI | Washington

Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger re-

cently called out anti-mask-ers. The star also questioned why people wouldn’t be-lieve health experts about the coronavirus and said t h a t a n t i -va x xe r s a re “schmucks” for prioritising their freedom over the safe-ty of other people.

The ‘Terminator’ star shared his frustrations around Americans advocat-ing for their freedom over public health in a recent in-terview with CNN.

In the interview, the for-mer California governor shared his stance on the importance of following public health protocols and told people who argue their personal freedom is being threatened by mask mandates to “screw their freedom”.

“There is a virus here. It kills people and the only way we prevent it is: get vaccinated, wear masks, do social distancing, washing your hands all the time, and not just to think about, ‘Well

my freedom is being kind of disturbed here.’ No, screw your free-dom,” Schwarzenegger said.

“You have the freedom to wear no mask -- but you know something?

You’re a schmuck for not wearing a mask. Because you are supposed to protect your fellow

Americans around you,” he added.

Stone is the second actor to take on the role

of Cruella for the big screen after Glenn Close played her in the 1996 ‘101 Dalmatians’ adap-tation and its 2000 se-quel ‘102 Dalmatians’

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Pliskova upsets top seed Sabalenka, faces Giorgi in Montreal final

AFP | Montreal

Wimbledon finalist Karo-lina Pliskova rolled into

the final of the WTA hardcourt tournament in Montreal on Sat-urday with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over top seed Aryna Sabalenka.

The win was a repeat for the fourth-seeded Czech, who de-feated her Belarus rival in three sets two months ago in their All England Club semi-final.

Pliskova will fight for the Montreal title against Italy’s Camila Giorgi, who needed a deciding set to see off Australian Open quarter-finalist Jessica Pegula 6-3, 3-6, 6-1.

Pliskova lost to Giorgi last month in the third round of the Tokyo Olympics.

“It’s an amazing feeling to be in another final,” Pliskova said. “I was super-solid today

“I did what I needed to win. I

used my brain and played smart. She was missing a bit too much, I’m quite happy with the per-formance.”

Pliskova broke Sabalenka four times and saved two of the three break points she faced.

Sabalenka, who flung her rac-quet in disgust in the second,set apologized for any unprofes-sional behavior later on Insta-gram.

Pliskova fired 10 aces for a

total of 267 this season, putting her within touching distance of Sabalenka’s tour-leading 270.

The Czech won her 39th match of the season, top of the table on the WTA. But even though she has won 12 of her past 13 matches, she’s seeking her first title of the season.

Giorgi has been on a roll in recent weeks, winning her 15th WTA match from 19 played as she moved into the first 1000-level final of her career.

“Reaching this final means a lot,” Giorgi said. “I’m having a great week, all my matches have been tough.

“I knew I was playing very well,” she said. “Even losing the first set, I never felt the match was in danger as I knew I was playing very well.

“The first set went very well. Losing the second... it can hap-pen in tennis. In the third I came

back even more focused.“The final will be another

great match, as usual I will just focus on my game.”

The 71st-ranked Italian threatened to emerge a straight-set winner as she came from 4-1 down in the second, but Pegula fought off the attack to take it into a third before exiting.

Pliskova is determined to get past Giorgi in the title match after her loss in Tokyo.

“Of course I lost to her already this year, everybody knows that.

“But this is a final, it’s a differ-ent kind of match than a first or second round.

“I have nothing to lose. I’m playing quite solid this week. I’ll just try to do my best and let’s see.

“Maybe I’ll be third time lucky in finals this season,” added the Czech, who fell in the finals at Wimbledon and Rome.

West Ham get better of Newcastle in six-goal thriller

AFP | London

West Ham twice came from behind to get their

Premier League season off to a flying start with a 4-2 win at Newcastle in front of over 50,000 fans at St James’ Park yesterday.

Roared on by the Magpies’ first capacity home crowd for 17 months, Newcastle start-ed brightly as Callum Wilson headed home Allan Saint-Max-imin’s teasing delivery.

An intended cross by Aaron Cresswell crept in to quickly get West Ham level before Ja-cob Murphy’s header restored Newcastle’s lead at half-time.

