RAJAB 3, 1440 AH SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 2019 28 Pages Max 24º Min 09º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17777 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Kuwaiti envoy’s wife among SpaceX capsule back on Earth, ‘Glamping’: Dubai’s new Southampton stun fading Spurs, 516top 100 party hosts for 2019 paving way for manned flights 22take on desert camping 28 Newcastle edge Everton thriller Boy raped, woman killed, teen abducted in spate of crimes Two suspects arrested • 4 doctors blamed for cadets’ deaths By Hanan Al-Saadoun with his wife and two daughters inside. He said when he returned to the car, KUWAIT: A man claiming to be a nobody was in it. After a while, his wife detective abducted three boys - aged 9 and one daughter returned, saying they to 11 years - from a playground in had gone shopping and had left the Abdullah Al-Mubarak and raped one of other daughter in the car, but she was them. Amidst outrage on social media, missing. Police are investigating. The the interior ministry’s relations and Jordanian foreign ministry later said it is security information department con- following up the case in coordination firmed yesterday that police received a with the Jordanian embassy in Kuwait. call about the kidnappings, adding the Meanwhile, the Kuwait army chief of suspect was arrested and charged. He staff announced yesterday the conclu- admitted to raping one of the children sion of a probe into the recent deaths of in a toilet. non-commissioned officers Mubarak Police also arrested another suspect Al-Azmi and Faisal Al-Obaid. The mili- hours after a 33-year-old Kuwaiti tary noted in a statement that the crimi- woman was found dead by her 31-year- nal aspect of the case had been shifted old brother in Ardiya. The suspect said to the public prosecution and the public he killed her along with others. Police directorate for investigations. are looking for his accomplices. The Therefore, the panel’s task is now con- body was recovered by the coroner. fined to cross examining “the adminis- Later yesterday, a man was rushed to trative responsibility” in the case, where hospital after being stabbed in Jaber Al- “responsibility has been restricted to Ahmad. four doctors”. Notably, First Deputy In another incident, a Jordanian man Prime Minister and Defense Minister told police his 16-year-old daughter Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- RIYADH: Soldiers take part in joint Gulf military exercises in Saudi Arabia yesterday. The 10th edition of the Peninsula Shield drills kicked was kidnapped from his car when he Sabah had ordered the immediate sus- off on Feb 23, with the participation of Gulf land, naval and air forces, and concluded yesterday. — Defense Ministry (See Page 3) went for Friday prayers in Mahboula. pension from work of any staff found The man said he had parked the car responsible in the case. “I thought yesterday’s vote by the Trump brands House was disgraceful,” Trump said at the White House. The resolution was 1m expats have originally intended to deliver a direct Democrats as rebuke of anti-Semitism following com- driving licenses ments by a Muslim Democratic con- ‘anti-Jewish’ gresswoman, Ilhan Omar, that were deemed anti-Semitic and offensive by but no vehicles WASHINGTON: US President Donald many colleagues. But after blowback Trump blasted Democrats as “anti- from progressives, it was revised to By A Saleh Israel” and “anti-Jewish” Friday after broadly condemn discrimination against they passed a congressional measure Muslims and other minorities as well. KUWAIT: Recent statistics issued by the interior opposing hate speech in general instead Trump seized on the shift, injecting a ministry concerning the total number of expat driv- of specifically condemning alleged anti- ing licenses and vehicles compared to those of citi- new angle of attack as he readies a 2020 Semitic comments by a Muslim con- re-election bid and fellow Republicans zens showed 616,000 vehicles are registered under gresswoman. His remarks follow days of expats’ names, while those registered to citizens seek to claw back ground they lost in the tense debates in Congress addressing House in last year’s midterms. “The number 1.39 million, which does not reflect their sensitive questions about national alle- proportion of Kuwait’s population - 3.31 million Democrats have become an anti-Israel giance, discriminatory tropes aimed at party, they’ve become an anti-Jewish expats out of a total of 4.715 million. Jews, and accusations of show votes that party,” he said. The issue has caused a WASHINGTON: Ilhan Omar (left) talks with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi during Further, statistics showed 1.664 million expats failed to call out a member for contro- deep rift. a rally with fellow Democrats on the East Steps of the US Capitol on