THULQADA 4, 1442 AH MONDAY, JUNE 14, 2021 16 Pages Max 45º Min 32º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 18459 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Museums, cultural centers Ambassador Koytak: Turkey offers Anti-junta movement shows Djokovic makes history with 19th 2 welcome visitors again 3 safe tourism and easy travel 7 viral support for Rohingya 16 Grand Slam in French Open final MP urges shelters for female victims of domestic violence Lawmaker accuses government of collecting indirect taxes By B Izzak provide shelter to female victims until the law is fully implemented. KUWAIT: MP Ali Al-Qattan yes- Meanwhile, MP Osama Al- terday proposed that the govern- Munawer yesterday asked ment should establish special shel- Commerce and Industry Minister ters for women who are victims of Abdullah Al-Salman if he has domestic violence, saying domestic authorized the allocation of gov- violence cases have increased dur- ernment industrial plots to a com- ing the coronavirus pandemic. pany owned by a minister appoint- Qattan said a law to establish homes ed in the latest Cabinet formation. to shelter all types of victims of Munawer said the company, which domestic violence was issued in was granted the plots, is owned by September last year. The law stipu- the minister, whom he did not lates the establishment of special identify, and his first degree rela- shelters for female victims. tives. He asked if the minister But the law has not been imple- approved the allocation or if he mented due to a lack of funding was aware of it. and because of the coronavirus Opposition MP Hamad Matar pandemic. The lawmaker said the yesterday accused the government number of domestic violence cas- of imposing taxes in an indirect way, es has increased during the pan- saying the interior ministry had demic because of lockdowns and recently started collecting KD 2 for curfews that forced family mem- the technical inspection of vehicles. bers to stay longer together, He claimed that this represents the resulting in tensions. As a result, imposition of indirect taxation and he proposed that temporary warned that the government could KUWAIT: Vehicles drive along a highway during a dust storm yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat homes should be established to extend this to other public services. at least 15 percent. While the agree- News in brief ment is the first step in a long process UAE aims to before it can become a reality, caught WHO to open Kuwait office in the crosshairs are tax havens that remain magnet attract firms such as Amazon, Apple, KUWAIT: The opening ceremony of the World Google and Facebook. The United Health Organization’s official office will be held for investors Arab Emirates entered the world’s top tomorrow, the ministry of health said yesterday. 10 tax havens for the first time in DUBAI: This came in a press release after a meeting Tax advantages paired with March, according to the Tax Justice between Health Minister Sheikh Dr Basel Al- a life of luxury have long drawn for- Network. Sabah and representative of WHO in Kuwait Dr eigners and multinationals to the UAE, Modestly called “jurisdictions with Assad Hafeez on the occasion of taking office. which is aiming to remain attractive no or insignificant taxes” by the The meeting highlighted mutual concerns and whether or not it signs up to a global Organization for Economic Co-opera- ways to enhance relations between Kuwait and tax initiative. The Group of Seven tion and Development (OECD), the the WHO. — KUNA wealthy powers this month endorsed havens include the Bahamas, the an “unprecedented” agreement on a British Virgin Islands, Guernsey, global minimum corporate tax target- Jersey, the UAE and many others. 40,000 jabs given in Lebanon ing major companies seen as not pay- Both the UAE capital Abu Dhabi and ing enough, especially tech giants. freewheeling Dubai, the biggest draw BEIRUT: Lebanon administered more than The objective is a minimum tax of Continued on Page 2 DUBAI: A restaurant cruiser sails by the Dubai Marina Beach on June 9, 2021. — AFP 40,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in a weekend inoculation drive to contain the COVID pandemic. On Saturday and yesterday, of many Gazans who lost family members during 11 and the couple’s four other kids did not survive. “I nearly 50 centers across the country adminis- Post and present days of Zionist bombardment last month when the can’t stop thinking about my sister and her children, tered jabs on a walk-in basis to anyone over the local health ministry says 66 Palestinian children who might have been alive for hours under the age of 55 who had not yet received a single and teenagers were killed. ruins,” said Ola Ashkantana, who turned down the dose. Disabled people above the age of 16 were trauma time bomb