MUHARRAM 19, 1439 AH MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2017 Max 39º 32 Pages 150 Fils Established 1961 Min 24º ISSUE NO: 17350 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net EPA stresses importance Protesters rally against Turkey troops, militants Nadal punishes Kyrgios; Garcia 2 of disaster risk awareness 6 Catalan independence 7 clash ahead of incursion 16 stuns Halep to win China Open Visit visas to be issued to 7 restricted nationalities More health fee exemptions announced By A Saleh Kuwaiti women holding valid residency visas. The decisions also include collect- Egypt qualify for KUWAIT: Well-informed sources said ing the old fees from domestic helpers Deputy PM and Interior Minister Sheikh without any increases. World Cup; Amir Khalid Al-Jarrah has instructed the citi- Another decision exempted patients zenship, passports and residency affairs admitted to ICUs based on medical sector to prepare a full study on the total reports from their doctors, a recommen- congratulates feat numbers of expats belonging to seven dation from the head of department and nationalities on whom entry restrictions the hospital manager’s endorsement. In CAIRO: Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah converted a stoppage-time have been imposed, pending granting addition, examination of non-Kuwaiti penalty to give Egypt a dramatic 2-1 win over Congo Brazzaville yes- visit visas to their first-degree relatives. patients suffering from infectious dis- terday and a place at the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Salah put Egypt The sources added that the office of eases, those mingling with them or those ahead during the second half in Alexandria only for Arnold Bouka the interior ministry’s assistant under- arriving from stricken countries will be Moutou to equalize two minutes from the end of regular time. Victory secretary for citizenship, passports and done according to the previous fees. gave Egypt an uncatchable four-point lead over Uganda in Group E residency affairs Maj Gen Mazen Al- Health Minister Jamal Al-Harbi yester- with one round of fixtures remaining. Uganda were held 0-0 by Ghana Jarrah has already started calculating the day reiterated that the increase in the in Kampala Saturday. number of expats belonging to these fees is due to the high expense burden seven nationalities who are living in the of healthcare on the ministry. Those HH the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah country and have applied for family visit exempt from the fees include children sent a cable to Egyptian President Abdelfattah Al-Sisi to congratulate visas for reunion purposes. under the age of 12, cancer patients, him for the national team’s qualification. The Amir commended the ded- The sources said that the study non-Kuwaiti women married to Kuwaitis, ication and performance of the Egyptian players and the overwhelming showed that 14,000 residents, mainly non-Kuwaiti mothers of Kuwaitis and the support they got from the Egyptian fans. HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Syrians, have applied for such visas and daughters of a Kuwaiti mother married Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and HH the Prime Minister Sheikh were asked to check with the depart- to a non-Kuwaiti. Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah sent similar cables. ment three months later. The study also Other exemptions include people Egypt last qualified for the World Cup in 1990 with the record sev- recommended installing new forgery receiving care at welfare homes, Gulf en-time African champions suffering numerous heartbreaking failures detectors at the airport to prevent the Cooperation Council citizens, illegal res- since. The desperation to qualify was so great ahead of the Congo entry of passengers with fake passports. idents (bedoons), members of official match that Argentina-born Egypt coach Hector Cuper admitted he The study stressed that only first-degree delegations, transit travelers, non- was taking medication for high blood pressure. relatives would be given family visit visas Kuwaiti prisoners and students on a “I am taking hypertension medicine due to the stress I suffer from and that dependent visas will be restrict- Kuwaiti-funded grant. Also, non-Kuwaiti ed to certain humanitarian cases only. blind patients will be exempt from continuing criticism,” he told reporters without specifying who his Separately, following up the increase overnight hospital stay fees, while non- critics were. Life is full of stress, but the challenge of reaching the in health fees for expats, several Kuwaiti special needs cases will be given World Cup is the toughest stress I have faced.” Egypt also beat ALEXANDRIA: Egypt’s Mohamed Salah vies for the ball during a World Cup 2018 qualifying match between Egypt and Congo at the Borg El- ‘explanatory decisions’ have been issued the same treatment as their Kuwaiti Congo away and Ghana and Uganda at home to