Egypt Bombs Libya After IS Militants Kill 21 Copts
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SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2015 RABI ALTHANI 28, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Minister urges Ireland clinch Kuwaiti youth historic to have own win over businesses2 Windies18 Egypt bombs Libya after Min 12º Max 25º IS militants kill 21 Copts High Tide 11:39 & 22:10 Amir sends condolences Cairo signs Rafale jet deal Low Tide • 04:59 & 16:33 40 PAGES NO: 16436 150 FILS CAIRO: Egyptian jets bombed Islamic State targets in Libya yesterday, a day after the group there released a Kuwait hails video showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians, drawing Cairo directly into the conflict across its border. Egypt said the predawn strike hit militant camps, train- fast oil rally ing sites and weapons storage areas in neighboring Libya, where civil conflict has plunged the country into KOC to boost rigs near anarchy and created havens for armed factions. While Cairo is believed to have provided clandestine KUWAIT: Oil Minister Ali Al-Omair said yesterday support to a Libyan general fighting a rogue govern- that world crude prices have recovered “faster” than ment in Tripoli, the mass killings pushed President expected and that recent gains will likely hold. “Oil Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi into open action, expanding his prices have improved faster than expected,” Omair battle against Islamist militancy. “And let those near and told reporters. “I think it will last... It started holding far know that the Egyptians have a shield that protects gains now and hopefully, in the second part of 2015, and preserves the security of the country, and a sword we will see better prices,” that eradicates terrorism,” the military said. the minister said. Crude has HH the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- been on a rollercoaster for Jaber Al-Sabah sent a cable of condolences to Sisi over the past two weeks after the gruesome crime. HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf prices fell by around 60 per- Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and HH the Prime Minister cent between June and Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah also sent January. similar cables to Sisi. After plumbing lows of Egyptian state television aired footage of fighter close to $40 a barrel, inter- planes leaving a hangar with “Long live Egypt” embla- national benchmark Brent zoned on the tails, followed by night-vision aerial North Sea crude for April footage showing bomb explosions and the aircraft Ali Al-Omair delivery rallied to $61.19 returning in early daylight. Libya’s air force also partici- last week. Market sentiment pated in yesterday’s attack, which targeted Derna, an has been bolstered by cuts in output by North eastern coastal city seen as a base for Islamic State American shale producers that have raised expecta- tions of a reduction in the current supply glut. fighters in the oil-rich nation. “There are casualties Omair said that reports from the Organization of among individuals, ammunition and the (Islamic State) the Petroleum Exporting Countries suggested that communication centres,” Libyan air force commander excess supply was being reduced more quickly than Al-AWAR, Egypt: A relative of one of the Egyptian Coptic Christians purportedly murdered by Islamic State Saqer Al-Joroushi told Egyptian state television, adding expected. Surplus production “is definitely lower,” militants in Libya reacts after hearing the news yesterday in this village in Egypt’s southern province of that dozens were killed. Joroushi, who is loyal to Libya’s Continued on Page 13 Minya. — AFP internationally recognised government that set up Continued on Page 13 News in brief Saudi initiative brews business success RIYADH: Lateefa Al-Waalan just wanted Waalan said at the Riyadh plant where Activist jailed for to make Arabic coffee simple: No more she directs operations from her laptop insulting tribes laborious mixing of ingredients and care- and telephone in a spartan office. ‘Cloud’ over Mars KUWAIT: The criminal court yesterday sentenced activist ful attention to boiling. Supported by a Women covered from head-to-toe in and journalist Hamed Buyabes to three years in jail for writ- Saudi program to foster, or “incubate”, black, as is the custom in Saudi Arabia, ing comments on Twitter deemed derogatory to Kuwait’s technology-based businesses with high handle administrative tasks in an adjoin- baffles scientists Bedouin tribes. The sentence has to be implemented growth potential, she developed a ing office while the coffee is roasted and immediately even before the court of appeals begins machine to produce Arabic coffee at the ground on large machines in another PARIS: Amateur astronomers have the study authors wrote. A second was reviewing the case. Buyabes has also been ordered to pay a push of a button - the first of its kind. In room. Her business was driven by one spotted two strange, cloud-like