SHAABAN 2, 1440 AH SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 2019 28 Pages Max 28º Min 21º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17800 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Patchy response to complaints Trump claims the US is Turkish Airlines aims to spread AFC chief’s new term triggers 3 to patch up potholed streets 6 ‘full’ at Mexico border 11 wings at Istanbul’s new airport 27 complaints; India earn top seat Oman calls on Arabs to ease Israel’s ‘fears for its future’ Netanyahu won’t move ‘even one’ settler for US peace plan SUWEIMEH, Jordan: A top Omani government offi- cial yesterday said Arabs must take initiatives to make Israel overcome “fears for its future” in the region, drawing criticism from Jordan. The remarks by Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, the minister responsible for foreign Yusuf bin Alawi affairs in Oman, came on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum hosted by Jordan on the shores of the Dead Sea. “The West has offered Israel political, econom- ic and military support and it now holds all the means of power... but despite that it fears for its future as a non- Arab country surrounded by 400 million Arabs,” he said. “I believe that we Arabs must be able to look into this issue and try to ease those fears that Israel has through initiatives and real deals between us and Israel,” he told a panel discussing geopolitics. The panel’s moderator, jour- nalist Hadley Gamble, interrupted him to ask if the best solution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict is “recognizing Israel and its right to exist”. The minister said no. “Not recognizing, but we want them themselves to feel that there are no threats to their future.” Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, whose country is the only Arab nation along with Egypt to have KUWAIT: Lightning strikes the Liberation Tower in Kuwait City during a thunderstorm on Friday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat a peace treaty with Israel, dismissed the remarks saying Continued on Page 24 ministry is also based, onlookers said. “They News in brief Sudan protesters were also calling on Bashir to step down,” a witness said. Kuwait free of coronavirus Taking a break from shouting anti-gov- rally outside army ernment slogans, protester Ghada Mohamed KUWAIT: The ministry of health stressed on Friday said the rally signalled a “bright future” for that all required precautions have been taken to HQ for first time Sudan. Protester Amir Omer said the demon- tackle coronavirus, noting that the country is fully strators had managed to send a message to free of this epidemic. There is no case diagnosed KHARTOUM: Thousands of Sudanese the military. “We still haven’t achieved our with coronavirus, the ministry’s assistant undersec- demonstrators marched in Khartoum yester- goal, but we have delivered our message to retary for public health affairs Dr Majeda Al-Qattan day, many reaching the army headquarters the army and that is: come join us,” he told told KUNA. She denied allegations on social media for the first time since deadly protests AFP. Protest organizers led by the Sudanese about coronavirus cases in the country. She added against President Omar Al-Bashir erupted in Professionals Association said earlier this that what has been taken are mere “precautionary December, witnesses said. Chanting “one week that demonstrators would march yes- measures”. — KUNA army, one people,” the protesters rallied in terday to demand the army either “take the the capital’s streets following a call by side of the people or the dictator’s”. organizers to march on the compound, Soon after reaching the compound, Man threatens to kill Omar which also houses Bashir’s residence. The organizers called on the protesters to stand crowds chanted the movement’s catch-cry firm outside its fortified walls. “At this his- NEW YORK: A 55-year-old New York man has “peace, justice, freedom” as they marched toric moment, we ask you to not leave the KHARTOUM: Sudanese protesters shout slogans in front of the military head- been arrested and charged with threatening to towards the complex where the defense Continued on Page 24 quarters in the capital yesterday. — AFP assault and murder Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar, a Muslim US Congress member from Minnesota. Patrick Carlineo Jr of Addison, New km south of Tripoli. York, faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 Defiant Haftar Pro-government forces in Tripoli con- fine if convicted, the US Department of Justice said. firmed they had targeted Haftar’s men with Interviewed at his home by investigators, Carlineo “intensive strikes”. The air strikes came as “stated that he was a patriot, that he loves the forces press fresh fighting flared yesterday south of Tripoli President, and that he hates radical Muslims in our between the pro-government forces and government.” — Reuters Tripoli offensive Haftar’s troops despite calls from the interna- tional community to halt the military