MUHARRAM 28,1440 AH MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2018 Max 40º 28 Pages Min 25º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17651 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Goldsmith: Respected Israeli PM’s wife goes on China admits Interpol chief being Stunning Farah claims Chicago 3 profession in Kuwait 7 trial in delivery meals case 24 probed; wife received knife emoji 28 Marathon in European record Saleh urges govt to abandon plan to hike service charges Hayef warns to grill PM over bedoons • Hajraf questions plot distribution By B Izzak remarks came as Finance Minister Nayef Al-Hajraf reit- an solution to thousands of stateless people, locally with health cards that allow them to obtain essential erated the government’s determination to continue with known as bedoons. Hayef charged that the central services from the government, adding that the agency KUWAIT: MP Khalil Al-Saleh yesterday called on the economic reforms that include subsidy cuts despite the agency for bedoons has so far failed to provide a viable had communications with over 70 government depart- government to completely drop the idea of imposing surge in oil prices, which provide around 90 percent of solution that provides essential services for some ments regarding the issue. He said that the agency has charges on public services as a means of boosting non- public revenues. 120,000 bedoons living in Kuwait. boosted cooperation with the Assembly panel to resolve oil revenues, saying that verbal assurances are not suffi- Between late 2014 when oil prices crashed and last The remarks came after a meeting between the problems facing bedoons. cient. He said that in order for the government to provide year, the government introduced several measures to Assembly panel and bedoons agency to study ways to Separately, MP Mubarak Al-Hajraf yesterday charged strong assurances, it must exclude raising charges on boost non-oil revenues, including raising fuel and power resolve the humanitarian concerns of bedoons. Acting that Commerce and Industry Minister Khaled Al- public services from its program of economic reforms in charges, but most of them targeted expatriates in the secretary general of the agency Najib Al-Othman said Roudhan misled the government over the distribution of the same way it excluded taxes on companies. country. The government also raised medical charges for he briefed the Assembly panel about the measures taken industrial plots in two projects that were not ready. He The lawmaker called on the finance minister to expatriates. by the agency toward a group of bedoons who had said that the minister announced the distribution in the quickly answer a question he sent to him on why the Meanwhile, MP Mohammad Hayef, a member of the obtained fake third-country passports or those who two projects which were supposed to have been com- government economic reform plan included the inten- National Assembly’s human rights committee, yesterday were never registered by the agency. pleted, but work has not even started on them. The law- tion to raise charges on public services while it warned that he may file to grill the prime minister if the He said that the agency began implementing an maker said he will include the new “scandal” in a grilling dropped plans to impose taxes on companies. Saleh’s government continues to ignore providing a humanitari- agreement with the Assembly to provide those bedoons he plans to file shortly against the minister. According to a report on the official Saudi obtain documents needed to marry his Riyadh denies Press Agency, a consulate official strongly Turkish fiancee. Erdogan said he would wait denounced these baseless allegations, and for the outcome of the current investigation expressed his doubt that they came from before taking a decision. “I am following the Khashoggi killed Turkish officials that are informed of the (issue) and we will inform the world whatever investigation or are authorized to comment the outcome” of the official probe, the presi- in its consulate on the issue. The source added that a security dent told reporters in Ankara. “God willing, delegation of Saudi investigators arrived in we will not be faced with a situation we do ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Istanbul Saturday based upon a request by not want.” He said police were examining Erdogan yesterday said he was awaiting the the Saudi government, and the acceptance of CCTV footage of entrances and exits at the results of an investigation into the disappear- the Turkish authorities. consulate and Istanbul airport. ance of a Saudi journalist who a government The source noted the kingdom’s apprecia- Police said earlier that around 15 Saudis, source said was killed at Riyadh’s consulate in tion for the brotherly Turkish government’s including officials, arrived in Istanbul on two Istanbul. Washington