SHAWWAL 15, 1440 AH TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2019 28 Pages Max 47º Min 30º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17859 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net KJA, EMU coordinate on Indian Houdini drowns Brain disease kills 97 Indian Qatar hit back to snatch Paraguay 2 e-media staff memberships 9 after ‘magic’ goes wrong 24 kids, ‘heat curfew’ imposed 27 draw in Copa America debut Ousted Egypt president Morsi dies after collapsing in court Erdogan pays tribute to ‘martyr’ • Sheikh Tamim expresses ‘deep sorrow’ CAIRO: Egypt’s first democratically elected lawyer, Osama El Helw, told AFP. “I saw him Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a civilian president Mohamed Morsi, an Islamist from afar wheeled out on the stretcher from strong ally of the Islamist president during his who was ousted after one year of divisive rule, the courts complex” from Tora, in southern brief tenure as Egypt’s leader, paid tribute to died after falling ill during a court hearing yes- Cairo, said another one of his lawyers, Abdel- Morsi and called him a “martyr”. “May Allah terday, the attorney general said. He was 67. Menem Abdel-Maqsood. “They prevented us rest our brother Morsi, our martyr’s soul, in Morsi had been “animated” during a hearing from leaving the court for about 15 minutes,” peace,” said Erdogan, who had forged close in the retrial of an espionage case where he he added, without being able to say which ties with Morsi. Relations between Turkey and was accused of collaborating with adverse hospital the former president had been trans- Egypt have been virtually non-existent since foreign powers and militant groups, judicial ported to. He said Morsi’s health had been the Egyptian military, then led by Abdel Fattah and security sources said. poor in jail. “We had put in several requests Al-Sisi, in 2013 ousted Islamist president “The court granted him his request to speak for treatment, some were accepted and others Morsi. Sisi has since become president. for five minutes... He fell to the ground in the were not,” Abdel-Maqsood told Reuters. Erdogan has strongly denounced Morsi’s cage... and was transported immediately to the A judicial source said the former Islamist ouster and called for the release of Muslim hospital. A medical report found... no pulse or president had fainted during a break in the Brotherhood prisoners in Egypt. breathing,” the office of the attorney general court session. The court officials “had just fin- Speaking in Istanbul, Erdogan again took said in a statement. “He arrived at the hospital ished the session for the espionage case and aim at Sisi, calling him a “tyrant” who took dead at 4.50 pm exactly and there were no they informed the judge that he had fainted and power in a “coup” and who has trampled on new, visible injuries found on the body.” needed to be transported to a hospital where democracy. “The West has remained silent,” One of Morsi’s defense lawyers described he later died,” he told AFP. Security sources Erdogan said. Foreign Minister Mevlut the moment he received news of his death. said the interior ministry had declared a state Cavusoglu said: “The coup moved him (Morsi) “We heard the banging on the glass cage from of alert yesterday, notably in Morsi’s home away from the power but his memory will not CAIRO: This file photo taken on June 16, 2015 shows Egypt’s ousted president Mohamed the rest of the other inmates and them province of Sharqiya in the Nile Delta, where be erased.” Morsi behind the bars during his trial. — AFP screaming loudly that Morsi had died,” the the body was expected to be taken for burial. Continued on Page 24 various issues related to the oil sector. part of Kuwaiti losses is the continuation of crude oil News in brief Moves to resume During the meeting, the minister informed the com- migration from the Khafji oilfield to the nearby Safaniya mittee of “initiatives to resume production in the divided oilfield, which belongs to Saudi Arabia, as a result of not 20,000 iqamas cancelled zone based on various meetings and discussions undertaking some projects. Abdulsamad also said that oil production between the Kuwaiti and Saudi sides in the wake of pre- despite the stoppage in production, operational costs of KUWAIT: State Minister for Economic Affairs vailing regional developments”, Abdulsamad said. the Kuwait Oil Gulf Company which operates the Mariam Al-Aqeel said 20,000 expat residency per- at neutral zone Production at the Khafji offshore oilfield was halted by Kuwaiti side have increased to KD 339 million. mits were cancelled during the past three years due the Saudi side in Oct 2014 for environmental considera- Meanwhile, National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al- to linking workers’ residency permits, education level By B Izzak tions and output at the second oilfield at Wafra was Ghanem said yesterday that the current Assembly term and work permits. Aqeel also said the Public stopped a few months later. will come to close on July 2 and that sessions will be held Authority for Manpower recovered KD 123,573 for KUWAIT: Head of the National Assembly’s budgets Abdulsamad said direct losses for Kuwait from the next week to debate budgets. Ghanem said the Assembly employers who submitted complaints at the domestic committee MP Adnan Abdulsamad yesterday quoted Oil stoppage amounted to KD 3.8 billion until the end of July office decided to hold sessions on June 25 and 26 to help department against domestic help supply offices Minister Khaled Al-Fadhel as saying there are initiatives 2017, adding that there are some indirect losses includ- debate the remaining budgets and will meet again in July and companies. She added 194 female inmates out of to resume production in the neutral zone between Saudi ing delays in some strategic projects. This would mean to discuss the state budget and the state’s fiscal status, 500 at the expat shelter have been deported. Aqeel Arabia and Kuwait after more than four years of stop- that Kuwaiti losses from the closure of the two oilfields - and then hold the closing session. Ghanem also said the said solutions are being sought to resolve the issue of page. Abdulsamad made the remarks following a meeting which pumped some 500,000 barrels per day - will be Assembly may hold special sessions to discuss specific absconding laborers by granting them a three-month by the committee attended by the oil minister to discuss almost double that figure. The lawmaker also said that issues based on the decision of lawmakers. grace period to amend their status, besides increas- ing absconding fines, in addition to punishing those who employ absconders. — Al-Rai told Kuwait Times. “Our neighbors in PAWS animal Abdaly have been complaining against the presence of the PAWS shelter. They ‘No deal without Palestinian state’ don’t like the shelter and don’t want dogs shelter hit by and cats here,” she said. CAIRO: The head of the Arab League warned yes- Kuwait Times asked Ahmed if PAWS terday that attempts to solve the Israel-Palestinian ‘arson’ attack has proof the shelter was deliberately set conflict will be in vain without the establishment of a on fire. “I am not sure - it could also be Palestinian state on all territories occupied by Israel By Ben Garcia from faulty electrical wiring because of in the 1967 Middle East war. Ahmed Aboul Gheit’s the heat. But judging from prior events, I comments appeared directed at a still unpublished KUWAIT: At least 23 cats were killed am almost certain that it could be arson. peace plan that US President Donald Trump has after a blaze gutted an animal shelter in Since we moved here on June 12, 2019 dubbed the “deal of the century”. “Whatever is Abdaly yesterday. Roula Ahmed, team (only a few days back), many of them rejected by the Palestinian or the Arab side is unac- leader of the Protecting Animal Welfare (neighbors) have expressed disgust about ceptable,” Aboul Gheit said during an event at the Society (PAWS) shelter, said most of the our presence here. We were not wel- Arab League. “What is acceptable from our side as cats died of suffocation in the fire, which comed with open arms. They don’t want Arabs as a solution is the establishment of a she blamed on an arson attack. “We set an animal shelter in their neighborhood,” Palestinian state on the June 4, 1967 borders, with all the animals free during the fire Ahmed said, adding the fire department is Jerusalem as its capital,” he added. — Reuters because we wanted them to be safe. I still investigating the cause of the blaze. think it was a deliberate attack and could PAWS houses more than 900 animals, be in retaliation by our neighbors, who mostly dogs and cats, at the shelter, she said. Iran to breach have told us to leave the area,” Ahmed Continued on Page 24 KUWAIT: The Abdaly PAWS animal shelter is seen after it was ravaged by a fire. nuclear deal local NGO dedicated to coastal protec- ‘Sand mafias’ tion. “At this rate, we’ll soon only have uranium limit rocks” left, chipped in Adnane, a member threaten coast of the same group. TEHRAN: Iran said yesterday it will surpass from June More than half the sand consumed 27 a uranium stockpile limit set under the nuclear deal each year by Morocco’s construction with world powers that the US abandoned last year, of Morocco industry - some 10 million cu m - is worrying EU powers who urged Tehran against ultima- extracted illegally, according to UNEP.