SAFAR 1,1440 AH WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2018 Max 43º 28 Pages Min 24º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17653 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net 22 girls suffer from AC gas Fitch affirms Gulf Bank rating Pakistan’s Mithi: An oasis Nurmagomedov returns to hero’s 5 inhalation at Ahmadi school 11 at ‘A+’ with ‘stable’ outlook 20 of Muslim-Hindu tolerance 25 welcome, blasts ‘dimwit’ McGregor Plans to only allow expats with ‘good’ GPA to work in Kuwait MoI: Medical checkups must for returning maids • MP: Pay Kuwaiti housewives KD 300 By Meshaal Al-Enezi and B Izzak Meanwhile, the interior ministry yesterday called on ment is in line with the constitution and will be sent to housewives who do not work with a monthly assistance sponsors of maids from 41 Asian and African countries the Assembly for a second approval. The law was over- of KD 300. He said the assistance should be treated KUWAIT: The manpower authority is planning to ban to make them undergo fresh medical tests any time they whelmingly passed by the Assembly in May despite like the assistance paid to Kuwaitis who work in the issuing permits to expats with university degrees enter- return from a visit to their home countries. The ministry government reservations, but the government rejected private sector. This is not the first time that a Kuwaiti ing Kuwait to work in the private sector unless they said the regulations are based on new orders by the it and sent it back to the Assembly. MP has made such a proposal. All previous suggestions have a minimum of ‘good’ GPA, according to informed health ministry and urged all sponsors to take their The Assembly can override the government rejection never materialized. government sources. The government is currently taking maids for fresh medical tests after they return from by passing the law again but with a two-thirds majority, Opposition MP Riyadh Al-Adasani said yesterday several steps towards resolving Kuwait’s demographic vacations to their home countries. The new regulations which was not available in the previous term. However, the Assembly has committed a legal violation while imbalance and restructuring the local labor market, apply to domestic helpers from India, Bangladesh, under the Kuwait constitution, the Assembly can pass approving a KD 6.2 billion supplementary bill for including plans to endorse and accredit expats’ degrees Philippines, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia and other nations. the same law with a simple majority if voting takes defense purchases. He said the Assembly approved as a precondition to renewing their residency visas. According to the latest statistics, around 650,000 place in the next term. During the committee meetings KD 3.2 billion to be included in the budget over the The sources said this step will help adjust demo- domestic helpers, who mainly hail from the Indian to discuss the rejected law, Finance Minister Nayef Al- next 10 years, while the remaining KD 3 billion will be graphic problems and make sure that only highly spe- Subcontinent, the Philippines and several African Hajraf told the panel that the law, which allows Kuwaiti withdrawn from the state reserves, also over the next cialized and skilled people work in Kuwait. The sources nations, work in Kuwait. male and female employees to seek early retirement, 10 years. Adasani said the two amounts should have said organizational decisions will be issued in the com- Separately, the National Assembly’s financial and breached the constitution. been included in the budget for 10 years and no ing months to fight visa trafficking and prevent unquali- economic affairs committee insisted yesterday that the MP Majed Al-Mutairi yesterday submitted a pro- direct withdrawals should have been made from the fied labor from coming to Kuwait. early retirement law which was rejected by the govern- posal calling on the government to provide Kuwaiti state reserve fund. ance of private airplanes and free basketball tickets a Haley resigns as day before she resigned. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington had urged the State Department’s inspector general to probe seven flights that Haley and UN envoy; probe her husband took last year on the luxury aircraft of businessmen from South Carolina, where she was for- urged on her travel merly governor. Haley, on a filing required of government employees, WASHINGTON: Nikki Haley resigned yesterday as disclosed the flights from New York to South Carolina the US ambassador to the United Nations, in the latest and Washington and estimated the highest value at departure from President Donald Trump’s national $1,066, based on the cost of commercial first-class security team. Meeting Haley in the Oval Office, Trump tickets. But the pressure group said that the value was said