football Page 16 Pages 15 & 16 THE FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY IN FREE KUWAIT Established in 1977 / www.arabtimesonline.com soccer MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 2021 / JUMADA AL AWWAL 27, 1442 AH emergency number 112 NO. 17584 16 PAGES 150 FILS Biden Cabinet picks point to outreach Back to normalcy Newswatch WASHINGTON, Jan 10, KUWAIT CITY: His Highness (AP): Joe Biden promised the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al- that his presidency would Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah congratulated, in a cable Sunday, mean a return to normalcy. Sultan Haitham bin Tareq of His Cabinet picks help dem- Oman on the anniversary of his ascension to the throne. onstrate how he plans to de- His Highness the Amir com- liver. mended the “fraternal and his- The president-elect announced his toric” relations between Kuwait final nominees this past week, com- and Oman, and the development achievements in the Sultunate. pleting a diverse team of two dozen His Highness the Amir wished people. He noted Friday that this will Sultan Haitham good health, and be the “first Cabinet ever” to reach for Oman and its people further gender parity and include a major- progress and prosperity under his ity of people of color, notable given leadership. earlier concerns that he was leaning His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ah- largely on white men. mad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and Some nominees have decades of expe- His Highness the Prime Minister rience in their respective agencies. Many Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Ham- held prominent roles in the Obama ad- ad Al-Sabah sent similar cables. ministration. Many have already begun (KUNA) meeting with interest groups and advo- ❑ ❑ ❑ cacy organizations, and his transition team has had what’s been described as KUWAIT CITY: Minister of In- an “open-door policy” toward advocacy formation, Minister of State for groups for months. Youth Affairs and Chairperson of It’s a sharp contrast to President Don- the National Council for Culture Arts and Letters Abdulrahman ald Trump’s Cabinet, which was domi- Al-Mutairi mourned with deep nated largely by white men with little distress demise of the renowned experience in Washington. Biden’s aides Kuwaiti researcher, writer and say that was one of the goals he set in historian Khaled Al-Ansari who filling out his Cabinet: to signal that his passed away earlier on Sunday. presidency means a return to competent, Minister Al-Mutairi, in a press stable leadership government. statement, recalled the deceased as a pioneer who contributed to Rage enriching the Kuwaiti and Gulf That’s especially important, Demo- countries’ libraries with many re- crats say, as the pandemic and economic searches and literary works. turmoil rage and the country navigates The deceased had written sev- through the aftermath of last week’s vio- eral books about history of the lent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Kuwaiti island Failaka and its “Joe Biden is taking office under the natives. (KUNA) An Indonesian Navy diver shows debris recovered from the water during a search operation for a Sriwijaya Air passenger jet that crashed into the sea near most challenging circumstances in a ❑ ❑ ❑ Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, Jan 10. Indonesian divers on Sunday located parts of the wreckage of the Boeing 737-500 at a depth of 23 meters (75 feet) in century,” said Dan Pfeiffer, a former the Java Sea, a day after the aircraft with dozens of people on board crashed shortly after takeoff from Jakarta. (AP) KUWAIT CITY: The government Obama White House senior adviser. and National Assembly Speaker “There is no time for on the job train- Marzouq Al-Ghanim have been Amir offers condolences ing. He needs people who can hit the blackmailing the MPs on the is- ground running because what happens sue of general amnesty since the in the first six months of his presidency 2016 Assembly, says MP Shuaib will likely determine the trajectory of all Al-Muwaizri. four years.” In a press statement, Al-Mu- Indonesian divers find Boeing wreckage Biden’s Cabinet is unlikely to be in waizri pointed out that the wrong place when he assumes the presidency on attitude of the government is Jan. 20. The Senate, which must confirm manifested in a number of steps JAKARTA, Jan 10, (Agencies): Indonesian rescuers the nominees, hasn’t scheduled hearings it has taken such as disrupting the pulled out body parts, pieces of clothing and scraps of for many of the picks. One exception is structure of ministers, expressing metal from the Java Sea early Sunday morning, a day after satisfaction over the inaugural Lloyd Austin, Biden’s nominee for de- a Boeing 737-500 with 62 people on board crashed shortly Travel eases after fense secretary, who is expected to appear session of