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KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani. — Amiri Diwan photos meets Lebanese President . meets President of Mohamed Ould Ghazouani.

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Jaber Al-Sabah and offer condo- Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al- lences on the late Amir’s passing. Jaber Al-Sabah received at the Amiri Terminal yesterday several Mauritania presidents and heads of states, In the meantime, His Highness who arrived in Kuwait to offer the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al- condolences on the passing of Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah the late Amir His Highness Sheikh received President of Mauritania Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Mohamed Ould Ghazouani and Sabah. his accompanying delegation who expressed condolences on Afghanistan Sheikh Sabah’s passing. His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Pakistan Sabah received President of Furthermore, Pakistan’s Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani and his President Arif Alvi and his dele- accompanying delegation, who gation arrived in Kuwait and met paid their respects and expressed with His Highness the Amir Sheikh condolences on the passing of Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah His Highness Sheikh Sabah. Sabah at the Amiri Terminal, meets Pakistan’s President Arif Alvi. meets Yemeni President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi. where they offered condolences over the late Amir’s demise. offered condolences on Sheikh Terminal. Kuwait National Guard (KNG) His Highness Sheikh Jaber Al- Lebanese President Michel Sheikh Mishal Ahmad Al-Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, His Aoun and his accompanying dele- Sabah’s passing during a meeting The presidents also offered with His Highness the Amir condolences to Speaker of the Al-Sabah, Sheikh Jaber Al- Highness the Prime Minister gation also arrived at the Amiri Moreover, Yemeni President Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, His Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al- Terminal to meet His Highness the Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi and Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al- National Assembly Marzouq Al- Jaber Al-Sabah at the Amiri Ghanem, Deputy Chief of the Highness Sheikh Nasser Al- Hamad Al-Sabah, and other fig- Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al- his accompanying delegation Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, ures. — KUNA

Devils released on Assembly-govt meeting on Aussie mainland... population law postponed

Continued from Page 1 By B Izzak the legislation that basically aims at substantially reducing the number of expats. ravaged the remaining population on the Australian KUWAIT: A meeting between the National MP Mohammad Al-Dallal yesterday asked the island state of Tasmania. It is estimated that fewer Assembly’s human resources committee with the Minister of Social Affairs Mariam Al-Aqeel about than 25,000 Tasmanian devils still live in the wild, government to study amendments to the population measures adopted by the ministry against employ- down from as many as 150,000 before the mysteri- law has been postponed for next week because the ers who delay the payment of salaries to employees. ous, fatal disease first struck in the mid-1990s. On Cabinet weekly meeting was He demanded to know the Australia’s mainland, they are believed to have been BARRINGTON TOPS, Australia: This undated handout delayed. number of labor complaints filed wiped out by packs of dingoes - wild dogs native to photo shows actors Chris Hemsworth and Elsa The assembly approved the by individual or groups of workers the vast continent - an estimated 3,000 years ago. law in the first reading last in the private sector for not Faulkner said it was hoped the project would cre- Pataky releasing Tasmanian devils into a wild sanc- tuary in New South Wales state. — AFP week with all Cabinet’s 12 mem- receiving their salaries or those ate an “insurance population” against the face-tumor bers present voting against the who had their passports taken by disease, which has so far proved untreatable, and help law after the government employers since 2017. He asked restore the native environment. “Devils present one of land initially was selected because it’s just like a slice objected to a number of points. for the names of companies which the only natural solutions to the control of fox and the of Tasmania,” Faulkner said. He said he was confident The law calls on the govern- committed such violations. cat, and the fox and cat are responsible for nearly all that close monitoring as the Tasmanian devils make ment to set a cap for the num- In the meantime, MP Osama of our 40 mammal extinctions (in Australia),” he the “massive transition” back to the wild - where ber of expats needed by the Al-Shaheen asked Interior added. “So there’s more than the devil at stake here.” they have no supplied food, water or shelter for the country within six months of Minister Anas Al-Saleh about Aussie Ark selected the reintroduced devils for first time in their lives - would ensure the program’s issuing the law and asks the Kuwait’s readiness to face the their breeding suitability, placing them in the sprawl- early success. government to gradually danger of drones. The lawmaker ing, fenced area in the hopes of warding off threats to As part of the “ambitious” rewilding scheme, reduce the number of expats was referring to a statement by a their survival including feral pests, noxious weeds and Aussie Ark plans to eventually introduce more of over the next five years. It also requires the govern- Pentagon official saying Kuwait needs a compre- cars. “We’ve put young, healthy devils in, we put them the animals to unfenced areas, where they will con- in now which gives them the best part of six months tend with a much greater range of new threats ment to introduce quotas for various foreign com- hensive assessment to its system of countering to settle, find their territory (and) prepare for breed- including the country’s notorious bushfires. The munities in the country. The government has report- drones. ing” which usually occurs in February, Faulkner said. Tasmanian devil is one of seven cornerstone species edly objected to the six-month period and also to Shaheen asked the minister about Kuwait’s mili- Another 40 are set to be released over the next critical to Australia’s ecosystem that Aussie Ark setting specific quotas for expat communities. tary and technical preparedness against the dan- two years into the sanctuary, which is on land bought plans to reintroduce to the wild sanctuary in the The two sides were supposed to make the nec- gers of drones and in protecting vital installations by Aussie Ark for its habitat suitability, high number coming years, along with quolls, bandicoots and essary amendments before sending the law back to and if Kuwait has devised a plan to protect its vital of herbivores and location near a national park. “The rock wallabies. — AFP the assembly to make its second and final vote on facilities against possible attacks by drones.

created the prizes in his will. But the in-person oxygen, in a bid to reflect an “upbeat attitude”. And he Trio win Nobel ceremony has been cancelled this year due to the Outrage after gave a rosy account of Trump’s progress Saturday, pandemic and replaced with a televised ceremony only for White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to showing the laureates receiving their awards in tell reporters immediately after that Trump’s condition for discovery... their home countries. Trump visits... had been “very concerning” and that he was “still not The award for work on a virus comes as the on a clear path to a full recovery”. With his tough reelection campaign in its final Continued from Page 1 world battles the new coronavirus pandemic, Continued from Page 1 month against Democratic rival Joe Biden, Trump’s which has put the global spotlight on science and diagnosis and hospitalization have left him sidelined “I didn’t even realize this was the day the Nobel research. “The pandemic is a big crisis for But health experts took to the airwaves and social media to criticize the “stunt,” which they said demon- from what he does best - campaigning. Meanwhile, Prizes were going to be given out,” he added. “To mankind, but it illustrates how important science Biden - who announced Sunday his latest negative test see so many people get cured is astounding,” he is,” Nobel Foundation head Lars Heikensten said. strated that he had learned nothing at all. “Every single person in the vehicle during that for the virus - started the week with a trip yesterday to told the Nobel Foundation. No prizes were expected to be awarded this year completely unnecessary Presidential ‘drive-by’ just key swing state Florida. directly linked to the coronavirus, as Nobel prize- Prior to the trio’s work, the discovery of the now has to be quarantined for 14 days,” said James But Trump and his advisors have done their best to Hepatitis A and B viruses had been critical steps winning research usually takes many years to be Phillips, chief of disaster medicine at George project a sense of continuity. His deputy campaign forward -the discovery of Hepatitis B won the verified. Washington University. “They might get sick. They manager Jason Miller told ABC Sunday he had spoken Nobel Medicine Prize in 1976 - but the majority of But Nobel medicine committee chair Patrik may die. For political theater. Commanded by Trump to to Trump for a half-hour Saturday and that the presi- blood-borne