SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2017 THULQADA 23, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Cabinet hails Ronaldo security banned for 5 crackdown on games after ‘Abdaly2 cell’ pushing16 ref Two Kuwaitis among 18 Min 31º Max 48º killed in Burkina attack High Tide 04:22 & 17:16 Low Tide Gunmen target Turkish restaurant in Ouagadougou 11:08 & 23:20 32 PAGES NO: 17306 150 FILS OUAGADOUGOU: At least 18 people including two Kuwaiti clerics were gunned down in a Turkish restau- Amir receives rant in Burkina Faso, officials said yesterday, the latest West African attack to target a spot popular with Crown Prince expats. Kuwaiti media reports named the two Kuwaiti clerics as Sheikh Waleed Al-Ali and Sheikh Fahd Al- Husseini. There has been no claim of responsibility for Sunday night’s attack at the Aziz Istanbul restaurant, which was often packed with foreign nationals. Foreign Minister Alpha Barry told AFP that the “terror- ist” attack in the capital Ouagadougou killed seven locals and at least eight foreigners including one Frenchman; one Canadian woman; male victims from Senegal, Niger, Lebanon and Turkey; and two Kuwaiti men. Three victims remain unidentified, he said. Separately, Canada’s Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said two Canadians were among the victims. Turkey confirmed that one of its citi- zens was among the dead, while Paris prosecutors said at least one French national died. Earlier in Ougadougou, Communications Minister Remis Dandjinou said about ten people had been injured, while security forces had killed two assailants in a counter-assault that went on until morning. It was not clear how many gunmen were involved in the attack. The KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad security operation “has ended” but searches are continu- Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives HH the Crown Prince ing in buildings in the surrounding neighborhood, Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah at Dandjinou told reporters. He had said earlier that “some the Amiri airport terminal yesterday after people were held” by the assailants and that “some were Sheikh Nawaf underwent successful medical released”, but gave no further details. OUAGADOUGOU: People evacuate from the area of a restaurant yesterday following a deadly attack by checkups in the US. — KUNA Continued on Page 11 gunmen, resulting in 18 deaths. — AFP Spill contained, power, PAGE Yemeni executed for PAGE Media spotlight turns to water output normal 3 raping, killing child nurse recruitment scam By Sajeev K Peter the case, Uthup swindled job aspi- rants of around KD 14.12 million (3 bil- UAE seeks better ties with Sadr KUWAIT: The media spotlight in lion rupees) by taking exorbitant serv- Kuwait has once again turned to the ice charges. issue of recruitment of nurses from While the norms mandate a service Saudi Arabia, Iraq to launch joint trade council India after media reports suggested charge of KD 95 (Rs 19,500) for getting the alleged complicity of some Kuwaiti recruited to hospitals in Kuwait, Al- officials in the multi-million dinar mon- Zarafa charged nearly KD 9,000 to KD BAGHDAD: The United Arab Emirates sig- and Lebanon. “Experience has taught us ey-laundering scandal. Meanwhile, 10,000 (Rs 2 million) from each candi- naled its desire to strengthen ties with Iraq to always call for what brings Arabs and some MPs have raised the issue in par- date. The CBI said Uthup amassed during weekend talks with influential Iraqi Muslims together, and to reject the advo- liament, quoting press reports point- wealth running into millions of rupees Shiite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr as part of cates of division,” the Abu Dhabi crown ing out the gravity of the matter. and had attempted to influence others efforts by Sunni nations of the Middle East prince told Sadr, according to report on According to the media reports, MPs accused in the case. to halt Iran’s growing regional influence. the Emirati state-run news agency WAM. stated that they would raise the issue It may be recalled that the India Sadr met Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed “The two sides emphasized the impor- in the upcoming session of the parlia- government had banned recruitment Al-Nahayan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi tance to act in true Islamic spirit and ment and demand an investigation of nurses through private agencies in and Deputy Commander of the UAE reject violence and extremist thought,” into the whole issue to find out if any order to prevent high-level corruption Armed Forces on Sunday in Abu Dhabi, Sadr’s office in Baghdad said in a state- Kuwait officials are involved in the and malpractices on April 30, 2015. The according to a senior aide of the cleric. ment on his website yesterday, reporting scandal or had colluded with the government also put nurses on the Sadr also discussed