French PM Calls on Gulf to Accept More Refugees
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SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2015 SAFAR 17, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Al-Wihda Erdogan Iran seeks Messi, Neymar student group ‘saddened’ by $25bn as new and Suarez wins NUKS-US downing of oil contract strike to keep elections2 Russian7 jet unveiled21 Barca20 rolling French PM calls on Gulf Min 12º Max 27º to accept more refugees High Tide 00:44 & 14:59 Low Tide Carson visits Jordan camp, calls to absorb refugees in Mideast 08:23 & 20:18 40 PAGES NO: 16712 150 FILS EVRY, France/AZRAQ REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan: French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has called on the Gulf states Obama slams gun violence after shooting to accept more refugees fleeing Syria, saying that a “humanitarian disaster” could erupt in the Balkans if WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama Europe does not control its borders. “I’ll say it again, denounced the country’s epidemic of gun violence Europe cannot accept all the refugees coming from Syria. yesterday and renewed a call for tougher controls on That’s why we need a diplomatic, military and political military-style weapons after yet another deadly shoot- solution in Syria,” Valls said Friday evening. ing, saying “enough is enough”. The latest bloodshed “Every country must play its part; I’m thinking particu- came on Friday when a man entered a family planning larly of the Gulf states,” the prime minister said during a dis- clinic in the state of Colorado and allegedly opened cussion with residents of Evry on the outskirts of Paris, fire, killing three people, including a police officer, and focusing on the response to the attacks which rocked the wounding nine others. capital two weeks ago. Most of the The motive of the suspect now under arrest was not roughly four million Syrian refugees yet known and police were to interrogate him yester- who have fled their country since civil day. The Planned Parenthood clinic located in Colorado war broke out have travelled to neigh- Springs performs abortion, and the city’s mayor sug- boring Lebanon, Jordan or Turkey. gested that deeply divisive issue in America may have But Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE and been behind the assault. “You can certainly infer what it other Gulf states have remained may have been in terms of where it took place and the closed to them, while Europe strug- manner in which it took place,” John Suthers told CNN. gles to adopt a common policy The tragedy came a day after Americans celebrated towards the hundreds of thousands their cherished Thanksgiving holiday, a time to relax of refugees who are arriving at its with family, and which ushers in the holiday season in borders. Unless the borders of the EU Manuel Valls earnest. Obama said the suspect had been armed with are properly controlled “we are going an assault weapon - that was the first official word of to see a humanitarian disaster in the Balkans this winter this detail - and he also disclosed for the first time that and Europe is going to close up again,” Valls warned. the man had held hostages at the Planned Parenthood And while the prime minister rejected any link center from which he opened fire at people outside in between genuine refugees and terrorism, he also high- an hours-long standoff with police. “We have to do lighted the danger of terrorists being allowed into the EU something about the easy accessibility of weapons of alongside those fleeing war - as seems to have been the war on our streets to people who have no business case with some of those responsible for the Paris attacks. wielding them. Period. Enough is enough,” Obama said “All it takes is for a few terrorists to slip in with the influx in a statement. of refugees, and the people of Europe are saying, ‘Wait, if The gunman had entered the Planned Parenthood terrorists are getting in along with refugees, that means clinic around noon Friday and started shooting from a any refugee could pose a threat’,” he said. More than window. Police surrounded the building, and after an 800,000 migrants have arrived in Europe by sea since the exchange of gunfire and a standoff lasting more than COLORADO SPRINGS: A person is escorted after a shooting near a Planned Parenthood clinic on Friday. beginning of the year, with the majority coming from the five hours the gunman surrendered. (Inset) Suspected shooter Robert Lewis Dear of North Carolina is seen in an undated photo provided by Middle East. Continued on Page 13 the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office. — AP Continued on Page 13 Reps attack Muslims with impunity Candidates’ rhetoric seen as having little cost WASHINGTON: Some leading Republican “Donald Trump is already very well presidential candidates seem to view known for being brash and outspoken