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Kuwaittimes 24-3-2019.Qxp Layout 1 RAJAB 17, 1440 AH SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 2019 28 Pages Max 27º Min 17º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17789 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Rare valve replacement Crown Prince attends CBK to distribute 20% cash Harden equals career-high 61 points; 23done at Chest Hospital Riyadh camel festival 11 dividends, 10% bonus shares 28 Lakers’ James fails to make playoffs Islamic State’s ‘caliphate’ defeated, yet threat persists Syria force captures last IS bastion of Baghouz BAGHOUZ, Syria: Kurdish-led forces pronounced the death of the Islamic State group’s nearly five-year-old “caliphate” yesterday after flushing out diehard mili- tants from their very last bastion in eastern Syria. Fighters of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces raised their yellow flag in Baghouz, the remote riverside village where militants of a variety of nationalities made a desperate, dramatic last stand. The SDF’s victory capped a deadly six-month operation against the final remnants of the caliphate which once stretched across a vast swathe of Iraq and Syria, and held seven million people in its sway. World leaders hailed the victory as a major landmark in the fight against IS and its ideology, but warned that the group that spurred a spate of global terror attacks was far from defeated. “Syrian Democratic Forces declare total elimination of so-called caliphate and 100 percent territorial defeat of ISIS,” spokesman Mustefa Bali said in a statement, using another acronym for IS. In Al-Omar, an oilfield used by the SDF as a staging base, fighters in their best fatigues laid down their weapons and broke into song and dance. They joined top Kurdish and Arab tribal officials, as well as a leading US envoy, for a ceremony unveiling a monument to their fallen comrades and celebrating the landmark victory. The state proclaimed in mid-2014 by fugitive IS supremo Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi started collapsing in (Left) An image grab released yesterday shows the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) raising their flag atop a building in the Islamic State group’s last bastion in this 2017 when parallel offensives in Iraq and Syria wrested eastern Syrian village of Baghouz. (Right) A female fighter of the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) flashes the victory gesture while celebrating near the back its main hubs Mosul and Raqqa. Omar oilfield in the eastern Syrian Deir Ezzor province yesterday. — AFP Continued on Page 24 internationally. Mideast anger His abrupt tweet triggered delight in Washington on Israel, but outrage from other countries over Trump’s in the region as well as powerhouses edge for Mueller’s such as Russia and Turkey. Moscow warned the policy U-turn could spark Golan pledge new conflicts. “Such appeals can consid- findings on Trump erably destabilize an already tense situa- DAMASCUS: Syria, its allies, and fellow tion in the Middle East,” Kremlin WASHINGTON: US Attorney General Bill Barr states in the region condemned US spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. was expected to hand Congress as early as yester- President Donald Trump’s pledge to rec- “Hopefully it will remain (just) a call.” day the key findings of the Russian meddling probe ognize Israel’s annexation of the Golan Any such move would break with UN with Washington anxious to learn if President Heights slamming the move as a violation Security Council resolutions and with Donald Trump is implicated in serious wrongdoing. of international law. Trump said more than half a century of US foreign Chronic tweeter Trump, who headed out from his Thursday it was time for Washington to policy, which treated the Golan as occu- Florida residence early for a round of golf, remained recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the pied territory whose future would be uncommonly silent after spending two years repeat- strategic territory, which it seized from negotiated in talks with Syria on a com- MAJDAL SHAMS: People stand on top of an old Israeli tank near the Israeli Syrian edly labeling Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s prehensive peace. border in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights yesterday facing the Syrian city of Continued on Page 24 Syria in the Six-Day War of 1967 and annexed in a move never recognized Continued on Page 24 Quneitra. — AFP there and at a smaller mosque for Friday ‘March for love’ prayers on March 15, killing 50 people. Al Noor was handed back to the local Muslim community yesterday and began as New Zealand allowing small groups onto its grounds around midday. “We are allowing 15 mosques reopen people at a time, just to get some nor- mality,” said Saiyad Hassen, a volunteer at Al Noor, adding that there were no CHRISTCHURCH: Muslims held emo- plans yet to fully reopen. Among the first tional prayers inside Christchurch’s main to