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RAJAB 19, 1440 AH TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2019 28 Pages Max 27º Min 20º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17791 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Saudi Crown Prince receives AUB AGM approves cash Erdogan moots renaming Djokovic downs Delbonis, Halep 211Kuwait’s top lawmaker dividend of 15 fils per share 24 Hagia Sophia a mosque 28 battles into Miami fourth round Trump signs US recognition of Israeli sovereignty over Golan Israel launches Gaza strikes after rare rocket attack near Tel Aviv WASHINGTON/GAZA: US President Donald Trump yesterday Amir fetes PAAET graduates recognized the Golan Heights as Israeli territory in an election boost for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as his chief political rival sought to appear as a better alterna- tive to lead Israel. During a White House visit by Netanyahu, Trump signed a proclamation officially granting US recognition of the Golan Heights as Israeli territory, in a dra- matic shift from decades of US policy. Israel seized the strategic land from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war. The recognition, which Trump had announced in a tweet last Thursday, appeared to be the most overt ges- ture by the Republican president to help Netanyahu, who had been WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump holds up a signed proclamation on pressing Trump for the move. the Golan Heights alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Meanwhile, Israel launched strikes the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House yesterday. — AFP on Hamas targets in Gaza hours after a rocket from the Palestinian enclave cut short his US visit after the rocket Trump said: “This was a long time in hit a house near Tel Aviv and wound- attack. He arrived in Washington on the making.” He handed the pen that ed seven people, leading to fears of a Sunday, originally for a four-day trip. he used for his signature to KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah cuts the ceremonial cake along with HH the severe escalation. Israel began its In comments from the White House, Netanyahu, and said: “Give this to Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and other officials during a ceremony to honor out- retaliatory strikes around the same Netanyahu said “Israel is responding the people of Israel.” Netanyahu standing students of the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET) for the academic year time as Netanyahu met Trump. The forcefully to this wanton aggression.” welcomed Trump’s move and said 2017/2018 yesterday. — Amiri Diwan (See Page 3) Israeli prime minister, who faces an Signing the document as Israel has never had a better friend. election on April 9, earlier yesterday Netanyahu looked over his shoulder, Continued on Page 24 lawmaker asked the minister about the number of crimes MP Mohammad Al-Dallal yesterday again criticized News in brief Hayef targets committed in the area since 2012. Hayef warned he will the finance ministry for violating the law by raising exist- grill the minister next week over security issues and an ing charges on public services and imposing new Uber to buy Mideast rival Careem undisclosed issue if he does not take the necessary pro- charges. He said some of the increases in charges are interior minister; cedures to deal with the issues he raised. justified and others are not, whether on citizens or expa- SAN FRANCISCO: Uber is set to buy its Middle Another Islamist opposition MP Adel Al-Damkhi yes- triates, but insisted that the government has no right to Eastern rival Careem for $3.1 billion, financial news Damkhi questions terday asked the ministers of interior and finance about increase charges or impose new charges on public serv- agency Bloomberg reported Sunday. The deal, the arrest and release of Syrian businessman Mazen Al- ices without a new law passed by the National Assembly. expected to be announced today, will see Uber pay release of Tarazi Tarazi, who is close to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. MP Yousef Al-Fadhalah yesterday submitted a draft $1.4 billion in cash and the rest in notes convertible to Damkhi said Tarazi was reportedly arrested on state law to amend the internal charter of the Assembly to Uber shares, Bloomberg reported. Dubai-based security and money laundering accusations, but was replace article 16 that was declared unconstitutional by Careem boasts more than a million drivers and 30 mil- By B Izzak released four days later. He asked if he was indeed the constitutional court. The new amendment stipulates lion users across 90 cities. — AFP arrested for such accusations and why was he released that any member of parliament will lose his/her seat KUWAIT: Islamist opposition MP Mohammad Hayef, and under which legal pretext. automatically and