But David Moyes’s men showed why they finished sixth ahead of Tottenham and Arsenal last season after the break.

Newcastle could not live with the pace and inventive-ness of Said Benrahma and Michail Antonio.

They combined to get the visitors level once more on 53 minutes as Benrahma stooped

to head home Antonio’s cross.Antonio then hit the post

with a header from point-blank range, but on the re-bound Murphy tripped Pablo Fornals inside the box.

On his Premier League de-but, Freddie Woodman saved Antonio’s penalty, but Tomas Soucek pounded on the re-bound to put West Ham in front.

Three minutes later Ben-rahma fed Antonio on the counter-attack and this time he made no mistake with a thumping finish to move level with Paolo Di Canio as West Ham’s all-time top goalscorer in the Premier League.

Inter Milan sign Dzeko and Dumfries in quickfire double swoop

AFP | Milan

Italian champions Inter Milan on Saturday signed

35-year-old striker Edin Dzeko from Serie A rivals Roma, just a day after selling Romelu Luka-ku to Chelsea for a reported fee of £97 million ($135 million).

In a quickfire double swoop, Inter also announced they had signed Dutch defender Denzel Dumfries from PSV Eindhoven.

“FC Internazionale Milano is pleased to announce the signing of Edin Dzeko. The forward has joined the club from Roma on a permanent transfer, having signed a two-year contract that runs until 30 June 2023,” said an Inter statement.

Former PSV skipper Dum-fries, 25, has penned a contract with Inter running through to June 2025.

Dzeko has enjoyed a suc-cessful career since leaving his native Bosnia.

In 2009, he helped fire Wolfsburg to their first and only Bundesliga title, finishing the campaign as top scorer on 26 goals.

At Manchester City, he scored one of the goals in the final day defeat of QPR which delivered a first English title 44 years.

With Roma, he grabbed 119 goals in 260 games.

Dzeko is also Bosnia’s all-time top scorer, with 59 goals in 114 appearances, helping his country qualify for their first major tournament, the 2014 World Cup.

Dumfries starred as the Netherlands reached the last 16 at Euro 2020 this summer where they were knocked out by the Czech Republic.

Medvedev dominates Isner to face Opelka for Toronto titleReilly Opelka beats Stefanos Tsitsipas in Toronto epic

• Daniil Medvedev dominated throughout in a 54-minute rout against John Isner

AFP | Toronto

Russian top seed Daniil Medvedev blunted the big serve of American

John Isner 6-2, 6-2 on Saturday to set up an ATP Masters 1000 final with Reilly Opelka.

M e d v e d e v d o m i n a t e d throughout in a 54-minute rout against Isner, who was held to a miserly four aces.

With the major part of his game mis-firing, the 36-year-old Isner was an easy target for Medvedev, the losing 2019 finalist to Spaniard Rafael Nadal.

Medvedev will play for his fourth trophy of the season af-ter helping Russia to the ATP Cup in Australia and claiming the honours at Marseille and Mallorca.

He takes on another Amer-ican two-metre-plus giant in Opelka, who broke new ground as he edged third-seeded Ste-fanos Tsitsipas 6-7 (2/7), 7-6 (7/4), 6-4 to reach the final at the Aviva Centre in Toronto.

Medvedev cannot fault his current form: “I’m really happy with the win. I had very few unforced errors (seven). I’m

pleased with my game in this moment.

“I feel I’m playing better and better leading to the US Open.”

Isner’s game was off the boil and Medvedev took full advan-tage.

“He was not serving like usual and I had to take my opportu-nities, try and break as much as I could,” Medvedev said. “I stayed focused and managed to do that.”

The Russian winner posted 20 winners to Isner’s 20 unforced errors, breaking the American four times.

Medvedev will need to take his winning strategy into the final with Opelka, a towering server like Isner.

“He’s been playing great ten-nis all week,” Medvedev said. “Big credit to him.

“But a masters final is never easy; I’ll try to play well and hope to be holding the trophy tomorrow.”

