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SAFAR 20,1440 AH MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2018 26º 28 Pages Max 150 Fils Established 1961 Min 15º ISSUE NO: 17669 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Newborn baby found in Zain Group selected by Huawei to offer Barcelona thrash Real 5 a small cardboard box 11 Huawei Cloud services in Kuwait, MENA 28 Madrid 5-1 in Clasico In first, Israeli anthem plays in Abu Dhabi after judo gold Israeli minister makes history in United Arab Emirates JERUSALEM: Israel’s national anthem was played at a warned UAE organizers they would cancel the competi- senting Israel along with the judo team and our flag.” “I to Dubai to represent Israel at an international inter- judo tournament in Abu Dhabi yesterday after one of its tion unless all athletes were allowed to participate on an hope we win a gold medal and experience the thrilling net security conference, his office said. athletes won gold in what was thought to be a first in the equal footing. moment of playing Hatikvah in the Abu Dhabi arena,” she Israeli Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz will also Gulf emirate. The playing of the national anthem and Last year, tournament organizers in Abu Dhabi said, referring to Israel’s national anthem. Three Israeli travel to Oman next week for a transportation confer- Israeli Sports Minister Miri Regev’s attendance at the banned the flag and national anthem of Israel, which has judokas won bronze medals on Saturday, the first day of ence, according to his office. Israel currently has full tournament were the latest milestones in the country’s no diplomatic relations with Gulf states. Sagi Muki won the Grand Slam, with Regev given the honor of awarding diplomatic relations with only two Arab states, Egypt bid for rapprochement with Arab states. gold yesterday at the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam and sang the medals for one of the categories. Regev’s trip to the and Jordan. Netanyahu has long sought a rapprochement Regev cried and sang along as the anthem played, along to his national anthem as he stood on the podium. UAE, which began on Thursday, coincided with Israeli with other Arab states, citing in part concerns over their according to footage broadcast on Israeli television. Her He called it in remarks to Israeli television “one of the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to neighbor- common enemy Iran. Israel’s occupation of Palestinian presence in the United Arab Emirates capital also greatest moments of my career”. Last year, Israeli judoka ing Oman, the first for an Israeli leader since 1996. territory, however, remains a major obstacle to official marked the first time a minister from Israel attended a Tal Flicker sang Israel’s anthem himself after winning On the same day, an Israeli gymnastics delegation recognition from Arab countries. Speaking of his Oman sports event in the Gulf, Israeli officials said. It was the gold since its playing was banned. was in Qatar for the beginning of the world champi- visit at a cabinet meeting yesterday, Netanyahu said it first time an Israeli delegation participated there under Before Muki won gold, Regev wrote on her Facebook onships being held in Doha. On Monday, was thanks to his “diplomatic efforts” in the Arab world, its national flag, after the International Judo Federation page: “I’m very proud to be here in Abu Dhabi repre- Communications Minister Ayoob Kara was to travel adding: “There will be more.”— AFP Leicester City boss feared dead after helicopter crash LEICESTER: Leicester City’s charismatic Thai boss was feared dead yesterday after a helicopter belong- ing to the billionaire crashed and burst into flames in the football stadium car park moments after taking off from the club’s pitch. Neither the police nor the club would confirm or deny whether Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, a regular at matches who flies to and from home games by helicopter, was on board the Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha aircraft when it appeared to develop a mechanical problem in its rear propeller. wreckage in the car park at King Power Stadium. The BBC, Sky News and several British papers quot- “Literally the engine stopped and I turned around, and ed sources saying the 60-year-old and a group of oth- it made a bit of a whirring noise. It turned silent, blades ers boarded the blue helicopter from the middle of the started spinning and then there was a big bang,” free- pitch once the stadium emptied after Saturday’s 1-1 lance photographer Ryan Brown told BBC Radio 5 Live. draw with West Ham. Leicester City said only that it Prayers and words of warm praise poured in from was assisting police with a “major incident” and Vichai’s across Britain and beyond for the Thai boss who many King Power duty-free shopping empire was not com- credit