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  • TUESDAY, MAY 5, 2015
  • RAJJAB 16, 1436 AH

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FBI raids home of assailant • Anti-Muslim hate group defiant

GARLAND, United States: A Texas traffic policeman

shot dead two suspected Islamist gunmen with his pistol after they opened fire with assault rifles and tried to storm an event staged by an anti-Muslim group, police said yesterday. There was no confirmed claim of responsibility for Sunday’s failed assault, but an FBI official told US media that one of the attackers had been previously investigated as an alleged would-be jihadist militant.
ABC News, citing an FBI official, said yesterday that agents had raided an apartment in Phoenix, Arizona thought to belong to Elton Simpson, allegedly one of the slain gunmen. Court documents seen by AFP show Simpson was sentenced to three years probation in 2011 for lying to federal agents investigating him on suspicion of planning to travel to Somalia to fight with jihadists. The second shooter was identified as Nadir Soofi, a roommate of Simpson, according to two sources close to the investigation. ABC News said offi- cials believed Simpson sent out tweets ahead of the attack, with the last one using the hashtag #texasattack.
The White House said President Barack Obama had been briefed on the investigation, which Texas police said was ongoing. “There is no form of expression that justifies an act of violence,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. Commentators were quick to draw parallels to a January shooting at the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris that killed 12 people and wounded 11 more. The American Freedom Defense Initiative, a group listed by civil rights watchdog the

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MP Turaiji blasts former chiefs of ports authority

By B Izzak

KUWAIT: Head of the National Assembly’s public funds committee MP Abdullah Al-Turaiji strongly lashed out at the former management of Kuwait Ports Authority, calling it a “gang” and alleging wide-ranging corruption. The statements were made after the committee met the new director of the Ports Authority Sheikh Youssef Al-Sabah, who was appointed to the post a few months ago. Turaiji said the panel asked the director that all those who have a hand in corruption must be referred to the public prosecution for criminal investigations.
The lawmaker also said that the panel has given the ports authority and the Audit Bureau one month to report back with the measures taken against those responsible for “big thefts” in the authority. “It was proved to the panel that the ports authority was run by a gang who illegally seized state land and funds,” Turaiji said. He said the ports authority is required to refer employees involved in

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GARLAND, Texas: FBI crime scene investigators document the area around two dead gunmen and their vehi- cle outside the Curtis Culwell Center yesterday. — AP

News

Hollande seeks to boost Gulf ties

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France, Qatar ink Rafale deal • Saudis mull Yemen ceasefire

Royal baby named Charlotte

LONDON: Prince William and his wife Kate have named their two-day-old baby Charlotte Elizabeth Diana and she will be known as Princess Charlotte of Cambridge, their Kensington Palace residence announced yesterday. The names will be seen as a triple homage to her grandfather Prince Charles, great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth II and William’s late mother Diana, whose death in 1997 prompted a global outpouring of grief. The name Charlotte was one of the favorites for bookmakers and it has historic royal standing. King George III’s wife Queen Charlotte (1761-1818) was an amateur botanist who used her middle name instead of her first name Sophie. George IV also named his only child Charlotte but she died in childbirth at the age of 21 in 1817.
RIYADH: French President Francois Hollande sought to boost ties in the Gulf yesterday as he oversaw the signing of a warplanes deal with Qatar and arrived in Saudi Arabia for a summit. Hollande will be the first Western head of state to attend a Gulf Cooperation Council annual gathering when it meets in Riyadh today. The summit comes at a crucial time for the six-nation GCC, with a Saudi-led coalition bombing rebels in Yemen, concern over the rise of Islamist militants and regional worries over a potential final nuclear deal with Iran.
With Hollande in attendance, the CEO of French aerospace firm Dassault, Eric Trappier, signed the Ä6.3-billion ($7- billion) deal with Qatari defence officials in Doha. The agreement includes an order for 24 Rafale fighter jets, with an option on a further 12. “Good choice,” Hollande said as the deal was signed. “If we are present here in Qatar... it is because there has been a long tradition, and because France is seen as a reliable country which a partner country can have confidence in.” Having struggled for years to sell any