Opelka overcame Tsitsipas with 46 winners to 23 for the Greek. He blasted 17 aces in the match lasting two and a half hours to notch his first victory over a top-five opponent.

“I’ve played great from the first round against a lot of adver-sity,” said Opelka, who ousted Australian Nick Kyrgios in the first round.

“There are no easy draws at Masters 1000s, every match is a nightmare. But I’ve got a lot of

confidence going and I’ve car-ried it through each match. I’m putting pressure on guys with my serve and they can feel it.”

Tsitsipas held his own un-til late in the third set, when Opelka broke for a 4-3 lead. The American finished off the upset three games later with an over-head smash on his first match point.

“He prevailed, it just didn’t go my way,” Tsitsipas said. “But there is hope for next time, it’s all right.

“I struggled with my serve, it was obvious. When you get no rhythm it’s difficult. It silently ruins your game.”

Tsitsipas, ranked third in the world behind Novak Djokovic and Medvedev, still leads the ATP with 45 match wins this season, with Djokovic trailing on 36.

I did what I needed to win. I used my brain

and played smart. She was missing a bit too

much, I’m quite happy with the performance

KAROLINA PLISKOVA

Reilly Opelka is the tallest top tennis play-er in the world (211cm

or 6-foot-11) and he possesses a deadly

serve from that height

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Daniil Medvedev, of Russia, serves to John Isner, of United States

Edin Dzeko of Inter Milan during a training session Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic returns to Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus Camila Giorgi of Italy hits a backhand to Jessica Pegula of the United States

West Ham United’s Tomas Soucek, in air, scores his side’s third goal of the game from a penalty rebound

3goals in 13 minutes in the second half helped West

Ham come from behind to secure an impressive away

win at Newcastle

Manchester City shocked by Kane-less TottenhamTottenham’s Son Heung-min strikes to stun wasteful Manchester City

• Son scored the only goal of the game to get Spurs off to the perfect start against City

AP | London

Son Heung-min made up for the absence of Harry Kane by scoring a second-half

winner to give Tottenham a 1-0 win over defending champion Manchester City yesterday in their opening game of the Pre-mier League season.

With Kane left out of Tot-tenham’s team altogether amid continued speculation about a pending move to City, Son led the attack instead and showed that Spurs still have a top-class scorer to count on.

Son finished off a quick coun-terattack in the 55th minute and Tottenham effectively neu-tralized City’s many attacking threats to give new manager Nuno Espirito Santo a statement victory on his debut.

Kane’s absence was the big pregame talking point, although Nuno insisted the decision was made solely because the Eng-land striker only returned to full training on Friday after his holiday.

Kane has reportedly told Tot-tenham he wants to leave, with City manager Pep Guardiola

previously acknowledging that his club is “very interested” in buying him.

Based on this performance, City’s expensively assembled

squad could use a finisher — especially after letting Sergio Aguero leave on a free transfer this summer.

City dominated possession but struggled to break down a disciplined Tottenham side, which was content to sit back and wait for opportunities to counter.

City’s record signing Jack Grealish showed early flashes of his abilities — breaking forward in the opening minutes to draw a free kick just outside the area — but missed his best chance to score when his shot from a tight angle was easily saved by Hugo Lloris in the 75th.

Riyad Mahrez had City’s best chance of the game in the 35th

when he met a cross from Ra-heem Sterling but shot wide after failing to cleanly connect with the ball.

Son had already threatened on a couple of counters by the time he put Spurs ahead. The South Korea international col-lected the ball down the right flank, drove at defender Nathan Ake and then cut inside to bend a low shot inside the far post.

Steven Bergwijn had a great chance to double the lead on an-other counterattack just before the hour mark, but shot wide.

Guardiola brought Kevin de Bruyne off the bench in search of an equalizer and the Belgian forced a save from Lloris with a dipping shot from distance in the 84th.

Marsch loses Bundesliga debut as Leipzig stumble at coronavirus-hit MainzAFP | Berlin

American Jesse Marsch lost his first Bundesliga game

as head coach of RB Leipzig yesterday after his side suffered a surprise 1-0 defeat at Mainz, whose preparations had been badly hit by an outbreak of Cov-id-19.

