Amid Pandemic, Trump Visits Rushmore, Slams Race Protests
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THULQAADA 14, 1441 AH SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2020 16 Pages Max 50º Min 32º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 18173 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Settlers and Palestinians unite in Syria harvest boom brings Gilty pleasure: Vietnam opens Messi unwilling to renew 6 opposition to Israeli annexation 8 hope as hunger spikes 12 world’s ‘first’ gold-plated hotel 15 Barcelona contract: Report Amid pandemic, Trump visits Rushmore, slams race protests Donald Trump Jr’s girlfriend tests positive for coronavirus KEYSTONE, South Dakota: US President Donald “The violent mayhem we have seen in the streets Trump bemoaned protests demanding racial justice and cities... is the predictable results of years of as “violent mayhem” Friday, but said little about an extreme indoctrination and bias in education, jour- alarming resurgence of coronavirus cases as he nalism and other cultural institutions,” he added. attended a crowded, fireworks-studded The US has been engulfed by a once-in-a-genera- Independence Day celebration beneath majestic tion reckoning on racism and police brutality since Mount Rushmore. Trump, under fire for his response George Floyd, an African American man, was killed to America’s spiraling coronavirus caseload four by a white police officer in Minneapolis on May 25. months before the presidential election, spoke on That has included a rethink of how America vener- the eve of the July 4th celebrations before thou- ates symbols of the pro-slavery Civil War South, sands of closely-packed people - many of whom from removing statues of Confederate generals to chanted “Four more years”; few of whom were retiring the Mississippi state flag, which featured wearing masks. the Confederate emblem. In the shadow of four notable predecessors - Trump - who has also been criticized for his George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore response to the protests - promised Mount Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, whose likenesses Rushmore would never be defaced, and that he are carved into a granite cliff in South Dakota’s would never abolish the police or the right to bear Black Hills - the president called on supporters to arms. “They want to silence us - but we will not be defend America’s “integrity”. He accused protesters silenced,” he said to cheers, adding later that it was calling for racial justice of “a merciless campaign to time to “speak up loudly, strongly, powerfully and KEYSTONE, South Dakota: US President Donald Trump arrives for Independence Day events at Mount wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our defend the integrity of our country”. Rushmore National Memorial on Friday. — AFP values, and indoctrinate our children.” Continued on Page 2 hardship that led to his death. “God News in brief Suicides spark damn them. People are suffocating.” As he spoke, rescue workers carried Israel, UAE ink virus deals the body away in a white coffin and a outrage at man mopped up a pool of blood. JERUSALEM: Two Israeli defense contractors The Lebanese pound, officially will partner with Abu Dhabi-based technology Lebanon govt pegged at 1,507 pounds to the green- company Group 42 to develop technologies to back, reached more than 9,000 to the help fight the new coronavirus, the companies BEIRUT: Two suicides in Lebanon on dollar this week on the black market said. State-owned Israel Aerospace Industries Friday, apparently linked to the coun- in a dizzying devaluation. Prices have (IAI), which has civilian as well as defense opera- try’s deepening economic downturn, soared almost as fast as the exchange tions, said the agreement was reached in a video have sparked a new wave of criticism rate has plummeted, meaning that a call with Group 42, which deals in artificial intelli- over the government’s mishandling of salary of one million pounds is now gence and cloud computing. The partnership the crisis. A 61-year-old man from the worth a little more than $100, com- focuses on artificial intelligence, sensors and eastern region of Hermel shot himself pared with almost $700 last year. lasers. Israel’s state-owned Rafael, which has been on the sidewalk of a bustling Beirut The suicide sparked small protests developing technologies to combat the pandemic, shopping street in broad daylight. in the Hamra district, denouncing the will also partner with Group 42. — Reuters Near his body was a Lebanese flag, government for its inaction over the a copy of his clean judicial record and country’s worst economic crisis since a note in Arabic that read: “I’m not a its 1975-1990 civil war. “He did not India virus cases hit record heretic”. It was a quote from a popu- commit suicide, he was killed in cold lar