the current Assembly, after takeoff from Jakarta, officials said. and bias in dealing with the elec- before the Senate Armed Services Com- Officials were hopeful they were honing in on the mittee on Jan. 19. tion of Speaker. wreckage of Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 after sonar equip- He said the government, repre- Some nominees faced early questions sented by Deputy Prime Minister ment detected a signal from the aircraft. about their confirmation prospects, par- Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi told report- borders reopening and State Minister for Cabinet ticularly Neera Tanden, Biden’s pick to Affairs Anas Al-Saleh, commu- ers that authorities have launched massive search efforts lead the Office of Management and Bud- nicated with several MPs in the after identifying “the possible location of the crash site.” DUBAI, Jan 10, (Agencies): di Arabia in isolating Doha, get. Tanden has angered Republicans early days of the 2020 Assembly; “These pieces were found by the SAR team between The United Arab Emirates have yet to publicly elaborate with her outspoken criticism of them on promising to submit the General Lancang Island and Laki Island,” National Search and announced on Friday that it on their pledges to ease the Twitter. Amnesty Bill within a week. He Rescue Agency Bagus Puruhito in a statement. would reopen its borders and boycott signed this week in But the confirmation process for many added the late Sheikh Nasser His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al- In this photo released by Saudi Press Agency (SPA), Saudi airspace to Qatar after boy- the ancient Saudi desert site of the nominees may be smoother after Sabah Al-Ahmad passed away Jaber Al-Sabah Sunday expressed condolences to Indo- Democrats picked up two Senate seats in in the second week and the gov- nesian President Joko Widodo over the victims of the ill- Arabia’s King Salman receives cotting the tiny energy-rich of al-Ula. the first dose of the Pfizer CO- country alongside its Gulf al- The four Arab states sev- Georgia last week, leaving the chamber ernment took advantage of this fated Indonesian airplane which plunged into the Java Sea, evenly divided. Vice President-elect Ka- situation to postpone the submis- killing all passengers. VID-19 vaccine in Neom, Saudi lies since 2017. ered commercial and dip- sion of the bill. “Strangely, the Arabia, on Jan 8. (AP) mala Harris will be the tie-breaking vote, His Highness the Amir prayed to Allah the Almighty The decision to restart com- lomatic ties with Qatar in giving Democrats the edge. government reconciled with Iraq to bestow blessing upon the deceased, and solace to their merce and travel kicked off 2017, accusing the country which invaded Kuwait, and re- Biden spokesman Andrew Bates said families. 414 new cases on Saturday, Foreign Minis- of cozying up to Iran and fi- that the president-elect is “working in stored good relations with coun- His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al- tries that supported the invasion; try official Khalid Abdullah nancing extremist groups in good faith with both parties in Congress yet it refuses to reconcile with the Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and His Highness the Prime Belhou was quoted as saying the region, charges that Doha toward swift confirmation because with citizens of Kuwait,” he asserted. Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah also by the UAE’s state-run WAM denies. so much at stake, with our national secu- He emphasized the need to extended condolences to President Widodo on the victims Stay away rity on the line and lives and jobs being of the ill-fated plane. news agency. This week’s breakthrough ratify the bill according to articles The move comes after followed a final push by the lost every day, our nation cannot afford to 65, 66 and 75 of the Constitution Meanwhile, the Kuwaiti embassy in Jakarta on Sunday Saudi Arabia declared a outgoing Trump administra- waste any time.” as the general amnesty issue af- called on citizens to consider delaying travel to Indonesia ‘from UK’ But many nominees may face unprec- fects other matters. at this time because the airport is closed to foreign arrivals. breakthrough in settling the tion, which has been seeking edented levels of scrutiny as they work ❑ ❑ ❑ The embassy indicated in a statement that the Indone- KUWAIT CITY, Jan 10, (Agen- yearslong rift with Qatar dur- to end the dispute that has to dig their departments out of both the sian authorities announced additional strict measures start- cies): The Kuwait Embassy in the ing the annual Gulf summit troubled America’s foreign KUWAIT CITY: The Ministry of erosion in public trust in government and ing from Monday, January 11, as a result of the increasing United Kingdom called on citi- this week, saying the king- policy and defense strategy an erosion of morale from within.