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SAFAR 15, 1441 AH MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2019 28 Pages Max 37º Min 24º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17957 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Four years since Kuwaiti Khamenei urges Iran’s Guards Saudi national football team 5 went missing in Romania 24 to develop advanced weapons 27 makes first visit to West Bank Lawmaker vows to grill Finance Minister Hajraf MP Ashour urges measures against Jordan KUWAIT: MP Riyadh Al-Adasani said Financial and Economic Affairs commit- yesterday that his planned grilling tee yesterday agreed to keep a 42-year against Finance Minister Nayef Al-Hajraf old system at the Public Institute for Residential areas littered with trash will likely be one of the largest in Social Security or the pension agency Kuwait’s history and will include wide- that allows pensioners to cash part of ranging issues. The lawmaker said in a their retirement. Head of the committee statement that the grilling will be more MP Salah Khorshed said that the com- than 100 pages and will include issues mittee also decided to reduce interest regarding the country’s fiscal position, taken on such service from up to 14 per- state budget, sovereign fund invest- cent to between 4 percent and 6 per- ments, the pension agency and the so- cent. Khorshed also said the panel asked called actuarial deficit in addition to the pension agency to create a new sys- banks and companies in which the state tem to provide such service in accor- has stakes in them. dance with Islamic Sharia rules but with He did not provide specific details on interest remaining around 6 percent. the issues but Adasani had in the past Also, MP Saleh Ashour yesterday spoken about alleged violations in vari- strongly lashed out at Jordan and called ous financial bodies under the supervi- for stopping all aid and loans to the sion of the Finance Minister. Adasani Arab nation after a group of Jordanian had also vowed to grill the ministers of crowds chanted in praise of former Iraqi Interior, Commerce and Industry and president Saddam Hussein during a even the Prime Minister himself over a football game between Jordan and variety of issues. Some of these grillings Kuwait last week. Jordan’s King By Nawara Fattahova vided a phone number for Salwa department - cleaners are responsible for the trash inside are expected to be filed even before the Abdullah II and top government officials but nobody answered the call. the bins, while the pick-up vehicles collect the start of the new Assembly term on apologized for the crowd’s misbehavior KUWAIT: For many days, Kuwait residents Bad attitude is also to be blamed. Some huge ones - next to the bins (especially the October 29. while authorities said they arrested at have noticed huge amount of trash around the people started throwing organic trash huge pieces of furniture or other big stuff),” he In a related issue, Hajraf said in a least two people. trash bins. People have been calling the hotline including food wastes on top of the old fur- told the Kuwait Times. statement yesterday that he has rejected But Ashour said this was not the first of Kuwait Municipality to complain about the niture around the trash bins. This made the “The issue is that the Municipality has a proposals by state departments and time that crowds in Jordan have praised bad smell coming from the trash across Kuwait situation even worse, thus resulting in air contract with a company which is in charge of ministries for their projections for the Saddam Hussein who in August 1990 residential areas. The areas include; Salwa, pollution. Salah from the Municipality hotline operating the vehicles that remove the ‘big- 2020/2021 state budget in which spend- ordered his troops to invade Kuwait Salmiya, Khaitan, Mahboula, and Hawally. explained yesterday that the call center has size’ waste. This contract had ended and we Along the street in Salwa (Block 4), there is received several calls because of the pollu- are now transferring to the new company, and ing is projected to jump to a record high before a US-led international coalition a huge trash which has been there for over two tion in those areas. this process will finish within two or three KD 27.7 billion. The minister said in the drove them out seven months later. weeks. When Kuwait Times called Hawally “People are calling us complaining of the days,” added Salah. He urged people to be statement that he has rejected those Ashour said that all forms of aid to governorate’s hotline, the staff said that they trash in the streets. But I assured them that the patient and to avoid throwing organic waste proposals and urged all state bodies to Jordan must be suspended and warned will inform the department in Salwa. He pro- problem will end within days. Municipality’s randomly in the street. submit more realistic proposals. that he will call for forming a committee In the meantime, the Assembly’s to investigate the issue. 