SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2016 RABI AL-AWWAL 21, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net ‘Cry of Aleppo’ IMF chief Zsa Zsa, US Suarez double, drive shows Lagarde found star famous for Messi magic humanitarian guilty over being famous, hands Barca role of Kuwait tycoon payout dead at 99 derby delight 2Gunman21 kills38 Russian19 Min 09º Max 17º ambassador in Ankara High Tide 03:10 & 17:16 Low Tide Attacker shouts ‘Don’t forget Aleppo’ • Amir condemns murder 10:33 & 22:53 40 PAGES NO: 17086 150 FILS ANKARA: A Turkish policeman crying “Aleppo” and “Allahu Akbar” shot dead Russia’s ambassador to Iran releases Turkey at an art exhibition in Ankara yesterday, in what Moscow termed a “terrorist act”. Andrei Karlov died of four Kuwaitis his wounds after the shooting, which occurred on the eve of a key meeting between the Russian, Turkish and Iranian foreign ministers on the Syria conflict. held in Ahvaz Dramatic television footage showed the man - smartly dressed in a dark suit, white shirt and tie - waving a KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al- gun and gesturing in the air at the Ankara exhibition Jarallah yesterday said four Kuwaiti citizens detained hall where the veteran diplomat was opening a show in Iran’s Ahvaz have been released. “The Kuwaiti citi- of Russian photographs. zens have been set free and handed over to the The state-run Anadolu news agency said the gun- Kuwaiti Embassy in Iran. They are expected to return man had been “neutralized” - apparently killed -in a to the country (Kuwait) tomorrow (Tuesday),” Jarallah police operation inside the hall after 15 minutes of said in a press statement. clashes. “Today in Ankara as a result of an attack the The Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs had sum- Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov received moned the Iranian ambassador in Kuwait for a meet- wounds that he died from,” Russian foreign ministry ing with the ministry’s officials over the fate of the spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in televised com- detained citizens. Earlier on Saturday, Jarallah com- ments. “We qualify what happened as a terrorist act,” mended Iranian authorities’ cooperation over the detention of the Kuwaitis. she added. “The murderers will be punished. Today An official source at the Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign this issue will be raised at the UN Security Council. Affairs also lauded Iranian authorities’ cooperation Terrorism will not win out,” she added. over the release of the Kuwaitis. Iranian authorities HH the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- have just handed over the four Kuwaiti citizens to the Jaber Al-Sabah strongly condemned the killing of the charge d’affaires at the Kuwaiti Embassy in Tehran, the Russian ambassador yesterday. The Amir, in a cable to source said in a press statement. The source assured Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said this ter- that the released citizens are fine and would be sent rorist act contravened diplomatic norms and moral back to Kuwait today by a Kuwait Airways plane. values. Kuwait strongly rejects all forms of terrorism, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai reported the four were HH the Amir affirmed. HH the Crown Prince Sheikh on a fishing trip when they strayed into Iranian waters Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and HH the Prime and were detained on Friday. Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah Continued on Page 13 ANKARA: Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov is seen on the floor after being shot by a gunman (right) sent similar cables. during a public event in the Turkish capital. — AFP Continued on Page 13 Electoral College meets PAGE Yahoo problems story PAGE to confirm Trump win of too little, too late Govt vows to resolve sports crisis By B Izzak ference in local sports. In a letter sent to the Assembly yester- News KUWAIT: The government pledged yes- day, the public sport authority said it will in brief terday to resolve the years-old sports cri- issue a new sports law within six months sis that led to international sanctions and that is in line with international sport vowed it will cooperate with the National charters and respects the country’s sover- 9 dead as truck ploughs Assembly to issue new sports legislation, eignty, the constitution and public funds. into Berlin Xmas market MPs said. The government submitted a In the second point, the authority said it BERLIN: A truck ploughed into a crowded Christmas two-point solution aimed at lifting a 14- will invite the IOC and FIFA to Kuwait to market in the German capital Berlin yesterday evening, month suspension on Kuwaiti sports discuss the sports situation with the gov- killing nine people and injuring up to 50 others, police imposed by the International Olympic ernment and the Assembly in order to A worker