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Subsidy Cuts Looming As Govt, Assembly to Meet SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2016 RABI ALTHANI 23, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net MP wants Hala Castro in Top chef’s Guardiola Feb concerts historic suicide casts to take canceled, fears visit to pall over new over at ‘punishment’3 France10 Michelin36 stars Man19 City Subsidy cuts looming as Min 02º Max 19º govt, Assembly to meet High Tide 05:53 & 17:43 Minister reassures MPs will be consulted Low Tide 00:01 & 11:25 40 PAGES NO: 16774 150 FILS Amir in London for Syria donors’ meet By B Izzak Gunvor completes KUWAIT: The issue of cutting subsidies on commodities and services will take the driver’s seat in Assembly-gov- acquisition of Q8 ernment discussions next week as all looks set for a Rotterdam refinery decision to raise the prices of petrol, electricity and water. State Minister for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh LONDON/DUBAI: Swiss trader Gunvor Group has com- Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah reiterated that the pleted the acquisition of its third European refinery from government will not take any measures on the issue Kuwait Petroleum International (Q8), it said yesterday. before consulting the Assembly. The value of the deal was not disclosed. Gunvor said the Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem said the Assembly 88,000 barrels per day KP Europoort would be renamed bureau will meet with the Supreme Planning Council’s Gunvor Petroleum Rotterdam and would be linked to its economic committee on Sunday, instead of tomorrow, two other refineries in Antwerp, Belgium and Ingolstadt, to discuss “rationalizing” subsidies on public services. Germany. The meeting will discuss planned government meas- The refinery will continue to operate in line with ures to deal with the budget deficit due to the drop in Gunvor’s integration and optimization strategies, Q8 said oil prices, Ghanem said. The Assembly will then discuss in a statement to KUNA, adding that the company will, the issue on Feb 9 in an open meeting. as part of the deal, will maintain a research and develop- The speaker said that the plan to deal with the deficit ment center in Rotterdam. The refinery consists of sever- is based on a comprehensive vision that can be imple- al units for refining crude oil, a gasoline production facili- mented, adding that the Assembly will not accept ty and a lube oil plant, the statement said, adding that it harming low-income people under any future arrange- produces a large range of oil products for a wide variety ments. Asked about proposals made by MPs about of markets, within and beyond Europe. financial costs, Ghanem said that the concerned Gunvor also said it would maintain running the refin- Assembly committees will study those proposals and ery. The refinery’s union had previously told Reuters Gunvor planned to close one crude distillation unit at the Assembly will take the final decision on them. The the plant which would mean cutting 25 percent of the speaker said that the plan is to tackle legislation related refinery’s roughly 350-strong workforce. “The Rotterdam to the judiciary in the month of March, adding that the refinery will enhance Gunvor’s existing refining opera- Assembly is expected to debate a draft law on the tions, particularly through synergies with our Antwerp multibillion-dinar Silk City project. facility, while complementing our global trading activi- Meanwhile, a number of MPs yesterday criticized MP ties,” said Gunvor Chief Investment Officer Gia Mai said. Saleh Ashour for threatening that nine MPs could resign The move to buy a third refinery marks a major turn- over alleged discrimination. MP Faisal Al-Kandari said around for the Swiss trading house since its deep links LONDON: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is welcomed as he arrives at Heathrow that Kuwaitis have lived together without any discrimi- with Moscow nearly brought it to collapse over 18 Airport yesterday to head the Kuwaiti delegation to the 4th international donors’ conference to support nation and those who want to resign can do so and oth- months ago. — Agencies Syria and the region. — KUNA ers will replace them. Continued on Page 13 13 students drown off India beach MUMBAI: A college picnic to the beach “A total of 155 students from Pune turned into a tragedy yesterday when at went to Murud main beach and some of UK allows genetic least thirteen students drowned off India’s them went swimming around 3.30 pm west coast after they went swimming, (1000 GMT) this afternoon,” assistant modification of police and officials said. The tragedy was inspector of Raigad police Arvind Patil the latest drowning incident in India, told AFP. “Thirteen students are dead due human embryos where many people are unable to swim to drowning. The victims were all aged and lax safety