spotted nearby on April 6, 2012, and temporary compensation of KD 5,001. Meanwhile, the the process, Waalan and her Yatooq com- idea: “I love coffee but it’s very complicat- plumes high over Mars, deepening the lasted about 10 days. National Assembly’s interior and defense committee yes- pany became emblematic of efforts to ed. I want to make it simple.” terday approved a government-sponsored law on compul- mystery of what constitutes the Red Their trails were vast, extending sory military service. The law will reintroduce military serv- diversify the oil-dependent kingdom’s John Mercer, an Australian consultant Planet’s atmosphere, a study said yes- between 500 and 1,000 km in north- ice for Kuwaiti males if approved at a parliamentary session economy and employ more Saudis, par- to Badir, calls Waalan’s success story terday. The phenomenon was to-south and east-to-west directions. on March 10. Military draft had been stopped in Kuwait for ticularly women. “quite stunning”. Badir helped Walaan observed on March 12, 2012 over the The “clouds” - if that is indeed what almost two decades. Yatooq is one success story from the create a prototype in its industrial lab “terminator”, the boundary between they were - were seen at high altitude, business incubation program, known as and provided legal, accounting and oth- day and night on Mars. One of the at about 200-250 kilometres, roughly Badir (meaning “to initiate”), but it’s not er advice as well as valuable connections. plumes developed in around 10 hours above Terra Cimmeria, which is part of Cataflam in Kuwait the only one. After hitting the market in Traditional Arabic coffee blends the and lasted for about 11 days, shifting Mars’ rugged southern highlands, safe, readily available 2013 Yatooq has grown to employ 15 ground beans with cardamom and saf- shape from “double blob protrusions” according to the paper. KUWAIT: The anti-inflammatory drug Cataflam has not people with another 75 on contract. “The fron, giving the liquid a yellowish hue. to pillars which merged into a “finger”, Continued on Page 13 been rescinded by the health ministry, an official said factory is completely run by women,” Continued on Page 13 on Sunday, denying rumors circulating on social media of its withdrawal from the Kuwaiti market. This drug being sold in Kuwait is manufactured in Switzerland, MoI files three lawsuits the ministry’s head of drug regulation and supervision Rami Behbehani said in a statement. It is safe and read- ily available, added Behbehani, who said that it has against Al-Watan editor been approved by the ministry of health’s drug regula- By B Izzak tion ministry. The closure is part of a month- tion and supervision department. He called on the long saga and legal battle between Al- Kuwaiti public to disregard information on medicinal KUWAIT: The interior ministry said yester- Watan and the ministries of information drugs distributed by unofficial sources on social media day it had filed three lawsuits against the and commerce which revoked the commer- unless it is confirmed by the ministry of health. editor-in-chief of Al-Watan newspaper cial and media licenses of Al-Watan and Sheikh Khalifa Ali Al-Khalifa Al-Sabah for ordered its closure. Kuwait condemns Denmark, resisting and insulting police officers who Al-Watan had challenged the decisions North Carolina shootings wanted to execute orders to shut the news- in the administrative court which is expect- KUWAIT: Kuwait strongly condemns the two tragic shoot- paper’s printing house. The ministry accused ed to issue its verdict tomorrow, but in the ings that took place in Copenhagen and North Carolina, Sheikh Khalifa of resisting and insulting a meantime obtained a decision from the which led to the death of innocent people. A foreign min- public employee while performing his offi- emergency judge to resume publication istry source said yesterday that Kuwait calls for respecting cial duty and also for verbally abusing a sen- until the date of the court verdict. But the all religions and religious symbols and stopping any provo- ior police officer. The ministry said that it will information ministry challenged it, and at cations against Muslims. Kuwait cautioned against the implement the law on all equally and the same time issued a decision to ban Al- increase of these criminal acts which will only lead to more warned that no one is above the law. Watan from printing. The issue began last violence, and hence a lack of security and stability, the Sheikh Khalifa traded insults on Sunday month when the ministry of commerce source added. It reiterated Kuwait’s stance that rejects vio- RIYADH: Lateefa Al-Waalan, a Saudi woman who founded the Yatooq company as a police force came to enforce the clo- revoked the commercial license of the lence and terrorism and calls for unifying international and developed a machine to produce Arabic coffee, pours coffee in a cup at her sure of the second printing house of Al- newspaper on the grounds that it has lost efforts to put an end to this vicious phenomenon.