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MUHARRAM 3, 1440 AH THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 Max 48º 28 Pages Min 30º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17630 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Kuwait warns escalation in Idlib US readies for ‘big one’ as Worried Idlib father turns President Weah makes 56will be a humanitarian disaster Hurricane Florence nears 24 paper cups into gas masks 27 football comeback at 51 Kuwait calls for joint military cooperation to face challenges US general urges Gulf unity to counter Iran By Nawara Fattahova KUWAIT: Chief of Staff of the Kuwaiti armed forces Lt Gen Mohammed Al-Khudher yesterday said the serious and con- tinuous security challenges in the Middle East during the past few years demand military cooperation to face them. “Our meeting aims to strengthen our relationship and cooperation to achieve regional and international security and stability. We hope that this joint collaboration will lead to improve our military forces and defense unity to face present and future challenges,” Khudher said during the opening session of a meeting of the Supreme Military Committee of GCC, Egyptian, Jordanian and US chiefs of staff. Commander of the US Central Command (CENTCOM) General Joseph Votel noted that the Gulf region is full of vital- ity and opportunity, but also “threats to our common securi- ty”. “I believe these regular meetings are very important for us to maintain close ties, open lines of communication, foster mutual understanding and advance our collaboration and cooperation,” he pointed out. “Your contributions are crucial with regards to our efforts in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan and to the stability of the region as a whole. It is important to our common security challenges and developing real solutions to address them, specifically integrated air and missile defense, maritime security and counterterrorism,” added Votel. Votel urged feuding Gulf states to put aside their differences and unite against Iranian efforts to “destabilize” the region. KUWAIT: Gulf, Egyptian, Jordanian and US military chiefs pose for photographers ahead of a meeting yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Continued on Page 24 Residency Affairs Department, headed by Maj Gen MoH grapples MoI urges visit Abdullah Al-Hajeri, showed that the number of work- ers who have article 17 residency permits (who work in the government sector) is 107,887 - 68,577 males with MERS case, visa violators to and 39,350 females. As for those who work in the private sector, their cholera reports, leave Kuwait number is 1,518,711 - 1,394,913 males and 123,798 females. The number of domestic helpers who have arti- KUWAIT: The interior ministry called on residents cle 20 visas is 687,267 - 349,273 males and 337,994 child’s death whose visit visas have expired to settle their residency females. Those who have family visas number 544,048 KUWAIT: The health ministry has taken all measures need- issues and leave the country to avoid legal measures. persons - 202,295 males and 341,753 female, and those ed to ensure the safety of citizens and expats against The security information department of the ministry who are self-sponsored (with article 24 residency per- Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), said the min- said in a press statement that this procedure prevents mits) number 2,429 - 1,191 males and 1,238 females. istry’s Undersecretary Mustafa Redha. The official’s expatriates from being subjected to restrictions on the A security source estimated residency violators remarks were made at a press conference yesterday after KUWAIT: Senior health ministry officials hold a press conference renewal of their residencies. It said violators will be at more than 90,000, adding that the interior min- reports were issued by a World Health Organization yesterday. — KUNA prosecuted. istry is considering several options to reduce their (WHO) body that a South Korean who arrived in his coun- Meanwhile, a report in Al-Anbaa daily said latest numbers, adding one of the options is to carry out try from Kuwait was infected with the coronavirus. The South Korea who came into contact with the infected patient statistics by the residency affairs department about intensive campaigns to arrest them and take action ministry has raised the level of alert to contain any possible and showed symptoms of the disease tested negative. On the number of expats who have valid residency per- against their sponsors, especially those who cases of the disease. The ministry’s medical team also took Saturday, the 61-year-old man was diagnosed with the first mits show there are 2,861,380 such expats - 2,017,084 entered on visit visas and did not leave. samples from those who interacted with the patient, it said, case of MERS in South Korea in about three years after return- males and 844,296 females. The