Friday. — AFP hold driving licenses, compared to 616,000 vehicles versial comments. registered to expats, which means that over a million Continued on Page 24 expats with driving licenses do not own their own vehicles. Moreover, the statistics showed that 624,000 citizens hold driving licenses, which means by this regime,” said Michael Passi, an that over 63 percent of licenses are held by expats. US protesters Iranian-American engineer. This shows Kuwaitis’ responsibility for traffic jams “There are a lot of executions, a lot of exceeds 40 percent of that of expats, despite citi- tortures and a lot of export of terrorism by this regime,” he alleged. “We want separa- zens being outnumbered 3 to 1 by expats. demand ‘regime tion of religion and the state,” added Mina Entezari, an Arizona-based designer who change’ in Iran was a political prisoner in Iran for seven Govt slammed years. “We want freedom for people.” The WASHINGTON: Hundreds of people administration of US President Donald turned out in Washington Friday demand- Trump consistently blasts a lack of free- after UK teen’s ing regime change in Iran and denouncing doms in Iran and its “destabilizing” influ- “atrocity toward the people” under ence on the Middle East. Tehran’s regime. Protesters waved Iranian A firm adversary of the Islamic republic, baby son dies flags as they chanted for “regime change he has re-implemented harsh economic now” - with some holding portraits of sanctions - but Washington insists it is not LONDON: The British government drew fresh criti- Maryam Rajavi, leader of the People’s pushing for regime change, only a change cism yesterday over its decision to revoke citizenship Mujahedin, an Iranian opposition group to Iran’s policy in areas including missile from a London teenager who joined the Islamic State banned in the country. “The regime inside development and support for militant group in Syria, after her baby died in a refugee camp. Iran is doing so much atrocity toward the groups. “I’m 100 percent behind President WASHINGTON: The Organization of Iranian-American Communities holds a rally and Shamima Begum, 19, had asked to return home after people. Iran in whole has been destroyed Trump’s policy,” Passi said. — AFP march in support of “ nationwide uprisings in Iran for regime change” on Friday. —AFP giving birth to her son Jarrah last month in the camp in northeastern Syria, but London refused. A spokesman for the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, Mustefa a newspaper that the village of Omena, Michigan, had made Bali, told AFP the baby had died, without giving further Sweet Tart the cat its “top” official, he got the idea to organ- details. The BBC said he had pneumonia, citing a med- US town elects ize a similar election to raise funds for building a playground. ical certificate. Lincoln’s 13 votes were enough for him to squeak past Begum’s fate has sparked heated debate in Britain, goat as ‘mayor’ Sammie the dog. The goat, which belongs to a school math which like many other countries is facing a dilemma teacher, will get an education in the town’s major festivals over whether to allow jihadists and IS sympathizers WASHINGTON: In a divided America where politics which it will represent during its one-year mandate: home to face prosecution, or stop them from returning seems increasingly to get people’s goat, a small town in “Memorial Day parade, the Apple Fest and the events we at all. She was 15 when she left east London for Syria Vermont has taken the concept to heart - this week electing organize every Friday in the summer,” Gunter says. with two other schoolgirls, and was found by journalists one as mayor. He may be a political novice but the goat’s Although the playground fundraising effort only generat- in the refugee camp after fleeing fighting between the name, Lincoln, brings with it a storied pedigree. And the ed about $100, at five dollars per candidate, Gunter isn’t terror group and US-backed forces. Begum told them leading human official in Fair Haven - population about bleating because he says the animal election was also “a she wanted to return home to save her baby, saying that 2,500 - hopes the long-eared, three-year-old animal’s elec- good way to get the kids involved in local government”. her two older children had died, apparently from illness tion can serve as a bit of a lesson in democracy. With 53 votes cast the turnout was low, Gunter admits, “but and malnutrition. “I don’t want to lose this baby as well In Tuesday’s poll, Lincoln was victorious over 15 other it was the first time, we expect it to be better next year”. FAIR HAVEN, Vermont: This March 6, 2019 handout photo- and this is really not a place to raise children, this candidates including Crystal the gerbil and many dogs and That happens to be the year that US voters will also elect a camp,” she told the BBC at the time.