offensive. Iran orders new evacuations TRIPOLI: Forces loyal to Libyan commander Several European foreign ministers warned Khalifa Haftar yesterday pressed on with an Haftar not to countenance any further military TEHRAN: Iranian authorities ordered the evacua- offensive on Tripoli, defying international calls action, with France’s Jean-Yves Le Drian tion of six cities along the Karkheh River in south- to halt hostilities which risk plunging the warning “there will be no military victory”. western Khuzestan province yesterday after more country into civil war. Pro-Haftar fighters German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said rain sparked fears of new flooding, state news have been slowed in their advance by forces there should be pressure on all the actors in agency IRNA said. Six cities alongside Karkheh loyal to Libya’s internationally-recognized Libya “especially general Haftar”. A similar River in southwestern Iran “must be evacuated as Government of National Accord (GNA), stance was taken by the UN Security Council soon as possible,” Khuzestan governor Gholamreza which sits in the capital. For the first time, which, following a closed-door emergency Shariati told IRNA. The situation appears to be forces backing the GNA launched air strikes meeting Friday, said those responsible for re- “critical”, he said. — AFP on Haftar’s self-styled Libyan National Army igniting the conflict will be held responsible. TRIPOLI: Forces loyal to Libya’s UN-backed unity government arrive in Tajura, a (LNA) - which vowed to retaliate - around 50 Continued on Page 24 coastal suburb of the Libyan capital, from their base in Misrata yesterday. — AFP US to declare Guards terrorist group smugglers digging illegally for artifacts, offi- WASHINGTON: The United States will designate Mummified mice cials said. Its painted walls depict funeral Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization, processions and images of the owner work- an unprecedented move that would ramp up pressure and more in Egypt ing in the fields, as well as his family geneal- on the elite force, The Wall Street Journal reported ogy written in hieroglyphics. Friday. The newspaper said President Donald Trump’s “It’s one of the most exciting discoveries administration would announce the long-mulled deci- tomb discovery ever in the area,” said Mostafa Waziri, secre- sion as soon as tomorrow and that concerned defense tary-general of the Supreme Council of officials were bracing for the impact. — AFP SOHAG, Egypt: Dozens of mummified mice Antiquities which sits within the ministry. were among the animals found in an ancient Two mummies, a woman aged between 35- Nine held in Saudi crackdown Egyptian tomb, unveiled Friday by the antiq- 50 and a boy aged 12-14, were on display uities ministry with the aim of drawing outside the shallow burial chamber, in a DUBAI: Saudi Arabia has arrested at least nine tourists to the central Sohag province. The desert area near the Nile about 390 km writers and academics, including two US citizens, tomb dating back more than 2,000 years south of Cairo. Around 50 mummified ani- campaigners said Friday. Campaigners identified the was unearthed in the city of Akhmim. The mals, including mice, cats and falcons, were US-Saudi dual nationals as writer and doctor Bader tomb was built for a man named Tutu and his also recovered from the tomb, dating to the AKHMIM, Egypt: An Egyptian antiquities security guard walks through the Al-Ibrahim and Salah Al-Haidar, the son of Aziza Al- wife, and is one of seven discovered in the Ptolemaic era. entrance of a newly-discovered tomb at the Diabat necropolis near this Yousef - a high-profile activist. — AFP area last October, when authorities found Continued on Page 24 city in Egypt’s southern Sohag province on Friday. — AFP 2 Established 1961 Local Sunday, April 7, 2019 MANAMA: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem arrives in Bahrain to offer condolences over the demise of Sheikha Aisha bint Salman Al-Khalifa. — KUNA photos Assembly Speaker arrives in Bahrain to offer condolences MANAMA: Kuwait’s National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem arrived in Bahrain yesterday to offer the late Sheikha Aisha Bint Salman Al-Khalifa. Al-Ghanem and his accompanying delegation were received by condolences over the demise of Sheikha Aisha bint Salman Al-Khalifa. Speaker Al-Ghanem visited the Prime First Deputy Speaker of Bahraini Shura Council Jamal Fakhro, Second Deputy Speaker of Bahraini National Minister of Bahrain Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al-Khalifa, where he expressed his condolences over the demise of Assembly Ali Zayed and members of the Kuwaiti Embassy to Bahrain. — KUNA IRCS hails Amir’s initiative to provide urgent aid to Iran flood victims Education, family key to empowering women: Hashem DOHA: Member of the Kuwaiti Parliament Safaa Al-Hashem stressed on the importance of education and family as key points for empowering women and enhancing their role in soci- ety, especially in the Arab world.