SUBSCRIPTION MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2015 RABI ALAWWAL 3, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net New affidavit Palestinian Banksy stresses Giroud and to protect refugee thrives Jobs’ Syria Ramsey send patients from at Britain’s link with Arsenal medical3 errors poshest10 school migrant40 oeuvres to20 summit Death sentence upheld Min 12º Max 23º over mosque bombing High Tide 00:23 & 14:44 Turaiji questions businessman’s citizenship Low Tide 08:05 & 19:53 40 PAGES NO: 16727 150 FILS By B Izzak 19 women win in historic Saudi vote KUWAIT: The appeals court yesterday upheld the death sentence against the man who drove a Saudi bomber to a RIYADH: At least 19 women won municipal council Shiite mosque, but reduced the capital penalty against the seats in Saudi Arabia’s first ever election open to alleged leader of the Islamic State group in Kuwait. The female voters and candidates, officials said yesterday, court did not look into the cases of five other men who in a milestone for the ultra-conservative Muslim king- were sentenced to death by the criminal court in dom. “Even if it was only one woman, we’re really September for their roles in the June suicide bombing at proud of that. Honestly, we weren’t expecting anyone the Imam Al-Sadeq Mosque that left 26 people dead and to win,” said Sahar Hassan Nasief, a women’s rights 227 others wounded. activist in the Red Sea city of Jeddah. The court also acquitted one of the five women who But with 2,106 seats up for election, the 19 women received jail terms by the criminal court and left the other would comprise less than one percent of Saudi sentences almost unchanged. The court convicted the Arabia’s elected council membership. “We need more,” main defendant Abdulrahman Sabah Eidan Saud who said Aljazi Al-Hossaini, who was defeated in Diriyah dropped the Saudi bomber to the mosque site and who on the edge of Riyadh, where three women won also brought the explosives belt from near the Saudi bor- seats, according to Saudi news channel Al-Ekhbaria. der. Saud, a stateless Arab, had confessed to the charges in She hoped women would be included among the the criminal court but denied them in the appeals court. one third of council seats which are appointed by the He did not make any move after he heard from his cage municipal affairs ministry. the judge read out the verdict. Sabq.org, a news website affiliated with the king- The court reduced the death sentence against Farraj dom’s interior ministry, reported that a total of 19 Muhareb, the alleged leader of the Islamic State in Kuwait, women had been elected in various parts of the to 15 years in jail. The court also acquitted a woman who country. In the first announcement of a woman win- was handed a two-year term by the criminal court. Based ner, Salma bint Hizab Al-Oteibi was elected in the on the appeals verdict, one suspect is sentenced to death, holy city of Makkah, the official SPA news agency eight received jail terms from two to 15 years and 15 peo- reported. Huda Al-Jeraisy, who as the daughter of a ple were acquitted. The remaining five who were handed former head of the chamber of commerce in the con- the death penalty in absentia had their cases stopped by servative central part of the kingdom was seen by the court until they appear. Under Kuwaiti law, sentences some Saudis as imparting an official stamp of issued in absentia cannot be appealed until the people approval on women’s candidature, won a seat in RIYADH: Saudi electoral workers prepare to count ballots after the coun- concerned appear. Riyadh. try’s municipal elections in the capital late Saturday. (Inset) Lama Al- The sentences are still not final as they must be Continued on Page 15 Sulaiman won from Jeddah. — AP/AFP reviewed by the court of cassation, whose rulings are final. Continued on Page 15 News No stoppage of visa in brief transfers this year Russian destroyer fires shots near Turkish boat MOSCOW: A Russian destroyer in the Aegean Sea yes- No project-to-private transfer terday opened fire to avoid a collision with a Turkish By Meshaal Al-Enezi used for the first time since the authority fishing boat, the defense ministry said, as a bitter dis- was established is part of a plan to pute over the shooting down of a Russian warplane KUWAIT: Well-informed sources at the develop its performance,” explained the raged on. “The crew of the Russian patrol ship Smetlivy manpower authority said the authority sources. which was located 22 km from the Greek island of will not suspend visa transfers this year Meanwhile, the manpower authority Lemnos in the northern part of the Aegean Sea avoided in view of the automated system cur- said that expats who came to Kuwait on collision with a Turkish seiner,” the ministry said, adding rently being used that can provide sta- work permits to work in small