without the need for a vote in the who last week threatened a “heavyweight” grilling of the The lawmaker inquired if the ministry of interior came Assembly if they are convicted in final ruling in a felony. Flight ends up in wrong city interior minister, appears to have started the procedures under any internal or external pressure to release the It also states that if any MP loses any of the membership towards the grilling. He asked Interior Minister Sheikh Syrian businessman, and asked for the nature of such conditions specified in the constitution or the electoral LONDON: A British Airways plane flew by mistake Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah about the measures adopted pressures. Damkhi asked for the names of those who law, the Assembly will assign the legal and legislative from London to Edinburgh instead of Dusseldorf in by the ministry to safeguard security and eliminate what interrogated Tarazi and inquired if he was on US and committee to study the case and then refer its report to Germany yesterday. Passengers only found out he called negative practices in Ardiya industrial area. The European blacklists. the Assembly for a vote. about the mishap when the pilot said the plane was coming in to land in Edinburgh, which is around 800 km from Dusseldorf. After the crew realized the mis- tweeted the museum’s renowned French take, the plane was refueled and flown to Qatar’s desert architect Jean Nouvel, also responsible Dusseldorf, landing in Germany with a delay of more for the Louvre Abu Dhabi. The pale, than three and a half hours. — AFP futuristic 52,000-sq-m structure located rose museum on Doha’s waterfront corniche will be the first notable building visitors to 19 dead as floods sweep Iran finally blooms Qatar see as they make their way from the airport to the city center. Even in a TEHRAN: Major floods across much of Iran have left DOHA: Almost a decade in the making, country which is being built, rebuilt and 19 people dead and more than 90 injured, blocking three years late and at an estimated cost utterly transformed for the 2022 football roads and triggering landslides with warnings of more of $434 million, Qatar’s vast national World Cup, the national museum could heavy rain to come, emergency services said yester- museum, built in the shape of a desert be the single most eye-catching design day. Seventeen people were killed and 94 injured in the rose, opens this week. A glittering cere- of all Qatar’s new buildings. southern city of Shiraz, one person died in the western mony, expected to include Qatar’s ruler The entrance includes 114 fountain province of Kermanshah and another in Lorestan, also Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, HH sculptures in a 900-metre long lagoon in the west, rescue services said. — AFP the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al- and the museum’s multi-curved roof, Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and French which resembles a giant jigsaw puzzle, is Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, takes made up of 76,000 panels in 3,600 dif- 10 Afghan kids killed in US strike place tomorrow, with the doors opening ferent shapes and sizes. Inside, there is to the public the next day. more than 1,500 m of gallery space. DOHA: This handout picture shows a general view of the National Museum of “Architecture to give a voice to her- Among the exhibits is a 19th century KABUL: Ten children, part of the same extended Qatar building designed by French architect Jean Nouvel. — AFP family, were killed by a US air strike in Afghanistan, itage whilst celebrating (the) future,” Continued on Page 24 along with three adult civilians, the United Nations said yesterday. The air strike early on Saturday was part of a battle between the Taleban and combined On Sunday, Attorney General William Barr said in a Trump has been relatively restrained so far, but Afghan and US forces that lasted about 30 hours in Trump jubilant brief summary of the just-finished report that Mueller addressed reporters while greeting Israeli Prime Kunduz. Sgt Debra Richardson, spokeswoman for had found “no collusion with Russia”. Mueller pointedly Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. the NATO-led Resolute Support mission in said that he could not determine whether Trump had Trump said Mueller acted honorably, but also threat- Afghanistan, confirmed on Sunday that US forces after Mueller committed the crime of obstruction of justice through ened retaliation against his foes. “Yes he did,” Trump carried out the air strike. — Reuters his highly public opposition to the Russia probe, which said after Mueller - whom he often bitterly criticized finds no collusion he railed against as a “witch hunt”. “While this report during the investigation - declared there was no evi- does not conclude that the president committed a dence of collusion by Trump or his campaign.