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and risked US credibility abroad.Corker, chairman of the Senate For-

eign Relations Committee, told Reuters last week that the Trump administration must work closely with European allies as it develops its new Iran policy.

The draft legislation, a proposed

and a week later, on Nov 2, at Charles de Gaulle Airport. It said the extra screening will take the form of a ques-tionnaire handed over to “100 percent” of passengers.

Emirates said in a statement it would begin doing “pre-screening in-terviews” at its check-in counters for passengers flying out of Dubai and at

He also announced his plan to in-vite MPs to a meeting next week for consultations. He revealed his infor-mal meetings with about 21 MPs con-firmed their cohesion in overcoming challenges.

He went on to say that interpella-tion is a constitutional right, but this is just a minor issue; asserting the entire nation must unite in addressing ma-jor issues and to focus on priorities in order to ensure national stability. He affirmed the MPs will act responsibly and stay vigilant to foil attempts to wreak havoc in the country.

In another development, MP Faisal Al-Kandari said he will submit a grill-ing request against Oil Minister Essam Al-Marzouq on Thursday. He had ear-lier announced that he will submit the request at the beginning of this session because the minister failed to perform his duties; considering the oil sector is now drowning in irregularities, ques-tionable appointments and contracts that are full of violations.

Furthermore, MPs Khalid Al-Otaibi, Mubarak Al-Hajaraf and Al-Humaidi Al-Subaie also announced that they will submit their interpellation request against Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and State Minister for Economic Affairs Hind Al-Subaih next Wednes-day.

This came amidst rumors that minis-ters resigned after the grilling of State Minister for Cabinet Affairs and act-ing Information Minister Mohammad Al-Abdullah and the resignation will be announced officially on Monday in preparation for the formation of a new government.

In a related development, MP Omar Al-Tabtabaei has coordinated with his colleague, Faisal Al-Kandari, and they agreed not to submit the grill-ing request against Minister of Oil, Electricity and Water Minister Essam Al-Marzouq tomorrow (Thursday); to make room for their colleagues who want to submit their grilling motion against Al-Subaih.

Al-Tabtabaei clarified the grilling of the oil minister will push through even if the government resigns.

The minister also issued several “ex-planatory decisions” regarding health insurance, fees pertaining to medical prescriptions and receiving intensive care at public hospitals for non-Ku-waitis, read a ministry statement.

Intensive care fees will be subject to a medical report approved by the doctor and after consultation from the head of the specialised ward, said the minister, adding that domestic workers will not be subject to these fees.

He reiterated that the increase in the fees is due to the high expense burden of healthcare on the ministry. Those exempt from the fees include children under the age of 12 of cancer patients, non-Kuwaiti women married to Ku-waitis, non-Kuwaiti mothers of Ku-waitis and the daughters of a Kuwaiti mother married to a non-Kuwaiti.

Others include people receiving care at welfare homes, Gulf Coopera-tion Council citizens, illegal residents, members of official delegations, transit travelers, non-Kuwaiti prisoners and students on a Kuwaiti-funded grant.

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Ban eyed on expats below 30Bid to rectify demographic imbalance

Parliament Permanent Committees

The National Assembly on Tuesday elected members of its permanent committees for the second ordinary session of the 15th legislative term as follows:

Response to the Amiri Address1. Khalil Abdullah (Shiite/Liberal)2. Osama Al-Shaheen (Sunni/Is-

lamist)3. Ouda Al-Ruwaiee (Independent)Petitions and Complaints1. Saud Al-Shuwaier (Independent)2. Khalid Al-Otaibi (Independent)3. Mubarak Haif Al-Ajraf (Tribal/

