THULQADA 13, 1440 AH TUESDAY, JULY 16, 2019 28 Pages Max 46º Min 29º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17883 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Deputy Foreign Minister hails Shock, anger as videos of brutal As China locks up Muslims, Mahrez stunner sends Algeria 3 strong Kuwaiti-French bonds 6 Sudan raid belatedly go viral 22 it opens Xinjiang to tourists 28 into Africa Cup of Nations final MP questions MoI over terror cell as suspects sent to Egypt Govt praises ministry for busting Brotherhood-linked network By B Izzak senior foreign ministry official as saying late on Sunday. The interior ministry said KUWAIT: MP Riyadh Al-Adasani yes- investigations are ongoing to discover terday sent a series of questions to the other cell members. interior ministry requesting details on the Later yesterday, the government alleged Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood praised interior ministry personnel for terrorist network that was busted by apprehending the terrorist cell. Deputy Kuwaiti police a few days ago and whose Prime Minister and Interior Minister members were handed over to Egyptian Sheikh Khaled Jarrah Al-Sabah briefed authorities. The lawmaker inquired about the Cabinet about the circumstances that the names of the members in the cell, ver- contributed to the discovery of the cell, dicts passed against them in Egypt and the government said in a statement fol- their confessions in Kuwait. He also asked lowing its weekly meeting chaired by HH about the means and date of their entry the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak into Kuwait and where they had been at Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. He said the cell the time of arrest. members confessed they carried out ter- He also asked the minister about the rorist operations in Egypt and attempted nature of employment of the members, to undermine security in different parts their sponsors and any other details of Egypt. Sheikh Khaled said investiga- related to their residence permit in the tions are ongoing to learn who was cov- country. Kuwait said yesterday it handed ering and cooperating with this cell. the members of the network to Egyptian Egypt banned the group in 2013 authorities just a few days after arresting after late Muslim Brotherhood them. The interior ministry had said on President Mohamed Morsi, the first Friday the eight Egyptians belonged to a democratically elected head of state in “terrorist” cell linked to the Brotherhood. Egypt’s modern history, was toppled by They had fled to Kuwait after being sen- the military following widespread tenced by Egyptian authorities to jail unrest. Since then, Egyptian authorities terms of up to 15 years, it said. have arrested tens of thousands of Kuwait has not specified the circum- political opponents, many of them stances of their sentencing, and there has Islamists, according to human rights been no official comment on the case organizations. The Brotherhood says it KUWAIT: Sailors apply a mixture of white cement and animal grease (habab and shouna) to the body of a dhow yesterday as part of preparations from Egyptian judicial authorities either. publicly renounced violence decades for the pearl diving festival. Pearl-diving trips are held annually under the patronage of HH the Amir in order to keep alive traditions that accom- The men were returned under the terms ago and pursues an Islamist political panied the once important national trade of pearl diving, prior to the discovery of oil. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat (See Page 4) of bilateral agreements, KUNA quoted a vision using peaceful means. begun to receive our S-400s. Some said, News in brief Erdogan hails ‘they cannot buy them’... God willing the final part of this (delivery) will be in April Trucks to pay to use causeway 2020,” Erdogan told a crowd of several S-400 deal on thousand in Ankara. KUWAIT: The Public Authority for Roads and The anniversary comes at a difficult Transportation (PART) said yesterday that truck coup ’versary moment for Erdogan. He faces a weak- drivers will start paying fees while using Sheikh ened economy, worsening relations with Jaber Causeway from today. PART said in a press ANKARA: President Recep Tayyip NATO ally the United States over the S- release that the fees for the transit of trucks on the Erdogan yesterday hailed the controver- 400 purchase, and a humiliating loss for bridge will be KD 1 per ton of the truck’s total sial delivery of a Russian missile defense his party in the recent Istanbul local weight, adding that payment will be collected at system despite the threat of US sanc- election. In 2016, nearly 250 people entrances in Shuwaikh, Doha and Subbiya. Truckers tions, as Turkey marked the third were killed - excluding the coup-plot- should comply with the compulsory route to the anniversary