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SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2015 SAFAR 10, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Vet: Not enough Why a mother Warhol, Pollock, Suarez, Neymar awareness on entrusted her Rothko on humiliate need to control family to people rare display Real in 4-0 stray animals4 smugglers8 in39 Tehran ‘Clasico’20 romp Brussels on lockdown in Min 10º fear of Paris-style attack Max 23º High Tide 07:59 & 20:48 Minister wants door-to-door hunt in Molenbeek Low Tide 02:05 & 14:25 40 PAGES NO: 16705 150 FILS BRUSSELS: Brussels was on terror lockdown yesterday in fear of a Paris-style attack, with a gunman wanted KAC suspends over the deadly rampage in the French capital a week ago still on the run. The Belgian capital closed its metro Beirut flights system and shuttered shops and public buildings as a terror alert was raised to its highest level over reports of By Meshaal Al-Enezi an “imminent threat” of a gun and bomb attack similar to the horror seen in Paris. Investigators are working KUWAIT: Kuwait Airways yesterday said it was suspend- around the clock to track Brussels resident Salah ing its Beirut flights “as a precautionary measure”, but Abdeslam, one of the gunmen still on the loose after a most other flights were arriving and leaving normally, coordinated wave of attacks on Parisian nightspots that after Moscow requested airlines avoid an area over the left 130 people dead on Nov 13. eastern Mediterranean. In a precautionary measure tak- Belgium-based jihadists are increasingly at the heart en to ensure passengers’ safety, Kuwait Airways can- of the Paris investigation and police have multiplied celled four flights to and from Beirut over the past two raids in the city’s immigrant districts in a rush to stop a days. The decision was made due to the state of confu- repeat of Islamic State-inspired attacks that have killed sion prevailing in Beirut after Russia asked Lebanon’s hundreds around the world in recent weeks. Belgian Civil Aviation authority to divert all civilian flight routes Prime Minister Charles Michel said authorities feared a because it planned to conduct drills and maneuvers in “Paris-style” assault “with explosives and weapons at the Mediterranean. several locations” as he urged citizens to limit their Lebanese Transport Minister Ghazi Zeaiter said movements. Moscow asked “that planes leaving Beirut airport The carnage in Paris has put all of Europe on edge towards the west avoid overflying an area in amid fears that IS extremists can move operatives Mediterranean territorial waters because of maneuvers freely among target countries in an abuse of the EU’s on Saturday, Sunday and Monday”. There was no confir- open-border Schengen zone system. In Turkey, police mation from Moscow, but a Lebanese airport official arrested a Belgian of Moroccan origin in connection said departing flights would be directed south over with the Paris attacks in the resort of Antalya, the site of Sidon and Sarafand to “keep them away from the this week’s G20 summit, along with two other suspects, perimeter of the maneuvers”. probably Syrians. Ahmet Dahmani, 26, is accused of Lebanon’s national carrier Middle East Airlines said helping to scout the Paris attacks and then preparing most of its flights would be on schedule but “some to illegally cross the Turkish-Syrian border to rejoin IS flights to the Gulf and the Middle East region might after arriving in Turkey from Amsterdam on his Belgian take (a) longer time due to a slight change in airways”. passport. BRUSSELS: Soldiers patrol a pedestrian shopping street in the Belgian capital yesterday. — AFP Continued on Page 13 Ex-FM details youth challenges Unemployment, lack of democracy plague Arab world LONDON: The Arab region is plagued by develop youth skills and include them in lack of job opportunities, knowledge and the process of decision making and Rivals condemn real notions of democracy, member of the reforms. Utilizing recent technologies UN high-level advisory committee Sheikh provided by the Internet and social Trump’s call to Dr Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah media, Arab youth between the ages of said in a speech late on Friday focusing on 15-29 could make a difference in terms of register Muslims challenges facing Arab youth, which was developing their nations, said Sheikh held as part of the 14th Mohammad, noting that WASHINGTON: Donald Trump’s support for register- Middle East business con- Kuwait since 2009 had ing US Muslims in a database drew criticism Friday ference at a British univer- launched a one billion dol- from rival Republicans and Democratic presidential sity. lar fund to support small frontrunner Hillary Clinton, According to numbers and medium size enterpris- amid bursts of controver- from the World Bank, es, a launchpad for youth