N IO T IP R C S B U S 16669 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2015 MUHARRAM 4, 1437 AH No: Police bust Pak entrepreneurs Asian chief largest home-made launch ‘Uber poised for liquor factory4 for16 rickshaws’ FIFA48 bid FIFA suspends Kuwait Football Association Min 26º 150 Fils 150 Dispute over sports law leads to ban Max 38º ZURICH: FIFA has suspended the Kuwait Football Association (KFA) after a deadline for changing a gov- ernment sports law was not met, the world football body said yester- day. “The suspension will be lifted only when the KFA and its mem- bers (the clubs) are able to carry out their activities and obligations inde- pendently,” FIFA said in a state- ment. FIFA’s executive committee in September had given Kuwait until Oct 15 to make changes to the country’s sports law. Kuwaiti teams and clubs are banned from international com- petition, and the association and its members are barred from receiving any FIFA development assistance. Kuwait is currently second behind South Korea in Group G of Asian qualifying for the 2018 World Cup. Its next scheduled qualifying match is against Myanmar on Nov 17. Last Monday, the IOC gave Kuwait a dead- line of Oct 27 to resolve the sports law issue or face suspension from the Olympic body. — Agencies No radiation leakage from HEBRON: An Israeli soldier shoots and kills a Palestinian after he stabbed another Israeli soldier (seen kneeling) during clashes in this city in the occupied West Bank yesterday. — AP Shuaiba: KNPC KUWAIT: The Kuwait National Hebron shrine torched Petroleum Company (KNPC) denied yesterday any radiation JERUSALEM: A shrine in the occupied West Bank was set on fire Violence also broke out in the Gaza Strip when Palestinians leakage from Shuaiba refinery and an attacker disguised as a journalist stabbed an Israeli sol- approached the border fence with Israel. They threw stones at following a fire that broke out at dier yesterday as tensions ran high after more than two weeks of soldiers, who opened fire. The Israeli military said hundreds of the refinery in August. The com- violence. Three more Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in people gathered along the border, some hurling rocks and burn- pany is keen on working with clashes between stone-throwers and Israeli troops in several ing tyres at the fence. A military spokeswoman said troops “are maximum levels of safety and West Bank towns and on the Israel-Gaza border, Palestinian operating to prevent further escalation of violence using riot dis- saving the environment, Khaled medics said. persal means and firing towards main instigators.” Al-Asousi, KNPC spokesman, Israel’s military said about 100 people converged on the tomb The unrest has erupted mostly in Jerusalem and the occupied confirmed to KUNA. KNPC has of the Joseph in the Palestinian city of Nablus and set parts of it West Bank and is the most serious in years, claiming the lives of coordinated and worked with ablaze before Palestinian security forces arrived and pushed them 37 Palestinians and seven Israelis. The UN Security Council will the authority specialized in radi- Khaled Al-Asousi back. Hours later, a Palestinian posing as a journalist wounded an hold a special meeting to discuss the situation. No resolution is ation in the country on measur- Israeli soldier with a knife before being shot dead near the town planned for Friday, but there might be an attempt to get the ing radiation rates in the demulsifiers of heavy crude reactors, of Hebron, the Israeli military added. Reuters television footage council to issue a statement urging the two sides to curb the vio- where the fire broke out, Asousi, who is also KNPC’s Deputy showed the Palestinian rolling on the ground and surrounded by lence. Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, called for “rallies of CEO for Support Services, noted. Israeli troops after the attack. He was holding a knife and wearing anger and confrontations” yesterday in all West Bank cities. “Our The reactors contain a very limited amount of radiation a fluorescent yellow vest over a t-shirt marked “PRESS”. decision is to pursue the intifada (uprising) and continue the that contributes in measuring the level of the catalyst material A military statement about the shrine attack said: “We view resistance against the Israeli occupation,” said Ismail Haniya, the inside the production unit, Asousi indicated. The official this incident with gravity and strongly condemn any attack on group’s leader in Gaza. health ministry’s report confirms the safety of the location and holy sites. We will find and arrest those who set the fire.” Joseph’s The unrest has been triggered in part by Palestinians’ anger the existence of limited level of radiation that is within accept- tomb has been venerated for centuries by Jews, Samaritans, over what they see as increased Jewish encroachment on able standards, he said, stressing the importance of following Christians and Muslims. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound, which is also revered by the required safety procedures in dealing with these reactors. condemned the attack. He ordered the damage to be repaired Jews as the location of two destroyed biblical Jewish temples. Asousi also affirmed the company’s commitment towards and opened an investigation into the arson. A statement from his The director-general of Israel’s foreign ministry, Dore Gold, said: all safety measures that preserve its workers’ safety at the office said Abbas “stressed his rejection of these actions and all “The burning of Joseph’s tomb forcefully demonstrates what refinery, reiterating its assurance to workers and people that actions that violate law and order, and which distort our culture, would happen in the holy places in Jerusalem if they were in the there is no radiation leakage and that all areas and locations our morals and our religion”. hands of the Palestinian leadership.” —Agencies surrounding the refinery are fully safe. — KUNA LOCAL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2015 Kuwait marks Anti-Poverty Day Poverty - a fertile ground for violence and conflicts KUWAIT: Kuwait, along with many nations across the globe will today philanthropist, Abdulrahman Al-Sumait, reached the poor in farther- launched the honorary living fund, contributing with USD 100 million, mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty - boasting a most spots of the globe. Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic to help peoples cope with soaring necessities’ prices. KFAED confirms long record of aiding the needy and soothing pain of people in hard- Development, the State’s philanthropic arm, has been active since that up to 22 states have benefited from this fund. Furthermore, the ships. Kuwait has tangibly given support for those who need help, more than half a century ago, helping nations cope with poor State of Kuwait is a main contributor to the World Food Program, in globally, and at regional levels, backing relevant UN resolutions. resources or other menaces such as unemployment. Up to 101 addition to its support for the jobless youth, establishing the USD two During the UNESCO executive board 196th session held in Paris last nations have witnessed the incoming Kuwaiti aid. According to billion small enterprise fund, with a Kuwaiti contribution amounting April, Kuwait called anew on the international community to coordi- KAFED’s records, its financial contributions financed development to half a billion dollars. nate efforts for fighting this scourge. projects in agriculture, industry, transport, communication, power, In the Arab world, Kuwait has given substantial aid to Iraq, Syria, The Gulf State bases its campaign for relieving the cash-strapped energy, education and health in a long chain of countries. Moreover, Palestine, Yemen and Sudan. The snowballing wave of Kuwaiti chari- people on the conviction that poverty is a fertile ground for wars, vio- Kuwait has launched several initiatives since era of the late Amir, His ties, locally, regionally and internationally, prompted the UN in 2014 lence and conflicts as well as communities’ disintegration. Kuwait has Highness Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, who acted glob- to designate His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad as the also shown keenness on ensuring success of the 2014 UN develop- ally to relieve debts’ burden afflicting poor nations. world’s number-one “Humanitarian Leader,” along with Kuwait, ment plan. Kuwait, since independence, has sought to aid those in The Kuwaiti government relief efforts, since His Highness the Amir named as “Humanitarian Center” of the globe. The UN has themed need for a hand of mercy, both at the official and grass-root levels. The Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, was proclaimed Amir in the renewed occasion for aiding the poor as, “acting together to erad- Government has hurried relief aid to peoples stricken with catastro- 2006, have intensified to aid the poor, with emergence of a unique icate poverty and indiscrimination.” According to international fig- phes throughout the globe, while devotees, namely the late iconic theme, “humanitarian diplomacy.” In 2008, His Highness the Amir ures, there are one billion poor people in the world. — KUNA Photo o f t h e d a y KUWAIT: Photo shows a group of pigeons in the public squares in downtown Kuwait. — KUNA Kuwait calls for an urgent Science, knowledge Arab meeting on Palestine ‘priority’ for Kuwait GENEVA: An urgent Arab parliamentary attention of the international community, said MANAMA: Dean of the diplomatic corps, Kuwaiti that “Kuwait has made great strides in the field of Union meeting to discuss the situation in the Kuwaiti diplomat. The IPU is scheduled to Ambassador to Bahrain Sheikh Azzam Al-Sabah said human development through the development of Palestine is important - which will address the hold its General Assembly on October 17-21 that science and knowledge have always been in educational and cultural institutions”.