Amir Reaffirms Kuwait's Firm Stand with Palestinian People
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SHAWWAL 11, 1442 AH SUNDAY, MAY 23, 2021 16 Pages Max 45º Min 30º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 18440 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Over 2 million COVID vaccine Will Biden close Gitmo IMF proposes $50bn Suarez strike leads Atletico to 4 doses administered in Kuwait 5 ‘War on Terror’ prison? 8 plan to end pandemic 16 La Liga title as Real fall short Amir reaffirms Kuwait’s firm stand with Palestinian people Kuwait launches donation campaign • Gazans pick up pieces after ceasefire KUWAIT/GAZA: HH the Amir Sheikh Friday afternoon with the participation Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah of more than 31 charitable societies that received on Friday a phone call from launched a website to raise funds aim- Palestinian Hamas politburo chief Ismail ing to rebuild Gaza after the bombing Haniya. During the call, Haniya attacks. Around KD 2 million ($6.5 mil- expressed utmost appreciation for lion) from more than 48,000 people Kuwait’s deep-rooted stance with the was raised in the first several hours of Palestinian cause and unwavering sup- the campaign. port for the Palestinian people, as well In Gaza, Palestinians tried to piece as Kuwait’s backing of all international back their lives yesterday after the dev- efforts to resume the peace process in astating 11-day conflict with the Zionist the Middle East, wishing everlasting entity that killed more than 200 people health to HH the Amir. and made thousands homeless in the HH the Amir reaffirmed Kuwait’s firm impoverished Palestinian enclave. stand with the Palestinian people until Authorities started distributing tents, having its sovereign state with East mattresses and covers to those in need Jerusalem as its capital in accordance in the Gaza Strip, an AFP reporter said, to relevant international resolutions and a day after a ceasefire ended deadly the Arab Peace Initiative. HH the Amir Zionist air strikes on the besieged further stressed that the Palestinian coastal enclave. cause had been and will always be Attention turned to rebuilding the Kuwait’s top and central cause. territory controlled by Hamas, with the Kuwait also launched on Friday an United Nations saying yesterday that urgent relief campaign to support the at least 6,000 people had been made Palestinian people. The campaign was homeless. Rescue workers searched for organized by the ministry of social bodies or survivors in mounds of rub- affairs in cooperation with the ministry ble, as residents tried to assess what of foreign affairs and some charity was left of their previous lives. GAZA: A Palestinian man sells balloons in front of the destroyed Al-Shuruq building on Friday. — AFP (See Page 5) associations. The campaign began on Continued on Page 2 the previous record high of just over News in brief Wasmi romps 30,000 votes secured by another prominent opposition figure Musallam CBK issues crypto warning Al-Barrak, currently living in self-exile to victory in in Turkey to escape a jail sentence. KUWAIT: The Central Bank of Kuwait warned Wasmi’s win was so impressive that against dealing or investing in cryptocurrencies by-election all his 14 rivals together scored less amid increasing calls for investment in these digi- than 8 percent of the total votes cast tal assets. In a statement yesterday, the Central By B Izzak amid very low turnout, unofficially Bank said the warnings come due to sharp fluctu- estimated at under 30 percent. The ations in their prices, in addition to their noncom- KUWAIT: Prominent opposition fig- contestant in second place secured pliance with any regulatory authority in Kuwait, ure Obaid Al-Wasmi won a parliamen- less than 1,300 votes. The seat fell which exposes speculators to large losses as well tary seat in an unprecedented fashion vacant after the constitutional court as the possibility of being exposed to fraud. The in a by-election held yesterday, secur- nullified the election of opposition MP Central Bank said dealing in digital assets issued ing a record number of votes and Bader Al-Dahoum on the basis of a by unknown persons and exchanged under nick- defeating his rivals impressively. For controversial law which bars those the first time in the history of Kuwait’s convicted of insulting HH the Amir names increases the risks of illegal transactions KUWAIT: Opposition figure Obaid Al-Wasmi is greeted by supporters after his victory parliamentary elections, Wasmi’s total from holding public office. and money laundering. -– KUNA in a National Assembly by-election held yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat tally crossed 43,000 votes, eclipsing Continued on Page 2 Building owner complains to ICC times have to remove patients’ eyes, Deadly