SUBSCRIPTION MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 2014 SHAWWAL 8, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net The last day for submitting Ramadan Quiz coupons is today, August 4, 2014 at Kuwait Times offices from 9am ­ 6pm. The raffle draw will take place at JAC showroom Ali Alghanim & Sons Co., Shuwaikh at 7pm on Monday, August 11, 2014 under the supervision of the Ministry of Commerce. Residency violators given Max 47º Min 31º chance to legalize status High Tide 05:29 & 16:16 MoI reduces penalty amount • No amnesty on horizon Low Tide 11:20 & 23:10 40 PAGES NO: 16244 150 FILS in the By Nawara Fattahova news KUWAIT: Expat residency violators who are arrested will now be given an oppor- Nottingham Forest tunity to legalize their status and remain to rename stadium? in the country instead of being deported, NOTTINGHAM: A new sponsorship deal for English a senior official at the Interior Ministry told Kuwait Times. Brig Gen Adel Al- Championship side Nottingham Forest could see Hashash, Head of Public Relations and the club rename their famous home ground ‘Kuwait Moral Guidance at the Ministry of City Ground Stadium’. Club officials have so far Interior, also denied an amnesty was refused to comment on the story, but the Daily Mail imminent. Usually, the Ministry of reported that the deal has been agreed by Interior issues an amnesty every two Nottingham Forest owner and chairman Fawaz Al- years or so to allow violators to leave the Hasawi. As well as having the City Ground renamed country without paying penalties or as ‘KCG Stadium’, the sponsorship deal will also see being banned from returning. the players carry a Kuwait logo on their shirts. The Previously when violating expats were 30,576 capacity ground, which has been home to arrested, they faced deportation without Nottingham Forest for 116 years, will undergo a recourse and were then banned from rebranding to incorporate the new name, as the entering the country again. “Now the club make push this season to regain their place in violator can pay the penalties and trans- the Premier League. The Nottingham Post newspa- fer his visa to remain in Kuwait. Also, the Adel Al-Hashash per reported that Hasawi is currently in Kuwait ministry has set a maximum limit for the elsewhere and makes KD 120 or 130. And holding discussions with a number of parties about penalty for one year at KD 600 only they were then waiting for the amnesty potential sponsorship deals. The Al-Hasawi family, instead of KD 730 previously, or KD 2 for to leave,” he explained. who made its fortune in the refrigeration and air- each day,” added Hashash. KSHR formed a special ‘expat labor’ conditioning business, bought Nottingham Forest Director of the Kuwait Society for committee more than a year ago. “Four in 2012. Human Rights (KSHR) Mohammed Al- attorneys work in this committee and Hamidi noted that this amendment of receive complaints and cases from More citizenships rules is in favor of expats. “We didn’t have wronged expats - both domestic workers to be revoked? many cases of visa violators as they were and other employees. We had cases of KUWAIT: The Cabinet is expected to discuss revo- usually deported immediately. Also, the workers who were beaten and others cation of citizenship of more people in its meeting majority of the absconding cases were of who didn’t receive their salaries. We try today. Before the Eid break, the Cabinet revoked maids or other laborers who work in oth- to resolve their conflicts peacefully and the citizenship of former opposition MP Abdullah er places for higher pay. For instance, a get them their rights. Our service is free Al-Barghash and two of his brothers and sister maid, instead of getting KD 60, works of charge,” concluded Hamidi. along with their family members. The Cabinet also revoked the citizenship of Ahmad Jabr Al- Shemmari, owner of Al-Youm TV and Alam Al-Youm Ramadan in Saudi Arabia newspaper, which backed the opposition. The Information Ministry, in a subsequent move, can- mostly free from MERS celed the licenses of the two media outlets “because they did not fully honor one of the condi- RIYADH: Saudi Arabia reported 10 con- and the Eid Al-Fitr holiday ran until late tions in the licenses”. The Cabinet also ordered the firmed new cases of a deadly respirato- last week. closure of branches of local non-governmental ry disease during Islam’s fasting month Hundreds of people were infected by public welfare associations for “violating the rules of Ramadan and subsequent Eid Al-Fitr Middle East Respiratory Syndrome set out by law for the activities of public welfare for holiday, after fears that an influx of pil- (MERS) in the kingdom in April and May, which they were licensed”. Reports said that a sec- grims over the period might spread the raising concerns about the pilgrimage ond list might be issued by the Cabinet today of KUWAIT: The minaret of the heritage Al-Sharhan Mosque, built in 1813, is seen jux- infection more widely. Notices of any in Ramadan and during October’s hajj, about seven or eight names including a former sen- taposed with the Liberation Tower in Kuwait City yesterday. The Liberation Tower is new confirmed cases are published at when millions of people will travel to ior opposition lawmaker. the second tallest structure in Kuwait. Construction of the tower commenced before the end of every day by the Health Makkah and Madinah. the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on Aug 2, 1990. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Ministry. Ramadan ended a week ago Continued on Page 15 Israel strikes Gaza school Ban slams ‘criminal act’, wants ‘madness’ to stop GAZA CITY: The UN expressed outrage madness must stop,” he said. after another deadly strike on one of its The United States was “appalled by 367 killed in schools yesterday as Israel began pulling today’s disgraceful shelling” and urged some troops from Gaza in a widely- Israel to do more to prevent civilian casu- acknowledged step towards unilateral alties, according to a statement by State China quake withdrawal. The strike killed 10 people at Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki. a school in the southern city of Rafah She also called for an investigation into BEIJING: More than 367 people died and almost where around 3,000 Palestinians who recent attacks on UN schools. The strike 2,000 were injured when a strong earthquake hit had been made homeless by the vio- on the school came as Palestinian fac- southwest China’s mountainous Yunnan province lence had been sheltering, in the third tions gathered for truce talks with Egypt yesterday, bringing homes crashing to the ground such incident within 10 days. UN in Cairo and world powers voiced and sparking a massive relief operation. The quake in Secretary General Ban Ki-moon strongly increasingly urgent calls for the warring condemned the shelling, calling it “a sides to lay down their weapons. NAJAF: The mother of an Iraqi fighter loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr, who Zhaotong prefecture, in the province’s northeast, moral outrage and a criminal act”. “This Continued on Page 15 was killed during clashes in northern city of Samarra, mourns during his funeral toppled buildings and left rescue teams and resi- yesterday in this central shrine city. — AFP dents to pull survivors from beneath the rubble, images on social media showed. “At least 367 people have been killed and 1,881 people were injured,” the official news agency Xinhua reported early today, cit- Islamic State grabs ing rescuers and raising a previous toll given minutes earlier of 357. The US Geological Survey (USGS) reported the Iraqi dam, oilfield quake at a magnitude of 6.1 and said it struck at a rel- atively shallow depth of 10 km at 4:30 pm (0830 BAGHDAD: Islamic State fighters seized ers who aim to redraw the borders of the GMT). “Too many buildings were damaged and we control of Iraq’s biggest dam, an oilfield Middle East. are collecting data on deaths and injuries,” Xinhua and three more towns yesterday after The Islamic State, which sees Iraq’s quoted local official Chen Guoyong as saying in the inflicting their first major defeat on majority Shiites as apostates who deserve township of Longtoushan, which sits at the epicen- Kurdish forces since sweeping across to be killed, also seized the Ain Zalah oil tre. State television broadcast footage of people run- much of northern Iraq in June. Capture of field - adding to four others already under ning from their homes and gathering in the streets, the electricity-generating Mosul Dam, its control that provide funding for opera- as witnesses described the devastation on social net- after an offensive of barely 24 hours, could tions - and three towns. Initially strong works. “The walls of several buildings crumbled, and give the Sunni militants the ability to flood Kurdish resistance evaporated after the water pipes were ruptured. The electricity was cut major Iraqi cities or withhold water from start of an offensive to take the town of off,” wrote a user in Ludian county, 23 km from the farms, raising the stakes in their bid to top- Zumar. The Islamists then hoisted their epicentre, on China’s Twitter-like Weibo. The user’s ple Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki’s Shiite- black flags there, a ritual that has often message was accompanied by images of cracked led government. preceded mass executions of their cap- walls and a pile of bricks strewn across the road. “The terrorist gangs of the Islamic State tured opponents and the imposition of an Another Ludian resident described the scene as have taken control of Mosul Dam after the ideology even Al-Qaeda finds excessive.