of a bloody coup attempt. ters - and more than 2,000 injured after truck weighing station to pay the transit fee through Just days before the anniversary, the first a rogue military faction tried to wrest bankcards or prepaid cards, as cash payment is batch of the Russian S-400 defense sys- power from the president. Thousands unacceptable. Minister of Public Works and Minister tem was delivered to Turkey despite took to the streets in response to of State for Housing Affairs Jenan Boushehri said the repeated US calls for them to cancel the Erdogan’s call to defeat the uprising. expected revenues will be used to cover part of the deal or face punishment. “We have Continued on Page 24 ISTANBUL: People wave Turkish flags at the Ataturk International Airport yesterday. — AFP cost of maintenance and operation and periodic inspection and supervision. — KUNA Trump spoke out a day after launch- Housing loan for women hiked Trump steps ing xenophobic attacks on the progres- sive congresswomen on Twitter, saying they should “go back” to the countries KUWAIT: The Cabinet has amended the condi- up attacks on they came from. He did not identify the tions under which women are given housing loans, women by name in his initial attack said a minister yesterday, describing the measure as although yesterday he made it clear he an effort to establish gender parity in the state. As congresswomen was referring to Alexandria Ocasio- per the new changes, Kuwaiti divorced women and US President Donald Cortez of New York, who is of Puerto widows are now entitled to housing loans worth KD WASHINGTON: Trump stepped up his attacks on four Rican origin, and Ilhan Omar of 35,000, said Minister of Public Works and Minister progressive Democratic congresswomen Minnesota, who is of Somali origin. of State for Housing Dr Jenan Boushehri. On previ- yesterday, saying if they’re not happy in The attacks also appeared to target ous housing loan figures, she said women received the United States, “they can leave”. “All Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, the first no more than KD 30,000 for private residences they do is complain,” Trump told Palestinian-American woman elected to and a maximum of KD 25,000 for government- reporters gathered at the White House Congress, and Ayanna Pressley of owned properties. The minister said the new law for a “Made in America” event. “These Massachusetts, who is African- also entails changes to ensure expedited and com- are people that hate our country,” he American. Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib and plete divorce proceedings for women in a bid to added. “If you’re not happy here, you Pressley were all born in the United ensure stability in their lives. — KUNA can leave.” Trump also accused the four States while Omar came to the United Democrats, all of whom are women of States from war-torn Somalia when she WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump waves after signing an executive order color, of having “love” for US “enemies was a child. during the 3rd annual Made in America product showcase on the South Lawn of the like Al-Qaeda”. Continued on Page 24 White House yesterday. — AFP President: Drug ment forces but under siege by the Houthis, who have Weapons souq repeatedly bombarded the city of 615,000 people. Many gangs behind civilians in tribal Yemen, the Arab world’s most impover- ished country, carry personal arms even under normal Lanka bombings thrives in Taez circumstances and weapons trade is common. But the TAEZ, Yemen: Once overflowing with handicrafts, the war has seen the arms market surge, and traditional COLOMBO: International drug syndicates orchestrat- old Al-Shinayni market in Yemen’s third city of Taez is trades pushed aside. ed Sri Lanka’s deadly Easter Sunday bombings, the now bursting with Kalashnikovs and bullets as traders “In the past, the city’s old souq (market) used to sell country’s leader claimed yesterday, despite earlier scramble to scratch out a living in the war-wracked coun- mainly handicraft items made by blacksmiths, potters and blaming the attacks on Islamists. The statement comes try. Yemen has been plunged into a devastating war since tailors,” said merchant Abu Ali. “When the war erupted, amid a nationwide narcotics crackdown, with President the Iran-aligned Houthi rebels swept into the capital most merchants turned to selling weapons,” the tailor- Maithripala Sirisena aiming to reintroduce capital pun- Sanaa in a late 2014 offensive, sparking a military inter- turned arms trader told AFP. “Some sell (Yemen’s highly ishment for drug offences. vention months later by a Saudi-led coalition. popular mild narcotic leaf) qat, and others have fled. Half of TAEZ, Yemen: A man displays a rocket launcher at a Continued on Page 24 The southwestern city of Taez is controlled by govern- the shops have shut down,” he added.