From May 10 to May 21, the Zionist army pum- offer of anti-anxiety medication. “I’m in shock. Now also eligible for vaccination. — AFP meled the Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire by I’m afraid of losing my own children.” hangs over Gaza militants of the Islamist movement Hamas which In the next room, Riad holds Suzy on his knees, France to invest €3.8bn in Egypt rules the coastal enclave that is home to two million as Hassan Al-Khawaja, a Gazan doctor specialising GAZA CITY: Her eyes glued to a cellphone photo people. One of the strikes devastated the Al-Rimal in mental health, encourages him to try psychother- CAIRO: French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire of her sister and four children killed in a Zionist district of Gaza City and demolished the building apy. “I’m suffocating. I’ve even thought of going to yesterday signed agreements with Egypt to strike on Gaza, Ola lets out the painful words: “I was where Abeer, Ola’s sister, lived with her family. live alongside them in the cemetery,” said Riad, invest €3.8 billion in the most populous Arab hoping we’d find them alive.” The Gaza City resident Ten hours after the raid, rescue teams miracu- whose family says has hardly spoken since the war country’s public transport and renewable energy in her thirties wipes away tears as she stands before lously pulled Abeer’s husband, Riad, and their eight- tore his loved ones away. “I’m traumatized. sectors. France will finance Egyptian projects a psychologist from a local organization. Ola is one year-old daughter, Suzy, from the rubble. But Abeer Continued on Page 2 with French companies to the tune of €1.8 billion. The first tranche will be for transport giant Alstom to supply 55 underground trains for Cairo push to regain the West’s cohesion Metro’s Line 1, for a total of €800 million. Nine G7 takes on after the tumultuous era of his prede- other projects will be financed to the tune of one cessor Donald Trump. billion euros between 2021 and 2025. — AFP “We will harness the power of COVID, China, democracy, freedom, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights to Jordan to build desalination plant climate change answer the biggest questions and overcome the greatest challenges,” CARBIS BAY, United Kingdom: AMMAN: Jordan said yesterday it plans to build G7 the leaders said. But the pledge on leaders yesterday vowed to start a Red Sea desalination plant operating within five vaccines for poorer nations fell drasti- delivering one billion doses of COVID cally short of the 11 billion doses that years, to provide the mostly-desert and drought- vaccines and to step up action on cli- campaigners say are needed to end a hit kingdom with critical drinking water. The cost mate change, in a summit call to arms pandemic that has claimed nearly four of the project is estimated at “around $1 billion” by a revived democratic alliance that million lives and wrecked economies and will be built in the Gulf of Aqaba. The plant is also confronted China and Russia. In a around the globe. expected to produce 250-300 million cu m of final communique issued at their first “I’m afraid there will be smiles (at potable water per year, and should be ready for physical summit in nearly two years, the G7) but they are not solutions,” operation in 2025 or 2026. — AFP (See Page 9) the leaders of the elite club largely former British prime minister Gordon ST IVES: Extinction Rebellion environmental activists put on a performance as they hewed to US President Joe Biden’s Continued on Page 2 protest in the streets of this Cornwall town during the G7 summit yesterday. —AFP 2 Established 1961 Monday, June 14, 2021 Local Kuwait reaffirms support to Yemen’s stability and unity Griffiths briefs FM about latest developments in Yemen KUWAIT: Kuwait Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Mohammad Al- Sabah reaffirmed support to Yemen’s unity IOM diplomat praises and stability, as well as all efforts towards a sustainable peace. Sheikh Ahmad, also Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs, Kuwait relief efforts underlined importance of the Saudi peace initiative in Yemen, the GCC initiative and KUWAIT: Head of the as he expressed appreciation of its implementation mechanism, outcome of International Organization for the efforts made in many countries. national dialogue and UN Resolution 2216 Migration’s (IOM) in Kuwait He also stressed the importance of to achieving peace in Yemen, a foreign Mazen Abulhassan praised, yester- this meeting, noting that there will ministry statement said. day, Kuwait’s role in promoting be more cooperation in the future Sheikh Ahmad, who made the remarks humanitarian aid programs and in especially to help Syrian refugees during a meeting with UN Envoy to Yemen facing crises and disasters, as it in Lebanon and Turkey.