RABI ALAWWAL 25,1440 AH MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2018 25º 28 Pages Max 150 Fils Established 1961 Min 14º ISSUE NO: 17697 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net US, China agree trade war Empire strikes back: Microsoft Chopra and Jonas wed in Germany, Netherlands to meet 11 truce after Trump, Xi meet 17 returns to the top of the world 20 lavish India ceremony 28 as England given clement draw Violations in hiring Indian nurses sent to prosecution MP Adasani reiterates rejection of fee hikes, taxes By B Izzak cedures for the possible trial of former were taken by another batch of nurses on stopping the squandering of public said he had submitted his resignation over health minister Ali Al-Obaidi and several recruited through Dubai. funds in addition to violations and achieving the outcome of an oil investigation. It was KUWAIT: Health Minister Sheikh Dr Basel former top officials over the alleged viola- In April 2015, the Indian government equality and justice in appointments and not immediately known if the resignations Al-Sabah has referred alleged violations tions. It was not immediately known if the banned the recruitment of nurses through promotions. The fresh rejection comes amid have been accepted. A number of lawmak- and corruption in the appointment of Indian Indian nurses’ case is among the cases the private agencies in a bid to stop massive fee reports that Kuwait has decided to delay ers meanwhile called on Minister of State nurses in the ministry to the public prose- former officials are being investigated for. requirements and corruption. Working with the appointment of the five-percent value- for Housing Affairs Jenan Bushehri to resign cution for legal investigations, a lawmaker In August this year, Kuwait Times high- the Kuwait government, it established six added tax until 2021. because her ministry is also partly respon- said yesterday. MP Rakan Al-Nasef said on lighted the plight of 80 Indian nurses prom- approved agencies that could recruit nurses MP Osama Al-Shaheen yesterday sible for the failure in facing the rains. The Twitter that he had sent a question to the ised jobs in Kuwait who have been stuck for Kuwait. But at the same time, some pri- praised Public Works Minister Hussam Al- minister said on Twitter yesterday that she health minister about the suspected viola- here for more than two years due to paper- vate agencies rerouted recruitment through Roumi for insisting on his resignation which has taken all the necessary measures tions involving the appointment and the work and red tape. The group of nurses, all Dubai. That recruitment process however he submitted two weeks ago over his min- regarding the issue. minister told him that the case has been with nursing qualifications from India and was not recognized by the Indian and istry’s alleged failure of facing heavy rains The Assembly’s legal and legislative referred to the public prosecution. recruited by health ministry officials, are Kuwait governments, but those nurses still that lashed the country. Shaheen praised committee is scheduled to discuss today Nasef said the case was raised during the living in government housing, but are bagged jobs in Kuwait. what he described as a welcome political several proposals for adopting summer tim- grilling of a former health minister. The law- unable to work because their certifications Meanwhile, opposition MP Riyadh Al- practice and hoped it will be adopted by ing in Kuwait and for amending the elec- maker claimed during the grilling that hun- and licensing have been held up. The nurses Adasani said yesterday that any govern- others. The lawmaker said that he was toral districts. On the summer timing, MP dreds of nurses were appointed in the min- alleged that the problem stems from cor- ment plans to increase charges of public informed in an answer to his question that Safa Al-Hashem proposed that the clock istry after paying large amounts of bribes to ruption in the recruitment process, accord- services or impose taxes will be rejected by KD 20 billion has been spent on roads in should be advanced two hours between senior ministry officials and middlemen. A ing to a Kuwait Times source. The source the National Assembly. The lawmaker said the past few years. April 1 and September 30 to take into court trying ministers began last week pro- claimed that the jobs of these 80 nurses that the government should instead focus Oil Minister Bakheet Al-Rasheedi also account the effects of heat in the country. to annoy any citizen or to open fire during the funeral,” Bodyguard killed Wahhab told Al-Jadeed TV. Wahhab accused officials including Hariri of responsibility for the killing. A US admiral found source close to Hariri, referring to Saturday’s events, after police target said: “These were judicial proceedings in which we had dead in Bahrain no intervention”. WASHINGTON: The Lebanon ex-minister