Iran bans ‘Satanic’ haircuts

TEHRAN: Hairstyles of a spiky and unorthodox nature have reportedly been banned in Iran because they imply devil-worship, while tattoos and other male bodily adornments are also being outlawed. Jagged haircuts have become fashionable among all strata of Iran’s youthful population in recent years, but have divided opinion and been deemed by the authorities as western and unIslamic. “Devil worshipping hairstyles are now forbidden,” said Mostafa Govahi, the head of Iran’s Barbers Union, cited by the ISNA news agency. “Any shop that cuts hair in the devil worshipping style will be harshly dealt with and their licence revoked,” he said, noting that if a business cut hair in such a style this will “violate the Islamic system’s regulations”. As well as tattoos being banned, solarium treatments and the plucking of eyebrows - another rising trend among young Iranian males - will not be tolerated, the report said.

Rafales abroad, Dassault has recently scored several lucrative high-profile contracts with Egypt, India, and now Qatar.

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(Left) French President Francois Hollande is greeted by Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani at the Diwan Palace in Doha yesterday. (Right) Hollande is greeted by Saudi King Salman upon his arrival at Riyadh airport yesterday. — AP

Ethiopian protests shine light on racism in Israel

Qatar hopes to abolish

‘kafala’ system in 2015

DOHA: Qatar’s labor minister said of Qatar’s labor market. Doha says it yesterday he hopes the country’s will replace the system with one controversial “kafala” system, which based instead on employment concritics have likened to modern-day tracts. These contracts would last a slavery, will be abolished before the maximum of five years and the curend of this year. Dr Abdullah bin rent exit permit system would be Saleh Al-Khulaifi, the minister of replaced with one where workers
JERUSALEM: Images of Israeli police firing stun struggle to integrate newcomers into broader society, grenades are usually set in the West Bank and involve whether Jews or non-Jews. Yesterday, Prime Minister Palestinian protesters. But on Sunday the situation Benjamin Netanyahu met the soldier, Damas Fikadeh, was quite different - riot police battling thousands of at his Jerusalem office and hugged him. “I was Ethiopian Jews in the centre of Tel Aviv. The spark was shocked by the (video) footage,” he said on Twitter. a week-old video showing two Israeli policemen “We cannot accept it, and we will change it.”

Plane diverted to UAE airbase

DUBAI: An Air Arabia airliner flying from Kuwait to the United Arab Emirates was diverted to a UAE military airbase on Sunday after a passenger warned the plane was about to explode, the UAE state news agency WAM reported. The aircraft was boarded after landing at the Al-Minhad airbase by the authorities who resolved the situation using “appropriate standard procedures”, the agency reported, without elaborating. The UAE-based budget carrier said in a statement that Air Arabia flight G9128 from Kuwait to the UAE emirate of Sharjah was diverted following instructions from air traffic control due to an unruly passenger onboard. The “flight landed safely and the authorities are currently holding the necessary investigation”, the statement said. punching, beating and trying to arrest an Israeli soldier of Ethiopian descent in what appeared to be an racism in a country that has absorbed millions of unprovoked attack. migrants over the past 60 years but still agonizes over
Some commentators have highlighted latent labour and social affairs, said he was “90 percent” certain the system would be replaced within the next seven months. “I hope it will be prior to the year end,” said Khulaifi. “We discussed it, our stakeholders have looked at it... Now it is on track. Do I believe it will come out positively? Yes, I give the authorities a maximum of 72 hours’ notice that they want to leave the country. Khulaifi also said Qatar would fully implement another major labor reform - an electronic payment system for thousands of migrant
The two-minute video is the latest in a string of differences between East European and Middle incidents that have raised uncomfortable questions Eastern Jews, relations with its large Arab minority, about Israel’s treatment of ethnic minorities and its

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  • laborers
  • -
  • by mid-

August. This would ensure that up to one million workers get

Abdullah Al-Khulaifi

do. Because at the end of the day I paid at least once a month and, in believe it is good for the economy, some cases, every fortnight.