statistics by the Continued on Page 24 adding that the samples were all negative. ing home from a business trip to Kuwait from Aug 16 to Sept 6. The Yonhap news agency had reported that 10 people in Continued on Page 24 Trump, a foreign policy novice, promised upon taking ers, and flew in the face of decades of international consen- Trump’s US loses office to help broker the “ultimate deal” between Israel and sus that the status of the Holy City should be determined via Turkey nabs bomb the Palestinians. He tasked his son-in-law and senior aide negotiations. Since the breakdown in US-Palestinian ties, the Jared Kushner with leading a small group to make that hap- Trump administration has redoubled efforts to both punish role as Mideast pen. But that task force was seen as too close to Israel, and Palestinian leaders and twist their arm so that they return to suspect in Syrian inexperienced in the world of high-stakes diplomacy. “It is talks with Israel. US aid has been effectively wiped out, as peace mediator something that I think is frankly, maybe, not as difficult as has its support for the UN agency that assists three million people have thought over the years,” Trump said in May 2017. Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA. And on Monday, regime heartland WASHINGTON: Twenty-five years ago, then US president But more than a year later, that notion has been brutally Washington ordered the closure of the Palestine Liberation Bill Clinton looked on as Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and squashed. “All my life, I’ve heard that’s the hardest deal to Organization’s mission in the US capital - an about-face 25 ISTANBUL: The Turkish Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shook hands on the make, and I’m starting to believe that maybe it is,” Trump said years after PLO leader Arafat was welcomed at the White secret service staged an White House lawn, sealing the Oslo accords. And in 1979, last week, though he added he still believed he could make it House. Trump says he wants to achieve “peace through operation deep in the Jimmy Carter hosted the leaders of Israel and Egypt at Camp happen. It’s true that since Trump took office, the situation strength” - but is that viable anymore? US officials “believe heartland of the Syrian David - another indelible moment in diplomatic history. has radically changed. At first, the Palestinians offered the that Palestinians can be convinced that they have lost and regime of President Donald Trump can only dream of such a scene unfolding on mercurial president the benefit of the doubt. But late last year, must take whatever set of arrangements - perhaps some lim- Bashar Al-Assad to cap- his watch. Under the Republican leader, the United States is they froze all contact with Washington after Trump recog- ited form of autonomy with economic sweeteners - that they ture and bring back to further away than ever from playing its traditional role as nized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. are offered,” says Michele Dunne, a researcher at the Turkey the prime sus- mediator in the long-simmering Middle East peace process. That stance crossed a stark red line for Palestinian lead- Continued on Page 24 pect in a 2013 bombing, officials said yesterday. Turkish citizen Yusuf phones have displays of 5.8 and 6.5 inches, Nazik, who is accused of Apple unveils boosting screen size while keeping a small- planning a bombing in a format handset, Apple vice president Phil Turkish border town in Yusuf Nazik Schiller said. The September event allows May 2013, was appre- larger iPhones, the company to unveil its latest offerings hended in an operation carried out by the before the key holiday shopping season. National Intelligence Organization (MIT). He was smarter watch While the iPhone has made Apple the captured in the Syrian city of Latakia - a strong- world’s most valuable company, worth hold of support for Assad that has never slipped CUPERTINO, California: Apple yester- more than $1 trillion, it has slipped to third from his control - and then brought to Turkey, the day unveiled updated versions of its place among smartphone makers as Anadolu news agency said. priciest iPhones along with a new smart- Chinese-based Huawei has grabbed the More than 50 people were killed in the bombing watch that allows users to take their own number two spot. Analyst Patrick - one of the deadliest in Turkey’s modern history - electrocardiograms, as the US tech giant Moorhead of Moor Insights & Strategy in Reyhanli, on the border with Syria in the south- looks to boost its momentum in a sputter- said Apple had done enough “to keep its ern Turkish province of Hatay. Ankara at the time ing market. The California tech giant smartphone growth going until the compe- blamed the attack on the regime of Assad and allied revealed its iPhone XS and iPhone XS tition responds”.

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