THULHIJJA 5, 1440 AH TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 2019 28 Pages Max 48º Min 32º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17901 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Government tasks ministry of Nigeria Shiite leader granted ‘Nothing but blood’: Female Maguire becomes world’s 3 finance to pay for rain damage 8 bail for medical care in India 22 cartoonist draws Syria’s Idlib 28 most expensive defender 20 killed as car explodes outside hospital in Cairo Amir strongly denounces terrorist attack CAIRO: Twenty people were killed and 47 injured when The interior ministry said the car involved in the inci- a car packed with explosives intended for a militant dent had been stolen a few months ago. “The initial tech- attack blew up outside Cairo’s main cancer hospital yes- nical examination also showed that the car contained terday, the interior ministry said. Officials initially said the explosives, and the collision led to their detonation,” a explosion was caused when a car driving against the ministry statement said. “It is estimated that the car was traffic collided with three other cars. The front of the being transported to a location for use in the execution hospital suffered extensive damaged, with an entrance of a terrorist operation,” the ministry added. It said the wrecked and rubble strewn over the pavement. Victims’ Hasm militant group was responsible for rigging up the belongings were scattered among the debris. car. Egypt accuses Hasm, which emerged in 2016 and President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi described the blast as a has claimed several attacks, of being a wing of the out- “terrorist incident”. In a social media post, he offered his lawed Muslim Brotherhood. Egypt’s oldest Islamist condolences to the victims’ families and the Egyptian movement denies this and says it seeks change through people. HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber peaceful means only. Al-Sabah yesterday sent a cable of condolences to Sisi The explosion caused a blaze that forced the partial expressing condolences. The Amir expressed Kuwait’s evacuation of the National Cancer Institute, the health strong condemnation of this blatant terrorist action, ministry said. One resident, who gave her name as Salwa, denounced by all tenets and humanitarian values; an said bodies had been fused together by the explosion. attack that targeted innocent lives, security and stability “There was a sound of an extremely loud blast. It was no of the brotherly country. He expressed Kuwait’s rejection way two cars crashing. The car must have been rigged of all forms of terrorism, affirming that it stands alongside with explosives,” she told Reuters Television. Another the brotherly country and supports all measures aimed witness, who declined to give his name, said the car’s at preserving its security and stability. driver ran away before it exploded. HH the Amir prayed Almighty Allah bestow mercy Later in the morning, investigators scoured the scene upon the souls of those who lost their lives in the terror- amid a heavy police presence. Egypt’s public prosecutor ist attack and wished quick recovery for the injured. HH is investigating the incident, sources told Reuters. the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi expressed his condo- Sabah and HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al- lences to the Egyptian people and the families of the vic- Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah sent similar cables to the tims. He pledged to eradicate “this brutal terrorism”. CAIRO: Onlookers gather around a charred car just before midnight on Sunday outside the National Cancer Egyptian president. Continued on Page 24 Institute in the Egyptian capital. — AFP Sunday with all telecommunications News in brief Uproar as India there cut. Home Minister Amit Shah, a close ally of Modi, told parliament the president had issued a decree abolishing Court issues big divorce bill scraps Kashmir’s Article 370 of the constitution, which gives special autonomy to the Himalayan KUWAIT: A court issued a final ruling to commit special status region. The decree said the measure a Kuwaiti to pay KD 1,000 per month to his came into force “at once”. divorced wife and children, KD 1,500 to hire two NEW DELHI: The Indian government Pakistan’s foreign ministry con- maids, KD 160 per month for the two maids’ yesterday stripped Kashmir of the special demned the move as “illegal”. “As the salaries, KD 5,000 for a car, KD 500 to hire a autonomy it has had for seven decades, party to this international dispute, driver, and KD 100 per month for the driver’s prompting a furious response from Pakistan will exercise all possible options salary. — By Meshaal Al-Enezi nuclear-armed rival Pakistan and raising to counter the illegal steps,” it said in a fears of further violence in the Muslim- statement. A senior Pakistani security majority Himalayan region. India’s Prime source said that a meeting of the Iran quake felt in