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SHAABAN 22, 1439 AH TUESDAY, MAY 8, 2018 Max 40º 32 Pages Min 27º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17526 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Kuwait eager to interact Putin sworn in for fourth Khan dodges limelight Sudden, irresistible rise 3 over Silk City project 8 term as Russia president 30 in jail appeal hearing 14 of Istanbul’s Basaksehir Zain Innovation Center to boost youth entrepreneurship, startups Bader Al-Kharafi: Innovative ideas key to future progress KUWAIT: Zain Group, a leading mobile telecom innovator in and advice from mentors from the region and across the eight markets across the Middle East and Africa, announced globe, including from Zain senior personnel and associated the opening of its Zain Innovation Center (ZINC) in Kuwait. technology partners. Located within the Zain Head Offices, ZINC Kuwait falls Bader Al-Kharafi commented: “The generation of suc- within the company’s youth empowerment initiative led by cessful innovative ideas is likely to become one of the Zain Vice-Chairman and Group CEO Bader Al-Kharafi. The greatest differentiators between societies that progress into co-working hub is the first of its kind in Kuwait provided by the future. We are well-aware that there is a strong local a corporate entity and aims to bolster youth entrepreneur- entrepreneurial culture that is just waiting to be tapped into ship and the country’s startup ecosystem. and we are excited to be fostering and unlocking opportu- The inauguration ceremony of ZINC took place on Sunday nities for young Kuwaiti professionals.” Kharafi called on and saw the attendance of Minister of Commerce and startups to be patient and determined, so that their ideas Industry Khaled Al-Roudhan, Bader Al-Kharafi and other turn into reality. Zain senior management and successful personalities from Roudhan said the ambitions of young Kuwaitis have the Kuwait and regional digital ecosystem. evolved, aspiring towards being innovative entrepreneurs, ZINC Kuwait is set to encourage young minds to think and adding the state supports and encourages business accelera- act creatively outside of the norm in an open, supportive tors and incubators. “We have clear instructions from His environment. The design of the hub utilizes light and is delib- Highness the Amir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- erately modern and sleek, with the view to creating the right Jaber Al-Sabah; His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf atmosphere for entrepreneurs to generate new ideas and Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah; and His Highness the Prime develop them into viable opportunities. Apart from the inspir- Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah to wholeheart- KUWAIT: Zain Vice-Chairman and Group CEO Bader Al-Kharafi speaks during the opening of the Zain ing co-working hub facilities, ZINC will provide aspiring edly support the country’s youth in their business aspira- Innovation Center (ZINC) on Sunday at the group’s headquarters. entrepreneurs and startups access to experts in various fields tions,” he said. (See Page 17) tects the sovereignty of the country”. News in brief Hezbollah hails The Iran-backed Shiite movement and its allies look set to secure a parliament Grace period for absconders bloc large enough to thwart attempts for ‘great victory’; it to disarm, a longstanding demand of KUWAIT: The manpower authority and the interior its political enemies. “The make-up of ministry’s residency directorate have agreed to allow Amir applauds the new legislative chamber represents a residency violators reported absconding in the period guarantee and a great strength to pro- from Jan 3, 2016 until April 22, 2018 to legalize their tect this strategic choice and to protect status or depart the country without paying any fines. orderly voting the golden equation - the army, the peo- Residency Affairs Director Maj Gen Talal Maarafi ple and the resistance,” Nasrallah said. said all transactions of those reported absconding BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Iran-backed The man who has led calls internally after April 22, 2018 will be rejected. He added some Hezbollah claimed victory yesterday for Hezbollah to lay down its arms is exemptions would be made for citizens’ spouses and after elections it said legitimized its mili- Hariri, whose Sunni-dominated Future children, as well as foreign founding partners of com- tary branch, leaving Saudi-backed Prime Movement - less dominant since it lost panies. - A Saleh (See Page 5) Minister Saad Hariri as the main loser. Saudi Arabia’s lavish support - lost a third The two main protagonists of the coun- of its seats. Hariri told reporters his party try’s first legislative polls in almost a had won 21 seats, a drop from the 33 it Kuwait hails ties with Manila decade did not wait for official results to controlled in the outgoing legislature. comment on the implications of a vote “We