After winning back-to-back Austrian league and cup titles with Red Bull Salzburg, Marsch moved to their sister club RB Leipzig this season to replace Julian Nagelsmann, who is now at Bayern Munich.

There was a minute’s silence before kick-off to pay respect to German legend Gerd Mueller who died in the early hours of yesterday.

Mainz deservedly took an early lead when home captain Moussa Niakhate hooked the ball into Leipzig’s goal on 13 minutes.

It was a remarkable display from Mainz whose prepara-tions were disrupted by having 11 players quarantined as striker Karim Onisiwo was one of three squad members to test positive for Covid-19.

Head coach Bo Svensson had to reshuffle his starting team, but his side turned in a deter-mined display in sweltering temperatures.

Much is expected this sea-son of last season’s runners-up Leipzig, who host Bayern in the Bundesliga on September 11.

It turned into a frustrating afternoon for Leipzig’s attack led by Swedish playmaker Emil Forsberg, which could not break down the hosts’ defence.

Leipzig’s new striker Andre

Silva, signed for a reported 23 million euros ($27 million) from Eintracht Frankfurt, was repeatedly denied by Mainz goalkeeper Robin Zentner.

Mainz thought they had dou-bled their lead late on when defender Alexander Hack smashed home a shot from a corner, but replays showed the ball had previously gone dead behind the Leipzig goal.

At the other end, Leipzig de-fender Nordi Mukiele had a shot blocked by Hack.

On Friday, defending cham-pions Bayern were held to a 1-1 draw at Moenchengladbach.

Borussia Dortmund strik-er Erling Braut Haaland then played a part in all the hosts’ goals in a 5-2 thrashing of Frankfurt on Saturday.

Marcel Grabinski puts premium on preparation against Lucas MartinsTDT | Manama

Marcel Grabinski will step inside the cage for the

second time this year as he is set to face former BRAVE CF Lightweight World Champi-on Lucas “Mineiro” Martins on August 21st. Both men are booked to square off against each other on the supporting card of the highly-anticipated BRAVE CF 53, which takes place in Almaty, Kazakhstan—the promotion’s second trip to the country.

Grabinski was supposed to face Martins at BRAVE CF 51: The Future Is Here in Minsk, Belarus this past June, but he was deemed unable to com-pete by the medical staff at the time a few minutes before they could actually make their walk towards the cage.

With the Bahrain-based out-fit scheduling the encounter on August 21, Grabinski as-sured that he is more than pre-pared to settle the score with Martins.

“I have had a very long preparation, eight to ten weeks for Belarus and eight to ten weeks for Almaty. That’s almost half a year of exercise, diet, and everything every single day. I’m really looking forward to the fight and I’m more than ready,” he shared with confidence.

“I haven’t made any major changes in my preparation,”

Grabinski continued. “I was well prepared in all areas. The only thing that I have changed is that I did my sparring at the MMA Spirit in Frankfurt. The reason for this is that they are the best fighters from Europe.”

Grabinski treats his cage meeting with Martins as a fresh start, expressing his de-termination to push his stature further towards the upper ech-elon of the 155-pound weight class. “This bout might act as my doorway to new and great-er things in my professional career. Surely, I am not losing hope,” he said.

Maksum calls out Mokaev ahead of BRAVE CF 53

TDT | Manama

Azat Maksum will put his undefeated status on the

line on August 21, when he steps on the BRAVE CF Arena to face Brazil’s Flávio de Que-iroz in his home country of Kazakhstan.

Of course, such a tough con-test will have Maksum’s hands full but that doesn’t mean the young star is not projecting the next steps after his 13th professional bout.

Maksum was called out by the two-time IMMAF World Champion Muhammad Mo-kaev, who’s already undefeated in his pro career, and made sure to remind his unbeaten counterpart that the challenge is pretty much on.

“If I think about potential next opponents? Sure, maybe Mokaev”, he said. “He chal-lenged me, right? I think we

will meet inside the cage one day for sure”.

But before thinking on this match of MMA young super-stars, Azat Maksum will step on the cage at BRAVE CF 53. The event takes place in Al-maty, Kazakhstan, and will be held in association with the local promoters of Octagon Fight.