Wahhab has said his comments in the video, which admiral leading US Navy appeared to have been shot by mobile phone at a pri- operations in the Middle BEIRUT: A Lebanese police raid on the home of a for- vate gathering, were “general” and not directed at East was found dead mer minister close to the powerful Hezbollah movement Rafiq Al-Hariri. Hariri’s Future Movement said last week Saturday in Bahrain, the left a bodyguard dead yesterday, as tensions with prime the Hariris were being targeted by “a campaign of military branch said, adding minister-designate Saad Hariri heightened. Politician falsehoods” hatched by “sick minds” bent on destabiliz- that no foul play was sus- Wiam Wahhab, an ally of the Syrian regime, had ing Lebanon and obstructing efforts to form the new pected in the case. Vice refused to attend an official questioning following a government. admiral Scott Stearney, complaint over angry insults he made against Hariri and Hariri was nominated for his third term as prime min- who began his post as his parents. Footage of the diatribe sparked protests ister in May but the long-awaited formation of a gov- commander of US Naval Scott Stearney from the premier’s supporters at a time when Lebanon’s ernment has been delayed by six months of wrangling. Forces Central Command - squabbling leaders are deadlocked over the formation The premier-designate last month accused Shiite including the US Fifth Fleet of a new government. movement Hezbollah of impeding the formation of the - and Combined Maritime Forces in May, was found Shots were fired during a raid by security officials on cabinet. Hezbollah has pushed for Sunni politicians dead at his residence in the Gulf country. Wahhab’s home in the Druze village of Jahliyeh on allied to the Shiite movement but opposed to Hariri to “This is devastating news for the Stearney family, for Saturday, with close associate Mohammed Abu Diab be represented in the future cabinet. Hariri, a leading the team at Fifth Fleet and for the entire Navy. Scott ending up wounded. Abu Diab died of his injuries yes- Sunni politician, has refused to give up a portfolio that Stearney was a decorated naval warrior,” Admiral John terday and was buried in the mountain village. Wahhab, would otherwise go to his own party. Richardson, chief of naval operations, said in a state- a former minister of the environment, blamed the Hezbollah is the only political party not to have ment. “At this time no foul play is suspected.” He said authorities for his bodyguard’s death but Lebanon’s disarmed after Lebanon’s 1975-1990 civil war, and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and the Internal Security Force said the fatal shots were fired has backed the Syrian regime in the war-torn country Bahraini Interior Ministry were cooperating on the by the politician’s supporters. next door. Government formation is often a drawn- investigation. The Fifth Fleet’s deputy commander, Rear Wahhab said on Saturday the incident meant “civil out process in Lebanon, where a complex governing JAHLIYEH, Lebanon: Former Lebanese minister Wiam Admiral Paul Schlise, assumed command in the wake of war” but yesterday urged calm while addressing Abu system seeks to maintain a precarious balance of Wahhab speaks during the funeral of his bodyguard Stearney’s death. Diyab’s funeral. “I am working to calm the atmosphere. power between its various political and religious Mohammed Abu Diab in this village in Mount Continued on Page 24 I have (told) the guys it is forbidden to block roads or communities. —Agencies Lebanon yesterday. — AFP nent residency, since India start- born in, India.” Naik says ed investigating him, but he has Naik has been controversial kept a low profile over the past because of his puritan brand of year amid criticism that he is a Islam - recommending the death he has not threat to peace in multi-ethnic penalty for homosexuals and Malaysia. Naik said in a late those who abandon Islam as their broken law Saturday speech in Kangar, capi- faith, according to media reports. tal of the north Malaysian state of In a clip on YouTube, Naik says KANGAR, Malaysia: Controv- Perlis, that he had never broken that if Osama bin Laden “is ter- ersial Islamic preacher Zakir any Indian law. rorizing America the terrorist, the Naik, wanted in his home country “But because I was spreading biggest terrorist, I am with him”. of India, said he has not broken peace, I was giving solution for Bangladesh suspended a televi- any Indian law and was being Zakir Naik humanity, all the people who sion channel that featured his targeted by the “enemies of don’t like peace to prevail, they preachings after media reported Islam”, in a rare public speech in been “promoting enmity and don’t like me,” he said, adding he that militants who attacked a Malaysia where he has sought hatred between different reli- was being targeted because of Dhaka cafe killing 22 people last refuge.