fungus nose and jaw to stop it reaching the THE HAGUE: The owner of a Gaza building brain. The death rate is over 50 per- housing international media that was destroyed cent. Dubey, 33, was being treated for in a Zionist air strike is lodging a complaint with stalks India’s coronavirus in the central state of the International Criminal Court. The complaint Madhya Pradesh before doctors by Jawad Mehdi says the attack on May 15 COVID wards moved him to a different hospital after which flattened Jala Tower, housing the offices the fungus was detected and his con- of US news agency AP and Al Jazeera television, NEW DELHI: Coronavirus patient dition worsened. was a “war crime”. “The owner of this building, Parvesh Dubey died within just one “The doctors there operated on his who is a Palestinian, has mandated his lawyers to week of contracting black fungus - nose and jaw. One of his eyes was file a war crime complaint with the International the latest victim of a horrifying already damaged and the doctor said Criminal Court,” lawyer Gilles Devers said. COVID-19 complication sweeping they were working on saving the other Devers told AFP outside the court that the India. Thousands have developed the one,” a relative told AFP on condition Zionist entity could show “no military objective” fungus in recent weeks in a wave of of anonymity. Family members of for the attack. — AFP infections blamed on excessive use of Dubey’s in different states across India steroids to treat the country’s millions scrambled to obtain medicines and get them to him by asking bus passengers of COVID patients, experts say. JABALPUR, India: An attendant is seen next to a patient who recovered from COVID-19 Govt targets ‘Indian variant’ to transport them to Madhya Pradesh, Previously very rare, mucormyco- and is now infected with mucormycosis at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical sis, as it is scientifically known, is but it was too little, too late. College on Friday. — AFP NEW DELHI: India’s government has ordered highly aggressive and surgeons some- Continued on Page 2 social media platforms to take down content that refers to the “Indian variant” of the coronavirus. The B.1.617 variant was first detected in India researchers published a study in the journal Science In 2004, Copeland was in a car accident that left last year and has spread to Britain and at least Mind-controlled about the world’s first brain-computer interface that him with a serious spinal cord injury and without the 43 other countries, where “Indian variant” has allowed a volunteer with paralysis from the chest use of his hands or his legs. He volunteered to partic- become a widely used term. “It has come to our down to accomplish this very feat. ipate in scientific research, and six years ago under- knowledge that a false statement is being circu- arm restores The team say their work demonstrates that adding went a major operation to have tiny electrodes lated online which implies that an ‘Indian variant’ a sense of touch drastically improves the functionali- implanted in his brain. Two sets of 88 electrodes the of coronavirus is spreading across the countries. sense of touch ty of prosthetics for quadriplegics, compared to hav- width of a strand of hair are arranged into “arrays” This is completely FALSE,” read the order. ing them rely on visual cues alone. “I am the first that resemble tiny hairbrushes and penetrate deep Indian government officials have regularly used WASHINGTON: Imagine being able to control a human in the world to have implants in the sensory into the brain’s motor cortex, which directs move- the term “UK variant” since the mutant British robotic arm from a distance, using only your mind. cortex that they can use to stimulate my brain direct- ment. Fewer than 30 people in the world have these strain started spreading in India. — AFP Now imagine being able to feel when its fingers ly,” Nathan Copeland, 34, told AFP. “And then I feel kinds of implants, the study’s co-lead author Rob grasp an object, as though it were your own hand. US as if a sensation is coming from my actual hand.” Continued on Page 2 2 Established 1961 Sunday, May 23, 2021 Local Kuwait welcomes ceasefire in Gaza, calls for efforts to achieve peace Foreign Minister condemns Zionist crimes, policies KUWAIT/NEW YORK: Kuwait welcomes the cease- erences that affirm that unilateral measures and fire agreement reached in Gaza, the Kuwaiti Foreign decisions aimed at altering the legal and historic sta- Ministry said on Friday. In a statement, the foreign tus in the occupied territories are invalid and false; ministry applauded the international and Arab’s con- they create neither a right nor a commitment, Sheikh tinued efforts that helped to reach a ceasefire agree- Dr Ahmad said. ment, hailing Egypt’s efforts in this regard.