Amir Warns Regional Conflicts Affect Development, Stability
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SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2016 SHAWWAL 21, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Marbella Philippines’ Yahoo seals Konta proud to host Duterte vows $4.8bn deal topples Venus Kuwait-Spain no mercy in with Verizon for for first festival4 crime12 war its21 core assets WTA20 title Amir warns regional conflicts Min 32º affect development, stability Max 45º High Tide 04:08 & 16: 01 Arab Summit slams terror waged in name of Islam Low Tide 10:20 & 22:42 40 PAGES NO: 16943 150 FILS NOUAKCHOTT: Critical conditions, hazardous events and accelerating changes continue to undermine the Stranded in UAE, stability of the region and waste time and efforts at the expense of development and the realization of peoples’ duped workers expectations in Arab countries, HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah stressed in a state- appeal for help ment to the opening session of the 27th Arab Summit that kicked off in the Mauritanian capital yesterday. CHENNAI: Indians workers stranded in the United They have also added fresh and dangerous dimen- Arab Emirates with expired work permits, no pay sions to the challenges facing the joint Arab action, the and limited food, water and sanitation have Amir said. He said that the situation in Syria is getting appealed to the Indian government for immediate graver and the volume of destruction, killing and home- repatriation and financial assistance. “Please help us lessness is doubling, together with suffering of the reunite with our families,” a migrant said in a video “Syrian brothers”. HH the Amir also referred to the clip, adding that there were nearly 100 workers efforts to alleviate the suffering of the Syrian people. stuck with no money or documents to get back Kuwait has hosted the first, second and third interna- home. Fifteen workers from southern Indian state of tional humanitarian pledging conferences for Syria, and Tamil Nadu, who are among those at a camp for co-chaired the fourth one, he said. migrant workers, have urged the Indian govern- The humanitarian crisis in Syria is aggravating as the ment to bring them home immediately. international community is watching, and has unfortu- “We received their complaint a few days back nately failed to conclude a political solution to end the and sent it to our mission in Abu Dhabi asking for suffering, raise Syrians’ hopes and in the meantime con- immediate repatriation and ensuring the compa- tribute to rid the world of the evils of terrorism that has nies they were working for pay their salaries,” said come to pose a threat to world stability and has dou- an official in the Indian foreign ministry, who bled victims, the Amir said. declined to be named. Government figures show On Yemen, HH the Amir referred to hopes that the there are an estimated six million Indian migrants in conflict in the country would come to an end. Although the six Gulf states of Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi the political consultations for peace in Yemen Kuwait Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Oman. has been hosting for more than two months have not Continued on Page 13 NOUAKCHOTT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is seen during the 27th Arab Summit reached an agreement to end the destructive conflict that kicked off in the Mauritanian capital yesterday. — KUNA Continued on Page 13 News Islamic State claims new German attack in brief ANSBACH, Germany: A Syrian asylum dier of the Islamic State” who had acted “in Education Ministry seeker who blew himself up outside a response to calls to target nations in the German music festival had made a video coalition fighting” the extremists. Europe’s updates curricula pledging allegiance to the Islamic State economic powerhouse was already reeling KUWAIT: The upcoming scholastic year will witness group, authorities said yesterday, in the after four passengers and a passer-by were ‘qualitative leap’ in updating the national curricula, second attack claimed by the jihadists in wounded in an axe attack on a train in including new materials that boost skills and implant Germany in a week. The 27-year-old Wuerzburg on July 18, which IS also patriotism among the students, a senior official said assailant wounded 15 people, four of them claimed. yesterday. New textbooks will be published for the seriously, near a cafe in the southern city of Then on Friday, nine people were killed high-school level, covering philosophy, economics, soci- Ansbach on Sunday night when he set off in a shopping center shooting spree in ology and Kuwait history; the latter intended to ingrain a bomb in his rucksack, killing himself. Munich by a German-Iranian teenager patriotic values in the students’ consciousness, said Dr “A video made by the assailant was with a history of psychological problems Saud Al-Harbi, the assistant undersecretary for the edu- found on his mobile phone in which he but no apparent links to Islamists. Already cational curricula, in a statement today. The Ministry of threatened an attack,” Bavarian state interi- steeped in grief and shock, Germans were Education adopts a strategy aimed at enhancing stu- or minister Joachim Herrmann told further rattled by news that a Syrian dents’ cultural and national awareness, in line with the reporters. “After that he announced in the refugee had killed a 45-year-old Polish approach to bringing up a good citizen, one who name of Allah that he pledged allegiance woman with a large kebab knife at a respects freedom of expression, works faithfully for the to (IS chief) Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the snack bar in the southwestern city of homeland and respects others’ cultures, human rights well-known Islamist leader, and Reutlingen on Sunday. Police, who had and cares for the environment. announced an act of revenge against initially said the murder weapon was a Germans because they were standing in machete, concluded that the incident in ANSBACH, Germany: A police officer in protective gear inspects a backpack used the way of Islam.” which three others were injured was likely Madagascar fire kills to carry an explosive device at the scene of a suicide attack in this southern IS later said via the jihadist-linked Amaq a “crime of passion”. 38, including 16 kids German city yesterday. — AFP news agency that the attacker “was a sol- Continued on Page 13 ANTANANARIVO: A house fire during a party in Madagascar has killed 38 people including 16 chil- dren as the blaze ripped through a thatched roof, Dems’ convention police said. The victims - the youngest only six Cassation Court upholds months old - were trapped inside the house in the village of Ambalavato, in the rural center of the starts under cloud Sheikh Ahmad acquittal island, when the fire broke out on Saturday night. The partygoers, including the home owner’s wife PHILADELPHIA: Bernie Sanders yesterday before the start of the Philadelphia con- Turaiji questions Saleh on KIA and seven of his children, were celebrating the ren- urged his supporters to back Democratic vention to formally nominate Clinton for By B Izzak means Kuwait cannot take part in ovation of the house. The owner himself was away rival Hillary Clinton in her White House the Nov 8 election, and yesterday she qualifying for the 2018 football World at the time. The blaze is believed to have started bid, drawing jeers and shouts of “We bowed to pressure and agreed not to KUWAIT: The court of cassation, the Cup and the IOC suspension means from embers of a fire that had been used earlier to want Bernie” in a show of discord as the open the convention. Speaking to his highest tribunal in the country, yester- Kuwaiti athletes are barred from the cook food for guests. It was fanned by the wind, party kicked off its national convention. supporters, Sanders savaged Republican day upheld the acquittal of Sheikh Rio de Janeiro Olympics next month. spreading first to a bale of dry rice straw next to The boos underscored the deeply felt presidential candidate Donald Trump, Ahmad Al-Fahd Al-Sabah of charges of Kuwait’s government has separately the house before it caught hold of the grass thatch anger his convention delegates feel at calling him a danger to the future of the insulting the judiciary and casting filed a lawsuit against Sheikh Ahmad, on the roof. Due to frequent muggings and other both Clinton’s win and embarrassing country who “must be defeated,” but doubt over its integrity. The criminal his brother Sheikh Talal - the chairman crimes, the party guests chose to stay at the host’s emails leaked on Friday suggesting the some in the room booed when he said court sentenced Sheikh Ahmad, a sen- of Kuwait Olympic Committee - and house rather than return home for the night. party leadership had worked to sabotage “we have got to elect Hillary Clinton” and ior member of the ruling family and 13 other officials over the bans. It is Funerals for the 38 victims were held yesterday. Sanders’ campaign for the nomination. her vice presidential running mate, US former oil minister, to six months in jail also demanding hundreds of millions Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia. in December over the charge of insult- of dollars in damages. Parliament last World needs 31,000 as party chairwoman on Sunday, a day Continued on Page 13 ing the public prosecutor during a tel- month passed legislation introducing evision interview. The sentence was sweeping changes to sports laws but new pilots a year overturned by the court of appeals in several MPs said the amendments NEW YORK: Global airlines will need an average of January, and the acquittal was con- were unlikely to lead to the ban 31,000 new pilots every year for the next two decades firmed yesterday in the final ruling, being lifted.