THULHIJJA 25, 1439 AH WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2018 Max 44º 28 Pages Min 29º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17624 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net MoH closes unlicensed clinic Strongest typhoon in quarter US warns Syria, Russia and Black night! Sharapova 56and pharmacy in Mahboula century batters Japan; 6 dead 24 Iran against Idlib ‘tragedy’ 28 and Federer crash out Amir in Washington; Kuwait’s customs, NNSA ink agreement Kuwait, US strengthen strategic partnership WASHINGTON: His Highness the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, accompanied by Deputy Head of National Guard Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah arrived at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington MP Muwaizri DC on Monday for summit talks with US President Donald Trump. His Highness the Amir was received upon arrival by vows to grill White House Chief of Protocol Sean Lawler, the US Ambassador to Kuwait Lawrence Silverman, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Timothy Prime Minister Linder King and Kuwait Ambassador to US Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al-Sabah. By B Izzak His Highness the Amir was accompanied by Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al- KUWAIT: Opposition MP Shuaib Al-Muwaizri yes- Hamad Al-Sabah, Deputy Premier and Interior Minister terday said he prepares to file to grill HH the Prime Sheikh Khaled Jarrah Al-Sabah, Finance Minister Nayef Al- Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah over a Hajraf, head of His Highness the Amir’s office Ahmad Al-Fahad, variety of alleged violations, stressing that the grilling Amiri Diwan Advisor Mohammad Abulhassan, head of Amiri has become a “national and legal duty.” The lawmaker Diwan Protocols Sheikh Khaled Abdullah Al-Sabah, Deputy named a number of what he described as violations Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah, Board Chairman and for which the government is responsible which include Executive Director of Communication and Information the death of two cadets at the military academy, fake Technology Regulatory Authority (CITRA) Salem Al-Athaina, degrees, schools not ready for the start of the new head of Amiri Diwan Media and Cultural Affairs Yusuf Al- academic year and others. Roumi and Director General of Kuwait Direct Investment He said that one of the violations was threatening Promotion Authority (KDIPA) Sheikh Dr Mishal Jaber Al- the chairman of a government company after referring Ahmad Al-Sabah. a corrupt official to court in addition to illegal appointments of senior officials. Muwaizri said he will Bilateral relations file the grilling but he gave no date for the submission. His Highness the Amir’s visit to US comes within the The National Assembly is currently in summer recess framework of the historical ties between the two countries for until the middle of next month when the new term more than 100 years, Jarallah said in a statement. He stressed opens. So far, several ministers have been threatened the keenness of the two friendly countries in strengthening WASHINGTON: Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah welcomes with grillings in the Assembly in the new term. their strategic partnership. His Highness the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah upon his arrival at Andrews Air Continued on Page 24 Continued on Page 24 Force Base in Washington, DC. — Amiri Diwan photo Islamic State retained some personnel strength despite tion for legitimacy, affiliates and recruits among the two to between 18,000 and 20,000, most of them dispersed Qaeda trying to its combat losses, including fresh recruits among major global extremist groups potentially increases the around the two countries and “gone underground”. women and children. “ISIS-Daesh weakening has pro- terrorism threat to NATO and our partners.” Al-Qaeda “A very worrisome trend is the group’s concerted vided Al-Qaeda with an opportunity to attempt to carried out the Sept 11 attacks on the United States, effort to use propaganda to radicalize women and regain primacy; regain its former status,” Von Loringhoven told a secu- prompting US-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. minors, who have emerged as a new target for recruit- rity conference hosted by Israel’s IDC Herzliya college, US forces killed Al-Qaeda’s leader, Osama bin Laden, ment relatively recently,” he said. “This trend may IS loses ground using a term for Islamic State. in a Pakistani hideout in 2011. Soon after, Islamic State, have led to increased involvement of women and “While ISIL-Daesh has occupied the world’s atten- which is guided by a similarly extremist form of Sunni minors in the planning and execution of a number of JERUSALEM: Al-Qaeda is trying to regain its primacy tion for the last four-five year, Al-Qaeda has been qui- Islam, arose. Islamic State’s fiefdoms in Syria and Iraq attacks, including in NATO countries,” he