SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2016 THULQADA 28, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Kuwait, Swiss Brussels crime Rousseff Rangers hang sign MoU on lab attacked urges Senate on to edge development, to ‘destroy to vote Indians, build cooperation3 evidence’7 against 9‘coup’ AL20 West lead Amir meets new heads of Min 28º football, Olympic bodies Max 47º High Tide 09:46 & 23:38 Police seize sports offices IOC, AFC concerned Low Tide • 03:57 & 15:22 40 PAGES NO: 16978 150 FILS KUWAIT: Authorities ordered police to seize the state’s football association and Olympic committee offices. The US alarmed as action on Sunday heightened a standoff that has seen Kuwait suspended by the International Olympic Turkey strikes Committee (IOC) and world football’s governing body FIFA since October. The country did not take part in this Kurdish militia year’s Rio Olympics and will not contest the qualifiers for football’s 2018 World Cup. ISTANBUL: Turkey warned yesterday it would carry As part of his keenness on the issue, HH the Amir yes- out more strikes on a Syrian Kurdish militia if it terday received top officials of the two interim commit- failed to retreat beyond the Euphrates River, as tees tasked with taking care of affairs at the Kuwait Washington condemned their weekend clashes as Olympic Committee (KOC) and the Kuwait Football “unacceptable”. Turkish forces pressed on with a Association (KFA). The Amir encouraged the officials to two-pronged operation inside Syria against Islamic exert utmost efforts to promote the sports and youth State (IS) jihadists and the Syrian Kurdish People’s sector in Kuwait, and to bring those who break the law Protection Units (YPG), shelling over a dozen tar- to justice. gets. But strikes against the YPG are hugely sensi- The move came after the government’s sports com- tive as the Kurdish group - seen as a terror group by mission ousted Sheikh Talal Fahd Al-Sabah as head of Ankara - is allied with Turkey’s NATO partner, the the KFA and KOC. Sheikh Fahd Jaber Al-Ali has been United States, in the fight against IS in Syria. named as the new head of the Olympic committee. Ankara said it had killed 25 Kurdish “terrorists” in strikes on YPG positions on Sunday, a day after a Fawaz Al-Hassawi, who was named as new head of the Turkish soldier died in a rocket attack allegedly by football association, is the owner of English the militia. The Pentagon called the clashes “unac- Championship side Nottingham Forest. Police seized ceptable” and urged an immediate de-escalation. the offices of the football association but failed to take Turkey’s operation aims to push the YPG back over the Olympic committee headquarters. across the Euphrates River to prevent it joining up At a press conference after the football offices were the region east of the river already under its control seized, Hassawi promised increased prizes in the with a Kurdish-held area to the west. Kuwaiti championship. However, the ousted head said Ankara fears the emergence of an autonomous authorities had used “threat and intimidation” in an offi- Kurdish region in Syria would bolster Kurdish rebels KUWAIT: Police cars are seen outside the Kuwaiti Football Association (KFA) cial notice demanding that the KFA offices be handed across the border in southeast Turkey. US Vice headquarters as a strong police presence was needed to allow the KFA’s over. Sheikh Talal, in a statement released by KFA, said President Joe Biden, visiting Ankara last week, said newly-appointed leaders to take possession of the headquarters. (Inset) he had been accused of “financial violations”, over which Continued on Page 13 New Chairman of KFA Fawaz Al-Hassawi speaks during a press conference. - he demanded an investigation by Kuwaiti prosecutors. Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat ( See Page 2) Continued on Page 13 IS attack kills 71 in Yemen ADEN: An Islamic State group militant torn country. rammed his explosives-laden car into an Security officials told AFP the attack- army recruiting center in Aden yester- er drove the car bomb into a gathering Uzbek president day, killing 71 people in the deadliest of recruits at a school in the north of the jihadist attack on the Yemeni city in over port city. The recruits were among 5,000 hospitalized after a year. The army, supported by a Saudi- newly enrolled soldiers being trained to led coalition, is training young recruits fight the Houthi rebels in the north brain hemorrhage to join its nationwide war against along the border with Saudi Arabia, mil- MOSCOW: Strongman Uzbek President Islam Karimov, Houthi rebels and their allies, as well as itary sources said. Although the com- who has dominated the Central Asian nation for over other militants. Aden is the temporary plex was locked as