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Kuwaittimes 24-12-2017.Qxp Layout 1 RABI ALTHANI 6, 1439 AH SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2017 Max 29º 32 Pages 150 Fils Established 1961 Min 12º ISSUE NO: 17414 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Grand Zoo: A Kuwaiti Time flies? Not for a US air Dominant Barca move Qatar beat Yemen, Bahrain 4 dream project in works 32 hostess who’s 81 years old 15 14 points clear of Real 16 and Iraq draw in Gulf Cup Christians mark holidays with an eye on security Govts nervous after Trump’s Jerusalem announcement QUETTA/JAKARTA: Christmas church of streets around churches ahead of the services and other celebrations are being Coptic celebration of Christmas on Jan 7. held this weekend under the gaze of Egypt’s Christian minority has been tar- armed guards and security cameras in geted in several attacks in recent years, many countries after Islamic State gun- including the bombing of two churches men attacked a Methodist church in in the north of the country on Palm Pakistan as a Sunday service began. Sunday in April. Majority-Muslim countries in Asia and At the Heliopolis Basilica, a Catholic the Middle East were particularly nervous cathedral in northeastern Cairo, security after US President Donald Trump’s recent forces had set up metal detectors at the announcement he intends to relocate the main doors and police vehicles were sta- US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, a tioned outside ahead of masses on Dec. decision that has outraged many Muslims. 25, which marks Christmas Day for In Indonesia, the world’s biggest Catholic and Protestant Christians. Muslim-majority country, police said they German police brought in experts and an had stepped up security around churches explosives robot to investigate a suspi- and tourist sites, mindful of near-simulta- cious package at a Christmas market in neous attacks on churches there at the city of Bonn late on Friday. Germany Christmas in 2000 that killed about 20 is on high alert a year after a failed people. Muslim volunteers in Indonesia Tunisian asylum seeker killed 12 people are also on standby to provide additional when he hijacked a truck and drove it into security if requested. “If our brother and a Berlin Christmas market. sisters who celebrate Christmas need ... In the Pakistani city of Quetta, mem- to maintain their security to worship, we bers of a Bethel Memorial Methodist will help,” said Yaqut Chiolil Qoumas, Church were repairing the damage done chairman of the youth wing of the by a pair of suicide bombers who Nahdlatul Ulema, one of the country’s attacked during a service last Sunday, biggest Muslim organizations. killing 10 people and wounding more than In Cairo, where a bombing at the 50. Broken pews and damaged musical Egyptian capital’s largest Coptic cathe- instruments were still strewn around dral killed at least 25 people last church grounds on Thursday, with about December, the interior ministry said a dozen police standing guard. BEIRUT: Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri poses for a picture with children from various orphanages as they celebrate Christmas in the police would conduct regular searches Continued on Page 11 capital yesterday. — AFP 133 killed as Turkey to change tropical storm embassy street hits Mindanao MANILA: The death toll from a tropical storm in the name in UAE row southern Philippines climbed swiftly to 133 yesterday, as rescuers pulled dozens of bodies from a swollen riv- ISTANBUL: Turkey plans to change the name of er, police said. Tropical Storm Tembin has lashed the the street where the embassy of the United Arab nation’s second-largest island of Mindanao since Emirates is located to Fakhreddin Pasha, the his- Friday, triggering flash floods and mudslides. The torical figure at the center of a diplomatic row Philippines is pummelled by 20 major storms each year caused by a retweet, the state-run Anadolu on average, many of them deadly. But Mindanao, home agency said yesterday. UAE Foreign Minister to 20 million people, is rarely hit. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahayan retweeted Police, soldiers and volunteers used shovels to dig last week accusations that Ottoman forces led by through mud and debris as they searched for bodies in Fakhreddin Pasha stole money and manuscripts the village of Dalama yesterday. “The river rose and from Madinah in 1916 during World War One most of the homes were swept away. The village is no when the city was under Ottoman rule. Madinah is longer there,” police officer Gerry Parami told AFP by now part of Saudi Arabia. telephone from nearby Tubod town. Rescuers mean- The mayor of the Turkish capital Ankara while retrieved 36 bodies from the Salog River in near- ordered preparations to change the name of the by Sapad town yesterday. street where the UAE mission is located to that of The bodies