accumulate 12 points, Arab stadium yesterday. — AFP to exempt expats from the fees or from counterparts with regards to prosthetic with the only loss away to Uganda. — Agencies the fee increases, to include husbands of amputee rehabilitation. More recently, he has criticized Trump, taking issue White House has become an adult day care center. Trump, Corker in with the president’s response to a white supremacist Someone obviously missed their shift this morning.” News in brief demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August. Corker’s chief of staff, Todd Womack, said Trump called Critics assailed Trump for saying rival protesters were the senator last Monday, asked him to reconsider his New law to tackle monopoly testy tweet battle also to blame for violence. “Senator Bob Corker decision not to seek re-election in 2018, “and reaf- “begged” me to endorse him for re-election in firmed that he would have endorsed him, as he has said KUWAIT: The minister of commerce and industry has WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump blamed Tennessee. I said “NO” and he dropped out (said he many times.” laid out executive regulations of a law seeking to break Senator Bob Corker for the Iran nuclear deal yesterday could not win without my endorsement),” Trump wrote. Trump is expected to disclose within days a plan to long-standing commercial monopolies, paving the way in a series of derisive Twitter posts that drew a sharp “He also wanted to be Secretary of State, I said “NO decertify the 2015 international nuclear agreement with to economic reforms. The law seeks to “establish a comeback from the lawmaker, an influential fellow THANKS.” He is also largely responsible for the hor- Iran, putting its future in the hands of Congress, where closer rapport between agents and clients” through Republican and onetime ally. The senator, who rendous Iran Deal! Hence, I would fully expect Corker Corker would play a central role in determining its fate. eliminating a monopoly in place since 1964, which in announced his retirement last month, was a national to be a negative voice and stand in the way of our great Trump has long criticized the pact, a signature foreign turn would lead to economic development, a statement security adviser to Trump during the 2016 presidential agenda. Didn’t have the guts to run!” policy achievement of Democratic former President by Khaled Al-Roudhan said. Roudhan, who is also act- campaign and on Trump’s shortlist last year for both An hour later Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Barack Obama in which Iran agreed to reduce its ing minister of state for youth affairs, said that the law vice president and secretary of state. Relations Committee, tweeted back: “It’s a shame the Continued on Page 11 states that agents are contractually obligated to dis- tribute, sell or promote goods and services in adher- ence to state rules. Meanwhile, as per the new regula- Kuwait ‘ice ladies’ tions, all businesses and companies involved in illicit transactions will face legal action, the law warns. The National Assembly endorsed a law in Feb 2016 aiming lace up for world to regulate commercial agencies. hockey tourney Progress on paperless procedures KUWAIT: In their red, white and blue sports there is truly no difference uniforms, Kuwait’s first female ice hock- between men and women,” said team DUBAI: Kuwait is making tangible progress towards ey team is training hard in the desert player Bahar Al-Harban. Women on ice embracing a full-fledged e-system to be activated ahead of their debut world tournament have grabbed headlines in the Gulf this across government bodies and institutions, said a later this month. Affectionately dubbed year, with UAE national Zahra Lari gain- Kuwaiti official yesterday. In remarks to KUNA on the the “ice ladies” by local media, athletes ing popularity on social media - and sidelines of the 2017 GITEX Technology Week confer- in hijab or with their hair hastily tied in through a Nike campaign in the Middle ence and exhibition, Deputy Director General of topknots pull on their helmets before East - as the Emirates’ first female figure Kuwait’s Central Agency for Information Technology taking to the rink in the Kuwaiti capital - skater and the first international figure Qusai Al-Shatti spoke of earnest efforts to establish a where temperatures top 40 degrees skater to compete in hijab. reliable database for numerical computation. “We con- Celsius on a sunny October afternoon. Kuwait’s women’s ice hockey team “It’s totally new, girls playing this sort will play their first international game on tinue to offer e-government services that make peo- of demanding sport here in Kuwait and Oct 30 at the Ice Hockey World KUWAIT: Members of Kuwait’s women’s ice hockey team take part in a training ples’ lives much easier,” he pointed out. He added that in the Gulf, but it goes to show that in Continued on Page 11 session at the ice-skating rink on Sept 29, 2017.