Independent)4. Hamdan Al-Azmi (Tribal)5. Hamoud Al-KHudair (Tribal/In-

dependent)Interior and Defense Affairs1. Askar Al-Enezi (Tribal/Indepen-

dent)2. Nayef Al-Ajmi (Islamist/Inde-

pendent)3. Saadoun Hammad Al-Otaibi (In-

dependent)4. Saud Al-Shuwaier (Independent)5. Faraj Al-Arbeed (Independent)Economic and Financial Affairs1. Khalaf Dumaithir (Tribal)2. Osama Al-Shaheen (Sunni/Is-

lamist)3. Faisal Al-Kandari (Independent/

Tribal)4. Khalil Abdullah (Shiite/Liberal)5. Salah Khourshid (Shiite/Liberal)6. Saleh Ashour (Shiite/Liberal)7. Safa’ Al-Hashem (Liberal)Legal and Legislative Affairs1. Ahmed Nabil Al-Fadel (Liberal)2. Askar Al-Enezi (Tribal/Indepen-

dent)3. Mohammed Al-Dallal (Islamist/

ICM)4. Mohammed Hayef Al-Mutairi

(Islamist/Tribal)5. Al-Humaidi Al-Subaie (Tribal/

Independent)6. Talal Jallal Al-Sahli (Tribal/ In-

dependent)7. Khaled Hussein Al-Shatti (Shiite)Education, Culture and Guidance

Affairs1. Saadoun Hammad Al-Otaibi (In-

dependent)2. Adel Al-Damkhi (Sunni/Islamist)3. Jamaan Al-Harbash (Islamist)4. Khalil Abdullah (Shiite/Liberal)5. Ouda Al-Ruwaiee (Independent)Health and Social Affairs

1. Khalid Mohammed Al-Otaibi (In-dependent)

2. Saad Al-Khanfour (Tribal/Inde-pendent)

3. Hamoud Al-Khudair (Tribal/In-dependent)

4. Yousif Saleh Al-Fadhalah (Inde-pendent)

5. Osama Essa Al-Shaheen (Sunni/Islamist)

Foreign Affairs1. Mohammed Hadi Al-Huwailah

(Tribal/Conservative)2. Salah Khourshid (Shiite/Liberal)3. Ali Salem Al-Daqbasi (Tribal/

Conservative)4. Faraj Al-Arbeed (Independent)5. Hamad Al-Harshani (Indepen-

dent)Public Utilities1. Abdullah Fahad Al-Anazi (Trib-

al/Independent)2. Majed Musah Al-Mutairi (Tribal/

Independent)3. Ali Salem Al-Daqbasi (Tribal/

Conservative)4. Rakan Al-Nisf (Independent)5. Nayef Al-Ajmi (Islamist/Inde-

pendent)6. Mohammad Mirwi Al-Hadiyah

(Tribal)7. Nasser Saad Al-Dousari (Tribal/

Independent)Budgets and Final Accounts1. Riyadh Al-Adsani (Independent)2. Safa’ Al-Hashem (Liberal)3. Mohammed Al-Huwailah (Tribal/

Conservative)4. Ouda Al-Ruwaiee (Independent)5. Adnan Abdul-Samad (Shiite/Is-

lamist)6. Adel Al-Damkhi (Sunni/Islamist)7. Abdullah Al-Roumi (Salafist/In-

dependent)Protection of Public Funds1. Shuaib Al-Muwaizri (Tribal/Con-

servative)2. Khaled Hussein Al-Shatti (Shiite)3. Mubarak Al-Hurais (Tribal)4. Abdul-Wahab Al-Babtain (Inde-

pendent/Liberal)5. Hamad Saif Al-Harshani (Inde-

pendent)Priorities1. Faisal Al-Kandari (Independent/

Tribal)2. Ahmed Nabil Al-Fadel (Liberal)3. Thamer Saad Al-Zufairi (Tribal/

Independent)

By Fares Al-Abdan KUWAIT CITY, Oct 25: In the context of measures ad-opted by Government to rec-tify the demography of the country and to organize the labor market, Board Council of the Public Authority for Manpower has approved a series of new conditions for recruiting foreign labor force and imposed new charges on some services and transac-

tions, which expatriates are currently getting for free.

Knowledgeable sources from the Public Authority for Manpower af-firmed that new decisions to be ac-tivated at the start of the next year include barring the recruitment of expatriates below the age 30 for di-ploma holders and above, and bar-ring recruitment without the proof of experience in the field they are being recruited for.

The sources consider the new deci-sions and conditions to be announced soon will help reduce the number of

expatriates significantly, especially those with specialization and high aca-demic certificates but without experi-ence.