projects the crew had to fire small arms in the direction of the tistics about visa transfers to other spon- cannot transfer their visas to work in the boat at “a guaranteed survivability distance” when the sors. Notably, transfers were suspended private sector at all. The authority added two vessels were about 600 m apart “to prevent the col- every year in the last week of December that these workers could only transfer to lision of the ships.” Deputy defence minister Anatoly for inventory purposes. “The new system other small projects for the same job. Antonov summoned a Turkish military attache, Ahmet Hakam Gunes, after the incident. He warned him MANILA: A Filipino boy passes by a placard during a rally yesterday to criticize against the “negative consequences of any thoughtless the agreement reached during the United Nations conference on climate change action by Ankara against a Russian military contingent” in Paris. — AP deployed in Syria, the ministry said. Now comes the tough part: Trump name restored World’s carbon diet starts at Dubai golf complex DUBAI: A Dubai real estate firm has restored PARIS: The world is about to go on a car- Oh and by the way, the harder goal - Donald Trump’s name on a $6 billion golf complex bon diet. It won’t be easy - or cheap. limit warming by another half a degree it is building with the US businessman and presi- Nearly 200 nations across the world on Celsius - is probably already impossible, dential hopeful, days after taking it down follow- Saturday approved a first-of-its-kind uni- said Joeri Rogelj at the International ing his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the versal agreement to wean Earth off fossil Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in United States. Trump prompted an uproar when fuels and slow global warming, patting Austria. Most likely the best the world he made his comments in response to deadly themselves on the back for showing such can hope for is overshooting that tem- shootings in California by two Muslims who resolve. Yesterday morning, like for many perature by a few tenths of a degree and authorities said were radicalized. Gold letters first day dieters, the reality sets in. The then somehow slowly - over decades if spelling out “Trump International Golf Club,” numbers - like calorie limits and hours not centuries - come back to the target affixed to a landscaped stone wall at the entrance needed in the gym - are daunting. temperature. to the golf complex being built by DAMAC How daunting? Try more than 7.04 bil- That may involve something called Properties, were removed on Thursday. Two days lion tons. That’s how much carbon dioxide negative emissions. That’s when the later they had been restored. DAMAC declined to needs to stay in the ground instead of world - technology and nature com- comment yesterday on the brief removal. being spewed into the atmosphere for bined - take out more carbon dioxide those reductions to happen, even if you from the air than humanity puts in. OUARZAZATE, Morocco: A picture taken on Oct 17, 2015 shows a view of the take the easier of two goals mentioned in Nearly 90 percent of scenarios of how to Gambia president declares Noor 1 Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant, some 20 km outside this central Saturday’s deal. To get to the harder goal, establish a safer temperature in the country an ‘Islamic state’ Moroccan town. — AFP it’s even larger numbers. In the pact, the world involves going backward on emis- BANJUL, Gambia: President Yahya Jammeh has countries pledged to limit global warming sions, but it is also so far not very realis- declared the Gambia “an Islamic state”, but stressed that to about another degree Celsius from tic, said Kevin Anderson, deputy director the rights of the Christian minority in the small west Vast desert sun farm to now - and if they can, only half that. African country would be respected and that women Another, more vague, goal is that by of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in Britain. would not be held to a sometime in the second half of the centu- dress code. The announce- help light up Morocco Negative emissions involve more ry, man-made greenhouse gas emissions - ment came as the president forests, maybe seeding the oceans, and OUARZAZATE, Morocco: On the edge of The plant is part of a vision to move which includes methane and other heat- addressed supporters in the the Sahara desert, engineers make final beyond this heavy dependency and raise trapping gases as well as carbon dioxide - possibly technology that sucks carbon coastal town of Brufut on out of the air and stores it underground checks to a sea of metal mirrors turned renewable energy production to 42 percent won’t exceed the amount that nature Thursday, and the com- towards the sun, preparing for the launch of its total power needs by 2020.