JAMADA ALAWWAL 23, 1440 AH TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2019 28 Pages Max 27º Min 16º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17745 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Kuwait celebrates thirteenth Kamala Harris launches White ‘Black Panther’ scores big win Clinical Japan stun Iran 39anniversary of Amir’s reign House bid in US ‘under attack’ 20 at Screen Actors Guild Awards 28 to reach Asian Cup final Heavy trucks brazenly flout driving ban on main roads Court orders MoI to pay compensation over vehicle impoundment By Nawara Fattahova and A Saleh from 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm. This means that no heavy trucks should be on the MP sentenced KUWAIT: Although the traffic law bans Third and Fourth Ring Roads and other heavy trucks, trailers and other heavy inner ring roads or any other highways, vehicles from driving on main and side roads or byways during the abovemen- to 7 years for roads till the Seventh Ring Road during tioned times. certain times of the day, motorists have The truck ban is also on these other ‘tricking’ wife noticed many such trucks on the streets main highways: From the intersection of during the ban periods. Their woes have Fahaheel Expressway starting from the KUWAIT: The appeals been compounded since Arab schools Sixth Ring Road (Masayel intersection) all court yesterday sentenced and Kuwait University colleges the way to Sulaibiya Road and Sabah Al- opposition MP Waleed Al- reopened on Sunday, leading to heavy Nasser Bridge (Kabd Road). Also Tabtabaei to seven years in gridlock on most roads and highways. Sulaibiya Road between the Fifth and jail for failing to tell his wife Head of the media security depart- Sixth Ring Roads and the Fifth Ring Road he divorced her and continu- ment at the interior ministry Lt Col till its intersection with Doha Connection ing to have sexual relations Nasser Buslaib told Kuwait Times that and to the north till it meets the main with her, her lawyer said. the hours of the truck ban are still the Jahra Road. Heavy trucks cannot drive on Tabtabaei, an Islamist law- same and haven’t changed. “Truck driv- these roads from 6:30 am to 9:00 am and maker who is currently out- ers are obliged to respect the ban, oth- again from 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm. KUWAIT: A truck and cars are seen on a road in this file photo. Image used for illus- side Kuwait, already faces a erwise they will be penalized,” he said. Meanwhile, the administrative court trative purposes only. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat 42-month jail term handed “Many police patrols on the main roads yesterday annulled interior ministry deci- down in July in another case Waleed Al-Tabtabaei are monitoring the situation, especially sion 1293/2017 and clauses 29 and 27 The citizen’s lawyer Khaled Al-Shemmari cles found in violation of traffic regula- for storming the parliament during the rush hours. The ban timings added to article 207 of the traffic code stressed he was fully confident of win- tions pending amendments to traffic laws and assaulting police. The appeals court yesterday vary according to the roads,” he added. pertaining impounding vehicles for two ning the case because the resolution was in Dec 2017, barely a month after upheld a 2018 verdict finding him guilty of adultery, All heavy trucks, tractor trailers and months for not wearing seatbelts and illegal. He also called for more studies of enforcing it. The move came after scores said the lawyer, Nasser Al-Otaibi, adding the ruling heavy vehicles are not allowed to drive using mobile phones while driving. The laws before passing them. of vehicles were impounded, leading to was not political. inside Kuwait City, Hawally and Salmiya court also ordered compensating KD Notably, the interior ministry had outrage from motorists and lawmakers, Continued on Page 24 from 6:30 am to 3:00 pm and again 500 to the citizen who had filed the case. rescinded the decision to impound vehi- lawsuits and even a divorce. rule of law, and the search for stability News in brief Macron presses cannot be dissociated from the question of human rights,” he said during a joint 3-day national holidays news conference with Sisi that was dom- Sisi on respect inated by the subject of rights. “Things KUWAIT: The Cabinet announced on its Twitter haven’t gone in the right direction since account yesterday that Sunday (Feb 24) will be an for ‘freedoms’ 2017 - bloggers, journalists are in prison official holiday, and work will resume on Wednesday and because of that Egypt’s image can (Feb 27). The country celebrates its National Day on CAIRO: French President Emmanuel find itself suffering,” Macron