SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 2017 RAJAB 12, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Landfills in Device found in Dalai Lama Hawks stun Kuwait not Stockholm attack accuses China Cavaliers managed truck, Uzbek of fooling despite absence properly3 man arrested7 its12 people of18 stars US to keep up pressure on Min 19º Max 32º Syria after missile strikes High Tide 11:29 & 23:18 Low Tide King Salman lauds Trump, Rouhani irked • Russia, Iran army chiefs defiant 05:16 & 17:22 40 PAGES NO: 17193 150 FILS PALM BEACH, Florida/TEHRAN: The United States is vowing conspiracy theories to keep up the pressure on Syria after the intense nighttime wave of missile strikes from US ships, despite the prospect of escalating Russian ill will that could further inflame one of the Blah blah blah world’s most vexing conflicts. Standing firm, the Trump administration on Friday signaled new sanctions would soon follow the missile attack, and the Pentagon was even probing whether Russia itself was involved in the chemical weapons assault that compelled President Donald Trump to action. The attack against a Syrian air base was the first US assault against By Badrya Darwish the government of President Bashar Al-Assad. Much of the international community rallied behind Trump’s decision to fire the cruise missiles in reaction to this week’s chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of men, women and children in Syria. But a spokesman for Russian [email protected] President Vladimir Putin warned that the strikes dealt “a signif- icant blow” to relations between Moscow and Washington. A key test of whether the relationship can be salvaged comes this week when Secretary of State Rex Tillerson becomes the loved a report that came out from the ministry of first Trump Cabinet member to visit Russia. health last week. First of all I want to thank them British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson also had planned to for their efforts, for the first time, in bringing out I visit Russia this coming week, but decided yesterday to cancel such a scientific document about the mental health the trip because of the fast moving events in Syria. Johnson, of people living in Kuwait. According to the statistics who condemned Moscow’s continued defense of Assad, said released by the ministry on Thursday, around 5-9 Tillerson will be able to give a “clear and coordinated message percent of the nation suffers from varying degrees of to the Russians”. depression. At the United Nations on Friday, Russia’s deputy ambassa- Are you kidding guys - who’s depressed?! How dor, Vladimir Safronkov, strongly criticized what he called the could you be depressed with all the trees and foun- US “flagrant violation of international law and an act of tains and lakes surrounding you? No traffic, lots of DARAA, Syria: Members of the Syrian civil defense volunteers, also known as the White Helmets, help a man aggression” whose “consequences for regional and interna- comforts and plenty of justice and freedoms and after removing him from the rubble of his house following an air strike by government forces on a rebel-held tional security could be extremely serious.” money for us all. Social equality and no prejudices area in this southern city yesterday. — AFP Continued on Page 13 and no hatred and no MPs shouting over trivial mat- ters and calling for injustices among the nations. Enough guys of the beautiful things! PAGE PAGE But on a serious note - the study says that some Griezmann halts Real Pearl Jam, Tupac named of the main reasons triggering depression are family, social and financial issues. They didn’t elaborate, but Madrid’s title charge to Rock Hall 2017 class what I understood was that the study also includes expats as well as Kuwaitis. They did not state what the percentage amongst Kuwaitis alone was. If we Kuwaitis are suffering financial problems to ETA surrenders arms to end conflict the point that it causes depression, then I feel even more sympathy for the poor expats, because their BAYONNE, France/MADRID: Basque mili- Founded in 1959 out of anger among financial situation is typically 180 degrees worse tant group ETA effectively ended an Basques at political and cultural repres- than ours, as they pay their rent, with no subsidy for armed separatist campaign after almost sion under General Francisco Franco, ETA Joining top US court, real housing, healthcare and schools. These are the major half a century yesterday, leading French (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna - Basque Country issues in the life of all nations. Unfortunately, expats authorities to the sites where it says its and Freedom) gained notoriety as one of Gorsuch set to stand up do not get any subsidies to help with these expens- caches of weapons, explosives and Europe’s most intractable separatist es. So you can imagine their financial situation. Plus, ammunition are hidden. ETA, which groups. The Spanish government said WASHINGTON: Somewhere between It was all part of Gorsuch’s artful they also have to pay, like us, for their food, cars, oth- killed more than 850 people in its ETA’s handover of weapons in the French the Republican caricature of the next effort to reveal as little as possible of er demands of life, blah, blah, blah. attempt to carve out an independent city of Bayonne was positive but insuffi- justice of the US Supreme Court as a his own opinions. “We’re all human If we come to discuss some of the other reasons state in northern Spain and southwest cient and called on the group to formally folksy family guy and the Democrats’ beings,” Gorsuch told senators, “but the for depression, like family and social matters, I agree France, declared a ceasefire in 2011 but dissolve and apologize to its victims. demonization of him as a cold-hearted judge’s job is to put that stuff aside that there are many factors under this terminology did not disarm. Continued on Page 13 automaton, stands Neil Gorsuch. and approach the law as you find it.” that can shake the psychological situation of any Largely unknown six months ago, That ability to compartmentalize, com- person. But also expats are lesser fortunate in this Gorsuch has seen his life story, person- bined with Gorsuch’s studious refusal because they don’t travel as much as we do to take a ality and professional career explored in to signal his thinking on contentious break. It’s nice to take a break, even if it’s a small holi- excruciating detail since he was nomi- issues, left Democrats frustrated. For all day to Dubai for the weekend. nated by US President Donald Trump 10 his many visits with senators and his Also, they don’t have the facilities and comforts in weeks ago. The portrait that emerges is hours in the witness seat, Gorsuch had their homes and don’t have gardens or balconies or more nuanced than the extremes not revealed his core beliefs and may even spacious rooms to accommodate their children drawn by his supporters and critics. have, according to Democrats, a bias and furniture. Instead, they live in pokey flats with Gorsuch is widely regarded as a favoring powerful interests over ordi- high rents and not enough space under the building warm and collegial family man, boss nary people. for their children to run around, because we made and jurist, loyal to his employees and The question for Sen Dick Durbin sure that every building is fully occupied, even the kind to those of differing viewpoints. He was “whether there’s a beating heart ground floor - for profit - and there is no space for also has been shown to be a judge who and an independent streak” behind children to breathe and play. As for the third, family, I takes such a “rigidly neutral” approach Gorsuch’s silver hair and smooth deliv- don’t know what they meant by that, because family to the law that it can lead to dispassion- ery. Republicans saw Gorsuch’s disci- pressures could exist everywhere. ate rulings with sometimes brutal plined and detached approach as evi- As for me, the weather is one of the most depress- results. Four times during his confirma- dence of the fair and independent ing issues in Kuwait. Unfortunately, it cannot be tion hearings, Gorsuch invoked a “break- mindset that the US needs on its high- helped - only escaped - and that too only temporari- fast table” analogy, telling senators that est court. Preparing to take the oath of ly. And we are all depressed on that level. Please good judges set aside what they have to office Monday after a rancorous 54-45 don’t get me wrong guys. I think that the percentage eat - and their personal views - before vote in the Senate, Gorsuch soon will they leave the house in the morning to largely recede into the cloistered halls is probably smaller than reality and that someone BAYONNE, France: A man holds a placard reading “April 8th the courage of peace” who is really depressed should get help, whether apply the law and nothing else to the of the Supreme Court. during a rally in support of the “Artisans de la Paix” yesterday following the facts of the cases at hand. Continued on Page 13 Kuwaiti or expat. announcement of disarmament by Basque separatist group ETA. — AFP Laser weapons edge toward use in US military WASHINGTON: A sci-fi staple for decades, laser onto the target for a few seconds, Jim Murdoch, out a missile sideways on, where it is most weapons are finally becoming reality in the US an international business development director vulnerable.