Lebanese Protesters Ask Govt to Quit Over Trash
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SUBSCRIPTION MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 2015 THULQADA 9, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Shuaiba oil Thousands Obama sheds Kolarov, refinery of Syrian summer curse, Nasri send resumes migrants just in time for City top operation5 head for7 EU daunting9 fall 20 Lebanese protesters ask Min 30º Max 48º govt to quit over trash High Tide 05:20 & 19:00 Salam hints he may step down after violent clashes Low Tide 12:50 40 PAGES NO: 16619 150 FILS BEIRUT: Thousands of protesters poured into central UAE army frees Beirut yesterday demanding that the country’s top politicians resign, hours after Prime Minister Tammam British hostage Salam hinted he might step down following violent protests triggered by a month-long trash crisis. The demonstrations, the largest in years, railed held in Yemen against the corruption and dysfunction that has DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates said yesterday that its brought about Lebanon’s current political crisis. The military freed a British hostage who was kidnapped 18 country does not have a functioning Cabinet or parlia- months ago by Al-Qaeda in Yemen, which has expand- ment, and hasn’t had a president for more than a year. ed its reach amid fighting between Shiite rebels and Salam said in a news conference at the government’s their opponents. A statement carried by the UAE’s offi- headquarters that if this Thursday’s Cabinet meeting is cial WAM news agency identified the British hostage as not productive, “then there is no need for the council of Robert Douglas Semple, after initially referring to him as ministers.” Douglas Robert Semple. It said Semple, 64, had been Lebanon has a sectarian power-sharing system that working as a petroleum engineer in the Yemeni ensures equal representation between the country’s province of Hadramawt when he was kidnapped in main religious sects. The arrangement often leads to February 2014. The statement did not say where complete paralysis. It was not clear why Salam would Semple had been held in Yemen or provide any details hint about resignation. It was unlikely that he would on the rescue. step down, as the move could create a total political Yemeni security officials contacted by The Associated vacuum and plunge Lebanon into chaos. Press said they were not aware of any Yemeni forces By yesterday afternoon, thousands of protesters assisting in the operation and did not have details chanting “revolution” massed near the government about how Semple was released, suggesting his han- building, demanding that Salam resign immediately. dover may have been negotiated among local tribes- “The people want to topple the regime!” protesters men before the involvement of Emirati forces. cried out, a slogan used during the Arab Spring Al-Qaida’s Yemen branch, known as Al-Qaeda in the protests that swept through the region. Waving Arabian Peninsula, has been consolidating its control in Lebanese flags and chanting, they stood in front of a Hadramawt, the country’s largest province, where ring of barbed wire that separated them from govern- Continued on Page 13 BEIRUT: Lebanese activists (right) clash with policemen as they try to cross to the government house during ment headquarters and riot police. a protest against the ongoing trash crisis, in downtown Beirut yesterday. — AP Continued on Page 13 ‘Let it Spoil’ sends fish prices crashing By Meshaal Al-Enezi activity due to violations. It is unclear though if the rise in prices was due to Train gunman KUWAIT: Media and news services limited supply as plenty of fish were seen broadcast photos of the fish market that available at the market this weekend. seemed empty of customers yesterday Fishmongers dropped prices on Saturday known to 3 and for the second consecutive day the to encourage shopping but the trade market continued to be without cus- remained slow amid the campaign. countries tomers, though there was an abundance Acting Fishermen’s Union Chairman of fish, indicating the “Let it Spoil” cam- Jalal Al-Shammari warned over the week- PARIS: The man who boarded a high-speed train in paign may be having an impact. end about a continued rise in local fish Europe with an assault rifle before being subdued by On Saturday a group of citizens prices. “The fishermen’s union expected three Americans was known to intelligence services launched a protest against rising fish- the high prices of fish to continue in three countries and had ties to radical Islam, market prices, arguing that they were because more than 95 fishing boats were authorities said yesterday. But the man’s lawyer said unfair and due to gouging as opposed to discontinued as they violated the rules. he told her that he was homeless and only wanted to a true reflection of demand. Some local The only solution is to put those boats rob passengers to be able to eat. would-be shoppers noted that a dispute back to work in order to provide the local French authorities contend that Ayoub El- between fishing boat owners and the market with more fish supply and drive Khazzani, a 26-year-old Moroccan, was an Islamic Public Authority of Agricultural Affairs prices down to normal limits,” he said. and Fish Resources may also be behind Fish prices during the second day of KUWAIT: Stock traders monitor the shares prices at Kuwait Stock Exchange.