JAMADA ALAWWAL 11, 1440 AH THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2019 28 Pages Max 17º Min 08º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17735 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Kuwait marks 28th ’versary Vietnam’s newest airline Sadu House working to Blood, thunder but no goals as 4 of Operation Desert Storm 13 Bamboo takes first flight 19 promote creative weaving 28 Iran, Iraq draw at Asian Cup EPA chief says climate change behind rain that deluged Kuwait Finance ministry denies limiting compensation to KD 1,000 for rain-hit car owners KUWAIT: Climate change has become a ment coordinator Dr Abdulmonem “serious” issue in Kuwait given the bursts of Mohammad, who said necessary measures Constitutional court to review heavy rain that soaked the state recently, a should be taken to keep climate change in Kuwaiti official said yesterday. The interna- check. The 2015 Paris agreement aims to limit Tabtabaei objection next week tional community is working to meet the a rise in average world temperatures to “well objectives of a landmark 2015 global deal to below” two degrees Celsius above pre-indus- By B Izzak lawmakers after they received a final jail tackle climate change, Director General of trial times. term for storming the Assembly. Assembly Kuwait’s Environment Public Authority (EPA) Meanwhile, Finance Ministry Undersecretary KUWAIT: The constitutional court set Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem had Sheikh Abdullah Al-Humoud Al-Sabah said. Saleh Al-Saraawi yesterday denied media next Monday to review an objection filed delayed a parliamentary debate on the During a ceremony to promulgate Kuwait’s reports that the compensation body will allocate by MP Waleed Al-Tabtabaei regarding court ruling last week until after the court rulebook for implementing the Paris climate a maximum of KD 1,000 ($3,300) in compensa- the implementation of a ruling by the issues an opinion regarding the objection. agreement, he said the environmental body is tion for owners of vehicles affected by the court declaring a key article of the Some opposition MPs have charged that currently studying the new rules agreed upon recent downpours. The compensation commit- National Assembly’s internal charter as the court ruling represents an interfer- by nearly 200 countries during talks in tee is still studying requests submitted by people unconstitutional. The court last month ence in the Assembly’s affairs and called Poland last month. in this regard to compensate those entitled in ruled that article 16 of the Assembly char- for legislation to curtail such interference. The effects of climate change have begun three categories - real estate, personal damage ter was unconstitutional, which means On another issue, Ghanem said yester- to spill over into Kuwait, he explained, citing and cars, Saraawi told KUNA. that the memberships of Tabtabaei and day that the Assembly’s priority issues rising sea levels and record precipitation as Compensations will be given to eligible MP Jamaan Al-Harbash are scrapped. committee has not been abolished and Sheikh Abdullah Al-Humoud Al-Sabah factors that could impede future development persons after studying all cases carefully so The National Assembly in October continues to carry out its work despite projects. Kuwait has coped well with the as to achieve justice for all people, he noted. voted on the basis of article 16 to retain appointing a new panel to accelerate the the rains and receive requests for compensa- effects of climate change, according to the The Cabinet assigned in November a team to the membership of the two opposition Continued on Page 24 tions. The team was divided into four groups UN Environment’s West Asia Office develop- follow up and address the repercussions of to achieve the task. — KUNA News in brief IS attack kills $1.5m aid for Syrians in Lebanon US forces in KUWAIT: On directives from HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, urgent aid northern Syria worth $1.5 million is on its way to Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) QAMISHLI, Syria: A suicide attack killed US service- announced yesterday. The aid is to ease the suffering men in northern Syria yesterday, causing the United of Syrian refugees in Lebanese camps, especially Al- States to suffer its worst combat losses in the war-torn Rukban refugee camp, which witnessed massive country since 2014 as it prepares to withdraw. The destruction due to harsh cold and blizzards, said bombing claimed by the Islamic State group comes KRCS chief Dr Hilal Al-Sayer. He told KUNA that after US President Donald Trump’s shock announce- this generous donation stemmed from HH the Amir’s ment last month that he was ordering a full troop with- humanitarian empathy towards the tens of thousands drawal from Syria because the militants had been of refugees there. — KUNA “largely defeated”. The US-led coalition fighting IS said “US service members were killed during an explosion while conducting a routine patrol in Syria” yesterday, Pompeo to visit Kuwait soon without giving a death toll. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said 20 people KUWAIT: US were killed in the bomb attack in the northern city Secretary of State Mike of Manbij near the Turkish border, including five US Pompeo said Tuesday troops. MANBIJ, Syria: An image grab taken from a video shows US armored vehicles at the scene of a suicide attack in this he was looking forward Continued on Page 24 northern Syrian town yesterday. — AFP to visit Kuwait “in the coming days” to hold the 3rd strategic dia- blew himself up and others traded gun- logue session with Kenya says all fire with security forces as the assault on Kuwait’s Deputy DusitD2, a complex which includes a Premier and Foreign 101-room hotel, spa, restaurant and Minister Sheikh Sabah five gunmen offices, unfolded on Tuesday. Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Mike Pompeo “There were five terrorists and all of Al-Sabah. Pompeo, in a killed; Amir them are no more,” Kenyan police chief phone call with Sheikh Joseph Boinnet told AFP. “It is a clearing Sabah Al-Khaled, said he was compelled to postpone exercise now going on there.” For many his visit to Kuwait due to the passing away of a family condemns attack Kenyans, news of the attack revived member. Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled expressed deepest traumatic memories of a 2013 Shabaab condolences to Pompeo and his family. The two minis- NAIROBI: Kenya said its forces yester- raid on Nairobi’s Westgate shopping ters reiterated deep relations at all levels, and day ended a terror attack on a luxury mall that left 67 dead - a siege played expressed mutual desire to promoting ties to new hotel complex that claimed 14 lives, after out over four days that led to sharp heights. — KUNA a 20-hour operation that rescued hun- criticism of the authorities’ response. dreds of people and left all five assailants But this time, local media heaped praise dead. The attack was claimed by the Al- on the security forces for their interven- Iqama renewals to go online Qaeda-linked Somali group Al-Shabaab, tion, which Kenyan President Uhuru which has targeted Kenya since it sent Kenyatta said entailed the evacuation of NAIROBI: Relatives and mourners bury the body of Feisal Ahmed Rashid, who was its army into Somalia in Oct 2011 to fight some 700 civilians. killed the previous day in an attack on a Nairobi luxury hotel complex, during his KUWAIT: An informed security source said the resi- the group. At least one suicide bomber funeral service at the Langata Muslim cemetery yesterday. — AFP dency affairs department will soon introduce residen- Continued on Page24 cy renewals online, and the process will start with article 20 (domestic help) residencies. The source said citizens will be able to renew residency permits of the incident was still being investigated their helpers online after the department implements Crocodile mauls by police. procedures to speed up the process. Meanwhile, the The crocodile, named Merry, had eat- Farwaniya residency affairs department officially en one of the woman’s hands and most of resumed its activities in Riggae following a trial of woman to death her abdomen was missing, Rundengan over 350 transactions. — Al-Anbaa said. “These parts may still be inside the in Indonesia crocodile now,” he added. The giant rep- tile was sedated and removed from its MINAHASA, Indonesia: An enclosure Monday in a three-hour oper- Istanbul real estate fraud claims Indonesian woman has been mauled to ation that involved dozens of people, death by a huge pet crocodile on the including conservation officials, the army KUWAIT: Kuwaiti citizens affected by an Istanbul island of Sulawesi, officials said yester- and police. The reptile, which was owned tower project real estate fraud case are urged to file day. Deasy Tuwo, the head of a labora- illegally, will be transferred to a conser- their financial claims within two working days in order tory at a pearl farm in Minahasa in vation area, Rundengan said. to preserve their rights, the foreign ministry said yes- North Sulawesi, was killed by the 4.4-m The Indonesian archipelago is home terday. Claims must be filed as soon as possible reptile last Thursday, authorities said. to a vast array of exotic wildlife, includ- through one of the accredited law firms in Kuwait, said The 44-year old’s badly mauled body ing several species of crocodile that the consular department of the ministry in a statement was found by colleagues the following regularly attack and kill humans. In April yesterday. It added that Turkish authorities had set a morning, Hendrik Rundengan, from the 2016, a Russian tourist was killed by a time limit till the end of this month (January) to enlist local conservation agency, told AFP.