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Children's Activities Resume After 18 Months of Closure MUHARRAM 25, 1443 AH THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2021 16 Pages Max 46º Min 29º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 18522 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Mongolian students go back Sea freight sector grapples Has the wildlife ‘Red List’ Atletico welcome back Griezmann 7 to school and end long exile 8 with container ship shortage 11 let Africa’s big cats down? 16 as Real have to wait for Mbappe Children’s activities resume after 18 months of closure Back-to-school measures discussed • MP files to grill housing minister By B Izzak filed to grill Minister of State for Housing Affairs Shaye Al-Shaye for allegedly obstructing major KUWAIT: Entertainment activities for children in housing projects and attempting to stop state Kuwait resumed yesterday after a year and a half funding of such projects, which he claimed will of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. harm tens of thousands of Kuwaiti families. The Concerned authorities have imposed health lawmaker said more than 72 percent of Kuwaiti requirements and precautionary measures to com- families are suffering because of the housing crisis bat COVID-19, which consists of developing a in the country, adding that the crisis has been safety plan to organize the entry for rides and exacerbated by the delay in housing projects and social distancing to ensure the safety of children an increase in rents. and employees. The Cabinet decided in its meeting Jamhour accused the minister of failing to fulfil on July 26 to resume social events and activities for promises he made on the Mutlaa housing project, children from yesterday. the biggest in the history of Kuwait, planned to Also yesterday, Education Minister Ali Al- house some 28,000 units and over 400,000 people Mudhaf affirmed the ministry’s keenness on adher- after 10 years. He said the housing ministry provid- ing to all precautionary measures and health proto- ed permits for only four out of 12 suburbs, thus cols to counter the pandemic. This came during a depriving over 19,000 families from building homes discussion on the return of students, teachers and in that area. The same thing happened in South administrative personnel to schools for the 2021- Saad Al-Abdullah, where all hurdles were cleared 2022 academic year. but the ministry failed to provide building permits. Mudhaf stressed the importance of having a cer- In addition, the lawmaker charged that the min- tain mechanism for teams that will visit schools and ister is pushing to pass new government-sponsored provide daily reports to the ministry. He also dis- legislation for funding housing through private cussed the budget for maintenance, janitorial and banks and not through the government. The security contracts and appreciated the massive National Assembly is currently in summer recess efforts exerted by the ministry’s employees. and the grilling will be listed on the agenda of the KUWAIT: Children enjoy a ride at an entertainment park in Hawally yesterday. — Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh Meanwhile, MP Fayez Al-Jamhour yesterday first when the new term opens in October. Yesterday, a long line of green News in brief Taleban stage Humvees and armored fighting vehi- cles drove in single file along a high- New PAM online services parade as Biden way outside Kandahar - the spiritual birthplace of the militant movement - KUWAIT: Spokeswoman and PR Director at many with white-and-black Taleban the Public Authority for Manpower Aseel Al- defends pullout flags attached to aerials, an AFP jour- Mizyad yesterday announced the launch of new nalist saw. In footage posted on a online services. These include transferring from KABUL: The Taleban yesterday pro-Taleban account of the build-up student visa (article 23) to private sector work paraded some of the military hard- to the parade, a helicopter flew over- visa (article 18) and transferring from self-spon- ware they captured during their head trailing the Taleban’s standard as sorship (article 24) to article 18, in addition to takeover of Afghanistan, hours after fighters wrapped in headscarves transferring from article 18 to article 24. US President Joe Biden defended his waved beneath. decision to end the two-decade war. At least one Black Hawk helicopter The Islamist hardliners are celebrating has been seen flying over Kandahar in OPEC+ upholds output increase Monday’s final withdrawal of US recent days, suggesting someone from troops as a historic victory after tak- the former Afghan army was at the LONDON: The world’s leading oil producers ing control of Afghanistan last month controls as the Taleban lack pilots. yesterday upheld a deal reached just over a following an astonishing two-week The United Nations warned mean- month ago to boost output gradually despite US offensive that capped a simmering while of a looming “humanitarian KANDAHAR: A helicopter flies