baseball Page 15 THE FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY IN FREE KUWAIT golf Established in 1977 / www.arabtimesonline.com Page 14 TUESDAY, MAY 11, 2021 / RAMADAN 29, 1442 AH emergency number 112 NO. 17686 16 PAGES 150 FILS NEW CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS DROP TO 992 Cabinet to lift curfew from Eid day Astra doses here Opinion KUWAIT, May 10, (Agencies): Ku- wait’s Cabinet decided on Monday that the partial curfew, imposed Slippery slope of Persian Shi’ism in Africa across the country to combat the spread of COVID-19, will be lifted on the first day of Eid Al-Fitr. By Ahmed Al-Jarallah The decision will take into effect as of 1:00 am, Government Communication Center Editor-in-Chief, the Arab Times head Tariq Al-Mezrim said at a press confer- FROM the time Iran promulgat- ence. ed its new constitution in 1979, Meanwhile, all commercial establishments and introduced and incorporated will be ordered to shut from 8:00 pm until 5:00 in it an article on “exporting am, the next day. Pharmacies, supermarkets, the revolution”, its intelligence healthcare providers, restaurants, cafes and services have spared no efforts maintenance services are excluded from the in promoting the Khomeinist decision, until further notice. idea of revolutionizing people The Cabinet’s decision to permit cinemas and changing their cultural be- and theaters to open in Eid will only allow the liefs, seeking to spread Safavid entry of people who have been vaccinated. Res- Shi’ism through violence and taurants and cafes will be allowed to receive even killing. orders but only for takeaways at their doorstep, Therefore, when some coun- he added. tries warn of the consequences With regard to the physical attendance of of this type of ideological in- employees at public and privately-run work- filtration into their societies, it places, he said that the ratio should not exceed 60 percent. does not mean such warnings This decision will take effect from Monday, are aimed at provoking creedal May 17, until further notice, following the Eid and sectarian strife. Rather, the holiday, he said, with any later increase to this goal is to confront this infil- number to be decided by the Civil Service tration, which is not different Commission. from the approach of Ismail Seperately, the Cabinet barred direct com- Safavi who worked to spread mercial flights, until further notice, with Nepal, Shi’ism in his country through Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, with the violence and killing in the 15th exception of cargo planes. century. There is no doubt that those Denied privy to the history of the Iranian The nationals of these four South Asian revolution would discover many countries will also be denied entry into Kuwait, similarities between Khomeini regardless of whether their arrival is on a direct and Safavid. These two are or transit flight. proud of Persian fanaticism, and Kuwait’s Ministry of Health has announced have covered their expansionism recording 992 new coronavirus infections and projects with religious cloak. KUNA photo 10 related deaths in the past 24 hours. This was evident during the The photograph – Two Faces One Soul, by Kuwaiti photographer Mohammad Murad. The new fi gures take the total cases in the period between 1979 and 1988 country up to 285,068 and deaths to 1,645 re- when the new leadership took up spectively, noted the ministry’s spokesman Dr murder, kidnapping and prisons Kuwaiti photographer wins award Abdullah Al-Sanad in statements to KUNA on as a way to tighten its control Sunday. over the country. Kuwaiti photographer Mohammad Murad won the honorary light in less than fraction of a second to give the image feelings He pointed out that some 1,317 more people The regime also established award for one of his photographs at the 31st that both photographer and viewer feel,” he said. had been cured of the virus over the past day, sectarian groups in Arab and International Mountain, Nature and Adven- “The photographer cannot change the nature that Allah has raising the total of those who have overcome the Islamic countries, which un- ture Photo and Video Contest (Memorial Ma- created, nor can he control the lighting, atmosphere, and animal disease to 269,633. leashed intellectual and prac- ria Luisa). behavior as wildlife photography needs lots of patience,” Murad He added that the number of people hospital- In a statement to KUNA, Murad said Mon- added. ized with the virus currently stands at 13,790, tical terrorism. The so-called day that his photograph (Two Faces One The annual Spanish (Memorial Maria Luisa) contest is one of with 210 of them in intensive care units. “parties of God” is a clear ex- Soul) won the honorary award for Animal the most prestigious competitions in Europe in particular and Al-Sanad revealed that some 7,204 swab tests ample of the extent the situation World category. He