to sial rhetoric from GOP can- around 54 percent of follow their aspirations. Members of the Basij, the paramilitary unit of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, gather didates. Trump, leading the youth in the Middle East He also indicated that around a replica of Jerusalem’s gold-topped Dome of the Rock mosque as one of polls for the Republican and North Africa (MENA) his country, through the them waves an Iranian flag from the top of the dome during a military exercise nomination, has made sev- are unemployed, said Kuwait Fund for Arab on Friday. — AP eral belligerent remarks Sheikh Mohammad, who Economic Development about Muslims and Syrian added that three out of (KFAED), had provided refugees in the wake of last four women in the region Sheikh Mohammad loans worth $15 billion to Iran Guards ‘liberate’ week’s attacks in Paris were also unemployed. He stressed that some 100 countries to help them devel- claimed by the Islamic Arab governments are now forced to cre- op their projects. Sheikh Mohammad State extremist group. ate 100 million jobs till 2020 to counter also noted that Kuwait played a crucial Aqsa Mosque in drill Trump was asked by Donald Trump the alarming unemployment numbers. part in easing the suffering of refugees, TEHRAN: Thousands of paramilitary forces replica of the mosque in the exercise. They NBC News on Thursday Sheikh Mohammad, Kuwait’s former indicating that three donor conferences from Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard say that 120 brigades from the Basij, the whether he would support creating a database sys- foreign minister, called on Arab govern- were held in Kuwait to aid Syrian have held a war game simulating the cap- paramilitary unit of the Guard, participat- tem to track Muslims. “I would certainly implement ments to support the public sector as refugees with $1.8 billion pledged. ture of Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque from ed in Friday’s exercise outside the holy city that. Absolutely,” Trump told the network at a cam- part of the solution to the problem, Kuwait will also co-organize the fourth Israeli control, state media reported yester- of Qom in central Iran. paign stop in Iowa. adding that the educational system in the conference to be held in London in Feb day. It said forces stormed and “liberated” a Continued on Page 13 Continued on Page 13 region should also be overhauled to 2016, he added.— KUNA Obama puts human face on Syria refugee debate KUALA LUMPUR: Brushing off refugee worries at home, President Barack Obama crouched alongside migrant children yesterday and declared they are the opposite of terrorists wreaking havoc from Paris to Mali. Working to put a human face on the refugee crisis, he said, “They’re just like our kids.” The refugees Obama encountered at a school for poor children in Malaysia were not from Syria, and unlike the flood of Syrians meeting steep resistance in the US, these migrants had already been cleared to resettle in America. Still, Obama said their faces could have been those of kids from Syria, Iraq and other war- torn regions whose pursuit of a life free from violence led them far from their native homes. “They were indistinguishable from any child in America,” Obama said. “The notion that somehow we would be fearful of them - that our politics would some- how lead us to turn our sights away from their plight - is not representative of the best of who we are.” More than mere musings, Obama’s comments were intended as a direct rebuke to those demanding a halt to Syrian and KUALA LUMPUR: US President Barack Obama gets a hug from a 16-year-old Iraqi refugees entering the US in the light of the Islamic This photo provided by NASA shows NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft capturing refugee from Myanmar after speaking about the refugee situation during a State’s attacks in Paris. visit to the Dignity for Children Foundation yesterday. — AP Pluto rotating over the course of a full “Pluto day”, in an unprecedented flyby in Continued on Page 13 July 2015. — AP LOCAL SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2015 In my view Lesson from Paris By Muna Al-Fuzai [email protected] he bloody events in Paris last week claimed the lives of dozens of people and injured Tscores of others, provoking anger and pan- KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah (center) speaks during a visit to the state security department’s head- ic. Despite the large number of news reports and quarters. analyses about the terrorists, the perpetrators of the crime and the loss of innocent lives, the sanctity of the dead in France and respect for Interior Minister lauds state security officers the grief their parents and friends were main- tained. No photos were published of the bodies KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior rity commanders.