SUBSCRIPTION WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 2017 SHABAN 21, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net KD 117m spent North Korea Turkey brings Olynyk shines as on power plant link emerges back Ottoman Celtics down maintenance in global sports to revive Wizards to set up for summer5 cyber attacks7 past38 glory Cavs20 showdown Trump to give speech on Min 27º Max 44º Islam during Saudi visit High Tide 04:44 & 14:46 Low Tide US president defends revealing intel secrets to Russians 09:33 & 22:25 40 PAGES NO: 17230 150 FILS WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump will urge unity between the world’s major faiths on an ambitious Kuwait backs first foreign trip that will take him to Saudi Arabia, the Vatican and Jerusalem, the White House said yesterday. call to extend National Security Advisor HR McMaster laid out a detailed itinerary for the “historic trip”, due to start late this week, and confirmed that Trump would address a oil output cuts gathering of Muslim leaders on his “hopes for a peaceful vision of Islam”. KUWAIT: Kuwait yesterday backed a call by top oil Previous US leaders have generally chosen a US producers Saudi Arabia and Russia to extend a deal neighbor such as Canada or Mexico for their first presi- on crude production cuts for nine more months. dential voyage, but Trump intends to plunge right into “Kuwait gives its full backing and support to the some of the world’s most difficult spiritual and political joint position of Saudi Arabia and Russia to extend conflicts. In Saudi Arabia, after a day of talks with King the oil output cuts deal between OPEC and other Salman and his crown prince, Trump will attend a gath- producers until March 2018,” Oil Minister Essam Al- ering of dozens of leaders from across the Muslim world. Marzouk said in a statement. Russia and Saudi “He will meet and have lunch with leaders of more Arabia on Monday called for extending the deal than 50 Muslim countries, where he will deliver an inspir- struck late last year, ahead of an OPEC meeting on ing, direct speech on the need to confront radical ideolo- May 25. gy and the president’s hopes for a peaceful vision of In a joint statement the two countries said an Islam,” McMaster told reporters. “The speech is intended extension to March 31, 2018 was needed “to ensure to unite the broader Muslim world against common ene- market stability, predictability and sustainable mies of all civilization and to demonstrate America’s com- development”. World oil prices leapt after the Saudi- mitment to our Muslim partners,” he said, adding that Russian announcement and made further gains yes- Trump will help open a center to de-radicalize extremists. terday in Asian trade, with benchmark West Texas Trump campaigned for office vowing to destroy “rad- Intermediate up 19 cents at $49.04 per barrel. OPEC ical Islamic terrorism” and impose “a total ban on all members agreed in November to cut production by Muslim immigration” to the United States, raising con- 1.2 million barrels per day for six months beginning cerns that his election would only deepen distrust from the start of the year, in a bid to reduce the glut between America and the Muslim world. In office since in oil supplies and shore up prices that had fallen to Jan 20, he has already attempted to impose a ban on WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a travellers from a group of mainly-Muslim countries, historic lows. The move was partly matched by non- meeting in the Oval Office of the White House yesterday. Talks were expected to focus on ways to mend ties cartel producers led by Russia. — AFP before his order fell foul of US courts. frayed over Syria and the presence in the US of Erdogan foe Fethullah Gulen. — AFP Continued on Page 13 Row over Trump Israel PAGE Saving Pakistan’s lost PAGE policies ahead of visit city of Mohenjo Daro 72 projects to resolve traffic woes Oil companies post billions of dollars in losses By B Izzak contracts to develop Cairo Street and roads in South Surra. Many other con- Kuwait Airways KUWAIT: The ministry of public works tracts are in the pipeline. The official also said yesterday that it plans to resolve the said that an agreement to develop the appoints Khuzam traffic crisis in the country through Fourth Ring Road has been signed with implementing 72 road projects, some of international and local consultants, carrier’s new CEO which are already underway or complet- adding that the design phase will take ed. The ministry’s assistant undersecre- two years before inviting tenders. KUWAIT: Kuwait Airways, tary for road engineering Ahmad Al- Meanwhile, the National Assembly’s the official national carrier of Hassan said that 24 of the projects are budgets committee yesterday said two BALQA, Jordan: Jordan’s King Abdullah II (left) attends the formal launch yesterday Kuwait, has