Kuwait Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nation- Pakistani military’s top commanders had alist party rushed through a presidential been called for today. Kashmir has been KUWAIT: Residents of some Kuwaiti areas felt decree to scrap from the constitution the divided between India and Pakistan Sunday night a 5.2-magnitude earthquake which Indian-ruled part of the disputed territo- since their independence in 1947. struck western Iran, the Kuwait National Seismic ry’s special status. It also moved a bill For three decades the Indian-adminis- Network said. “At 10.15 pm, residents of Kuwait’s proposing the Indian-administered part tered part has been in the grip of an coastal areas felt the quake which hit Iran,” direc- of Kashmir be divided into two regions insurgency that has left tens of thousands tor of the National Seismic Network Abdullah Al- directly ruled by New Delhi. dead. Armed Kashmiri rebels and many Enezi told KUNA. He said the center of the quake Ahead of the announcements, tens of residents have fought for the region’s was 10 km deep and at a distance of 300 km from thousands of extra Indian troops were independence or to join neighbor NEW DELHI: Activists and supporters of Indian leftwing parties shout slogans Kuwait City. — KUNA deployed in the territory, and a security Pakistan. during a demonstration to protest against the presidential decree abolishing lockdown was imposed overnight Continued on Page 24 Article 370 yesterday. — AFP shootings that left 22 dead at a Walmart store Trump condemns in El Paso, Texas and another nine outside a bar in Dayton, Ohio, Trump offered little in the way UK joins US in white supremacy of new ideas for a country awash with guns and painfully accustomed to mass shootings. “Our Gulf mission nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and white after shootings supremacy,” Trump said. He stressed that men- tal illness was the main culprit fueling mass after Iran taunts WASHINGTON: US President Donald shootings in America, as opposed to the ready Trump yesterday told a nation mourning the availability of firearms or extremist thinking, as death of 31 people in two weekend mass argued by gun control advocates. shootings that he rejected racism and white At the sites of America’s latest massacres - supremacist ideology, moving to blunt criti- numbers 250 and 251 so far this year - people cism that his anti-immigrant rhetoric fuels vio- came to honor the dead. Makeshift memorials lence. As flags flew at half mast at the White with candles, flowers, heart-shaped balloons and House and across the country and the death posters with messages of condolence sprang up toll edged up by one, Trump made an unusual- outside the Walmart in Texas and the Dayton ly direct condemnation of racists as he took bar. “You are loved,” read an inscription on a WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump speaks alongside Vice President on the role of consoler in chief. small yellow cardboard heart placed outside the Mike Pence about the mass shootings from the Diplomatic Reception Room But as the country tried to digest weekend Continued on Page 24 of the White House yesterday. — AFP TEHRAN: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during a press conference the Arctic Circle as well. Wildfires unprecedented in records will continue to be broken in the future.” yesterday.—AFP July hottest month scope and intensity burned in Siberia and Alaska, Compared with the 1981-2010 period, average July releasing more than 100 million tonnes of CO2 into the temperatures this year rose highest in Alaska, LONDON: Britain said yesterday it will join forces atmosphere across June and July. Greenland, Siberia, central Asia, Iran and large swathes with the United States to protect merchant vessels ever; 2019 to be At the same time, Greenland’s ice sheet shed massive of Antarctica. Africa and Australia were also well above in the Gulf amid heightened tensions with Iran, amounts of melted ice daily, totalling nearly 200 billion average. Globally, July 2019 was marginally warmer - after Tehran taunted Washington that its allies were among warmest tonnes in July alone, according to the Danish by 0.04 degrees Celsius - than the previous record-hot too “ashamed” to join the mission. Britain’s decision Meteorological Institute. “While July is usually the month, July 2016. to form the joint maritime taskforce with the United PARIS: July was the hottest month across the globe warmest month of the year for the globe, according to The new record is all the more notable because the States marks a departure in policy under new ever measured, and 2019 is on track to be one of the our data it also was the warmest month recorded glob- 2016 record followed a strong El Nino, which boosts Prime Minister Boris Johnson, after efforts under warmest years, according to data released yesterday by ally, by a very small margin,” Jean-Noel Thepaut, head average global temperatures beyond the impact of his predecessor Theresa May to form a European- the European Union’s Earth observation network.