enter was massacre survivor Vohra mosque yesterday for the first time since Mohammad Huzef, who said two of his a white supremacist massacred worship- roommates were killed and that he man- pers there, as New Zealand sought to aged to live only by hiding under bodies. return to normality after the tragedy. The “I could feel the bullets hitting the peo- Al Noor mosque had been taken over by ple and I could feel the blood coming police for investigations and security down on me from the people who were reasons after alleged gunman Brenton shot,” said Huzef, a Christchurch civil CHRISTCHURCH: Members of the local Muslim community enter the Al Noor Tarrant gunned down Muslims gathered Continued on Page 24 mosque after it was reopened yesterday. — AFP doctoral researcher in the Department of DUBAI: A handout image obtained yesterday shows T rex found Biological Sciences. “There is considerable the Burj Khalifa lit the previous night with an image size variability among Tyrannosaurus. of New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Some individuals were lankier than others —AFP in Canada is and some were more robust. Scotty exem- plifies the robust,” Persons said. world’s biggest While the giant carnivore’s skeleton was Dubai projects discovered in 1991, paleontologists spent MONTREAL: The towering more than a decade just removing the hard NZ PM’s image on Tyrannosaurus rex discovered in western sandstone that covered its bones. Only Canada in 1991 is the world’s biggest, a now have they been able to study it and team of paleontologists said Friday, follow- realize its uniqueness, which is not limited iconic skyscraper ing a decades-long process of reconstruct- to its size. “Scotty is the oldest T rex DUBAI: Dubai has projected the image of New ing its skeleton. Nicknamed Scotty for a known,” having lived into its 30s, Persons Zealand premier Jacinda Ardern onto its iconic Burj celebratory bottle of scotch consumed the said. “By Tyrannosaurus standards, it had Khalifa, the world’s tallest skyscraper, in thanks for night it was discovered, the T rex was 13 an unusually long life. And it was a violent her response to last week’s mosque shootings. Dubai meters long and probably weighed more one,” Persons said. “Riddled across the ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum than 8,800 kilos, making it bigger than all skeleton are pathologies - spots where praised Ardern’s “support to the Muslim communi- other carnivorous dinosaurs, the team from scarred bone records large injuries.” An ty” after a white supremacist gunman attacked two the University of Alberta said. exhibit featuring the dinosaur’s bones is to mosques on March 15, killing 50 people. “This is the rex of rexes,” said Scott open in May at the Royal Saskatchewan EASTEND, Canada: This undated handout photo shows Dr W Scott Persons looking at Continued on Page 24 Persons, lead author of the study and post- Museum. — AFP the skeleton of the Tyrannosaurus rex “Scotty” at the T-rex Discovery Centre. — AFP 2 Local Sunday, March 24, 2019 Austrian chancellor set to make important visit to Kuwait today Austria hails Amir’s humanitarian role VIENNA: Chancellor of Austria Sebastian Kurz is set four years after Kreisky’s maiden visit to the country. MoUs, in political, economic, scientific, air transport, to make an official visit to Kuwait today, the second one Furthermore, Kuwait is the first Arab state to establish promotion and protection of investments, and double for an Austrian chancellor since the late Bruno Kreisky political, diplomatic, and economic relationship with tax avoidance fields, in addition to signing of various visited the country back in the 1980s. Kurz’s visit coin- Austria, opening its embassy in Vienna officially in 1984 cooperation protocols between Kuwait Chamber of cides with the 54th anniversary of establishing diplo- and had had six ambassadors who contributed in bol- Commerce and its Austrian counterpart. Moreover, matic relationship between the two countries, which stering ties with the EU-member state. Kuwait News Agency has played an effective role in has been based on mutual respect and trust. It aims to The first-ever head of Kuwaiti diplomatic mission to boosting the two countries’ relationship as the first expand their bilateral ties to higher horizons. Vienna was Ambassador Abdulhameed Al-Awadhi, who Arab news agency to open and operate a bureau in The Austrian chancellor’s visit takes place less than a personally took up the task of establishing the Kuwaiti Vienna since the early 1980s. KUNA’s reporters have month since his meeting with His Highness the Amir Sheikh embassy in Austria and forming its staff. He was suc- also contributed greatly in strengthening Kuwait’s rela- Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah at an Arab-EP summit ceeded later on by Ambassador Faisal Al-Ghais, who tionship with Austria and UN bodies in Vienna over the in Egypt’s resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh last February.
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