Azat Maksum

Mainz’s Alexander Hack, center, and Leipzig’s Willi Orban, left, fight for the ball

Lucas Martins and Marcel Grabinski stare at each other during a weigh in

They were strong [at the start] and I think

we were lucky, because they had real chances, but the boys held on. We knew it was going to be tough, and after

the first 15 minutes I think we controlled

betterNUNO ESPIRITO SANTO

If I think about potential next

opponents? Sure, maybe Mokaev.

He challenged me, right? I think we will meet inside the cage one day

for sureAZAT MAKSUM

I have had a very long preparation, eight to ten weeks

for Belarus and eight to ten weeks for Almaty. That’s

almost half a year of exercise, diet, and everything every

single day. I’m really looking forward to

the fight and I’m more than ready

MARCEL GRABINSKI

Much is expected this season of last season’s

runners-up Leipzig, who host Bayern in the Bundesliga on September 11

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Nuno left Kane out his squad with the Eng-land captain closely

linked with a move to City, who showed why they are in need of a natural goalscorer in

a toothless display

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Striker Son Heung-Min scores the opening goal

Mohoric claims second overall in Tour of Pologne

TDT | Manama

Team Bahrain Victorious rider Matej Mohoric

claimed an impressive run-ner-up finish on the General Classification (GC) in the Tour of Pologne in Poland, which concluded yesterday.

Mohoric was out of the top places in the seventh and final stage but did enough through-out the week to claim second overall in the event, which is a part of the 2021 UCI World Tour.

Mohoric completed the tour 20 seconds behind GC win-ner Joao Almedia of Deceun-inck-Quick-Step team. The Slovenian enjoyed three podi-um finishes in the week.

Amongst other Team Bah-rain Victorious riders, Dylan Teuns secured a top ten finish in the overall in eighth place, while Phil Bauhaus claimed a stage win on the opening day.

Mohoric said after the race: “We came here to the Tour de Pologne with a mission to be good in GC and win sprint stages. Phil took the pressure

off us when he took a win on the first stage.

“The atmosphere was good throughout the race, the team-work was incredible, and I must thank all the riders and staff of Team Bahrain Victori-ous for the great work during the race.

“Second place in GC is a very good result. It’s been a lot of second and third places late-ly, but hopefully, we see some victories coming in the future. The season is not quite fin-ished yet, and there are some important races coming up and I’m already looking up to them.”

Bahrain to host Gulf U19 Volleyball Championship

• Tournament starts on Sunday next week, with hosts Bahrain, the UAE, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia taking part

TDT | Manama

Bahrain is all set to host the Gulf U19 Volleyball Champi-

onship, which starts next week.The competition gets under-

way on Sunday and continues until August 31.

Four national teams are tak-ing part, including hosts Bah-rain, the UAE, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

It is the sixth edition of the tournament, which will be played at the Bahrain Volleyball Associ-ation (BVA) arena at Isa Sports City in Riffa.

The Bahrainis have been train-ing for the competition over the past weeks with 12 players on the roster.

They include Hussain Al Ih-san, Hassan Alawi, Hussan Ab-dulredha, Ali Habib Alarab, Sayed Hashem Issa, Youssef Mansour, Sayed Ahmed Murtada, Ali Ab-dulmajed Al Bosta, Hassan Al Warqa, Ali Hussain Ahmed, Sadiq Jaafar and Sayed Hashem Falah.

HH Shaikh Khalid receives Tokyo Olympics silver-medallist Kalkidan GezahegneTDT | Manama

Supreme Council for Youth and Sports first deputy chair-

man, General Sports Author-ity (GSA) president and Bah-rain Olympic Committee (BOC) president His Highness Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa received at his office yesterday Bahrain’s Tokyo Olympics sil-ver-medallist Kalkidan Geza-hegne.