of Turkish NGO Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) Burak Karacaoglu said. German media, citing police at the scene, said first Committee (IOC) and the world football reach a solution that is agreed by all sides. takes a selfie with seven-year-old Bana Al-Abed in the Rashidin district in Syria indications pointed to an attack on the market, situated body FIFA for alleged government’s inter- Continued on Page 13 after she was evacuated from Aleppo. — AFP at the foot of the ruined Kaiser Wilhelm memorial church, which was kept as a bombed-out ruin after World War Two. The truck careered into the Berlin mar- Miss Puerto Rico lands ket at what would have been one of the most crowded Thousands evacuated times for the Christmas market, when adults and chil- dren would be gathering in the traditional cluster of Miss World 2016 crown from Aleppo after deal wooden huts that sell food and Christmas goods. Police cars and ambulances converged quickly on the scene as OXON HILL, Maryland: Stephanie del Mannuela. Contestants from Kenya and a huge security operation unfolded. The fate of the driv- Valle of Puerto Rico was crowned Miss Catriona Gray of the Philippines also were 7-yr-old blogger heads to Turkey er of the truck was not immediately clear, but Bild news- World 2016 on Sunday, edging out run- in the final five. Canada’s Miss World rep- paper said he was on the run. ners-up from the Dominican Republic and resentative, Chinese-born Anastasia Lin ALEPPO: Thousands of traumatized more than 16 hours” at a regime check- Indonesia, and beauties from around the was embroiled in a controversy when Syrians including children left the rebel point without being allowed off the bus- globe. Del Valle, 19, is a brown-eyed pageant officials reportedly warned her enclave of Aleppo yesterday as the UN es. The government had suspended brunette student who speaks Spanish, against speaking to the press for three Security Council voted to deploy evacuations on Friday, insisting that peo- Three hurt in shooting at English and French, and hopes to get into weeks about human rights abuses in observers to the battered city to monitor ple also be allowed to leave two north- Zurich Muslim prayer hall the entertainment industry. Crowned by China. She was given the green light the evacuations. Families had spent western villages under rebel siege. Miss World 2015 Mireia Lalaguna of Spain, again on Wednesday. Last year, China According to the ICRC and the Syrian GENEVA: Three people were injured by gunfire in hours waiting in below-freezing temper- del Valle called it an “honor and a great blocked Lin from attending the same con- atures, sheltering from the rain in Observatory for Human Rights, around central Zurich yesterday, police said, with local responsibility” to represent her Caribbean test when it was held in the city of Sanya. bombed-out apartment blocks and wait- 500 people left in a dawn convoy out of media reporting the incident occurred in a Muslim homeland. Contestants from more than 100 coun- ing desperately for news on a new wave Fuaa and Kafraya. prayer hall near the city’s railway station. “I can First runner-up was Yaritza Miguelina tries took part in the Miss World beauty of departures. After an agonizing delay, The Observatory said at least 14,000 only confirm that there was a shooting,” a spokes- Reyes Ramirez of the Dominican Republic, pageant, held at National Harbor near the operation resumed yesterday under people, including 4,000 rebels, have left woman for Zurich police told AFP, adding a state- followed by Miss World Indonesia Natasha Washington, DC. — Agencies a complex agreement that will see the opposition sector since the evacua- ment would be released later. Swiss media said regime forces exert full control over tions began on Thursday. At least 7,000 the three wounded people, all adults, were found Syria’s second city. remain, according to the Britain-based in the street where the prayer hall is located. The More than 7,000 people travelled in monitor. A rebel representative said that suspected assailant had fled the scene and police 100 buses out of Aleppo yesterday, while hundreds of people would also be evac- sealed off the area, they said. dozens more vehicles were preparing to uated from Zabadani and Madaya, two leave, said Ingy Sedky, spokeswoman for army-besieged rebel towns near the bor- the International Committee of the Red der with Lebanon, as part of the deal. Saudi officials call to Cross (ICRC). Dbis said the Aleppo evacuees’ departure open jobs for women “We will continue throughout the day was delayed for hours in temperatures RIYADH: A senior Saudi cleric and a health ministry offi- - and however long it takes - to evacuate well below freezing, compounding their cial said women should be allowed to work as para- the thousands more who are still wait- plight from months of siege and bom- medics and opticians, Saudi newspapers reported yes- ing,” Sedky told AFP.