above supporters gathered yesterday to cele- pressure to go further. After weeks of wrangling, 20-year insurgency. Continued on Page 2 brate the US withdrawal of all its troops out of Afghanistan. — AFP members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries along with allies such as Russia agreed in July to raise output by 400,000 “They are reservoirs of genes hun- barrels per day (bpd) from August. — AFP Tunisia plants dreds, if not thousands of years old,” Medini said, adding that the seeds are more resistant to the ever-growing Philippines hits 2 million cases seeds of hope dangerous impacts of global warming. Climate change is causing challenging MANILA: The Philippines topped two million coro- JEDAIDA, Tunisia: Tunisian farmers variations in rainfall, temperature and navirus cases yesterday as the country battles a are turning to the past to ensure a humidity, creating disease in the record surge in infections that the WHO confirmed is future by planting indigenous seeds as crops, he said. “The foundation of being driven by the hyper-contagious Delta strain. the North African country suffers at a adaptation is diversity,” Medini said. Yesterday’s official data show the country recorded time of drought, disease and climate Wheat varieties developed in the 14,216 new infections, taking the total caseload to just change. Traditional seeds come from a 1980s are being blighted by disease in over two million, with 33,533 deaths in the country of genetic heritage best suited to the Tunisia, but farmers say that tradition- 110 million people. — AFP environment, said Maher Medini, from al varieties appear to be more resist- Tunisia’s National Gene Bank, which ant. In the past, using indigenous Egypt signs Med-Red rail deal promotes the development of sustain- seeds, Tunisian farmers set aside a JEDAIDA, Tunisia: A Tunisian farmer harvests wheat on June 12, 2021 in this able agriculture in the country. Continued on Page 2 agricultural region some 30 km northwest of the capital Tunis. — AFP CAIRO: Egypt signed a $4.45-billion contract yes- terday with a consortium including Siemens to con- struct a high-speed electric rail line between the Red marquee projects that are among the Sea and the Mediterranean, state television said. The N African sun largest in the world but renewable railway will run 660 km between Marsa Matrouh on energy entrepreneurs say the focus northern Egypt’s Mediterranean coast to the Red should be at community level, helping Sea port of Ain Sokhna in the east. — AFP offers hope, but whole villages to operate off the national grid and without using diesel Drone attack wounds eight state role key fuel. Egypt, the most populous Arab RIYADH: A drone attack on Saudi Arabia’s CAIRO: Blessed with year-round country, with more than 100 million Abha airport wounded eight people on Tuesday, sunshine, North Africa has enormous people, has made solar power a prior- said the Saudi-led coalition battling Houthi potential for solar energy, but the ity in its quest to source 42 percent of rebels in Yemen. Following an earlier attack, “a huge investment and state subsidies its electricity from renewables by second drone attempting to attack Abha required for large-scale projects are a 2035. In the western desert, about 40 This handout satellite imagery released on May 20, 2021 shows a view of the International Airport was intercepted and shot challenge for cash-strapped regional km north of the southern city of Noor Solar Park, about 10 km northeast of the town of Ouarzazate in Morocco’s down”, the coalition said. — AFP governments. The region boasts a few Continued on Page 2 southern Draa valley in the Tafilalet region. — AFP 2 Established 1961 Local Thursday, September 2, 2021 Kuwait’s Amir receives Crown Prince, Premier Prime Minister meets outgoing ambassadors KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets His Highness the His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets His Highness the Prime Minister Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. — Amiri Diwan and KUNA photos Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al- His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al- His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. Sabah meets the French Ambassador to Kuwait Anne-Claire Legendre. Sabah meets Djibouti’s Ambassador to Kuwait Mohammad Ali Moumin. KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Hamad Al-Sabah. His Highness the In other news, His Highness the Legendre and Djibouti’s Ambassador Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Sabah. His Highness the Amir also Crown Prince also received His Prime Minister received yesterday to Kuwait Mohammad Ali Moumin Sabah received at Bayan Palace yes- received His Highness the Prime Highness the Prime Minister at Bayan at Bayan Palace the French on the occasion of the end of their terday His Highness the Crown Prince Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al- Palace yesterday.
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