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SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2015 MUHARRAM 19, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net India Property US troops in Publisher of secular Halloween Mela 2015 Syria will only books hacked to horror show exhibition4 fight IS:7 Kerry death11 in Dhaka for20 Mourinho 224 perish as Russian Min 20º Max 38º plane crashes in Sinai High Tide 01:45 & 15:59 Low Tide IS claims responsibility, Russia says untrue • 2 airlines suspend flights 09:18 & 21:18 40 PAGES NO: 16684 150 FILS ISMAILIA/CAIRO: A Russian airliner carrying 224 passen- gers crashed into a mountainous area of Egypt’s Sinai peninsula yesterday shortly after losing radar contact near cruising altitude, killing all aboard. A militant group affiliated to Islamic State in Egypt, Sinai Province, said in a statement it had brought down the plane “in response to Russian airstrikes that killed hundreds of Muslims on Syrian land”, but Russia’s Transport Minister told Interfax news agency the claim “can’t be considered accurate”. The Airbus A321, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia under the brand name Metrojet, was flying from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg in Russia when it went down in central Sinai soon after daybreak, the aviation ministry said. “I now see a tragic scene,” an Egyptian security officer at the site told Reuters by telephone. “A lot of dead on the ground and many who died whilst strapped to their seats. Continued on Page 13 HH Amir sends condolences KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah sent a cable of condolences yesterday to the Russian President Vladimir Putin over SINAI: (Right) Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail (3rd-R) and Egypt’s Defense Minister Sedki Sobhi (4th-R) at the site of the wreckage of the crashed A321 Russian the death of Russian citizens who were onboard a airliner in Hassana area of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. (Top left) Egyptian ambulances carrying the corpses of Russian victims and (above left) relatives of the crash vic- Russian airliner that crashed in Sinai, Egypt. tims react at Pulkovo international airport at Saint Petersburg yesterday.—AFP Continued on Page 13 KD 300 for visa transfer Romania club blaze kills 27 from govt to private BUCHAREST: Romania was plunged into authorities said. President Klaus Iohannis KUWAIT: Minister of Social Affairs and ed the project in return for a KD 300 fee Campaigning mourning yesterday after 27 people said there were indications that safety Labor Hind Al-Sabeeh recently issued per laborer. were killed and nearly 200 injured when regulations had been ignored at the two ministerial decisions pertaining to Al-Moussa added that once trans- a fire ripped through an underground club, and called for a swift investigation. the transfer of work permits of laborers ferred to the private sector, laborers wraps up for nightclub in Bucharest. Survivors spoke “I am saddened, but also revolted that who wish to transfer their visas from the would not be transferred back to govern- of the horror that unfolded when fire- a tragedy of this scale could have taken government sector to the private sector ment contracts unless decided otherwise Turkey vote works-set off during a pre-Halloween gig place in Bucharest,” Iohannis said. “It is projects to work for the private sector as by a supreme disputes committee and by a heavy metal band-unleashed a unimaginable that there could have well as transfers within the private sector after paying a KD 300 fee per laborer. Al- ISTANBUL: Turkish politicians hold their final cam- blaze, followed by a stampede as terri- been so many people in such a (small) itself. Moussa said that the second decision paign rallies yesterday for a vote many fear is fied clubbers sought the exit. space and that the tragedy happened so In this regard, Manpower authority allows an employee to transfer a laborer’s unlikely to bring an end to months of instability as As the government declared three quickly because simple rules were director Ahmed Al-Moussa explained work permit to work for him with exemp- the country confronts bloody jihadist attacks and a days of national mourning Prime ignored,” he added after visiting the that the first decision allows an employer tion from the service duration condition renewed Kurdish conflict. Opinion polls are predict- Minister Victor Ponta said foreigners scene. “I hope that the authorities man- to transfer work permits of a laborer who and in return for a KD 300 fee per laborer, ing a replay today of the shock June election which were among the injured, including two age their inquiry with speed and rigor.” works for him under a government con- provided the original owner approves stripped the Justice and Development Party (AKP) Spanish people, an Italian and a German, Continued on Page 13 tract to private sector if he has complet- the transfer. — Al-Anbaa of its majority after 13 years of single-party rule, leaving the country without a government after coalition