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MOHARRAM 17, 1441 AH MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 28 Pages Max 43º Min 25º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17933 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Handicrafts: Source of income Tunisia votes in tightly Crude supply under threat after Bloodied Fury survives severe 3 overshadowed by modernity 6 fought presidential polls 12 Saudi attack; tensions run high 26 cut to outpoint Sweden’s Wallin Kuwait probes drone sighting, PM promises tougher security Saudi races to restore oil supply • Iraq denies links to attack • Iran refutes accusations KUWAIT/RIYADH: Kuwait is investigating structure utilities and other public the sighting of a drone over its territory and Activists slam services. She said it was high time for is coordinating with Saudi Arabia and other the government to impose charges on countries after Saturday’s attacks on Saudi oil expatriates for using roads and re- plants, the Cabinet said yesterday. “The secu- Hashem over emphasized the need “to impose taxes rity leadership has started the necessary on expat remittances”, adding that investigations over the sighting of a drone anti-expat calls “what is needed is to charge expatri- over the coastline of Kuwait City and what ates for the air they breathe” in the measures were taken to confront it,” the country. Hashem said that she is not Cabinet said on its Twitter account. By B Izzak calling for deporting expatriates who It said HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber serve the country, but only marginal Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah directed KUWAIT: Social media activists yes- unskilled laborers who overburden the military and security officers to tighten secu- terday criticized MP Safa Al-Hashem country’s infrastructure. rity at vital installations in the country and to for repeating calls that expatriates Mohammad Al-Helow, writing on take all necessary measures “to protect must pay for the “air they breathe” Twitter, said he thinks Hashem is “very Kuwait’s security”, keeping in mind the well- and for walking on roads. Activists arrogant” while Mahdi Hamad said the being of citizens and residents alike. Several went to Twitter to describe the lawmaker is “acting like Trump”. MPs had earlier questioned the interior min- Kuwaiti lawmaker as “racist” and Ohoud accused Hashem of adopting istry and the government for remaining silent “very arrogant”, but some activists “racist speech”. Salman Al-Nasser over a report that claimed that a drone defended her views as a solution to however said these demands are not breached Kuwait’s airspace over the coast A satellite image provided by NASA Worldview on Saturday shows fires following drone strikes resolve the demographic problem in only that of Hashem “but the demands and came close to HH the Amir’s palace. The on two major oil installations owned by the state giant Aramco in eastern Saudi Arabia. — AFP which expatriates outnumber Kuwaiti of everyone” who loves his country. lawmakers demanded swift investigation into citizens. MP Abdulwahab Al-Babtain said the the issue, just before the government held a demanded to know when that happened and Saudi oil facilities came from Iraq. But MP Hashem in press statements government has failed to resolve the special meeting and decided to launch a for how many times. MP Riyadh Al-Adasani Baghdad denied this yesterday and vowed to yesterday reiterated calls she repeat- population problem and demanded probe into the issue. and Osama Al-Shaheen also demanded that punish anyone using Iraq, where Iran-backed edly made in the past to impose that the number of expatriates should MP Mohammad Hayef asked the interior the government be transparent and announce paramilitary groups wield increasing power, charges on all services provided to be half of the population. Expats make minister if there were incidents in which details of the reported drone. Some Iraqi as a launch pad for attacks in the region. expatriates including for roads, infra- up 70 percent of the population. drones violated the Kuwaiti airspace and media outlets have said Saturday’s attack on Continued on Page 24 some 24 GW. News in brief Iraq signs deal Electricity Minister Luay Al-Khatteeb signed the agreement with the GCC Interconnection Authority (GCC IA) Deaths referred to prosecution to plug into head Ahmad Ibrahim on the sidelines of an energy conference in Baghdad. “This KUWAIT: Health Minister Sheikh Dr Basel Al- is the first deal of its kind with the GCC,” Sabah has referred two cases concerning the Gulf power grid Khatteeb told journalists, adding that deaths of a male child at a dentistry center and Iraq was also in separate talks with two children at a hospital to the public prosecu- BAGHDAD: Iraq yesterday signed a neighbors Saudi Arabia, Jordan and tion. Investigations into the circumstances of the landmark deal with the Gulf Cooperation Turkey to import