were betting on a better result,” the KUWAIT: Kuwaiti assistant foreign minister at the for- which was also marked by low turnout. premier said. eign minister’s office Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al- Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah called HH the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Mohammad Al-Sabah yesterday met visiting former the vote “a great political and moral vic- Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday BATROUN, Lebanon: Free Patriotic Movement supporters celebrate the party’s results in Philippine minister of information and senator Francisco tory for the resistance option that pro- Continued on Page 11 the parliamentary elections early yesterday in this coastal town. — AFP Tatad. During the meeting with Tatad, who is a writer with the Manila Times newspaper, Sheikh Ahmad laud- ed Kuwaiti-Philippine relations as “firm, historical and close”. He said Kuwait looks forward to promoting consulate building in south Jerusalem that will be re- bilateral cooperation and developing friendly relations US Embassy modelled as the embassy when it is formally relocated for broader prospects in all fields. — KUNA from Tel Aviv on May 14. “This is not a dream. It is reali- Palestinians slam ty. I am proud and moved to have hung this morning the signs go up first new signs that were prepared for the US Embassy,” Gulf presence in Marine drills to be held Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat wrote on Twitter. in Jerusalem Israel captured East Jerusalem from Jordanian control KUWAIT: The defense ministry announced yester- in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it in a move Israel cycle race day that the naval forces will carry out a drill with live not recognised internationally. The last round of peace RAMALLAH: Palestinians have expressed outrage ammunition today and tomorrow from 7 am till 6 pm JERUSALEM: US Embassy road signs went up in talks on a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza at teams from the United Arab Emirates and (local time). The ministry said in a statement that the Jerusalem yesterday ahead of next week’s opening of the Strip collapsed in 2014. “This (embassy) move is not only Bahrain for taking part in the opening legs of the exercise will be held in the naval shooting range 16.5 mission in accordance with President Donald Trump’s illegal but will also thwart the achievement of a just and Giro d’Italia cycling race in Israel over the week- nautical miles off East Ras Al-Julaia all the way to recognition of the city as Israel’s capital. Trump says he lasting peace between two sovereign and democratic end, which they say undermined Arab solidarity Qarouh island, and six miles east of Ras Al-Zour till is making good on US legislation and presidential states on the 1967 borders, Israel and Palestine living Umm Al-Maradem island. It advised sea-goers to with their cause. The presence of the Gulf states’ pledges dating back decades. Other world powers have side by side in peace and security,” Palestinian negotia- stay away from the zone during the drill. — KUNA teams in the top cycling race - which has now not done so, sidestepping one of the thorniest disputes tor Saeb Erekat said in a statement. between Israel and the Palestinians, who want their own moved on to its home territory in Italy - broke a Trump will not attend the opening. The US delegation boycott of Israel in place since the start of the state with East Jerusalem as the capital. will include Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, Trump’s Afghan gunships killed 107 Workmen installed the black-and-white signs, in Arab-Israeli conflict in 1948. “It’s a mistake,” daughter Ivanka Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Abdullah Al-Shayji, a professor at Kuwait English, Hebrew and Arabic, along roads leading to a US Continued on Page 11 KABUL: Rockets and heavy machines guns fired University, wrote on his Twitter account about the from Afghan government helicopters killed and Gulf teams racing in Israel. “Normalization with the wounded at least 107 boys and men attending a reli- occupation entity should be rejected, no matter gious ceremony near the northern city of Kunduz last what form it takes.” month, according to a United Nations report yester- In an unusually barbed statement to a fellow day. Last month, villagers in Dasht-i Archi district of Arab country, the Palestinian Olympic Committee Kunduz said dozens of people including many chil- said their participation was “a stab in the back to dren had been killed in an attack on a religious cere- the great sacrifices made by the Palestinian people mony, prompting the UN to launch an investigation. It ... and a free service for the occupation”. UAE offi- said as many as 12 rockets may have been fired at the cials did not immediately respond to Reuters’ meeting, held in a field about the size of a football requests for comment and Bahrain’s ministry of pitch, which was adjacent to a madrassa.