talks failed. Turkey goes into the election more polarized than ever on ethnic and sectarian lines, and deeply on edge after the October 10 bombings in Ankara that killed 102 people, the worst in the country’s modern history. The AKP of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is tipped to win between 40 and 43 per- cent of the vote, paving the way either for a shaky coalition that many analysts say will not last long- or yet another election. “Sunday’s vote will have existential importance on the future of Turkey,” said Yusuf Kanli, a com- mentator at Hurriyet Daily News. Another inconclu- sive result could trigger further turmoil in the Muslim-majority country, with fears of a return to all-out war between Turkish security forces and Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) rebels after renewed violence shattered a truce in July. Continued on Page 13 BUCHAREST: People light candles at a memorial makeshift outside the nightclub Colectiv in Bucharest yesterday a day after a fire broke out. — AFP Russia risks Syrian quagmire: US MANAMA: Moscow’s intervention in the said it had been a “remarkable achievement” Syrian conflict will have the unintended con- to get the two countries to sit and talk, but KUWAIT: A†magnificent rainbow appeared over Kuwait skyline yesterday after sequences of drawing Russia into a quagmire Saudi Arabia said Russia and Iran had to three days of sporadic rains and lightning signaling the advent of a soothing and alienating Sunni Muslims across the agree on when and how Assad and foreign winter. — KUNA region, US Deputy Secretary of State Antony forces backing him should quit Syria. Blinken said yesterday. Russia began air “For us without al-Assad’s departure, there strikes a month ago, changing the balance of is no solution for the Syrian problems,” Saudi forces in the war in favor of President Bashar Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir told Reuters. Rains continue Al-Assad and against rebel groups that Asked by reporters when that should take include both jihadists and non-militants place, he replied: “He should leave this after- backed by the West, Turkey and Gulf coun- noon. The sooner the better.” to lash Kuwait tries. He added that Riyadh was meanwhile con- “The quagmire will spread and deepen, US Deputy Secretary of State Antony sidering intensifying support to moderate drawing Russia further in. Russia will be seen Blinken Syrian rebels by providing them with “more KUWAIT: The Ministry of Interior urged istry spokesman said yesterday. as being in league with Assad, Hezbollah, tion. More than 1,400 are killed, all civilians, in lethal weapons”, but gave no further details. motorists to be cautious due to heavy Abdulmohsen Al-Enezi, also Assistant Iran, alienating millions of Sunnis in Syria, the parts of Syria. And these are areas which are Blinken said Washington was adding $100 rains. In a press statement yesterday, the Undersecretary for Planning and region and indeed in Russia itself,” Blinken outside the control of Daesh,” Syrian opposi- million in support to the Syrian opposition ministry’s department of public relations Development, told KUNA in a statement told the Manama Dialogue regional security tion leader Khaled Khoja said in Manama, for basic services such as schooling, raising its advised the public to use hotline (112) in the ministry was coordinating with the conference in Bahrain. using an Arabic name for Islamic State. total infusion to $500 million. case of emergency. Ministry of Interior, Civil Defense Syria’s civil war has aggravated sectarian Talks in Vienna on Friday provided the first Blinken said there was a shared objective Meanwhile, emergency teams from Department and Meteorological depart- tensions in the region, with Iran, Lebanon’s occasion on which Saudi Arabia and Iran, the with Russia in defeating Islamic State, but it the Ministry of Public Works are deployed ment to deal with any emergency case. Hezbollah militia and some Iraqi militias, all region’s two main backers of opposing forces was important to get away from the idea that in all six governorates to deal with urgent He said the emergency teams were moni- Shiite Muslim, backing Assad against rebel in Syria, put aside their bitter rivalry to dis- the only choice in Syria was between the incidents that may be caused by rain fall toring the situation in the streets. groups that are overwhelmingly Sunni. “One cuss the possibility of a peaceful solution. ultra-hardline militant group and Assad. and unstable weather conditions, min- Continued on Page 13 month has passed since the Russian occupa- British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond Continued on Page 13 LOCAL SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2015 News French envoy on climate In brief Don’t camp close to military, oil facilities change hopeful on COP21 KUWAIT: Citizens and residents should not set up camps near military or oil facilities, nor near transmission towers or highways, Ministry of Interior warned yesterday.

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