electricity. The line child’s death at the dentistry center have been Council for a transmission line that from the GCC could be developed fur- concluded, a health ministry statement said, would import 500 megawatts of elec- ther to contribute as much as 2 GW to adding that death certificates of the two children tricity to its overstretched grid by 2020. the grid, he said. The GCC IA said build- had been issued, noting they died “due to miscar- The 300-km transmission line would run ing the line would cost some $220 mil- riage”. The minister has given orders to strip doc- from Kuwait to Iraq’s southern port of lion, and a separate agreement would tors suspected of slackness of their work permits, Faw and be financed by the GCC, need to be signed on the actual imports. banning them from practicing in the country’s pri- according to the electricity ministry. It is “This is the first type of linkage out- vate and public sectors. Moreover, Sheikh Basel the second deal the ministry signed in as side of the GCC. This is part of our BAGHDAD: (From left) CEO of Siemens Power Generation Karim Amin, Director General of instructed the interior ministry to bar doctors many days to boost electricity supply in vision,” Ibrahim told AFP. general state company for electricity production north region Waleed Khaled Hassan, linked to these cases from travelling. — KUNA Iraq, where generation falls about 9 gigawatts below estimated demand of Continued on Page 24 and Orascom CEO Osama Bishai sign a contract in the Iraqi capital yesterday. — zAFP Tremor recorded in Kuwait around her head. KUWAIT: A tremor of 3.1-magnitude was record- Idlib chaos forces “My home was hit once, and then hit a second time, ed north of Kabd and south of Jahra, Kuwait while we were living there,” she added, saying this National Seismic Network said yesterday. The net- displaced into forced her to flee to olive groves in the neighboring work’s head Dr Abdullah Al-Enezi said the tremor province of Idlib. Now, she lives in the village of Birat was recorded at 06:34:43 am local time at a depth Armanaz in western Idlib, in a bus riddled with holes, its of six kilometers. Residents of Jahra felt the tremor, strange dwellings interior cleared of all furnishings. “We cleaned the bus he indicated. — KUNA and I settled here with my children,” said Umm Joumaa, BIRAT ARMANAZ, Syria: Inside a rusty, abandoned whose husband was killed seven months ago by bus in northwestern Syria, Umm Joumaa washes a silver artillery fire from the Syrian regime. tray and glass teacups, light pouring into her makeshift Her set-up is rudimentary: Foam mattresses and kitchen through broken windows. Around her, towels, thick blankets are arranged at the rear, while a kettle bed sheets, clothes and plastic bags hang from wires and basic utensils are stored inside a plastic crate. that stretch across the smashed-out vehicle where the Water containers and firewood are propped against the 44-year-old widow lives with her six children. “We mangled front bumper. More than 400,000 Syrians used to live in Al-Shariaa”, a village in the northwestern have been displaced by violence in the jihadist-run province of Hama, she said, a brown veil wrapped Continued on Page 24 KUWAIT: Stacks of confiscated counterfeit T-shirts are seen. 10,000 clothing items with fake logos seized By Meshaal Al-Enezi US warship docks in Lebanon KUWAIT: The ministry of commerce and industry’s trade control and consumer protection department BEIRUT: The United States navy destroyer USS Ramage docked briefly in Lebanon, the US raided a warehouse in Hawally used to store thousands embassy in Beirut said yesterday, amid heightened of T-shirts and sportswear on which logos of interna- regional tensions. The Arleigh-Burke-class vessel, tional brands were being printed, which is deemed as capable of intercepting ballistic missiles, stopped commercial fraud under local laws. A statement issued Saturday for a “one-day goodwill visit on the side- by the ministry explained that on monitoring the sale of lines of its participation in ongoing efforts to counterfeit goods in the local market, investigations led ensure freedom of navigation and free-flow com- to the warehouse, where 7,300 T-shirts with logos of merce in the eastern Mediterranean”, a statement international brands printed on them and 2,083 others from the US embassy said. US Ambassador to ready for printing were stored. Lebanon Elizabeth Richard and Vice Admiral James The ministry last week gave merchants selling coun- Malloy hosted “an on-board reception for US and terfeit goods three weeks’ notice to remove such prod- Lebanese officials”, it added. “This remarkable US ucts off the market and take advantage of the deadline ship, docked in this remarkable Lebanese city set by the ministry to avoid legal violations and expro- speaks volumes about the partnership between the BIRAT ARMANAZ, Syria: The children of Umm Joumaa, a Syrian displaced from Hama, pose for a picture inside an priation of goods.