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SUBSCRIPTION THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2017 SHABAN 15, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net MoH: Nutrition Gulf Cable Co Alghanim Atletico features strongly supports using opens first comeback in Kuwait’s Kuwaiti products: Slim Chickens falls short, development4 Bader21 Al-Kharafi outside30 the US Real20 in final Marathon premier grillings Min 28º end with no motions filed Max 43º High Tide 00:42 & 12:05 Low Tide Panel formed to probe allegations 06:25 & 19:08 40 PAGES NO: 17224 150 FILS Muslim leaders By B Izzak KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al- invited to Saudi Mubarak Al-Sabah yesterday faced two grillings by opposition MPs in a 13-hour marathon closed debate, which ended without filing a non-cooperation motion. Trump summit Opposition MPs needed the signature of 10 lawmakers RIYADH: King Abdullah II of Jordan, Algerian to file the non-cooperation motion, which is similar to a President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Niger’s no-confidence motion, but they could not muster the Mahamadou Issoufou are among leaders invited by required number. Saudi King Salman for a summit with US President Many opposition lawmakers decided to keep the Donald Trump. The Arab-Islamic-American Summit pledge they made several weeks ago not to grill the will be among a series of talks expected to be held prime minister in return for the government’s pledge to in Riyadh on May 20-21, Saudi officials said. Trump reinstate citizenships of several opposition figures it has frequently been accused of fuelling revoked about three years ago. At the start of the ses- Islamophobia but aides described his decision to sion, the government demanded that the debate be visit Saudi Arabia as an effort to reset relations with held in secret and the Assembly agreed, with 33 votes the Muslim world. supporting and 28 opposing. There will also be a separate meeting between The two quizzes alleged that the government of the monarchs of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council prime minister failed to check rampant corruption, that and Trump, as well as bilateral talks between the it has squandered public funds and raised charges on Saudi and US leaders, Riyadh’s Foreign Minister Adel citizens after the drop in oil revenues. They also accused the premier of selectively targeting political opponents Al-Jubeir has said. In addition to heads of state from and punishing them by revoking their citizenships. Jordan, Algeria and Niger, the official Saudi Press In the first grilling, MPs Saleh Ashour and Faisal Al- Agency reported that Salman asked Yemeni Kandari spoke in support of the prime minister, while President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi and Morocco’s MPs Jamaan Al-Harbash and Ali Al-Deqbasi spoke in King Mohammed VI to attend. The leaders of Turkey, support of the grilling. In the second grilling, MPs Salah Pakistan, Iraq and Tunisia have also received invita- Khorshid and Khalaf Dumaitheer supported the prime tions, the Arab News daily reported yesterday. minister, while MPs Abdulwahab Al-Babtain and Adel Saudi Arabia - which is home to Islam’s holiest Al-Damkhi supported the grilling. sites - will be Trump’s first foreign stop since becom- At the end of the first grilling, a three-MP committee ing president in January. “It is a clear message to the comprising of MPs Rakan Al-Nasef, Jamaan Al-Harbash world that the United States and the Arab and KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah (right) and Minister of State for Cabinet and Awdah Al-Awdah was formed to investigate the Islamic countries can form a partnership,” Jubeir said allegations and issues raised by the grilling. in Washington, according to SPA. — AFP Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah attend a parliament session at the National Assembly yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Continued on Page 13 Trump defends firing FBI chief US president asks Russia to rein in Assad, Iran WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump had asked the Justice Department for yesterday defended the shock firing of more funding for the Russia probe. Comey firing stirs FBI director James Comey, as critics Comey informed lawmakers of that slammed an apparent bid to kill off an request after the Senate intelligence memories of Nixon, agency investigation of his team’s ties to committee had asked the FBI to speed Watergate scandal Russia. Hours after sacking the man up its Russia inquiry, the source said. heading a probe into Moscow’s alleged Seeking to contain the firestorm trig- WASHINGTON: For many in Washington, US President meddling in last year’s US election, gered by Comey’s dismissal, Trump and Donald Trump’s shock firing of FBI director James Trump hosted Russia’s top diplomat at his aides repeated yesterday that it was Comey has sparked instant comparisons to the actions the White House in his highest-level nothing to do with Russia, and motivated of Richard Nixon and the Watergate era’s infamous Kremlin encounter since taking office. solely by concerns over his handling of “Saturday Night Massacre”. A congressional source with knowl- the high-stakes probe into Hillary On Oct 20, 1973, Nixon edge of the matter said Comey told law- Clinton’s emails. makers within the past few days that he Continued on Page 13 This file photo taken on June 30, 2011 shows plainclothes US navy officers visiting crossed a fateful line by try- the Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park on the western Philippine ing to rid himself of the island of Palawan. — AFP independent special prose- cutor who was investigating the Watergate scandal. The prosecutor, Archibald Cox, Philippines tourist sites had issued a subpoena for copies of secret tape face kidnapping threat James Comey recordings of Nixon’s Oval Office conversations. The tape recordings were key to proving Nixon’s MANILA: Terrorists are planning to kidnap them in a gun battle. Nine militants, three complicity in a sweeping cover-up of a break-in the foreigners in tourist hotspots across the soldiers and one policeman were killed in central and western Philippines, Western the clashes, according to authorities. They year before at the Democratic National Committee governments said yesterday following a said another militant died in police cus- offices at the Watergate, an office and residential com- foiled abduction attempt by Islamist mili- tody. The Bohol raid occurred days after plex on the Potomac. Stung, Nixon reacted by ordering tants a month ago. President Rodrigo the US embassy issued a warning of his attorney general, Elliot Richardson, to fire Cox. Duterte said security had been increased potential kidnappings there and the Richardson refused and resigned in protest, so the pres- on the western island of Palawan, one of neighboring island of Cebu, which has a ident ordered the deputy attorney general, William the Philippines’ most popular tourist des- major city of the same name. The Abu Ruckelshaus, to do his bidding. But Ruckelshaus also tinations, after the US embassy warned of Sayyaf has since its founding in the 1990s resigned rather than carry out the order. WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Russian Foreign a kidnapping threat there. “The US kidnapped dozens of foreigners and Continued on Page 13 Minister Sergey Lavrov in the White House yesterday. — AP Embassy has received credible informa- many more locals to extract ransoms. tion that terrorist groups may be planning The militants typically raid coastal areas to conduct kidnapping operations target- after sailing from their southern island ing foreign nationals in the areas of strongholds on speedboats, although in Microsoft aiming to make Palawan,” it said in a travel advisory. recent years they have also attacked cargo The embassy identified two locations - and merchant ships. They beheaded two artificial intel mainstream the capital city of Puerto Princesa and the Canadians last year and an elderly German nearby underground river that attracts sailor in February after demands for mil- Need to prevent ‘1984’ future thousands of visitors daily - as areas the lions of dollars were unmet. The Abu kidnappers were targeting. Puerto Sayyaf raided a resort in Puerto Princesa’s SEATTLE: Microsoft chief executive Satya build trust in technology, saying new Princesa is about 400 km northwest of Honda Bay in 2001, abducting three Nadella said yesterday tech developers applications must avoid dystopian southern islands that are strongholds of Americans and 17 Filipinos. have a responsibility to prevent a futures feared by some. Nadella’s presen- the Abu Sayyaf, militants who have One of the Americans was beheaded, dystopian “1984” future as the US tech- tation included images from George pledged allegiance to the Islamic State while one was killed in a military rescue nology titan unveiled a fresh initiative to Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s group and frequently kidnap foreigners. attempt a year later. The third American bring artificial intelligence into the main- “Brave New World” to underscore the The Abu Sayyaf last month attempted a was freed in the rescue effort. The Abu stream. At the start of its annual Build issue of responsibility of those creating kidnapping raid on Bohol island, a popu- Sayyaf has also kidnapped people from Conference, Microsoft sought to show- new technologies. “What Orwell prophe- lar tourist destination in the central Malaysian coastal resorts, which are a case applications with artificial intelli- sied in ‘1984,’ where technology was Philippines, but were foiled after authori- short speedboat ride from its southern SEATTLE: Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella gence that could tap into services in the being used to monitor, control, dictate, or ties became aware of the plot. Philippine bases. Still, in recent years the opens the US technology titan’s annual Build Internet “cloud” and even take advantage what Huxley imagined we may do just by Security forces found the militants a kidnapping threat had largely been Conference yesterday with a focus on a future rich of computing power in nearby machines.