SHAABAN 30, 1440 AH SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 28 Pages Max 38º Min 24º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17824 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Israel, the only obstacle to Major disaster averted China ‘putting Muslims 9-man Spurs stunned; Elliott 5 WMD-free Mideast: Kuwait 6 as Fani hits Bangladesh 24 in concentration camps’ 28 becomes EPL youngest player Gaza-Israel hostilities flare up with rocket attacks, air strikes Violence up before Ramadan, Independence Day, Eurovision GAZA: Gaza militants fired dozens of rockets into Israel yesterday, drawing a wave of Israeli air strikes that Amir congratulates killed one Palestinian gunman, as hostilities flared across the border for a second day. The escalation began on citizens, residents Friday, when two Israeli soldiers were wounded by Gaza gunfire near the border. A retaliatory Israeli air strike killed two militants from the Islamist Hamas group that on Holy Ramadan governs Gaza. Two other Palestinians protesting near KUWAIT: His Highness the frontier were also killed by Israeli forces. Yesterday, the Amir Sheikh Sabah Israel hit Gaza with air strikes and tank fire after Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Palestinian militants fired about 150 rockets toward Sabah congratulated the Israeli cities and villages. Kuwaiti citizens and resi- The Israeli military said its forces had carried out dents on the advent of attacks against more than 30 targets belonging to the Holy Month of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group. A Ramadan the Amiri small armed pro-Hamas group in Gaza, The Protectors Diwan said yesterday. His of Al-Aqsa, said one of its men was killed in an air strike Highness the Amir, along yesterday. The Gaza Health Ministry said six Palestinians with His Highness the were wounded. Residents identified two of them as mili- His Highness the Amir tants. The Palestinian Education Ministry said it was Crown Prince Sheikh Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al- evacuating schools in areas under Israeli bombardment. Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Across the border, rocket sirens sent Israelis running Jaber Al-Sabah and Al- GAZA: A picture taken from the Gaza Strip shows smoke billowing following an airstrike by Israel in response to Sabah family will hold a reception for Ramadan to shelters, and the Magen David Adom ambulance rockets fired by Palestinian militants. A barrage of around 50 rockets was fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip yester- service said one woman was seriously wounded by well-wishers from the army, National Guard day and dozens were intercepted by air defenses. — AFP (KNG), Fire Service Directorate (KFSD) and Continued on Page 24 diplomats on the first two days of the Holy Month at Bayan Palace, the Amiri Diwan added. The Amiri Diwan noted that His Highness the Amir expressed defense attorney who was on board the his regret for not receiving citizen and resident Boeing plane flight, told CNN. “And then it sort of well-wishers this year. The Amiri Diwan extended swerved and then it came to a complete wishes of prosperity for the leadership and people crash stop.” Some oxygen masks of Kuwait, wishing many happy returns of this joy- skids into deployed and overhead lockers flew ous occasion. — KUNA open during the landing, she added. Florida river Twenty-one adults were taken to local hospitals, but none were critically MIAMI: A Boeing 737 skidded off a injured, Jacksonville sheriff’s office said runway into a river after crash-landing on Twitter. Others were treated for minor News in brief during a lightning storm in Florida on injuries at the scene. Captain Michael Friday, officials said, with terrified pas- Connor, commanding officer at Naval Air 90 infected by HIV syringe sengers all safely evacuated to shore Station Jacksonville, told a news confer- from the stricken jet’s wings. The plane ence early yesterday it was a “miracle” KARACHI: At least 90 people, including 65 chil- carrying 143 people including crew from no more serious injuries or fatalities had dren, are believed to have been infected with the Guantanamo Bay in Cuba slammed into occurred. HIV virus in Pakistan by a doctor using a contami- shallow water next to a naval air station “We could be talking about a differ- nated syringe, officials said Friday. “We have in Jacksonville after a hard landing that ent story this evening, so I think there’s a arrested a doctor after receiving complaints from saw the plane bounce and swerve down lot to say about, you know, the profes- the health authorities,” said Kamran Nawaz, the the runway, passengers said. sionalism of the folks that helped the local police chief heading the case in the southern No fatalities or critical injuries were passengers off the airplane ... it very well city of Larkana. “We are