Al Nasr defender Glauber Lima makes a clearance during the 5-0 win over Al Orooba in the Adnoc Pro League. Courtesy PLC
Al Nasr defender Glauber Lima makes a clearance during the 5-0 win over Al Orooba in the Adnoc Pro League. Courtesy PLC
Al Nasr defender Glauber Lima makes a clearance during the 5-0 win over Al Orooba in the Adnoc Pro League. Courtesy PLC
Al Nasr defender Glauber Lima makes a clearance during the 5-0 win over Al Orooba in the Adnoc Pro League. Courtesy PLC

Al Nasr bounce back from shock opening Adnoc Pro League loss by thumping Al Orooba


Amith Passela
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Al Nasr delivered the ideal response from their shock opening Adnoc Pro League defeat to Ajman by thrashing promoted Al Orooba 5-0 on Thursday.

Nasr, who fell to a 3-0 loss to Ajman last week, took just four minutes to open the scoring against Orooba at Al Maktoum stadium, through their striker Sebastian Tagliabue.

Glaauber Lima doubled Nasr's lead with a header on 39 minutes before Tagliabue added his second courtesy a Diaa Saba through pass.

Nasr scored twice in added time after seeing off a valiant effort from the visitors get back in the game.

Nasr’s Portuguese midfielder Toze consolidated his team’s lead two minutes into added time before Ryan Mendes rounded off the victory to hand Orooba their second defeat.

Sharjah make it two wins from two

Sharjah notched their second win with a 1-0 away result over Al Dhafra at the Hamdan bin Zayed Stadium.

The guests mostly dominated the early part of the match and broke the deadlock in the 29th minute with a strike from Congolese Ben Malango, who netted the only goal of the match from an assist off Bernard Duarte.

In the late game, Al Wahda defender Fares Jumaa’s own goal handed Baniyas a 1-1 draw at the Al Nahyan Stadium.

Joao Pedro put Wahda in front when he chested a rebound from Baniyas goalkeeper Fahad Al Dhanhani after he blocked Omar Khrbin's effort on 77 minutes.

Wahda may have thought they had done enough for their second win until Jumaa turned turned the ball into his own net on 90 minutes to give Baniyas their first point in their campaign.

The specs

Engine: 2.0-litre 4-cylturbo

Transmission: seven-speed DSG automatic

Power: 242bhp

Torque: 370Nm

Price: Dh136,814

Tearful appearance

Chancellor Rachel Reeves set markets on edge as she appeared visibly distraught in parliament on Wednesday. 

Legislative setbacks for the government have blown a new hole in the budgetary calculations at a time when the deficit is stubbornly large and the economy is struggling to grow. 

She appeared with Keir Starmer on Thursday and the pair embraced, but he had failed to give her his backing as she cried a day earlier.

A spokesman said her upset demeanour was due to a personal matter.

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Conflict, drought, famine

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Dr Miriam Bradley, senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, has argued that, by the early 1980s, “several government policies combined to cause, rather than prevent, a famine which lasted from 1983 to 1985. Mengistu’s government imposed Stalinist-model agricultural policies involving forced collectivisation and villagisation [relocation of communities into planned villages].
The West became aware of the catastrophe through a series of BBC News reports by journalist Michael Buerk in October 1984 describing a “biblical famine” and containing graphic images of thousands of people, including children, facing starvation.

Band Aid

Bob Geldof, singer with the Irish rock group The Boomtown Rats, formed Band Aid in response to the horrific images shown in the news broadcasts.
With Midge Ure of the band Ultravox, he wrote the hit charity single Do They Know it’s Christmas in December 1984, featuring a string of high-profile musicians.
Following the single’s success, the idea to stage a rock concert evolved.
Live Aid was a series of simultaneous concerts that took place at Wembley Stadium in London, John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, the US, and at various other venues across the world.
The combined event was broadcast to an estimated worldwide audience of 1.5 billion.

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Name: Brendalle Belaza

From: Crossing Rubber, Philippines

Arrived in the UAE: 2007

Favourite place in Abu Dhabi: NYUAD campus

Favourite photography style: Street photography

Favourite book: Harry Potter

TERMINAL HIGH ALTITUDE AREA DEFENCE (THAAD)

What is THAAD?

It is considered to be the US's most superior missile defence system.

Production:

It was created in 2008.

Speed:

THAAD missiles can travel at over Mach 8, so fast that it is hypersonic.

Abilities:

THAAD is designed to take out  ballistic missiles as they are on their downward trajectory towards their target, otherwise known as the "terminal phase".

Purpose:

To protect high-value strategic sites, such as airfields or population centres.

Range:

THAAD can target projectiles inside and outside the Earth's atmosphere, at an altitude of 150 kilometres above the Earth's surface.

Creators:

Lockheed Martin was originally granted the contract to develop the system in 1992. Defence company Raytheon sub-contracts to develop other major parts of the system, such as ground-based radar.

UAE and THAAD:

In 2011, the UAE became the first country outside of the US to buy two THAAD missile defence systems. It then stationed them in 2016, becoming the first Gulf country to do so.

Updated: August 27, 2021, 6:19 AM`