and News Muslims as fair game for increasingly harsh is appealing to a group of people - a minor- in brief words they might use with more caution ity of American voters, but a large minority against any other group for fear of the - who seem to like that kind of tough talk,” political cost. So far, that strategy is win- said John Green, director of the Bliss Qatar bans contractors ning support from conservatives influential Institute of Applied Politics at the from leaving country in picking the nominee. Many Republicans University of Akron. Rival Ben Carson said DUBAI: Qatar has banned contractors from leaving the are heartened by strong rhetoric address- allowing Syrian refugees into the US would small, oil-rich country as it carries out a probe into how ing what they view as a threat to national be akin to exposing a neighborhood to a heavy rains damaged buildings and roadways. An article security by Islam itself, analysts say. “rabid dog”. Former Arkansas Gov Mike late Friday on the state-run Qatar News Agency Because Muslims are a small voting bloc, Huckabee said, “I’d like for Barack Obama announced the travel ban. It said “owners of companies, the candidates see limited fallout from to resign if he’s not going to protect contractors and consulting engineers” would be banned what they are saying in the campaign. America and instead protect the image of from traveling abroad until the end of the probe. A year’s “I think this issue exists on its own Islam.” LUXOR: The sarcophagus of King Tutankhamun is seen in his burial chamber in worth of rain on Wednesday deluged Doha’s Hamad island,” said Steve Schmidt, a Republican Such statements appeal to Republicans the Valley of the Kings yesterday. — AFP International Airport, the home of Qatar Airways, pour- political consultant who ran Sen John who think Obama and Democratic fron- ing through at least one part of the roof. The airport cost McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign. “It’s trunner Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former at least $15 billion to build. Rainwater also flooded highly unlikely to cause a political penalty secretary of state, have not done enough Scans point to hidden streets and shut down some stores in Doha. Qatar has and there is no evidence that it has.” Since to fight jihadis, Green said. The sentiment seen a boom in construction, some derided as shoddy, the attacks that killed 130 people in Paris, also plays well for evangelicals concerned ahead of hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup. GOP frontrunner Donald Trump has said he about violence directed at Christians in the chamber in Tut’s tomb wants to register all Muslims in the US and Middle East and angered about restrictions surveil American mosques. He has repeat- their missionaries face in predominantly Scans of King which will end in another burial cham- LUXOR, Egypt: Dubai to spend billions ed unsubstantiated claims that Muslim- Muslim countries. “There’s a religious Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt’s Valley of ber,” he said. “It does look indeed as if the on clean energy push Americans in New Jersey celebrated by the undercurrent here, aside from foreign poli- the Kings point to a secret chamber, tomb of Tutankhamun is a corridor DUBAI: Dubai will spend billions of dollars on gener- “thousands” when the World Trade Center cy issues,” Green said. archaeologists said yesterday, possibly tomb... and it continues beyond the dec- ating clean energy, the government said yesterday, was destroyed on Sept 11, 2001. Continued on Page 13 heralding the discovery of Queen orated burial chamber,” he added. “I think aiming to have solar panels installed on the roofs of Nefertiti’s long-sought mummy. Using hi- it is Nefertiti and all the evidence points all buildings by 2030. The fast-growing desert city tech infrared and radar technology, in that direction.” state of 2.4 million, located in one of the hottest researchers are trying to unravel the mys- Damati emphasized that the findings regions of the world, uses huge amounts of energy tery over the legendary monarch’s resting were “preliminary” results, and a to air-condition its skyscrapers and provide water place. A wife of Tutankhamun’s father Japanese expert working with the supplies through desalination. The Dubai govern- Akhenaten, Nefertiti played a major polit- archaeologists needed a month to ana- ment will encourage building owners to place solar ical and religious role in the 14th century lyze the scans. Experts carried out a pre- panels on their roofs and link them to a network of BC, and the discovery of her tomb would liminary scan of the tomb earlier this the local power utility, Dubai’s ruler Sheikh be a major prize for Egyptologists. month using infra-red thermography to Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum said in a state- Experts are now “approximately 90 map out the temperature of its walls.