told that the doctor also reported. “As we went down ... the plane could be worse,” he said. All 136 passen- has HIV,” he said. Authorities were first alerted bounced and screeched and bounced gers and seven aircrew on board had FLORIDA: This image released by the US Navy shows a Boeing 737 aircraft carrying last week after 18 children from a town on the more and lifted to the right and then it been accounted for, NAS Jacksonville 136 passengers and seven crew members after it skid into the St Johns River during outskirts of the city tested positive for the virus, lifted to the left,” Cheryl Bormann, a Continued on Page 24 landing. — AFP which causes AIDS, prompting health officials to carry out wider screenings. Dozens more infec- tions were found. “More than 90 people have king receiving sacred water and dabbing tested HIV positive and the number of children is it gently across his face at a shrine inside around 65,” Dr Abdul Rehaman, a district health Thailand crowns the Grand Palace complex. A cannon official in Larkana said. — AFP salute marked the moment as pipes king in ornate played and Buddhist monks chanted. Ebola epidemic kills 1,008 Several grey-haired Hindu Brahmins ceremonies were also in attendance at a ceremony KINSHASA: More than 1,000 people have now that symbolizes Rama X’s transformation BANGKOK: To the boom of cannons, died of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of from human to divine figure. He later pipes and chants, King Maha Congo, authorities said, as aid workers warned that took his seat under the umbrella of state the highly contagious virus combined with insecu- Vajiralongkorn was crowned yesterday in and was handed the Great Crown of rity in the restive region was creating a “deeply a ceremony governed by centuries-old Victory, a 7.3-kilogram tiered gold head- worrying situation”. The current outbreak is the rituals, vowing a righteous reign and call- piece topped by a diamond from India. second deadliest on record, after an epidemic ing for “national security” and “happiness” Draped in bejeweled royal regalia sum- killed more than 11,300 people in West Africa in in a remarkable display of royal power. moning images of another era, in contrast 2014-2016. Efforts to roll back the outbreak of the Starting at the auspicious time of 10:09 with consumer-mad Bangkok outside haemorrhagic fever have been hampered by fight- am, the public was granted a rare window palace walls, Vajiralongkorn vowed to reign ing but also by resistance within communities to into the cloistered halls of Thai royalty as “with righteousness” for the benefit of preventative measures, care facilities and safe the three-day coronation began. Thais. In a later audience with royal family burials. “In total, there have been 1,008 deaths,” King Vajiralongkorn is the tenth members and some of the most powerful the health ministry said. The central African coun- monarch of the Chakri dynasty, which people in the country, including junta chief try declared a 10th outbreak of Ebola in 40 years has reigned over the kingdom since Prayut Chan-O-Cha, he implored all to last August centered in the city of Beni in North 1782. He ascended the throne over two work for “the people’s benefit with pros- Kivu province before the virus spread into the years ago following the death of his perity, national security, peacefulness and neighboring Ituri region.— AFP beloved father. Yesterday’s somber cere- happiness of people as our highest goal”. BANGKOK: Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn sits on a royal palanquin following mony opened with the white-gowned Continued on Page 24 his coronation ceremony at the Grand Palace in Bangkok. — AFP Rouhani’s brother jailed DUBAI: An Iranian court has sentenced President pollution, where hundreds of thousands of species risk each year. The report, compiled from more than 15,000 Hassan Rouhani’s brother to an unspecified jail term, Lost world: Report extinction. Here is a rundown of the report’s key find- academic papers and research publications, estimates state news agency IRNA reported yesterday, in a cor- ings, which read like a charge sheet against history’s that 75 percent of land, 40 percent of oceans and 50 ruption case the president’s supporters allege is politi- most destructive creatures: ourselves. percent of rivers “manifest severe impacts of degrada- cally motivated. “This person (Hossein Fereydoun) was shows Nature at Earth’s population has doubled in 50 years. Not only tion” from human activity. found not guilty on some charges, while he was sen- are we living longer than ever before, we are also con- The document, the first of its kind in 15 years, paints tenced to prison on other accusations,” IRNA quoted death’s door suming more. Today, humans extract around 60 billion a picture of rife inequality, with richer nations consum- judiciary official Hamidreza Hosseini as saying.