confirmed that already underway, four have been com- state-owned oil companies operating of The International Centre for Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Ebrahim Abdullah Al- pleted and as many as 15 others have abroad have posted huge losses in the Applications in the Middle East, known by the acronym SESAME. — AFP Khuzam has been appoint- been offered in a public tender. past few years. The committee said ed as the airline’s new Chief Executive Officer. As one of Speaking after briefing the National Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Open SESAME: Jordan king the newly-appointed board Assembly’s public utilities committee, Company (KUFPEC) posted losses worth members of Kuwait Airways, Hassan said the pace of implementing $656 million in the 2015/2016 fiscal year. inaugurates science center as announced on April 4 this these projects depends on the availability The company’s production has remained year, Khuzam assumed the Ebrahim Al-Khuzam of financing. He said the ministry’s plans at 69,000 barrels per day, unchanged for are based on boosting the capacity of the past six years and it is highly expect- AMMAN: Jordan’s King Abdullah II yester- SESAME also seeks to “build scientific and additional role and duties of the CEO from May 4. existing roads, replacing traffic signals with ed to miss the 200,000 barrels per day day formally launched an international cultural bridges between diverse societies, Formerly the Managing Director of AREF bridges and developing major intersec- target by 2020, the committee said. research center whose members include and contribute to a culture of peace Investment Group KSCC, in addition to many invest- tions throughout the country. Hassan how- It cited the Audit Bureau as saying experts from around the world including through international cooperation in sci- ment and holding companies, including Advisor to ever said that if the necessary funds are that KUFPEC lost $143 million from proj- arch-rivals Iran and Israel. The International ence,” the website says. the Chairman of Kuwait Finance House and General provided, the projects will be implemented ects in Pakistan, Malaysia and Sudan Centre for Synchrotron-Light for Among the project’s members are Manager of Zain (mobile telecommunications), gradually between this year and 2025. because of weak feasibility studies, as Experimental Science and Applications in archrivals Israel and Iran, in addition to Khuzam’s proven leadership qualities and years of sen- The ministry has recently signed a some of the projects did not have any the Middle East, known by the acronym Cyprus, Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, Turkey and ior-level management experience are expected to project to develop Nuwaiseeb Road, hydrocarbon materials and the cost of SESAME, “is the first research center of its the Palestinian Authority. Despite their Continued on Page 13 adding that there are at least two more Continued on Page 13 kind in the region,” said the royal court. deep hostilities, experts from Israel and Iran The facility, located in Balqa province, have served two-year terms as vice presi- just northwest of Amman, “will house the dents of the SESAME council. In 2010, one Fidget spinners spin out of nowhere first nuclear-powered accelerator in the Iranian member of SESAME, Majid Shahriari, world,” said SESAME council president Chris was killed in Tehran, with Iran accusing NEW YORK: Stores can’t keep them in stock. Parents are Llewellyn Smith. “The center is expected to Israel of assassinating the nuclear scientist. scrambling to find them. And some schools have attract a large number of scientists from the Seyed Mahmoud Reza Aghamiri served banned them. The mania for fidget spinners - the 3-inch region,” Smith said, adding it had “so far as vice president from Dec 2011 to May twirling gadgets taking over classrooms and cubicles - received 55 scientific research projects on 2014 when Eliezer Rabinovici, a physics is unlike many other toy crazes. They’re not made by a the use of nuclear accelerators”. professor at Jerusalem’s Hebrew major company, timed for the holiday season, or pro- SESAME was set up on the model of the University, replaced him. Members Cyprus moted in TV commercials. They’re more easily found at European Organization for Nuclear and Turkey also do not have diplomatic gas stations or 7-Eleven than at big toy chains. “It just Research (CERN) - Europe’s top physics lab- relations, like Iran and Israel. The center took off,” says Richard Gottlieb, a consultant at Global oratory - and construction work on the also has 17 observers, who have an adviso- Toy Experts in New York. $100 million center started in 2003. It was ry role and include the European Union, Fidget spinners have been around for years, mostly developed under the auspices of UNESCO China and the United States.