with spurring Leicester’s against-all-odds menting. Local police thanked fans for their “patience” Premier League title victory in 2016. in a tweet issued nearly 18 hours after the crash. “We A steady stream of grieving fans laid down football are working with a number of other agencies to get an scarves and shirts outside the home fans’ entrance as LEICESTER: A woman adds flowers to a growing pile of tributes outside Leicester City Football Club’s King Power update out to the public and press,” the Leicestershire aviation experts picked through the helicopter’s Stadium in Leicester, eastern England yesterday after a helicopter belonging to the club’s Thai chairman Vichai police force said in a tweet. charred remains. Srivaddhanaprabha crashed outside the stadium the night before. — AFP photos Images showed orange balls of flame engulfing the Continued on Page 24 press conference in the National Assembly after MP urges govt to attending a meeting for the committee entrusted to find jobs for Kuwaitis by replacing expatriate jobs. She insisted that no taxation or charges will be Qatar abolishes tax expats for the imposed on Kuwaitis before the government amends the highly demographic structure which is highly in exit visa system ‘air they breathe’ favor of expatriates, saying there are just under 1.4 mil- lion Kuwaitis for as many as 3.2 million expatriates. She DOHA: Long-awaited reform of Qatar’s controversial By B Izzak said that the government must first find jobs for the exit visa system, which requires foreign workers to 14,000 unemployed Kuwaitis and tackle the problem of obtain their bosses’ permission to leave the country, KUWAIT: Just back from an International over 110,000 illiterate expatriates in the country, asking came into force yesterday, the government said. “Law Parliamentary Conference where she was elected as a “why are they here in the first place”. No 13 of 2018... regulating the entry, exit and resi- deputy committee chairman, MP Safa Al-Hashem didn’t In the meantime, the National Assembly Legal and dency of expatriates is being implemented starting waste much time in calling again for taxing expatriates Legislative Committee voted yesterday to maintain the MP Safa Al-Hashem today,” the interior ministry announced on Twitter. for the air they breathe in the country. Hashem, the only membership of two lawmakers despite receiving final Qatar announced in September it had approved female member in the 50-seat Assembly, said that jail sentences triggering a constitutional and political cles in the constitution, the election law and the internal legislation to scrap the visa system - a lynchpin of the “expatriates must be charged for everything, for med- controversy. The Cassation Court in July sentenced charter of the National Assembly. He said these articles country’s “kafala”, or sponsorship, system which ical services, infrastructure and again I say for the air MPs Waleed Al-Tabtabai and Jamaan Al-Harbash to jail clearly give the National Assembly the right to debate many liken to modern-day slavery. Under the new they breathe here”. along with 13 former MPs and opposition activists for whether to revoke the membership of lawmakers or not, law, all but five percent of a company’s workforce- The lawmaker was objecting to a proposal by the entering the National Assembly building during a adding that the Assembly used the same articles to reportedly those in the most senior positions-can government to study a taxation law as part of the gov- protest in November 2011. keep the membership of MP Khalaf Dumaither after he leave without prior permission from employers. ernment development plan. “It will be applied on MP Mohammad Al-Dallal said the committee’s deci- was convicted in a final court order. Those not allowed to leave Qatar “for any reason” Kuwaitis only on my dead body” screamed Hashem at a sion, taken by five votes against two, was based on arti- Continued on Page 24 can file a complaint to the Expatriate Exit Grievance Committee that will “take a decision within three working days”, the ministry said. Some anxious workers took to government social media websites Almost 2 million yesterday, to ask how they could find out if they were among the five per cent. Qatar’s labor minister, Issa Al-Nuaimi, said he was “exceptionally pleased” with Iranian pilgrims the implementation of the new law. “We are proud that the state of Qatar has become head for Arbaeen an example and a model for labor reform in the region,” he said. Nuaimi added that Qatar wanted to MEHRAN: At the border town of Mehran between give workers in the country, the “best standards pos- Iran and Iraq, a sea of pilgrims surges forwards, en sible”. Scrapping the exit permit is the biggest route to one of the biggest religious pilgrimages on the announcement made so far since Qatar agreed last planet.

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