Sources consider it irrational to re-cruit an engineer in his twenties with-out in private sector, while a large number of Kuwaiti graduates waiting on the employment list.

She explained the regulations will hasten the recruitment of highly expe-rienced people and create an opportu-nity for the companies to benefit from the national manpower, especially young university graduates who can be employed in private sector.

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RABAT: King Mohammed VI of Morocco on Tues-day sacked three ministers because of “delays in de-velopment programmes” in the troubled northern Rif region, the palace said.

The Rif was gripped earlier this year by months of angry demonstrations calling for jobs, development and an end to corruption in the North African king-dom. (AFP)

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JERUSALEM: Israeli authorities on Wednesday ap-proved a major expansion of an east Jerusalem settle-ment, signing off on plans to add 176 homes, the city’s deputy mayor said.

The latest approvals come after Israel last week advanced plans for more than 2,600 settle-ment homes in various areas of the occupied West Bank. (AFP)

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BRUSSELS: The European Parliament Wednesday approved a resolution to cut pre-accession funds for the year 2018 to Turkey by 50 million euro ($58.8 million) and freeze a further 30 million euro ($35.3 million).

The EP resolution justifi ed the cuts saying that in Turkey there is a “worrying deterioration of the situ-ation as regards democracy, rule of law and human rights.” (KUNA)

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DOHA: World Cup 2022 host Qatar, under global scrutiny over its alleged ill-treatment of migrant la-bourers, is to introduce a minimum wage for workers, offi cial state media said Wednesday.

Qatar News Agency also announced that the gas-rich emirate has signed bilateral accords with 36 countries from which it draws most of its two-million-strong foreign workforce, to provide legal protection for workers headed to the Gulf. (AFP)

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DUBAI: Sheikh Mohammad Al Maktoum, Vice-President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, has launched the One Million Arab Coders initiative, as part of the Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, MBRGI, foundation.

The initiative seeks to equip young Arabs with the tools to build their future, starting with fl uency in cod-ing and programming. (KUNA)

boarding gates for transit and transfer fliers. It urged those flying through Dubai International Airport, its head-quarters, to allow extra time to check into flights and board.

Meanwhile, the United States will resume accepting refugees after a 120-day ban, but arrivals from 11 “high-risk” countries, most of them home to Muslim majorities, will still be blocked, officials announced Tuesday.

The temporary ban, which President Donald Trump fought to implement since January and finally proceeded with in late June after a Supreme Court decision, allowed officials to review security procedures and set tougher screening procedures.

Jennifer Higgins, associate director for refugees at the US Citizenship and Immigration Services agency, said ap-plicants will face “enhanced” vetting as a result of the review, including more in-depth checks of their social media presence and connections.

“The security of the American peo-ple is our highest priority,” she told journalists in a briefing.

Trump issued a new executive or-der on refugees late Tuesday that re-placed the expiring one, which was a

amendment to the Iran Nuclear Agree-ment Review Act passed in 2015, broadens a required administration assessment on whether Iran is comply-ing with the pact to add factors related to issues from trade to whether Iran is using commercial aircraft licensed by the United States for non-civil aviation purposes.

As previously reported, it would in-stantly reimpose, or “snap back” sanc-tions lifted under the agreement if Iran were deemed capable of developing a nuclear weapon within a year.

The Iran issue has been complicated by Trump’s recent attacks on Corker, in which he blamed him for the nuclear deal forged under former Democratic president Barack Obama. The pact, which world leaders have urged Trump not to derail, was opposed by every Re-publican in Congress including Corker.

Corker has lashed back at Trump by saying he has failed to grow into the job as president and blaming him for breaking down important international relationships.

A spokeswoman for Corker did not immediately respond to a request for comment on how the dispute with the president might affect the Iran legisla-tion.

US Secretary of State Rex Tiller-son said Wednesday that US sanctions against Iran targeted the country’s “ma-lign behaviours” and were aimed at helping the Iranian people take control of their government.

Tillerson told a New Delhi press con-ference after talks with India’s Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj that the United States would not block “legitimate” business activities with Iran by India or any other ally.

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