Saudis set bourse rules

RIYADH: Foreign investors can own no more than 10 percent of Saudi Arabia’s stock market by value, the regulator said yesterday as it announced rules opening the $575 billion bourse to direct foreign investment next month. A single foreign investor will be able to own no more than 5 percent of any listed firm, while all foreign institutions combined can own no more than 20 percent. Foreign institutions, including central banks, will be required to apply for permission to invest. They must have at least $5 billion of assets under management, although the Capital Market Authority has the discretion to reduce this to $3 billion when it wishes. Saudi income tax laws will apply to foreign investors and a 5 percent tax will be levied on the dividends paid to them by listed companies. Direct purchases of Saudi stocks by foreigners can start on June 15,

the CMA has said. (See Page 22)

  • it’s good for the country.”
  • However, the reforms do not go

Asked if the scheme would be far enough for some. Mustafa Qadri, abolished by the end of the year, Amnesty’s Gulf migrant rights Khulaifi replied: “I am 90 percent researcher, welcomed any change hopeful or believe that it will be.” but said more was needed. “It’s Under kafala, employers can prevent foreign workers from changing ent name, admittedly less restricjobs or leaving the country. tive but with many of the same another form of kafala with a differ-
Long condemned by rights problems.”

  • groups, the system has become a
  • He added that contract arrange-

major focus of criticism since Qatar ments and the ability to leave the was awarded the 2022 football country for workers under the proWorld Cup, as the country’s labour posed changes would “still be a sitlaws come under increasing inter- uation of forced labor because the national scrutiny. Abolition of kafala employer still has the power over would represent the biggest reform the employee”. — AFP

TEL AVIV: Israelis from the Ethiopian community scuffle with Israeli security forces in this coastal city on Sunday during a protest against police brutality and institutionalized discrimination. — AFP

TUESDAY, MAY 5, 2015

LO C A L

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets Romanian Prime His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets Sheikh Dr Minister Victor Ponta at Seif Palace yesterday. —Photos by Amiri Diwan, KUNA and Yasser Al-Zayyat Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah.

His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah and his Romanian counterpart Victor National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem meets Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta. Ponta oversee the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the two countries yesterday.

Kuwait, Romania sign memos of understanding

Amir, Crown Prince, Prime Minister receive Romanian Premier

KUWAIT: Kuwait and Romania signed several talks at Seif Palace yesterday with Romanian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Minister of economic and intercultural communication. memorandums of understanding (MoU) fol- Prime Minister Victor Ponta, who left Kuwait Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al- Finance Anas Al-Saleh, Dr Obaidi, Minister of The two sides discussed the development of lowing official talks between the two coun- yesterday at the conclusion of a two-day offi- Sabah, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice and Minister of Awqaf and Islamic parliamentary, political and economic relatries’prime ministers in Kuwait yesterday.
Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Khaled Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak.
Suleiman Al-Jarallah and Romanian Minister of Earlier, Ponta met HH the Amir Sheikh senior Chiefs of the Army, Police, the National Premier’s Diwan Sheikha Itemad Khaled Al- regional and international developments. cial visit that came upon an invitation from HH Defense Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah, Affairs Yaqoub Al-Sane, Sheikha Dr Rasha Al- tions as well as expanding various invest-
Sheikha Dr Rasha Al-Sabah, Sheikhs, Ministers, Sabah, Jarallah, Undersecretary of the ment partnerships, plus reviewing the latest

Education inked a memo on entry visa exemp- Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah at Seif Guards and other ranking State officials. tion for holders of diplomatic and special pass- Palace in the presence of HH the Crown Prince ports, and a memo on sharing activities of Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. HH Kuwait’s Saud Al-Nasser Al-Sabah Diplomatic the Amir hosted the visiting premier along Institute and Romanian Diplomatic Institute.
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah as well as a number Several MPs attended the meeting. of senior officials at the Prime Minister Diwan Separately, Ghanem yesterday received Iraqi and Foreign Ministry, ambassadors of the two Ambassador to Kuwait Mohammad Hussein

Boosting cooperation

During their official talks, the two premiers countries and the delegation accompanying Bahr Al-Uloum.