hepatitis cases remained unexplained. Ernfors said yesterday’s prize was “relatively easy put their lives at risk for theater. This is insanity.” dent was “cracking jokes”. But controversy has been The discovery of Hepatitis C virus revealed the to relate to today’s situation”. “The first thing you White House spokesman Judd Deere said “appro- mounting over the possibility that Trump might have cause of the remaining cases of chronic hepatitis, need to do is to identify the causing virus, and priate” precautions had been taken to protect Trump exposed numerous others to COVID-19 even after a and “made possible blood tests and new medicines once that has been done, that is in itself the start- and his support staff, including protective gear. “The close aide tested positive. that have saved millions of lives”, the Nobel com- ing point for the development of drugs to treat the movement was cleared by the medical team as safe to A timeline provided by his advisors and doctors mittee said. disease and also to develop vaccines against the do,” he added. But Zeke Emanuel, chair of the suggested he met more than 30 donors on Thursday in Alter was credited for his pioneering work disorder. So the actual viral discovery itself is a Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Bedminster, New Jersey, even after learning that Hope studying the occurrence of hepatitis in patients critical moment.” University of Pennsylvania and regular TV pundit, Hicks had the virus - and just hours before he who had received blood transfusions, determining The 2020 Nobel season continues today with described the appearance as “shameful”. “Making his announced his own positive test. There were more than that their illness was neither Hepatitis A or B. the physics prize, with astrophysicists Shep Secret Service agents drive with a COVID-19 patient, 200 people at the fundraiser, and a contact-tracing operation underway in New Jersey was looking at Houghton built on Alter’s work to isolate the Doeleman of the US and Germany’s Heino Falcke with windows up no less, put them needlessly at risk for infection. And for what? A PR stunt,” he tweeted. potentially thousands of people who may have been genetic sequence of the new virus. Rice, 68, sub- seen as possible winners for work that led to the exposed. sequently completed the puzzle by using genetic first directly observed image of a black hole in The episode came hours after a briefing by Trump’s medical team, who said he had “continued to improve” All this came in a week when a Wall Street engineering to prove that it was the new strain April 2019. American mathematician Peter Shor Journal/NBC poll - taken in the two days after a bruis- alone - Hepatitis C - that was causing patients to who paved the way for today’s research on quan- and could be returned to the White House, which has the facilities to treat and isolate the president, as early ing presidential debate with Biden but before news get sick. The trio will share the prize sum of 10 mil- tum computers, or France’s Alain Aspect for his as yesterday. The president was flown to Walter Reed emerged of Trump’s illness - gave Biden a significant work on quantum entanglement, have also been lion Swedish kronor (about $1.1 million). with a high fever on Friday after a “rapid progression” 53-39 percent lead among registered voters. As well as In 2013, Houghton reportedly declined Canada’s mentioned. of his illness, with his oxygen levels dropping worry- Trump and Hicks, numerous White House insiders and Gairdner International Award because two of his The chemistry and literature prizes follow ingly low, Trump’s physician Sean Conley said in a at least three Republican senators have contracted key collaborators who worked with him at phar- tomorrow and Thursday. Speculation ahead of Sunday briefing. COVID-19, along with First Lady Melania Trump, who maceutical group Chiron Corp were not included. Friday’s peace prize has meanwhile focused on Health experts have complained that the messaging has not experienced severe symptoms. Public health Houghton, Alter and Rice would normally receive press freedom groups, Swedish teenager Greta from the administration - and particularly Trump’s experts have expressed alarm at the “White House their prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf at a formal Thunberg and other climate activists, or several medical team - has caused widespread confusion. cluster” that has been linked to the Sept 26 Rose ceremony in Stockholm on Dec 10, the anniversary UN organizations. The economics prize wraps Conley admitted Sunday that he had kept from the Garden celebration of conservative judge Amy Coney of the 1896 death of scientist Alfred Nobel who things up on Monday, Oct 12. — AFP public the fact that the president had been given extra Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court. — AFP