ways of improving on his meeting with Emirati cleric Ahmed Indian racketeer Uthup Varghese. Emigration Clearance Required (ECR) understanding between the Sunni and Al-Kubaisi. Closer ties with Sadr, who Varghese, the main accused in the category, placing their recruitment Shiite branches of Islam, at a meeting yes- commands a large following among the nursing recruitment scam and the under a mandatory eMigrate system. It terday with a prominent Sunni cleric in urban poor of Baghdad and southern owner of Al-Zarafa Travel and also appointed six agencies - NORKA Abu Dhabi. The UAE is among Sunni Iraq, would help Sunni states loosen ABU DHABI: Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahayan Manpower Consultants, was arrested Roots, ODEPEC, OMCL, UPFCL, TOM- nations which feel threatened by Iran’s Tehran’s grip over Iraq’s Shiite community (right), Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy by the Indian Central Bureau of COM and OMCAP - to carry out recruit- increased power in the region, often pro- and contain its influence. Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, meets Investigation (CBI) in March this year ment of nurses to overseas countries. jected through allied Shiite groups in Iraq Continued on Page 11 Iraqi Shiite leader Moqtada Al-Sadr. — AFP in Kochi on arrival from Dubai. As per Continued on Page 11 Trump denounces neo-Nazis, KKK Merck CEO resigns from president’s panel CHARLOTTESVILLE/WASHINGTON: US Los Angeles tests President Donald Trump denounced neo- Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan as criminals cooling pavement and thugs yesterday, bowing to mount- ing political pressure after initially saying paint to beat heat many sides were to blame after a white- nationalist rally turned deadly in Virginia. Trump had been assailed by Republicans LOS ANGELES: Can a splash of gray pavement paint and Democrats alike for failing to help combat global warming? In Los Angeles, where summer temperatures regularly surpass 38 respond more forcefully to Saturday’s vio- degrees Celsius, workers are coating streets in spe- lence in Charlottesville, in which a woman was killed when a man crashed cial gray treatments in a bid to do just that. The City WASHINGTON: US President Donald of Angels, home to four million people, is the first his car into a group of counter-protesters. FREETOWN: Bystanders look on as floodwaters rage past a damaged building Trump speaks about the deadly white major city to test the technology. Normal black Critics said the president had waited yesterday, after landslides struck the Sierra Leonean capital. — AFP nationalist rally in Charlottesville in asphalt absorbs 80 to 95 percent of sunlight, while too long to address the bloodshed, and slammed him for initially saying that the Diplomatic Room of the White the gray “cool pavement” reflects it - dramatically House yesterday. — AP Floods kill 312 in Sierra lowering ground temperature and reducing urban “many sides” were involved, rather than street heat, advocates of the method say. explicitly condemning white suprema- bigotry and violence,” he said. “It has no During a demonstration of the technique, Jeff cists widely seen as sparking the melee. place in America ... No matter the color of Leone, 175 in South Asia Luzar - sales director at GuardTop, which markets “Racism is evil and those who cause vio- our skin, we all live under the same laws. the product - showed how applying the paint lence in its name are criminals and thugs, We all salute the same great flag. And we FREETOWN/JANAKPUR, Nepal: At least rivers of mud and corpses were washed could drop street temperatures by about 11 including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white are all made by the same almighty God.” 312 people were killed and more than up on the streets. degrees Celsius after just one coat. Los Angeles is supremacists and other hate groups that A 20-year-old man said to have har- 2,000 left homeless yesterday when Red Cross spokesman Patrick the first city in California to test the treatment on a are repugnant to everything we hold bored Nazi sympathies as a teenager heavy flooding hit Sierra Leone’s capital Massaquoi told AFP the death toll was public road, after initial trials on parking lots, dear as Americans,” Trump said in a state- was facing charges he plowed his car of Freetown, leaving morgues overflow- 312 but could rise further as his team according to Greg Spotts, assistant director of the ment to reporters at the White House. into protesters opposing the white ing and residents desperately searching continued to survey disaster areas in city’s Bureau of Street Services. “We’re hoping to Trump said America showed its true nationalists, killing Heather Heyer and for loved ones. An AFP journalist at the Freetown and tally the number of dead. inspire other cities to experiment with different character in such times, responding to injuring 19 people.