that Haley had done a “fantastic job” and would more likely in the tens of thousands of dollars. It said in leave at the end of the year. “She told me probably six its letter that Haley’s disclosure form was “insufficient months ago,” Trump told reporters, that ‘“I want to take to resolve concerns about her frequent acceptance of a little time off.’” A successor will be named “in the next expensive gifts.” two or three weeks,” he said. Walter Shaub, who headed the Office of Government Haley was coy on her reasons for quitting, saying Ethics under president Barack Obama, tweeted about only that it was “important to understand when it’s the flights hours before Haley announced her resigna- time to stand aside” after a string of challenging jobs. tion: “She undervalued them and it’s not entirely clear if Responding to media speculation, she insisted that individuals or their companies bore the costs.” Haley she was not planning to run for president against also acknowledged receiving four tickets to a New Trump in 2020, when she might be seen as a more York Knicks game worth a total of $19,588 courtesy of moderate Republican alternative. “No I’m not run- Vivek Garipalli, a healthcare entrepreneur she ning,” she said emphatically. described in the disclosure form as a longtime friend. Later yesterday, it emerged an anti-corruption Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Nikki Haley, US Ambassador to the United Nations, in group had urged an investigation into Haley’s accept- Continued on Page 24 the Oval office of the White House yesterday. — AFP spokesman Hami Aksoy said in a statement. The search welcome Turkish officials to search the premises. Riyadh allows will take place as part of the official investigation, which Ankara sought permission Sunday to carry out a search was being conducted “in an intense manner”, he said after the foreign ministry summoned the Saudi ambas- without giving any date. sador for a second time, Turkish television reported. Turkey to search Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributor who Riyadh’s envoy in Ankara was first called to the ministry Alphabet to wrote for Arab and Western media, vanished last on Wednesday. Khashoggi, a former Saudi government Saudi consulate Tuesday after visiting the consulate to obtain official adviser, had been living in self-imposed exile in the shut Google+ documents. Turkish police were looking into two pri- United States since last year fearing possible arrest. He ANKARA: Saudi Arabia has agreed to let Turkish vate aircraft which landed at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport has been critical of some policies of the crown prince authorities search the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate last Tuesday at different times carrying 15 people of and Riyadh’s intervention in the war in Yemen. after user after prominent journalist and Riyadh critic Jamal interest in the case, as well as the possibility that While Riyadh claimed he had left the consulate after Khashoggi went missing last week, the Turkish foreign Khashoggi was kidnapped and taken aboard one of the his visit, Turkish police said Khashoggi did not emerge data exposed ministry said yesterday. “Saudi authorities said they planes, local media reported. from the building. Government sources said police were open to cooperation and that a search can be Previously Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin believe the journalist was killed inside the consulate. SAN FRANCISCO: Alphabet Inc’s Google will conducted at the consulate building,” the ministry Salman told Bloomberg that Riyadh would be ready to Continued on Page 24 shut down the consumer version of its failed social network Google+ and tighten its data sharing poli- cies after announcing on Monday that private pro- file data of at least 500,000 users may have been exposed to hundreds of external developers. The Better late than Legendary poet issue was discovered and patched in March as part of a review of how Google shares data with other Antara rises as applications, Google said in a blog post. No devel- never for expat oper exploited the vulnerability or misused data, the review found. Pak cricketer comic superhero Shares of its parent company Alphabet closed down 1 percent at $1155.92 following the latest in a SHARJAH: In a red cape, dark hair blowing in the run of privacy issues to hit big US tech companies. from Kuwait wind, he crosses the dunes under a blazing sun: Antara, Google has also faced increasing tensions over a the famed 6th century Arab poet born a slave, is now a reported search engine which would be acceptable DUBAI: Ten years ago Bilal superhero. A pre-Islamic poet, Antara is celebrated in Asif had almost quit cricket to Chinese censors, and over its work for the US the collective memory of Arabs as well as in pop culture military.