standards mean beaches between 19 and 23,” Patil said, adding LONDON: Britain yesterday granted its first are often without lifeguards. Dozens of that 10 women and three had men died. research license to genetically modify human students from Pune city were on an excur- The victims were enrolled at Abeda embryos to a project that aims to give hope to sion to Murud beach in the Raigad district Inamdar College, an arts, science and women struggling to conceive, raising ethical con- of the western Indian state of Maharashtra commerce institute in Pune. cerns about “designer babies”. The decision makes when disaster struck on Monday. Continued on Page 13 Britain one of the first countries in the world to grant this type of authorization on one of science’s new frontiers and follows months of deliberation by the British embryology regulator. LESBOS, Greece: This Jan 25, 2016 image shows Chinese artist and activist Ai The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Weiwei posing as he lies face down on the beach on this Greek island. — AP Authority (HFEA) said it had approved an applica- tion from Dr Kathy Niakan of the Francis Crick Institute for a new laboratory research license “to Chinese artist imitates include gene editing of embryos”. Researchers explained that the embryos used will be spare photo of dead toddler ones donated by women receiving In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) treatment who do not need NEW DELHI: Chinese artist and activist Ai posed last week on a pebbly beach them. Any modified embryos have to be Ai Weiwei has recreated the famous on Lesbos island for the picture for one destroyed within 14 days and cannot be implant- image of a 3-year-old Syrian child who of India’s largest English-language news ed in a woman. The research will examine drowned in Turkey last year by staging a magazines, India Today. Rohit Chawla, embryos in their first few days. photo of himself lying face down on a the magazine’s photographer and visual “Dr Niakan’s proposed research is important for beach in Greece. The photograph last director, traveled to Lesbos to take the understanding how a healthy human embryo year of the child lying on a Turkish picture. The photograph was displayed develops and will enhance our understanding of beach triggered international outrage at an art fair in New Delhi over the IVF success rates,” said Paul Nurse, director of the as people saw the helpless toddler as weekend and many visitors took pic- Crick Institute. the devastating human face of the tures of it. Contined on Page 13 MURUD, India: People gather on the beach after more than a dozen college stu- refugee crisis in Europe. Continued on Page 13 dents were swept away on the Arabian Sea coast yesterday. — AP KAC to charge Uganda women stunned to for additional be duped by other women check-in bags KAMPALA: At first, Sarah Nakintu was to seek employment. But when Nakintu KUWAIT: Effective from February, pas- grateful to her friend for alerting her to was met at Dubai airport by a Ugandan sengers flying Economy Class on Kuwait job opportunities in marketing and retail woman going by the name Jane Saad, she Airways will only be entitled to check in in Dubai. Nakintu, a 27-year-old woman was told to hand over her passport and one piece of baggage not exceeding 23 from the Ugandan capital Kampala, trust- then informed she would be working as a kg in weight for free on all flights to all ed her friend, who had worked in the sex escort. destinations except the US. Passengers United Arab Emirates and seemed suc- “From the start I was terrified and tried flying to the US will be allowed two cessful with plenty of money. She fol- to protest but she threatened us and said pieces of baggage of 23 kg each. Any lowed her friend’s instructions. Present a there were no alternatives as she had excess baggage will incur charges of KD valid passport to the recruiter who would invested a lot of money in our trip,” 35 for one additional bag, KD 60 for two organize airline tickets and a visa. Once Nakintu told the Thomson Reuters bags and KD 100 for three additional the documents were in order, Nakintu Foundation. “Slowly we resigned and start- bags. All additional baggage should also paid the recommended “token of thanks” ed following her instructions.” Nakintu is not exceed 23 kg in weight. to her friend - $200 in cash. just one of thousands of women every First Class passengers will be allowed Nakintu (who requested her real name year to be trafficked into sex slavery, with two pieces of baggage of 32 kg each, not be used) was advised to only keep her the Australia-based anti-slavery campaign while Business Class passengers will be boarding pass to Kigali, Rwanda, in sight group Walk Free estimating there are 36 allowed two bags of 23 kg each for all and hide her connecting pass to Dubai as million people trapped in modern-day destinations.
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