SAFAR 5,1440 AH SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2018 Max 43º 28 Pages Min 24º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17656 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Oman Shura lauds Amir’s US pastor arrives home from Anwar returns to frontline On-field great Henry returns 2 efforts to resolve Gulf crisis 6 Turkey, Trump thanks Erdogan 24 politics in big election win 28 to prove himself in coaching Sisi commends Amir’s role in regional stability, security Egyptian president meets Kuwaiti media delegation to discuss a range of topics CAIRO: HH the Amir of Kuwait Kuwait is an issue of vital impor- Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber tance for Egypt. Asked about the Riyadh slams Al-Sabah continues to play a pivotal drastic developments in the Arab role in maintaining regional stability region since 2011, Sisi pointed out ‘baseless lies’; and security, Egyptian President that what transpired was not neces- Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said yesterday. sarily the correct reaction to very This statement came during Sisi’s serious issues and problems. “Arab Trump warns meeting with heads of Kuwaiti intellectuals and those who are newspapers, Kuwait News Agency enlightened must carry on their role of ‘punishment’ (KUNA), and board members of to guide future generations through Kuwait Journalists Association an adequate description of what was ISTANBUL: A delegation of a dozen (KJA). Kuwaiti Ambassador to really occurring in our countries,” Saudi officials was in Turkey yesterday Egypt Saleh Al-Thuwaikh also stated Sisi, who called on such lead- for talks on the disappearance of jour- ISTANBUL: A cat sits on a stool at the doors attended the meeting. ing figures to look into the lessons nalist Jamal Khashoggi after Riyadh of the Saudi consulate yesterday. — AFP Sisi lauded during the meeting that could be learned from the expe- slammed as “baseless lies” Turkish the distinguished relations between riences of the past. accusations he was killed inside its Saudi national had recorded his own Kuwait and Egypt, especially during With regards to Egypt, the Istanbul consulate. Meanwhile, US interrogation inside the mission on an the era of HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah president said the Egyptian people President Donald Trump threatened Apple Watch. Turkish officials have and the previous rulers of Kuwait. had spoken when they came out in Riyadh yesterday with “severe punish- said they believe Khashoggi was killed “Such a relationship is a model to millions in June 2013 to determine ment” if Khashoggi was killed. Turkey inside the consulate and lurid claims follow when concerned with broth- their future and take charge of later accused Saudi Arabia of failing to have been leaked to media that he was erly and friendly ties among Arab their own destiny. Touching on cooperate with a probe into the disap- tortured and even dismembered. nations and brethren,” affirmed Sisi, Egyptian efforts to deescalate ten- pearance of Khashoggi. Comments by Saudi insists Khashoggi, a who added that the Arab world is sion between Hamas and Israel, Sisi Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Washington Post contributor whose not only connected through inter- said peace in the Middle East was Cavusoglu represented a hardening of writings have been critical of powerful ests, but also via a unified destiny a strategic option to bring upon a Ankara’s hitherto circumspect tone Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and future. just and comprehensive solution for over the case. left the building safely but has yet to The strength of Kuwaiti and the Palestinian cause. He hoped With the mystery over Khashoggi offer visual evidence of this. The outcry Egyptian relations was evident in that efforts would lead to the unresolved 11 days after he walked into surrounding his disappearance threat- the 1973 war against Israel and the establishment of an independent 1991 liberation of Kuwait from Iraqi Palestinian state with east the consulate and failed to reappear, a ens to not just harm brittle CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi meets Kuwait Times pro-government Turkish daily said the Continued on Page 24 aggressors, noted Sisi, who stressed Jerusalem as its capital. that the security and stability of Continued on Page 2 Editor-in-Chief Abd Al-Rahman Al-Alyan yesterday. — KUNA protests Friday after they broke through News in brief Gazans mourn 7 the heavily-guarded border fence and attacked an army post. Turkey names street after Malcolm X Army spokesman Jonathan Conricus killed in clashes; said around 20 Palestinians had crossed ANKARA: Turkey yesterday renamed the road the border in an “organized attack” after where the new US embassy is to be located after the woman killed by an explosive device destroyed a portion American black Muslim civil rights campaigner of the fence. About five of those who got Malcolm X, its latest use of a politically-loaded name through the fence assaulted an Israeli for the street of a foreign mission. The new embassy Israeli settlers army position and were “repelled”, he building, located in the Cukurambar district on the GAZA CITY: Thousands of Palestinians wrote on Twitter. The enclave’s health western outskirts of Ankara, is on what is currently attended funerals yesterday for seven ministry said seven Palestinians were named 1478 Street. But a meeting of the Ankara city young men shot dead a day earlier by killed by Israeli fire as thousands of pro- council unanimously decided to change the name to Israeli troops during fresh demonstra- testers approached the heavily-guarded Malcolm X Street. The name change comes after tions along the Gaza border, an AFP cor- Israeli border. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met the daughters respondent said. Mourners, including Yesterday, the ministry named the of Malcolm X on the sidelines of the UN General leaders of the enclave’s Islamist rulers victims as: Ahmed Al-Taweel, 27, Assembly in New York last month. The statement by Hamas, chanted slogans condemning Mohammed Ismail, 29, Ahmed Abu the Ankara municipality noted that Erdogan had Israel for shooting civilians and called on Naim, 17, Abdullah Daghma, 25, Afifi Atta promised to the daughters that the name of Malcolm the international community to deliver Afifi, 18, Tamer Abu Armaneh, 25 and X would “live on” in the Turkish capital. — AFP GAZA: Palestinian protesters carry a youth injured by Israeli forces on the Israel- justice. The Israeli army said five Mohammed Abbas, 21. Gaza border on Friday. — AFP Palestinians had been killed during the Continued on Page 24 Canada boosts aid to UNRWA OTTAWA: Canada stepped up aid for Palestinian #MeToo claims refugees on Friday, announcing CAN$50 million Taleban confirm (US$38 million) for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), whose mission has suf- hit head of India fered since Washington cut its help. UNRWA was meeting with US set up in 1950 to help Palestinian refugees who lost cricket board their homes because of the 1948 Middle East con- envoy in Qatar flict. Its assistance includes schools, healthcare cen- NEW DELHI: The chief executive of India’s powerful ters and food distribution. The Canadian contribution cricket board has been given a week to explain allegations KABUL: A Taleban delegation has met with US is to be spread over two years. CAN$40 million will of sexual harassment against him, as the country’s fledgling envoy Zalmay Khalilzad in Qatar to discuss ending go to “meeting the basic education, health and liveli- #MeToo movement gathers pace. Rahul Johri, CEO of the the Afghan conflict, the militant group said yester- hood needs of millions of Palestinian refugees,” Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), was named in day, the first time either side has officially confirmed Ottawa said in a statement. Another CAN$10 million an account shared by Indian author Harnidh Kaur on talks. The direct negotiations - a longstanding will be used to provide “emergency life-saving assis- Twitter. The unidentified woman accused Johri of assaulting Taleban demand - were held as Khalilzad seeks to tance to more than 460,000 Palestinian refugees in her at his home, while he was working with a different coordinate efforts with regional countries, including Syria and Lebanon,” it said. — AFP organization. Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, to convince Afghanistan’s “The truth is, it was so sudden and so manipulated that I largest militant group to engage in talks. The meet- had no chance at even knowing what the hell this was,” the ing with Khalilzad and other American officials took Morocco justifies 2015 extradition woman said. The Supreme Court-appointed Committee of place in Doha on Friday, Taleban spokesman Administrators, which oversees the BCCI, yesterday asked Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement. RABAT: Morocco confirmed Friday that in 2015 it Johri to explain. Even though the allegations “do not pertain Taleban and US negotiators discussed a “peace- arrested a Saudi official, wanted by Interpol, and to his employment with BCCI,” the committee said it had ful end to the invasion in Afghanistan”, Mujahid extradited him to Riyadh, denying that this was a given him a week to “submit his explanation.” Johri, CEO of said, referring to the US-led intervention in 2001 the world’s richest cricket body, has yet not responded to a “disappearance”. Turki bin Bandar bin Mohamed bin that toppled the Taleban regime. But the group request for comment. Abderrahmane Al-Saud was arrested at Casablanca made clear that the presence of foreign forces in “There are certain media reports today, including in the Airport on Nov 11, 2015 on his way to Paris on an the country was a “big obstacle” to peace. Both social media, pertaining to Rahul Johri,” the committee said NEW DELHI: Indian journalists hold placards at a protest “international warrant issued (the same day) by sides “agreed to continue such meetings”, he added, in a statement.