A l s o p re s e n t we re BO C vice-president and the King-dom’s delegation head at the Games His Highness Shaikh Isa bin Ali bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, GSA vice-president His Highness Shaikh Salman bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, GSA CEO Abdulrah-man Askar, BOC secretary gener-al and Bahrain’s Tokyo Olympics delegation deputy head Moham-med Al Nusuf, Bahrain Athlet-

ics Association (BAA) president Mohammed bin Jalal, and other officials.

HH Shaikh Khalid relayed the greetings and congratulations

of His Majesty King Hamad to Kalkidan on winning the Wom-en’s 10,000m silver medal. HH Shaikh Khalid also expressed his pride in her achievement.

For her part, Kalkidan ex-pressed her great happiness in raising the Kingdom’s flag at the Olympics.

She added that she dedi-

cates her medal to His Majesty the King, His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, to His High-

ness Shaikh Nasser bin Ham-ad Al Khalifa and HH Shaikh Khalid, to the BAA president and members, and to the Bahraini people.


Al Mass claims bowling titleTop Bahraini bowler wins Man of the Month Tournament at Funland Centre following tightly contested stepladder round

• Ali Al Mass defeats Ahmed Algoud in final stepladde game to clinch title

• Algoud wins first stepladder match-up by narrow margin against Ahmed Al Awadhi and Adel Al Barqi

TDT | Manama

Ali Al Mass was crowned champion of the Bahrain Bowling Association

Man of the Month Tournament after defeating Ahmed Algoud 175-134 in the title-deciding stepladder match-up.

The competition was played at Funland Centre over a week’s time and it featured around 50 leading tenpin bowlers, includ-ing citizens and residents of Bahrain as well as competitors from Saudi Arabia.

Al Mass earned the right to play in the championship game after posting the highest score in the first step.

That featured three bowlers battling it out in a single game, and it was tightly contested, with only six pins separating the trio of contenders. Al Mass scored 235 while Ahmed Al Awadhi had 233 and Adel Al Barqi of Saudi Arabia scored 229.

Al Mass went on to face a waiting Algoud, and he rode his momentum to secure his crown.

Earlier in the competition, Al Mass was able to make it through the Qualifying Round as the sixth-ranked bowler from 12 players who advanced. He had a two-series total of 1,741 pins for a 217.63 average, which included a 279 high game.

Veteran Bahrain international

bowler Ahmed Fareed led the field with a 1,833 total and 229.13 average. Ziyad Al Kheliwi of Saudi followed in second place, while Abdulrahman Al Kheliwi was third, Al Awadhi fourth, Al Barqi fifth and Al Mass sixth.

The others to also advance were Mohammed Al Saud, Em-erson Gotencio, Algoud, Yousef Falah, Abdulla Abdulkareem

and Abdulla Dolijan.Algoud topped the semi-final

after scoring an 879 total with a 219.75 average from four games. That earned him his direct berth in the final game of the step-ladder.

Al Baraqi followed with an 873 total and 218.25 average, while Al Awadhi was third (844, 211.00) and Al Mass fourth (843, 210.75), setting up the battle between the three.

Ranked fifth through 12th, respectively, in the semis were Adulkareem, Doljan, Fareed, Abdulrahman Al Kheliwi, Zi-yaed Al Kheliwi, Falah, Al Saud and Gotencio.

Following the tournament, the tournament’s winners were presented their prizes in an awarding ceremony attended by Bahrain Bowling Associa-tion (BBA) president Ghazi bin Abdulla Nass and BBA vice-pres-ident Saleh Al Bufalah.

Tournament champion Ali Al Mass, left, receives his prizes for first place from Ghazi bin Abdulla Nass

Bahrain’s under-19 national volleyball team

HH Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa, right, with HH Shaikh Isa bin Ali bin Khalifa Al Khalifa during the meeting

HH Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa, fourth from right, with other officials and Kalkidan Gezahegne, fourth from left, during the reception

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The atmosphere was good throughout the race, the teamwork was incredible, and

I must thanks all the riders and staff

of Team Bahrain Victorious for the great

work during the raceMATEJ MOHORIC

Al Mass was able to make it through the Qualifying Round as

the sixth-ranked bowl-er from 12 players who

advanced

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Matej Mohoric, left, with the other overall podium placers in Poland yesterday

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