  • with the accompanying Romanian officials. discussed ways of boosting horizons of coop- the Romanian Prime Minister. HH the Prime
  • HH the Amir had earlier received HH the

Jarallah and the Romanian Minister of Advisor at the Prime Minister’s Diwan Sheikha eration in different fields that serve interests Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak held a Crown Prince, as well as Sheikh Dr Mohammad
Economy, Trade and Tourism also signed an Dr Rasha Humoud Al-Jaber Al-Sabah attended of the two countries and meet aspirations of luncheon banquet in honor of Romanian Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah. Meanwhile, HH the agreement to set up a joint cooperation com- the meeting as well. mission between the two countries. their peoples. They also considered stances of Prime Minister and his accompanying delega- Crown Prince received Ghanem, Sheikh Sabah

  • Al-Khaled, Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled,
  • HH the Prime Minister had earlier received their countries towards regional and interna- tion.

  • Meanwhile, a MoU on health was signed by his Romanian counterpart at Seif Palace, tional issues of mutual interest. The talks
  • National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Ali Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah, Sheikh Mohammad

Kuwaiti Minister of Health Dr Ali Al-Obaidi and where he was accorded a formal reception. He reflected the depth and solidness of relations Al-Ghanem also received the visiting Al-Abdullah, Minister of Social Affairs and

  • his Romanian counterpart Nicolae Banicioiu.
  • was welcomed by senior officials, namely First between the two governments.
  • Romanian Prime Minister, and they held dis- Labor and Minister of State for Planning Affairs

  • His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister
  • The meeting was attended by Minister of cussions on boosting bilateral relations and and Development Hind Al-Subaih, and Sheikh

Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah held Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, State for Cabinet Affair Sheikh Mohammad Al- establishing cooperative relations to promote Dr Mohammad Al-Sabah. —KUNA

GCC look at Swiss Statement as key to peace: Envoy

Kuwait continues efforts for citizen held at Gitmo

KUWAIT: Iran’s Ambassador to Kuwait Alireza Enayati said the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states have supported the Swiss Statement which indicates a framework for an agreement between Iran and the 5+1.
On the attitude of the Kuwaiti officials to the Statement, he said the Kuwaiti foreign minister has announced that all the GCC member states have welcomed the Statement because they believe it would pave the way for establishment of peace, stability and security in the Middle East.
Political circles as well as scholars and university elite in
Kuwait believe the success of the Iranian nation in developing peaceful nuclear energy and consolidation of peace and security in the region would benefit the regional nations, Enayati told Iran’s Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). Commenting on Iran-Kuwait relations, he said the two countries enjoyed very good relations at the moment and had close interaction on many issues including politics, culture and economy. —IRNA

KUWAIT: Director of Foreign Ministry’s follow-up and coordination depart- Polish Ambassador Grzegorz Olszak and embassy staff welcome Sheikh Ali ment Ambassador Nasser Al-Subaih and Polish Ambassador to Kuwait Al-Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. Grzegorz Olszak cut the ceremony’s cake. —Photos by Joseph Shagra

Sports investment law fulfills Amir’s desire: PAYS

  • KUWAIT: Director of Foreign Ministry’s fol-
  • Ambassador Al-Subaih lauded the friend-

low-up and coordination department ly ties between Kuwait and Poland that kept Ambassador Nasser Al-Subaih said yester- growing since the establishment of the day the ministry was in constant contact diplomatic ties in 1965 based on mutual with US authorities with regards to the respect and identical views. —KUNA release of Kuwaiti citizen Fayez Al-Kandari

Riyadh hosts GCC Consultative Summit

RIYADH: Riyadh will host today the 15th annual summits, usually in December each year, alternaconsultative summit of Gulf Cooperation Council tively in one of the GCC states’capitals.
KUWAIT: The Public Authority for Youth and Sport (PAYS) said yesterday that the authority’s law 143 (2015) on sports investment regulations at sporting clubs came upon directives by His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah for supporting young athletes in all areas.

  • (GCC) leaders; a crucial top-level meeting that
  • The GCC ministerial council, which gathers

from the detention facility in Guantanamo

coincides with critical developments at the the GCC Foreign ministers, held a preparatory regional level. It will be chaired by The Custodian meeting for this consultative summit at Riyadh of Two Holy Mosques King Salman Bin Abdulaziz, Airbase last Thursday, with participation of with participation of His Highness the Amir of Kuwait’s First Deputy Minister, Minister of Foreign Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- affairs Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-

Bay, Cuba. “We expect things to go smoothly without any problems as per the US-Kuwaiti plan in this regard,” he told reporters on the sidelines of a reception held by the Polish

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