Post contributor Jamal acceptance of the request. The delegation is flights on Tuesday and were at the consulate Khashoggi, 59, vanished after an appointment there to assist in the investigations regarding at the same time as Khashoggi. “Based on with Saudi officials on Tuesday. A Turkish the disappearance of Khashoggi, SPA quoted their initial findings, the police believe that the government source told AFP that police the source. The source stressed that the king- journalist was killed by a team especially sent believed Khashoggi was killed at the Istanbul dom holds the safety and wellbeing of its citi- to Istanbul and who left the same day,” the consulate, which Riyadh strongly denied. The zens wherever they are, and that relevant government source told AFP on Saturday. The consulate rejected the claims that the journal- authorities in the kingdom are diligently fol- journalist went to the building but “did not ist was killed there as “baseless”, in a Twitter lowing up on this matter to uncover the com- come back out”, police were quoted as saying ISTANBUL: A Saudi official gestures as he stands at the door of the Saudi consulate in message. It said a Saudi team was in Turkey plete facts. by Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency. Istanbul yesterday. —AFP to investigate the disappearance. Khashoggi had gone to the consulate to Continued on Page 24 News in brief ple allegations of sexual misconduct and Kavanaugh been criticized for his angry partisan rhetoric. The prolonged nomination battle 20 killed in NY limo crash has roiled American politics, disrupting sworn in the status quo on Capitol Hill and firing NEW YORK: Twenty people have been killed in a car up both Republicans and opposition crash in the US state of New York, police confirmed yes- after fight Democrats a month before crucial terday, with local media reporting that one of vehicles midterm elections. The two-vote margin slammed into a crowd of pedestrians at a country store. WASHINGTON: Conservative US judge of victory made it the closest Supreme Police said the accident occurred Saturday afternoon Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Court confirmation vote since 1881 - and when two cars collided in Schoharie County, near the Supreme Court Saturday by a razor-thin by far the most contentious since state capital, Albany. An SUV-style stretch limousine sped margin in the Senate, ending months of Clarence Thomas in 1991. down a hill, crashing into pedestrians outside the Apple partisan rancor over his nomination and “This is a historic night,” Trump told Barrel Country Store and Cafe, the Albany Times Union offering Donald Trump one of the biggest supporters at a rally in Kansas after sign- said, citing police. A witness named as Bill Waterson said victories of his presidency. Kavanaugh ing Kavanaugh’s commission aboard Air the limousine was carrying a party on their way to a wed- was sworn in shortly after the Senate vot- Force One. “I stand before you today on the heels of a tremendous victory for our ding reception. It was unclear how many of the fatalities ed 50-48 in his favor - a move that nation, our people and our beloved were pedestrians or occupants of the vehicles but wit- cemented the high court’s shift to the right under the Republican leader, who Constitution.” Trump will host Kavanaugh nesses at the scene said several bodies could be seen on at the White House for a public swearing- has chosen two of the nine sitting justices. WASHINGTON: Chief Justice John G Roberts, Jr (right) administers the constitutional oath the ground outside the Apple Barrel. — AFP in ceremony today, following Saturday’s Protesters rallied in Washington and to Judge Brett M Kavanaugh in the Justices’ Conference Room in the Supreme Court formal oath-taking at the high court. other US cities against the ascent of the building on Saturday. Ashley Kavanaugh holds the Bible. — AFP Bahrain approves draft VAT law 53-year-old judge, who has faced multi- Continued on Page 24 DUBAI: Bahraini legislators approved a draft law yes- terday that would see value-added tax (VAT) imposed for the first time in the kingdom, state news agency BNA reported. The House of Representatives approved a Gulf agreement to introduce VAT after a royal decree Nurmagomedov ordered parliament to hold an extraordinary session yesterday, BNA reported, without giving details of the vote. The move came a few days after Bahrain’s wealth- beats McGregor as ier neighbors Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Kuwait offered a $10 billion aid package to avoid the risk of a brawl mars bout debt crisis in the country, which was also tied to fiscal reforms. The bill is yet to be approved by the parlia- LOS ANGELES: Khabib Nurmagomedov thwarted Conor ment’s upper house, which is expected to hold a similar McGregor’s bid to regain the UFC lightweight crown Saturday session later this week.