Page 14 cycling THE FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY IN FREE KUWAIT markets Established in 1977 / www.arabtimesonline.com Page 9 SUNDAY, MAY 23, 2021 / SHAWWAL 11, 1442 AH emergency number 112 NO. 17694 16 PAGES 150 FILS What’s in a name? Policy poll-central for Al-Dahoum Al-Wasmi wins landslide in 5th Constituency vote By Saeed Mahmoud Saleh elections in the Fifth Constituency with 43,810 votes. Arab Times Staff Ajmi Falah came in second with 1,331 votes; followed by Hammad Menahi Photo by Mohammed Morsi Al-Dousari with 1,248 votes; Abdullah Omar Al-Otaibi with 393 votes and Talal Bader Al Dahoum(Left) in a happy mood as Dr Obaid Al Was- KUWAIT CITY, May 22: Obaid Al-Wasmi on Saturday scored Fahad Al-Dabbous with 193 votes. mi winner of the bye-election looks on a landslide victory in the supplementary National Assembly Around 28 percent of 165,222 voters registered in the constituency— 84,777 men and 81,445 women — went out to vote for the candidate who will fill up the seat vacated by former Opinion MP Bader Al-Dahoum as per the verdict of the Constitutional Court which nullified his parlia- mentary membership on March 14, 2021. Disappointment, destruction Fifteen candidates, including one woman, contested the sup- plementary election; but elec- after Hamas ‘feast of blood’ tion analysts already expected Al-Wasmi’s win. Earlier, Al-Dahoum disclosed By Ahmed Al-Jarallah that Al-Wasmi was his guest Editor-in-Chief, the Arab Times in his diwaniya in Jaber Al-Ali Newswatch until the announcement of the THE details of the death game that results of the election. He said Hamas chose for the Palestinians he invited 30 MPs, whom he de- in the Gaza Strip do not represent ANKARA: WhatsApp has in- scribed as constantly adopting the figures. Rather, it is the painful formed Turkey that its contro- certain positions, to his diwani- truth, which will become clear in versial new data-sharing rules the coming days, of how heavy the ya in order to send a clear mes- will not come into effect in the sage to the executive authority losses have been. country, the Turkish competition The factions, topped by the regarding the expected victory watchdog said Friday. of Al-Wasmi. dominant movement in the Gaza The messaging application an- Strip, fired 4,000 rockets during nounced in January that it was A total of 165 main and sec- the recent conflict. About 1,000 updating its terms of service and ondary polling centers were al- of them fell on the outskirts of privacy rules, forcing users to located, one of which was for Gaza, Israel’s Iron Dome inter- agree to sharing more of their citizens infected with coronavi- cepted about 2,000 of them, and data with Facebook, which owns rus. Ambulance and civil de- the remaining 1,000 either fell WhatsApp. fense vehicles were on standby in open places or caused minor The changes had led to an up- near the polling centers in case damage to the cities and towns roar in Turkey, with users, con- of any emergency. they reached. cerned about that the possible Minister of Justice and Min- So when we say the figures sharing of their personal infor- ister of State for Nazaha En- are not details, we mean there mation, began downloading al- hancement Abdullah Al-Rumi are those who are sitting in the ternative messaging applications conducted a field tour to make basements of air-conditioned such as Signal, Telegram or the sure the electoral process runs tunnels in the Gaza Strip or in Turkish app, Bip, which was de- smoothly, while Minister of the suites of the most luxurious veloped by mobile phone opera- Health Dr Basel Al-Sabah vis- hotels in some countries. They tor Turkcell. Many chose to close down their WhatsApp accounts ited the polling center for vot- include the leaders of Hamas, even though the messaging app ers with coronavirus to closely Islamic Jihad, and others who assured that the content of mes- monitor the implementation of have come out to boast about sages would remain encrypted. health regulations. the number of missiles that were (AP) Comply launched, and had destroyed Is- ❑ ❑ ❑ raeli cars and homes. Health authorities reiterated They will not look at the scale ISTANBUL: A Turkish court the need to comply with health of the great destruction in Gaza, ruled Friday to keep a leading regulations like wearing face- or the number of those murdered philanthropist behind bars dur- mask and gloves and social because of them, or the wounded ing his retrial over accusations Palestinians inspect the damage of their destroyed homes after returning following a cease-fire reached after an 11-day distancing during the election. who suffer today from the pain that that he organized and fi nanced war between Gaza’s Hamas rulers and Israel, in the town of Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, May 21. (AP) The heads of polling centers are will accompany them until the end mass antigovernment protests in authorized to ask voters to take of their lives. 