— extremist. Authorities in Spain said he had lived in the rise in prices. Several boats have boycott: KUNA file photo the country until last year and had a police record for drug-dealing. been banned from commercial fishing Continued on Page 13 Despite being on the radar in France, Spain and Belgium, he boarded an Amsterdam-to-Paris train on Kuwait stocks plunge Friday as it stopped in Brussels, carrying a small arse- nal of weapons, including a Kalashnikov, an automat- as oil prices plummet ic Luger pistol and a box cutter. Three American friends, two of them US service- KUWAIT: Stock prices in Kuwait and the Price Index shed 143.14 points to men, tackled him, and with the help of a British busi- Gulf states nosedived yesterday in a mas- 5,909.49 points and the KSX 15 dropped nessman tied him up. They are being feted as heroes sive market sell-off sparked by descend- 22.99 points reaching 943.99 points. With in France and the US. The three Americans spoke ing oil prices with the Saudi and Dubai yesterday’s decline, the KSE has reached with the media later yesterday. bourses leading the slide. The Kuwait a threshold of worrying limits for El-Khazzani’s lawyer said he told her that he Stock Exchange shed 2.36 percent yes- investors, especially small ones, who wasn’t a terrorist. “He is dumbfounded that his action terday to 5,909 points on the first session have lost a lot of money, Al-Tarrah added. is being characterized as terrorism,” said Sophie of the week. Saudi Arabia’s relentless sell- Adnan Al-Dulaimi, general manager of David, a lawyer in Arras, where the train was rerouted ing was sparked by a decision by Fitch the Mina Company, said yesterday’s to arrest El-Khazzani - now being questioned outside Ratings to cut its outlook for the king- decline at the KSE was expected after the Paris by anti-terrorism police. dom’s debt. severe losses on the world markets last He described himself as homeless and David said Chairman of the Dealers Association week. “The market continued its down- she had “no doubt” this was true, saying he was “very, Mohammad Al-Tarrah said ‘exaggerated turn trend that persisted over the previ- very thin” as if suffering from malnutrition and “with a fears’ over further drop in oil prices and ous sessions dipping below the 6,000 very wild look in his eyes.” the sagging Chinese economy have trig- points level, Al-Dulaimi noted. “He thought of a hold-up to be able to feed him- gered panic selling in the Kuwait market Dubai suffered its biggest one-day fall self, to have money,” she said on BFM-TV, then “shoot along with the global markets. since last December, with its main index out a window and jump out to escape.” She said her KUWAIT: A lone woman customer is seen at the fish market at Sharq as ‘Let it The KSE ended yesterday’s session in tumbling 7.0 percent to 3,451 points, its client told her he had found the valise full of Spoil’ campaign started off Saturday to boycott fish in protest against the spi- the red zone as the Weighted Index lost lowest close since March 30. Continued on Page 13 raling prices entered the second day yesterday with prices of fish dropping fur- 8.84 points closing at 393.96 points, the Continued on Page 13 ther. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Britain and Iran reopen embassies TEHRAN: Britain’s foreign secretary reopened months. foreign minister and lead negotiator in the his country’s embassy in Tehran yesterday in Hammond, the first British foreign secre- nearly two years of talks that have ended a long-awaited step signalling better rela- tary to visit Iran since Jack Straw in 2003, Tehran’s isolation from the West. European tions four years after a mob stormed the described the violence that shuttered the officials have been quick to visit Iran since compound, forcing its closure. Philip Tehran mission as “a low point” but said a July 14, when the nuclear agreement with Hammond’s two-day trip comes five weeks new journey was beginning. “Over the com- Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and after Britain and five other world powers ing months, we will work to ensure that the the United States was announced in Vienna.