Duterte Urges All Filipinos in Kuwait to Return Home President to Announce ‘Personally Crafted’ Decision • Kuwait Alarmed by Leaked Reports
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SHAABAN 13, 1439 AH SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 2018 Max 34º 32 Pages Min 24º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17518 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net KOC: Foreign companies Brains, eyes, testes, ovaries: Saudi Princess Noura: Made to Nadal into Barcelona final 3 tackling Maqwa oil leak 23 Off-limits for transplants? 32 measure fashion ambassador 13 with 400th clay court win Duterte urges all Filipinos in Kuwait to return home President to announce ‘personally crafted’ decision • Kuwait alarmed by leaked reports SINGAPORE/KUWAIT: Philippine ernment, saying the act violated the country’s “As the president of the nation, it behooves President Rodrigo Duterte called on the sovereignty and ordered Philippine upon me to do something.” 260,000 Filipinos working in Kuwait - most Ambassador Renato Villa to leave the coun- of them employed as domestic helpers - to try. Duterte said ties between the two nations Important announcement return home, saying the state apparently did were now “being put to the test”. “I plead that On Friday, presidential spokesperson Harry not want their services anymore, according to since there is a total ban on deployment, I Roque said Duterte would announce an reports in the Philippines media. “To you don’t want them anymore to [go to Kuwait] important “course of action” in connection there in Kuwait, [to] those who are not really because apparently [the Kuwaitis] do not like with the diplomatic crisis. Roque said the household helpers, I now appeal to your them,” he said. “Do not hurt” the Filipino president’s move would be “Solomonic” and sense of patriotism: Come home, anyway workers and “treat them deserving of a “dramatic”. “I confirm that he will announce there are now many jobs in the Philippines,” human being”, he appealed to Kuwaitis. the Philippines position personally during his the president said, addressing overseas Duterte said he could use funds given arrival statement in Davao on Sunday (today). Filipino workers (OFWs) in Kuwait. by China to “get all those who want to He wants to announce it on Philippine soil,” “I will look for money and I will get all, all go home” and joked about robbing a Roque said in a press briefing in Singapore. the Filipino workers (in Kuwait),” he told bank to get more money. He did not say He said Duterte arrived at the decision on about 6,000 members of the Filipino commu- how many or what kind of jobs awaited the Kuwait problem on his own, “something nity in Singapore, where he attended the 32nd those willing to heed his call to return. he personally crafted” and that it was “not Association of Southeast Asian Nations Despite what he described as a “diplomat- specially recommended by anyone”. “It shows Summit. Duterte told his audience at the Big ic ruckus” between the two countries, the his experience on governance and there’s Box center that he had “bad news” about the president said there was no anger or hatred wisdom I guess even in the number of years diplomatic row between Kuwait and the in his heart towards Kuwait, adding he was of leadership and as well as in his age,” Philippines over the recent rescues of thankful to Kuwait for helping OFWs, whom Roque said. allegedly abused Filipino maids by Philippine he said owed a debt of gratitude to the state. Manila demanded an explanation Thursday SINGAPORE: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte speaks to members of the Embassy staff in Kuwait. “If the presence of Filipinos is a burden to after its ambassador was expelled, shocking Philippine community during a gathering yesterday. — AFP The rescue had angered the Kuwaiti gov- you, allow us to get them out,” Duterte said. Continued on Page 11 gents were among more than 50 Houthis killed in a new Strike kills dozens strike overnight in the capital Sanaa. In a speech eulo- gizing Sammad yesterday night, rebel chief Abdul Malik Al-Houthi claimed Saudi Arabia and its allies had tar- of Houthis; missile geted the outskirts of Sabaeen Square as Houthi sup- porters gathered for Sammad’s funeral. The rebels’ Al- salvo kills Saudi Masirah television aired footage of black columns of smoke billowing outside the square, where Yemenis chanted slogans calling for the demise of Saudi Arabia as Pompeo visits and the United States. The date of the footage could not be immediately verified. SANAA: A Saudi-led coalition air strike has killed The rebels have been locked in a war since 2015 dozens of Yemeni rebels including two commanders, with a Saudi-led military alliance fighting to restore the state media said yesterday, in another blow to the internationally recognized Yemeni government to pow- insurgents following the assassination of their political er. Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya television said the chief. The Houthi rebels staged a public funeral yester- overnight strike had targeted the interior ministry in day for Saleh Al-Sammad, head of their Supreme Sanaa, which is controlled by the rebels. The Houthis, Political Council and effectively the insurgents’ second- backed by Saudi Arabia’s regional archrival Iran, con- in-command, who was killed last week in an air raid firmed the air strike on Sanaa but gave no details. SANAA: Honour guards stand on a truck carrying the coffin of slain Houthi leader Saleh Al-Sammad during a funeral claimed by Saudi Arabia and its allies. The rebels, who hail from northern Yemen, control procession held for him and his six bodyguards in the Yemeni capital yesterday. —AFP His funeral came hours after Saudi Arabia’s state-run Sanaa and much of the country’s north - which borders Al-Ekhbariya television said two high-ranking insur- Continued on Page 11 nurture trust. Billed as an informal get- Xi, Modi seek together rather than a summit, the two N Korea says summit men held talks on Friday that lasted far new relations longer than expected, and yesterday opens new peace era chatted over tea on a boat trip round a scenic lake. after summit “President Xi stressed that the issues between China and India are of a limited, WUHAN, China: The leaders of China temporary nature but the relationship and India agreed to open a new chapter between the two countries is extensive in their relationship yesterday after an and ongoing,” Chinese Vice Foreign informal summit, just months after a dis- Minister Kong Xuanyou told reporters in pute over a stretch of their high-altitude Wuhan. Their differences are significant: Himalayan border rekindled fears of war. as well as disputes over stretches of a Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi 3,500 km border - the two fought a brief spent around 24 hours in the central border war in 1962 - the Asian giants Chinese city of Wuhan for meetings with have squabbled over Xi’s signature Belt WUHAN: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (right) President Xi Jinping, an ice-breaking and Road infrastructure initiative. and Chinese President Xi Jinping look on along the East trip both hoped would allow candor and Continued on Page 11 Lake yesterday. — AFP PANMUNJOM: North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un (left) and South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in raise their joined hands during a signing ceremony near Israeli gunfire in the end of their historic summit in this truce village on Friday. — AFP focus after scores SEOUL: North Korea yesterday wanted to see an end to the US mili- hailed its summit with the South as a tary presence and nuclear umbrella “historic meeting” that paved the way over the South, but it invaded its wounded, killed for the start of a new era, after the two neighbor in 1950 and is the only one leaders pledged to pursue denu- of the two Koreas to possess nuclear GAZA CITY: When Palestinian Mohammed clearization and a permanent peace. weapons. Analysts warn that previ- Al-Mughari was shot by an Israeli sniper on the The official KCNA news agency car- ous displays of inter-Korean affec- Gaza border, it left a hole in his leg so big he ried the text of the leaders’ Panmunjom tion and pledges by the North ulti- says he could fit a finger into it. Over a month Declaration in full and said the mately came to naught. into mass protests, more than 40 Palestinians encounter opened the way “for nation- For years, Pyongyang insisted it have been killed and at least 1,500 wounded by GAZA: Palestinians take final pictures of 15-year-old Palestinian teenager Azzam Oweida dur- al reconciliation and unity, peace and would never give up the “treasured Israeli fire during the “Great March of Return”, ing his funeral in Khan Younis yesterday after he was shot by Israeli forces in clashes along prosperity”. In the document, North sword” of its nuclear arsenal, which it a major protest movement along the border the Gaza border. — AFP Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the says it needs to defend itself against a between Gaza and Israel. Doctors are troubled South’s President Moon Jae-in “con- possible US invasion. But it has by the high number of disabling wounds, espe- there is still a possibility it might need to be their homes seized by Israel in 1948. firmed the common goal of realizing, offered to put it up for negotiation in cially to the legs and knees, with Israel facing amputated. The bullet destroyed “30 centime- While most of the crowd stands a few hun- through complete denuclearization, a exchange for security guarantees, questions over both its disproportionate use of ters of bone in the leg”, he told AFP from his dred meters from the border fence, smaller nuclear-free Korean Peninsula”.