song that continues with the words blood,” read one sign, blaming the BEIRUT: A demonstrator carries a placard which reads “Don’t blame a sinner in the time of sin, for hunger is the father of all sin” during a gathering to MUMBAI: India recorded its highest single- “but hunger is heresy”. A relative of government. Saba Mroue, a protes- the man, who asked not to be named, tor, said: “the political class is denounce the death of a man who committed suicide in the capital’s Hamra day spike of coronavirus cases yesterday, with Street on Friday. — AFP over 22,000 new cases and 442 deaths, as accused the country’s rulers for the responsible”. — Agencies infections rose in the western and southern parts of the country amid heavy monsoon rains. China has admitted it also suffered The western state of Maharashtra, home to the Modi rallies casualties but has refused to divulge densely packed financial capital Mumbai, has how many. the country’s highest total, recording 6,364 Accompanied by the head of fresh cases of the virus yesterday and 198 troops after India’s military and the army chief, deaths from COVID-19, the disease caused by Modi visited an army camp about 100 the virus. In the southern state of Tamil Nadu, border clash km as the crow flies from the site of the second worst-hit state in India, the number the battle before meeting injured sol- of cases crossed 100,000. — Reuters SRINAGAR: Indian Prime Minister diers in a military hospital. “In these Narendra Modi made a surprise visit difficult circumstances, you are the Pak FM tests positive to rally Indian troops near a disputed shield of the motherland,” said Modi, frontier with China Friday, telling sporting a khaki green parker jacket, ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah them the country’s enemies had seen aviator sunglasses and baseball cap of Mehmood Qureshi said on Friday he had tested posi- their “fire and fury” following a dead- the “Fire and Fury” corps stationed tive for COVID-19, days after holding high-profile ly border clash last month. The inci- there. “The enemies of Mother India meetings including one with US special representative dent in the Galwan Valley in Ladakh have seen your fire and fury.” on Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad in Islamabad. “This saw 20 Indian troops killed in brutal Without naming China, Modi afternoon I felt a slight fever and immediately quaran- hand-to-hand fighting and was the added that the “era of expansionism is tined myself at home,” Qureshi said on Twitter. He said first time in 45 years that soldiers over... History has shown how expan- NIMU, India: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he speaks to he felt healthy and would carry on his duties from died in combat on the Asian giants’ sionism pushed humanity towards Indian troops during his visit to the union territory of Ladakh on Friday. — AFP home. In the last few days, Qureshi has had contact long-disputed Himalayan border. destruction”. — AFP with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan in parliament and in a cabinet meeting on Wednesday. — Reuters was going through an unmanned level the death toll to 22”, Pakistan’s interi- When it collided with the train, the 22 Sikhs killed crossing when it was hit by an or ministry said in a statement. train dragged it around three to four Saudi passes 200,000 cases oncoming train near the small city of Earlier, local police spokesman Wajid kilometers away,” one witness, Farooqabad. “The crossing was Abbas confirmed that at least 19 dead Muhammad Umair, told AFP. Images RIYADH: Saudi Arabia passed the grim mile- as train rams unmanned and the driver of the van were from the same family. In total, broadcast on local television showed stone of 200,000 confirmed novel coronavirus took a hasty decision by driving onto there were 30 pilgrims in the van. No the mangled van on the tracks. The pil- cases, the health ministry said Friday, weeks van in Pakistan the tracks,” Pakistan Railways train passengers were injured. grims from the north of the country ahead of the annual hajj pilgrimage drastically spokeswoman Quratul Ain told AFP, Witnesses told AFP the usual rail were returning from a visit to Nankana cut back because of the pandemic. The Gulf’s SHEIKHUPURA, Pakistan: At least adding that the passengers were all crossing was closed so the van driver Sahib, the birthplace of Sikhism worst-hit country has now 201,801 confirmed 22 Sikh pilgrims - 19 from the same Sikh pilgrims. took a different route. However, the founder Guru Nanak, near the mega- infections including 4,193 new cases on Friday family - were killed on Friday when a “Around 20 people lost their lives van stalled on the rail track, and the city of Lahore. Prime Minister Imran alone, and 1,802 deaths. Over 140,000 of those train smashed into a van in eastern in (the) tragic collision.