added that 1,511 pho- in the world in general, he said, as participation in international were conducted over the last day, bringing the can reach in the countries where tographers participated from 89 countries, as contests gives the photographer a vision of his photographing total to 2,403,736. these gangs enter. they submitted 16,000 photographs and 121 value. He renewed calls for nationals and expatriates It is true that there is no harm videos in 15 different categories. The awards ceremony for 2021 was held last Saturday, virtu- alike to abide by health precautions to curb the in the multiplicity of creeds and “Wildlife and bird photography is about ally, on the official website of the competition, due to restrictions spread of the virus. sects ... this is present in all re- capturing animal or bird behavior with proper Murad imposed because of COVID-19 pandemic. (KUNA) The third batch of the AstraZeneca vac- ligions. Arab societies have his- cine has arrived in the country, with an esti- torically been based on plural- mated quantity of 388,000, reports Al-Anba ism and openness. Despite the Over 300 Palestinians hurt daily. setbacks they have experienced, Informed health sources told the daily the social relations have remained at third batch will complete the vaccination pro- their best. cess and cover the “second dose” for those who However, the danger posed by received the first, indicating that the Ministry of the new project is not related to Speaker pushes Jerusalem session Health will start sending text messages to re- the spread of the Arab Shi’ism ceive the second dose this week. that we know and have lived in KUWAIT CITY: May 10, (Agencies): National Assembly Speaker Mar- between palestinians and Israeli troops in the Old City of Jerusalem, the The sources indicated that the third batch will harmony with it for many centu- zouq Ali Al-Ghanem on Sunday called for holding an extraordinary ses- emotional center of their conflict. The clashes have come during the Mus- be followed by a “fourth” similar with a similar ries. It is in the form of the hid- sion, as soon as possible, of the Arab Inter-parliamentary Union (AIPU) to lim holy month of Ramadan, already a time of heightened religious sensi- quantity during the next two weeks. den expansionism agenda cov- discuss “desecrations of the Zionist occupation of the sanctities in Jerusa- tivities. The sources reported that the number of ered by religious cloak, which lem and acts of ethnic cleansing in Sheikh Jarrah district” in the city. Most recently, the tensions have been fueled by an eviction plan in an people who have received the “AstraZeneca” is based on a fragmented and The “Al-Dostour” news network said the National Assembly Speaker Arab neighborhood of east Jerusalem where Israeli settlers have waged a (Oxford) vaccination so far exceeds 330,000 distorted version of Islam and addressed a letter to the AIPU chairperson, requesting the holding of the lengthy legal battle to take over properties. citizens and residents. Shi’ism, to achieve political and emergency session to discuss the developments in Jerusalem and take an Hundreds of palestinians and about two dozen police officers have been Status economic goals. explicit and decisive stance toward them. hurt over the past few days in clashes at the sacred compound, which is From this standpoint, the Israeli police firing tear-gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets clashed known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctu- An official source at the British embassy said Moroccan warning against the with stone-throwing palestinians at a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site on ary. The compound, which, has been the trigger for rounds of Israel-Pal- the United Kingdom has not changed Kuwait’s Monday, the latest in a series of confrontations that threatened to push the estinian violence in the past, is Islam’s third-holiest site and considered status on the list of countries which can enter spread of Persian Shi’ism in contested city toward wider conflict. Judaism’s holiest. the UK directly by adhering to the health condi- Africa should be taken as a se- More than a dozen tear-gas canisters and stun grenades landed in the An AP photographer at the scene said that early Monday morning, pro- tions. rious warning of the levels the Al-Aqsa mosque, located in a compound sacred to both Jews and Muslims, testers had barricaded gates to the walled compound with wooden boards In response to a question the Al-Seyassah Mullahs regime can reach in its said an Associated Press photographer at the scene. Smoke rose in front and scrap metal. Sometime after 7 am, clashes erupted, with those inside daily if Kuwait has moved from the ‘yellow’ project, which it continues to of the mosque and the iconic golden-domed shrine on the site, and rocks throwing stones at police deployed outside.