26 die as Hagibis Kuwait City air slams Japan; Amir quality ‘unhealthy’ sends condolences KUWAIT: Kuwait City ranked seventh worldwide TOKYO: Tens of thousands of rescuers were working yesterday in the global index that measures the most through the night to reach people feared trapped in polluted cities and those with the worst air quality Japan by landslides and floods caused by a powerful levels. Air Visual - an international air quality monitor, typhoon that killed at least 26, officials and local media showed that Kuwait City scored 157 in the air quality said. Typhoon Hagibis moved away from land yesterday index (AQI), and described the city’s air quality as morning, but while it largely spared the capital it left a ‘unhealthy.’ Meanwhile, the US Embassy’s air quality trail of destruction in surrounding regions. monitor also recorded 164 AQI for Kuwait City, which More than 100,000 rescuers - including 31,000 classified it ‘unhealthy’. This means that “everyone troops - were working through the night to reach people may begin to experience health effect.” feared trapped after torrential rain caused landslides and filled rivers until they burst their banks. The destruction forced the Rugby World Cup being hosted by Japan to cancel several games, but the “Brave Blossoms”, as the national team is known, lifted spirits with a stunning 28- 21 victory over Scotland yesterday that puts them into the quarter-finals of the tournament for the first time. The government put the death toll at 14, with 11 peo- ple missing, but local media said at least 26 people had been killed, and at least 15 were still unaccounted for. Rivers overspilled their banks at close to dozen locations NAGANO: This aerial view shows flooded homes beside the collapsed bank of the Chikuma River in Nagano pre- — including in central Japan’s Nagano, where a levee fecture yesterday after Typhoon Hagibis swept through central and eastern Japan. — AFP Continued on Page 24 allow jihadists to break out of captivity. Saudi launches new logistics IS families flee; Fighting has engulfed the area since Wednesday when Ankara launched a long-threatened offensive against the zone, eyes private investors Turkey advances Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces RIYADH: Saudi Arabia yesterday next decade. Of that, 135 billion riyals is (SDF), who it considers “terrorists” launched a new logistics zone open to earmarked for investment in the logis- deep into Syria linked to insurgents inside Turkey. US private investors in the Red Sea port tics sector. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said yes- QAMISHLI: Turkish forces and their city of Jeddah, as part of a wider indus- Under its ambitious reform strategy, terday that President Donald Trump had proxies pushed deep into Syria yester- trial initiative to diversify the economy the kingdom plans to have the private ordered the withdrawal of up to 1,000 day, moving closer to completing their away from oil and create jobs for Saudis. sector operate much of its transport troops from northern Syria. assault’s initial phase, while Washington The Al Khomra zone - which will sup- infrastructure, including airports and sea “I can’t give a timeline because it announced it was pulling out 1,000 port activities around shipping, freight ports, with the government keeping a changes hourly. We want to make sure troops from the country’s north. The distribution and transport of goods - role as regulator. Details of what the that we do so in a very safe, deliberate Kurdish administration in northern Syria extends over 2.3 million square meters government plans to offer investors in manner,” he told the CBS network. Trump said that Turkish bombardment near a Security cooperation: in Jeddah, home to one of the kingdom’s Al-Khomra were not disclosed, but the has been accused of abandoning a loyal camp for the displaced led to nearly 800 largest ports. Saudi Ports Authority said the zone ally in the fight against IS after ordering relatives of IS members fleeing. As the biggest logistics zone in the would offer opportunities to investors on American troops to pull back from the Broadening alliances Fighting raged but Turkish-backed country, it hopes to turn Saudi Arabia a lease basis. “Investment in the logistics border, which Ankara took as a green forces made significant progress along By Fawaz M Al-Sabah and Rolf Schwarz into a global logistics hub and create zone in Al-Khomra and other ports will light to move in. the border on the fifth day of an offensive 10,000 direct jobs, said Minister of total 7 billion Saudi riyals,” said Saad Al- The Syrian Observatory for Human that has provoked an international outcry n June 2004, at its Istanbul summit, Transport Nabeel Al-Amudi.