recruits registered 25 years, is in intensive care after suffering a brain base of Yemen’s internationally recog- inside, the attacker drove in when the hemorrhage, his younger daughter said yesterday. “My nized government, which was forced gate was opened for a delivery vehicle, father was hospitalized after suffering a cerebral into exile after Iran-backed insurgents officials said. haemorrhage on Saturday morning, and is now receiv- seized Sanaa and other parts of the war- Continued on Page 13 ing treatment in an intensive care unit,” Lola Karimova- Tillyaeva, Uzbekistan’s ambas- sador to UNESCO, wrote on EL PALO, Colombia: A woman walks past a mural that reads “bilateral ceasefire” on Instagram of the 78-year-old a street in this town in the department of Cauca on Saturday. — AFP leader. She added that “his con- dition is considered stable” but that “at the moment it is too Colombia ceasefire ends early to make any predictions about his future health.” Islam Karimov 52-year war with FARC Karimov’s press service on Sunday announced that the Central Asian leader - long BOGOTA: A historic ceasefire came into in Havana after nearly four years of talks. dogged by rumors of ill health - had been hospitalized, effect in Colombia yesterday, ending a 52- Santos said the exact question that will be without giving details. The former Soviet apparatchik, year war between the FARC rebels and the put to voters in the referendum would be whose brutal crackdown on dissent has been widely government that claimed more than announced “in the coming days”. “We are criticized by rights groups, has been at the helm of the 250,000 lives. The full ceasefire ordered by on the verge of perhaps the most impor- strategic country bordering Afghanistan from since President Juan Manuel Santos and the tant political decision of our lives,” he said before it gained independence from Moscow in 1991. head of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of in a speech on Saturday. The wily leader has played off Russia, China and the Colombia (FARC), Timoleon Jimenez, Opinion polls show Colombians are West against each other to ensure Uzbekistan avoided began at midnight (0500 GMT yesterday). divided ahead of the referendum. Santos’s total isolation. “This August 29 a new phase of history top rival, former president Alvaro Uribe, is Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists begins for Colombia. We silenced the guns. leading a campaign to vote “no” to the President Vladimir Putin was “deeply grieved THE WAR WITH THE FARC IS OVER!” Santos peace deal. He says a special justice system ADEN: Fighters loyal to the government gather at the site of a suicide car bombing Continued on Page 13 wrote on Twitter one minute after mid- envisaged for crimes committed during in this southern city yesterday. — AP night. A message from the official FARC the conflict would give FARC fighters account at the same time was more impunity. Opponents question the FARC’s Lightning kills 323 restrained: “From this moment on the bilat- commitment to peace. “I don’t think we eral and definitive ceasefire begins.” can believe them,” said Felipe Giraldo, a 25- reindeer in Norway In a statement to reporters in Cuba, year-old unemployed man in Bogota. where peace talks were held, Jimenez said Others have a high personal stake in the STOCKHOLM: More than 300 wild reindeer have been he had ordered all commanders and units vote. Adelaida Bermudez, 50, hopes it will killed by lighting in central Norway. The Norwegian “and each one of our combatants to defini- bring home her daughter, a FARC fighter Environment Agency has released eerie images showing tively cease fire and hostilities against the for the past nine years. “I hope we’ll have a jumble of reindeer carcasses scattered across a small Colombian state.” Santos had issued similar peace... so the children come home,” she area on the Hardangervidda mountain plateau. The orders Thursday to the Colombian military. said in Gaitania, in the central region where agency says 323 animals were killed, including 70 calves, The ceasefire is the first in which both sides the FARC was born. in the lightning storm Friday. Agency spokesman Kjartan are committed to a definite end to the Santos and Jimenez are due to sign the Knutsen told AP it’s not uncommon for reindeer or other fighting. “The ceasefire is really one more peace agreement sometime between Sept wildlife to be killed by lightning strikes but this was an seal on the end of the conflict. It is the test 20 and 30 - possibly at the United Nations unusually deadly event. of fire,” said Carlos Alfonso Velazquez, a General Assembly in New York, said “We have not heard about such numbers before,” he security expert at the University of La Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin.