SUBSCRIPTION MONDAY, APRIL 3, 2017 RAJAB 6, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Luaibi: Iraq 20 people Fake news Oxford see off to supply tortured to making Cambridge to gas to death at Pak headlines, but regain Boat Kuwait3 soon Sufi shrine7 is14 it old news? Race18 crown UN urges Gulf to do more Min 18º Max 31º to help Syrian refugees High Tide 04:53 & 15:38 Low Tide KFAED, UNHCR sign aid agreement • Kuwait’s contributions hailed 10:16 & 23:14 40 PAGES NO: 17187 150 FILS KUWAIT: A senior United Nations refugee official yes- conspiracy theories terday called on Gulf Arab states to give more to help Syrians displaced by six years of civil war, saying she saw little sign that the crisis would end any time soon. Absconding ... Speaking during a visit to Kuwait to sign a $10 million aid agreement with the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) for Syrian refugees in Iraq, Kelly T Clements, deputy commissioner for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), also said the UN body lamented the “sad” fact that the num- By Badrya Darwish ber of refugees fleeing Syria’s civil war had passed the five million mark. “For us at UNHCR, we don’t celebrate these mile- stones. We in fact try not to bring a lot of attention to it because it is not a good story,” Clements told Reuters.
[email protected] “It means basically that we haven’t seen a political solu- tion to make it possible for people to go home safely and in dignity and voluntarily.” l-Rai newspaper shocked all expats in Kuwait Syrians have poured across their borders into Turkey, when it reported on April 1 that article 18 Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq since anti-government Avisa holders can now be deported immedi- protests in 2011 descended into a full-blown conflict ately if their sponsors file absconding cases against between rebels, Islamist militants, government troops them.