said. Feb 25 and Liberation Day on Feb 26. Feb 24 is a day Macron said yesterday that he told his Sisi told reporters that rights should off as it falls between two holidays. — KUNA Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah Al- be taken in the context of regional tur- Sisi during a trip to Cairo that stability bulence and the fight against terrorism. and security could not be separated “We’re not like Europe, nor the United from human rights. Macron, received States, we are a country or a region that Saudis hope to attract $425bn with pomp during a three-day state visit, has its own characteristics,” he said. has been under pressure from non-gov- “Egypt does not advance through blog- RIYADH: Saudi Arabia yesterday launched an ambi- ernmental organizations to take a firmer gers. It advances through the work, tious program which it hopes will attract $427 billion stance after stating in 2017 that he effort and perseverance of its sons.” in investments in the industry and logistics sectors. To would not lecture Sisi on rights. Sisi ousted former President kick-start the 12-year program, the kingdom “Real stability depends on the vitality Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim announced the signing of 37 agreements worth $55 of society. Stability and lasting peace go Brotherhood in 2013 and was elected as billion with foreign and local investors. Energy hand in hand with respect for individual president a year later, presiding over CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi (right) shakes hands with his French Minister Khalid Al-Falih said the investments would be freedoms, dignity of everyone and the Continued on Page 24 counterpart Emmanuel Macron after their joint press conference yesterday. —AFP made in the fields of industry, mining, energy and logistics. The aim is to create 1.6 million new jobs, boost non-oil exports by $267 billion a year and add were eligible. The move appears aimed as much as $320 billion to the gross domestic product, Qatar blockade at preventing a repeat of Qatar’s last-16 almost 40 percent of last year’s GDP, he said. — AFP game with Saudi Arabia, the UAE’s staunch ally, when Omani fans turned up hits Asian Cup to cheer on the Maroons. It also high- Dubai airport retains top spot ABU DHABI: When the United Arab lights seething tensions between Qatar Emirates take on bitter Gulf rivals Qatar and UAE, one of a group of countries DUBAI: Dubai International Airport said it retained in the Asian Cup semi-finals today, good enforcing a diplomatic and transport its top global spot in 2018 after serving the largest luck spotting the Qatari fans. Not only blockade of the 2022 World Cup hosts number of passengers for the fifth year in a row are Qataris largely barred from UAE due for allegedly supporting terrorism - a despite falling short of its target. Traffic at the major to the ongoing Gulf blockade, but the claim Doha denies. transit hub rose slightly to 89.15 million passengers, hosts have gone to great lengths to make The result is that Abu Dhabi’s up just over 1.0 percent on the number who used the sure no pro-Qatar supporters sneak in. 42,000-capacity Mohamed Bin Zayed airport in 2017, it said in a statement. Indians In a telling turn of events, the Abu Dhabi stadium will be not only a sellout, but retained the top position with 12.28 million passen- Sports Council has snapped up all also nearly unanimously behind Alberto gers last year and Saudis came in second with 6.47 remaining tickets to give away to “loyal Zaccheroni’s white-clad team. Losing to million travellers, overtaking Britons.— AFP UAE fans”, it said in a tweet. Qatar in a home semifinal would be This handout photo taken in 2018 shows Trevor the duck on the Pacific island Long queues formed as supporters embarrassing for UAE, and it could’ve of Niue. — AFP waited for their free tickets, but only got even worse if Qatari allies Iran, who Bahrain upholds life sentences people holding Emirati identification Continued on Page 24 Chamber of Commerce, Rae Findlay, said DUBAI: Bahrain’s highest court upheld life sentences ‘Loneliest duck’ it was a “sad time for Niue”. “He capti- against three opposition leaders on charges of spying vated the locals, of which there are only for Qatar, state news agency BNA and a rights group 1,600 in Niue, and the 9,000 visitors to said yesterday. Al-Wefaq secretary-general Sheikh Trevor dies on Niue each year,” Findlay told the Ali Salman and two senior Wefaq leaders Sheikh Australian Broadcasting Corporation Hassan Sultan and Ali Alaswad were sentenced to life tiny Niue island Sunday. “He will definitely be missed, he imprisonment in November, overturning a previous captured many hearts and even the acquittal.