The sources said in a statement to Al-Seyassah the proposal that has been agreed upon says the fee for renewing a work permit for one year is 2000 dinars, in addition to 500 dinars comprehensive health insurance different than the current insurance fee. However, the proposal will be submitted to the Board of Directors at the Public Authority for Manpower for approval or amendment.
The sources added, the proposal has the approval of most parties which attended the meeting – the Public Authority for Manpower, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Union of Kuwait Workers, the Ministry of Interior and some other institutions to prevent it being an outlet for marginal workers and limiting it to whom the employer actually needs. The sources pointed out that there is a possibility of reducing the proposed amount in the meeting of the board of directors of the authority, which is supposed to be held soon, explaining that the meeting will be chaired by the Minister of Commerce and Industry Dr Abdullah Al-Salman and will be attended by the vice-president and director of PAM and four members from the four government agencies, in addition to three people with experience./agencies
Kuwait to allow workers in 6 sectors to transfer jobs
July 15, 2021The Director General of the Public Authority for Manpower (PAM) in Kuwait said the country will allow workers in six different sectors to transfer to any other sector.
Those working in manufacturing, agriculture, herding, fishing, cooperative societies and free trade zones can transfer to any other sector, but subject to their employers’ agreement.
The decision is set to go into effect as of Thursday July 15.
This will automatically null the decision against a transfer on labour from different sectors that was put in place in 2015.
Al Mousa said in a press statement that the decision was issued to allow for more market flexibility due to a shortage in the labour market, mainly as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic./ Gulfnews
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune pardoned 101 people Wednesday who were imprisoned for taking part in anti-government protests.
A total of 30 detainees with a final verdict and 71 others who did not receive a sentence due to their activities during the protests by the Hirak movement were pardoned, according to Algerian state television, which cited a statement from the Presidency.
Prisoners pardoned by Tebboune on the occasion of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha will be released as of the evening of July 21, the statement said.
In March, Tebboune issued a decree calling for early parliamentary elections on June 12, less than a month after dissolving the People's National Assembly, the lower house of parliament.
Following the June 12 elections, he subsequently granted amnesty for dozens of leading figures of the Hirak movement.
He also pardoned 18 prisoners on July 5.
According to the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights, as of July, more than 300 activists who participated in the Hirak protests are in prison.
The parliamentary elections were Algeria’s first since the departure of late long-serving President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who stepped down in April 2019 after mass protests against his 20-year rule./aa
English football star Sancho: 'Hate will never win'
July 15, 2021English football star Jadon Sancho said Wednesday that people should react more against the kind of racial abuse that he and other players suffered after his team was defeated by Italy in the EURO 2020 final.
"As a society, we need to do better, and hold these people accountable. Hate will never win," Sancho said on Instagram after he and two other Black players on the English national team were bombarded with racist comments on social media after the final on July 11 at Wembley Stadium in London.
The 21-year-old Borussia Dortmund winger said that "sadly, it's nothing new.”
Sancho, Marcus Rashford and Bukayo Saka were racially abused after England lost the final to Italy in a penalty shootout.
The trio were subjected to offensive and racist online abuse after missing penalties.
"To all the young people who have received similar abuse, hold your heads up high and keep chasing the dream.
"I am proud of this England team," Sancho said, thanking people for their messages of support.
England manager Gareth Southgate, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the English football body (FA) condemned the abuse.
Sancho is set to join Manchester United soon as the Red Devils said on July 1 that they have agreed to a "deal in principle" with Dortmund for his transfer.
He has been a Dortmund player since 2017, scoring 50 goals and producing 64 assists in 137 appearances for the German club.
Sancho, who has a contract with Dortmund until 2023, won the German Cup last season./aa
Turkey’s National Defense Ministry said on Wednesday that 35 bodies were found in the northern Afrin district of Syria and the number of deaths might increase.
“Another war crime of the terrorist organization PKK/YPG came to the light,” the ministry said on Twitter.
According to the statement, on receiving information that YPG/PKK terrorists buried mass bodies at an empty land in the neighborhood of Afrin in January 2018, the said area was excavated.
Since 2016, Turkey has launched a trio of successful anti-terror operations -- Euphrates Shield (2016), Olive Branch (2018), and Peace Spring (2019 -- across its border in northern Syria to prevent the formation of a terror corridor and enable the peaceful settlement of residents.
In its more than 35-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK -- listed as a terror organization by Turkey, the US, and EU -- has been responsible for the deaths of nearly 40,000 people, including women, children, and infants.
The YPG is the PKK's Syrian offshoot.
Syria has been mired in a vicious civil war since early 2011 when the regime of Bashar al-Assad cracked down on pro-democracy protests with unexpected ferocity.
In the past decade, around half a million people have been killed and more than 12 million had to flee their homes./aa
The stories of "those martyred in the July 15 coup attempt" in 2016 will be told to the world in English through live broadcasts from monuments in the Turkish capital Ankara and metropolis Istanbul, Turkey's Communications Directorate said on Wednesday.
“As part of the commemoration programme marking the fifth anniversary of July 15, 251 martyrs will be commemorated one by one, and their heroism will be broadcast with a visual presentation in English,” the directorate said in a statement.
“The goal of the programme is to call international attention to the nation's democratic victory, which was earned at the expense of its life, in the fight against the July 15 coup attempt,” the statement added.
The July 15 Democracy and National Unity Day event will be held on Thursday at 9.30 a.m.-11.30 a.m. local time (0630-0830GMT).
FETO and its US-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated 2016 coup, which left 251 people dead and 2,734 injured.