said. Citing over international militancy as Islamic State loses etly rebuilding its global networks and capabilities,” he have been largely dismantled in recent years by offen- the arrest in June of a Tunisian man suspected of plan- ground, a senior NATO official said yesterday, seeing a said, citing activity in Kashmir, Afghanistan, Syria, sives launched by Damascus and Baghdad with the back- ning a ricin attack Germany, von Loringhoven said potentially increased risk to the West from the groups’ Yemen, Somalia and North Africa. “Rather like ISIL- ing of various foreign coalitions. Von Loringhoven said militants could increasingly try to turn to homemade rivalry. But Arndt von Loringhoven, the alliance’s assis- Daesh, Al-Qaeda’s strategic aim is to regain leadership NATO estimated that Islamic State’s peak strength of chemical or biological arms or attacks using commer- tant secretary general for intelligence and security, said of like-minded militants and extremists. The competi- around 39,000 fighters in Syria and Iraq had been halved cially available drones. — Reuters their homes - have left 28 dead. More than 50,000 Deadly ‘rat fever’ people have acute diarrhoea, authorities said. Cases of Yemen foes head malaria and chicken pox have also been reported. “We had anticipated leptospirosis due to contami- to peace talks as kills 14 in Kerala nated water and are taking all measures to distribute preventive drugs in camps,” Kerala health director KERALA: “Rat fever” has killed at least 14 people with Sarita R L said. The floodwaters have now largely ‘ugly war’ rages another 54 suspected fatal cases in the southern Indian receded and fewer than 10,000 people remain in tem- state of Kerala since August, after the worst floods in porary camps, down from 1.4 million at the height of DUBAI: Yemen’s warring parties will meet in Geneva almost a century, authorities said yesterday. A total of the crisis. The monsoon, which lasts from June to tomorrow for a new round of peace talks with little 372 people have been infected with the disease, known September, causes widespread death and destruction hope of a breakthrough in an “ugly war” between properly as leptospirosis and transmitted in water, soil across South Asia each year. The death toll in India this the Saudi-backed government and rebels linked to or food containing urine from rodents and other ani- year currently stands at around 1,400 across 10 states, Iran. They are the first public meetings between the mals. The bacteria can enter the body through cuts or and heavy rainfall is forecast across several areas in government of Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi and abrasions on the skin, or through the mouth, nose and the coming days. ALLAHABAD: A rat looks out of a hole in the ground in Allahabad. Yemen’s powerful Houthi rebels since 2016, when eyes, according to the World Health Organization. In the north-eastern state of Nagaland, 11 people Indian authorities in the southern state of Kerala said yesterday 108 days of negotiations in Kuwait failed to broker a Person-to-person transmission is rare. Early symp- have died and 50,000 others are stranded across some that ‘rat fever’ and other diseases have killed 14 people in the power-sharing deal. toms of leptospirosis such as high fever, muscle ache, 530 villages, with roads including the national highway wake of the worst floods in almost a century. — AFP But the chance of face-to-face sitdowns between vomiting, red eyes and chills are similar to those of into the state cut. Nagaland’s chief minister Neiphiu Hadi’s delegation and the rebels in Geneva are slim to other diseases, making it difficult for health workers to Rio took to Twitter to appeal for donations, posting none, Yemeni foreign minister Khaled Al-Yamani said. diagnose. Other disease outbreaks including dengue photos of widespread damage and saying that 10 relief have perished. Earlier this year Kerala was also the Continued on Page 24 fever following last month’s floods — which killed camps had been opened. In the northern states of epicenter of an outbreak of the Nipah virus, spread almost 500 people and forced more than a million from Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand around 270 people mainly by bats, which claimed 13 lives. — Agencies Hormuz, slowing down deliveries. Iran has in the past Iran moving oil repeatedly threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz - which is used by its Gulf rivals including Saudi Arabia - when faced with sanctions on its oil exports and possi- export terminal ble military action by the US. The latest threat was in July when Rouhani said Iran has always guaranteed the out of the Gulf security of the strait but warned the US “should not play with the lion’s tail.” Moving its terminal to the TEHRAN: Iran is to move its main oil export terminal Oman Sea would in theory allow Iran to continue from the Gulf to the Oman Sea, President Hassan exporting oil even if the strait was closed.