in Sapad were swept downriver from a A general view of the flooded municipality of Kabacan in North Cotabato is seen on the southern island of Mindanao the former commander and onetime governor of flooded town upstream called Salvador, Rando yesterday after Tropical Storm Tembin dumped torrential rains across the island. — AFP Madinah, Anadolu said. Without naming him, Salvacion, the Sapad town police chief, told AFP. Erdogan suggested on Thursday that the UAE Authorities in Salvador said they had retrieved 17 other minister was ignorant. The UAE charge d’affaires bodies upstream. Tubod, Salvador and Sapad are in chief Wilson Mislores told AFP. The death toll for convoys to the impoverished region, officials said yes- in Ankara was also summoned to the foreign min- Lanao del Norte, which is one of the provinces hardest Mindanao’s Zamboanga peninsula also rose to 28, and terday. Tembin struck less than a week after Tropical istry over the issue. UAE officials had no immedi- hit by Tembin. “The people received ample warnings. police said 81 people were missing after mud and rocks Storm Kai-Tak left 54 dead and 24 missing in the cen- ate comment on dispute. — Reuters But as we are rarely hit by typhoons, people living near swept down coastal communities in Sibuco and other tral Philippines, straining the disaster-prone nation’s rivers did not take them seriously,” Salvador police fishing towns. Landslides had blocked rescue and relief resources. — AFP Aardvark, four Oman opens meerkats killed in oryx reserve London Zoo fire to ecotourists LONDON: A large fire at London Zoo HAIMA, Oman: The Gulf sultanate of Oman killed an aardvark and four meerkats yes- is looking to carve itself a new niche in eco- terday, while several staff were treated for tourism by opening up a sanctuary for one of smoke inhalation. The zoo, which attracts the desert’s most fabled creatures - the 1.2 million visitors a year, was closed fol- Arabian oryx. Once extinct in the wild, the lowing the predawn blaze but said it rare member of the antelope family famed for would reopen again today. It took 72 fire- its elegant horns has been dragged back from fighters more than three hours to bring the precipice in a sprawling reserve fenced the fire under control, after it broke out in off for decades from the public. That changed the Animal Adventure cafe and spread last month when authorities for the first time This file photo taken on March 1, 2016 shows an Arabian oryx at the Arabian Oryx Sanctuary in quickly to an adjacent shop. officially opened the sanctuary to visitors - Umm Al-Zamool near the UAE’s border with Oman and Saudi Arabia. — AFP “Sadly our vets have confirmed the death of our nine-year-old aardvark, part of a broader bid by Oman to boost Misha. There are also four meerkats still tourism as oil revenues decline. indigenous species. For years, the main goal But now, as numbers have ticked up from just On a recent outing, wildlife rangers in has been a basic one - ensuring the oryx can 100 some two decades ago to almost 750 unaccounted for, but we are now presum- LONDON: A firefighter attends to help con- ing these have also died,” a statement SUVs patrolled the sandy plains of the survive by focusing on “helping the animals today, the authorities began eyeing another trol a fire that broke out at a cafe and reserve in central Oman’s Haima province, here reproduce and multiply”, said sanctuary role for the reserve. from the zoo said. shop at London Zoo yesterday. — AFP Continued on Page 11 spotting groups of grazing oryx and other spokesman Hamed bin Mahmoud Al-Harsousi. Continued on Page 11 2 Established 1961 Local Sunday, December 24, 2017 Apparatus’ handling of bedoon problems absolute failure: MP Public sector must be exclusive to citizens: Lawmaker By A Saleh great step towards acti- vating the parliament’s role local spotlight KUWAIT: MP Nasser Al-Dousery stressed that even in this regard. Saleh also though the parliament rejected his proposal to form a expressed hopes that the special committee to handle the affairs of bedoons government will cooperate (stateless people), he still believes that bedoons have with the committee to Domestic labor: been subjected to a lot of injustice and should not be solve the unemployment deprived of their civil rights. Dousery added in a problem because it is high Luxury or need? statement that he will resume following up proposals time that employment in that he and his colleagues made in the previous term, the public sector is made including subjecting the currently independent Central exclusively for citizens. He Apparatus for Illegal Residents Affairs to the Interior added that the committee MP Nasser Al-Dousery MP Riyadh Al-Adsani MP Khalil Al-Saleh Ministry following what he described as an ‘absolute will work on gradually By Muna Al-Fuzai failure’ in solving bedoons’ problems.
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