Ankara accuses FETO of being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police, and judiciary./aa
The first female Muslim council leader in Oldham was targeted in a “deliberate” attack when her car was firebombed.
Arooj Shah, who was elected earlier this year, saw her car burning after an arson attack early Tuesday.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said officers, fire and rescue services, responded to the fire at about 1:30 a.m.
"It was established that the vehicle was deliberately ignited, also causing slight damage to a neighboring property," said a police spokesman.
"This fire destroyed a vehicle and caused damage to a neighboring property. It was a reckless, abhorrent act, and it's fortunate that no-one got hurt,” said Detective Chief Inspector Wesley Knights of GMP's Oldham division in a statement.
"We will not rest until the circumstances around this incident are fully understood, and those responsible brought to justice,” he said, adding one person has been arrested but “our investigation remains very much on-going.”
The attack coincided with a nationwide condemnation of racism after three Black players from the national football team were racially abused online following a loss to Italy in the EURO 2020 final.
Politicians offered full support to Shah after the incident.
“This is absolutely appalling and I send my full support to @shah_arooj. It will be fully investigated,” Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said on Twitter.
Labour MP Yasmin Qureshi said: “Sending my best and solidarity to Arooj Shah – no one in politics should ever face this. Hope you are as well as can be.”
“She has the full support of everyone within the Labour family, from her colleagues at Oldham council to MPs across the country,” Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner said in a statement. “Arooj has faced disgusting abuse throughout her career as a councillor and she has always handled it with grace and dignity, but she shouldn’t have to.”/aa
The EU's anti-terror chief has recently expressed concern on strengthening ties between European extreme leftists and the YPG/PKK terrorist organization have recently been getting stronger, according to a report on Wednesday.
Individuals who joined the YPG/PKK out of "left-wing extremist ideological convictions," acquire or strengthen combat skills that could "be used in terrorist activities in Europe," said an internal EU discussion paper by the office of EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Gilles de Kerchove, released by non-profit monitoring group Statewatch.
The document, titled EU action to counter left-wing and anarchist violent extremism and terrorism, said that though the main terror threat in Europe was from "Jihadist terrorists," violent left-wing and anarchist extremism and terrorism have "never completely disappeared."
Terrorist incidents motivated by left-wing and anarchist extremism in Europe are currently concentrated in Italy, Greece, and, to a lesser extent, Spain said the paper dated June 28 and sent to the delegations of EU member states.
It added that for many left-wing violent extremists in Europe, solidarity with left-leaning militias in northern Syria, such as the YPG/PKK terrorists, is "of great importance"
The document said that despite this, European authorities do not prosecute "volunteers" who join the YPG as armed fighters, because the bloc does not recognize the group, which is the PKK's offshoot in Syria, as a terrorist organization.
In its more than 35-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK – listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the US, and EU – has been responsible for the deaths of 40,000 people, including women, children, and infants.
"The fact that many of them deny any participation in actual combat further complicates the possibility of prosecuting them," added the document.
The report also briefly took stock of the far-left DHKP-C's presence in Europe, which it said the terrorist group uses as a "logistical base to support operations in Turkey."
An attack in Europe by this group, however, is unlikely, it added.
In a report published in June, Europol said the PKK actively mobilized its propaganda activities in countries like Germany, France, Belgium, Austria, and the Netherlands, but that the terrorist organization was unable to raise as much money as it desired in Europe due to travel bans introduced to stem the coronavirus pandemic.
According to the report, 24 of the 25 attacks carried out by extreme leftist organizations in Europe last year took place in Italy, with the one other attack in France./aa
Five more PKK terrorists surrendered in Turkey thanks to persuasion efforts by security forces, according to the Interior Ministry on Wednesday.
The ministry said the terrorists surrendered after escaping from the terror group by way of persuasion efforts by police and gendarmerie teams.
The terrorists joined the PKK/KCK terror group between 2011 and 2015 and were active in Syria and Iraq, it said.
The number of terrorists who have surrendered through persuasion in 2021 rose to 102, it added.
In its more than 35-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK -- listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the US, and the EU -- has been responsible for the deaths of nearly 40,000 people, including women, children and infants./aa
The Turkish Embassy in Juba, in collaboration with the Turkish Red Crescent and Turkish businessmen, donated food, school materials and mattresses on Wednesday to the Divine Mercy Action orphanage here in the capital.
Turkish envoy Erdem Mutaf was happy to be among children and said the main focus is to provide humanitarian support to vulnerable groups like orphans.
“We came with the Turkish Red Crescent to support these children. Investing in children means investing in the future. We are committed to supporting these children and will continue to support the orphanage,” said Mutaf.
He added that the embassy will continue to stand with the children in the orphanage and Turkey will never forget to support the children of South Sudan.
Yasmin Ahmed Khamis, the chair of the Board of Directors of Divine Mercy Action Orphanage Center, said the institution is very grateful for the continuous support given by the Turkish government.
“We are happy that the Turkish Embassy and entire people are aware of the people of South Sudan and support children -- this is not easy. No one can come and support children like this unless he or she has humanity,” said Khamis.
She said most of the children in the center coming from different areas of Juba, and some do not have parents.
Khamis said some of the mothers of the children are serving death row sentences.
“We are doing our part and we leave the other part to people like you [Turkish],” she said. “We have 81 children here. Sixty-seven study in northern Juba and nine sat for the South Sudan primary examination. They are going to secondary school,” said Khamis.
She added that of the 81 children, 13 are girls.
“We are supported by individuals. We don’t have stable donors. We have been supported by the South Sudan Red Cross and also by Comboni fathers missionary,” said Khamis./aa