2013. Human rights groups have denounced the case as being po- off the facemask to verify their Indeed, Hamas will declare Kuwait welcomes ceasefire identity. victory in this conflict, but it will litically motivated. Businessman and civil rights Also, voters were not allowed neither acknowledge the defeat it to take their mobile phones sustained nor the crimes its lead- activist Osman Kavala has been jailed in Turkey for more than while voting as per the regula- ers committed against their people. Amir takes call from Hamas politburo chief tions of the General Elections Rather, they will go back to insult- three years despite not having been convicted of a crime. He is Department. Despite this, four ing the leaders of the Gulf states, on trial again with 15 other de- KUWAIT CITY, May 22, citizens were arrested and their burning the pictures of its symbols, fendants, charged with attempt- (KUNA): His Highness the Amir New COVID cases 1,345 on Friday mobile phones were confiscated and holding them responsible for ing to overthrow the government Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al- as a prelude to referral to the what happened. through the nationwide demon- Jaber Al-Sabah received on Fri- Public Prosecution for taking This is due to the fact that an ar- strations that started at Istanbul’s day a phone call from Palestinian photos of their ballots during the rogant criminal does not admit his Gezi Park. Hamas politburo chief Ismail crime but throws it on others, just election. Article 44 of the Elec- Kavala and eight of the defend- Haniya. Jazeera to test IATA travel pass tions Law states that whoever like Hassan Nasrallah who lives in ants were cleared of the charges During the call, Haniya ex- an air-conditioned corridor in the takes a photo of the ballot dur- in February 2020, but an appeals pressed utmost appreciation for KUWAIT CITY, May 22, (Agencies): Ku- pitalized with the virus currently stands at ing election will be imprisoned southern suburbs of Beirut (Da- court overturned their acquittals the State of Kuwait’s deep-root- waiti privately-owned carrier Jazeera Air- 12,574, including 171 currently in ICUs. hieh) and practices his immorality earlier this year. Seven of the for five years and fined KD2,000 ed stance with the Palestinian ways said on Saturday it will carry out a trial Al-Sanad revealed that some 11,314 swabs to KD5,000 or any of these two of inciting, stirring up sedition, and defendants, including journalist cause and unwavering support of the IATA Travel Pass, a mobile app that conducted over the last day, bringing the total deceiving the Lebanese. Can Dundar and actor Mehmet penalties. for the Palestinian people, as provides verified documentation on traveller to 2.5 million. Meanwhile, MPs Adnan Ab- These two groups do not differ Ali Alabora, have left Turkey well as Kuwait’s backing of all COVID-19 tests and vaccination results. He renewed calls to abide by health precau- from each other because they grew and are being tried in absentia, dulsamad, Ahmed Al-Hamad, international efforts to resume The digital pass also informs “passengers tions to curb the spread of the virus. Khalil Al-Saleh, Mubarak Al- up nursing from Iran’s impure ter- after they were added to the case the peace process in the Middle on what tests, vaccines and other measures People who received Covid-19 vaccine or rorist udders, and are obsessed for the retrial. (AP) they require prior to travel, details on where those who recovered from the virus will not Hajraf and Al-Saifi Mubarak East, wishing ever-lasting health Al-Saifi submitted a bill on with Persian racism, which has ❑ ❑ ❑ for His Highness. they can get tested,” according to the global have to be placed in quarantine in Kuwait as become the trend of everyone who airline cartel, IATA. of May 22, the Directorate General of Civil protecting the civil rights of KUWAIT CITY: Governments To that, His Highness the Amir Bedouns. orbits around it. A good example is around the world announced reaffirmed the State of Kuwait’s Passengers will be able to upload a copy Aviation said. the statement issued by the Leba- firm stand with the Palestinian of their passport, vaccination certificate and DGCA said travelers exempted from quar- The bill stipulates that indi- their daily coronavirus updates viduals registered in the Central nese Foreign Minister accusing on Saturday as they continue to people until having its sovereign negative PCR examination results in a safe antine were those who took their first dose two the Gulf people of being Bedouins battle the impacts of the deadly state with East Jerusalem as its and private manner to prove that they meet weeks before coming to the country, or people System for Remedying the Sta- (nomads).