US REAFFIRMS SUPPORT for Kuwait's Security
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SUBSCRIPTION MONDAY, JULY 18, 2016 SHAWWAL 13, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Labor attache: Three US police Pakistani star’s Wilder stops Minimum salary officers dead, brother ‘not Arreola to retain for Filipino several injured embarrassed’ WBC heavyweight helpers3 still $400 in shooting7 by11 killing her world20 title US reaffirms support Min 31º Max 47º for Kuwait’s security High Tide 09:57 Low Tide UN-backed Yemen peace talks resume 04:10 & 17:48 40 PAGES NO: 16935 150 FILS KUWAIT: The United States of America has reaffirmed sup- Nisf: Treatment port for Kuwait’s security and stability. The Foreign Ministry said in a statement yesterday that acting Prime Minister abroad used for and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al- Sabah received a written message from US Secretary of summer tourism State John Kerry renewing Washington’s support for safe- guarding Kuwait’s security and stability. The message also By B Izzak dealt with the strong bilateral relations between the two friendly countries and means of boosting ties in various KUWAIT: Liberal MP Rakan Al-Nisf charged yester- domains, in addition to joint coordination regarding vari- day that many cases of state-funded overseas med- ous developments on the regional and international arenas. ical treatment are being used for summer tourism, Separately, the UN special envoy for Yemen yesterday slamming the failure to halt wide-ranging corrup- urged the country’s warring parties to make “decisions tion in this field. Nisf cited a detailed report pub- that will prove your true intentions”, as peace talks resumed in Kuwait after government delegates aban- lished in the Arabic press yesterday about hundreds doned a boycott threat. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said of millions of dinars spent by the government on the negotiations, back on after a 15-day suspension, thousands of cases who are sent for medical treat- would last for two weeks and warned that they may be ment abroad, alleging that many of the cases are Yemen’s last chance for peace. “It’s time for decisive deci- fake and arranged through corruption. sions that will prove your true intentions and national Nisf slammed a ‘cover-up’ of those squandering responsibilities to Yemenis,” he told a meeting of the two public funds for what he described as “tourism delegations late Saturday. medication”. The lawmaker said that all recent The envoy said the discussions between Yemen’s reports from the Audit Bureau and the National Houthi rebels and the government of President Assembly budgets committee clearly indicate to Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi would focus on strengthening a squandering of public funds and corruption in the ceasefire that came into effect on April 11 but has been procedures of overseas treatment. KUWAIT: UN special envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed (center) speaks with delegations during a repeatedly violated. Continued on Page 13 meeting of the Yemeni peace talks. — AFP Continued on Page 13 Turkey rounds up 6,000 plotters Erdogan weeps at funeral • Mop-up continues ISTANBUL: Turkish authorities pressed yes- emerged showing the rough treatment of terday with a ruthless crackdown against some arrested coup plotters. Bahrain dissolves suspects in the failed coup against Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said yes- President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with terday around 6,000 people had been opposition group 6,000 people detained as he vowed to detained in “clean-up operations” and that stamp out the “virus” of the putschists. the number would rise. They include sen- DUBAI: A court yesterday ordered the dissolution of World leaders including US President ior army commanders, judges, prosecutors Bahrain’s main opposition group Al-Wefaq, accusing it Barack Obama have strongly condemned and a military aide to Erdogan, Ali Yazici, of helping to foster violence and terrorism. The admin- Friday’s attempted takeover but also who had only been working for the presi- istrative court in Manama also ordered the funds of urged Turkey to respect the rule of law in dent since August last year, state-run news the group to be seized by the government, said the its aftermath, especially after pictures Continued on Page 13 justice ministry. The ruling can still be appealed. Al-Wefaq was the largest group in parliament before its lawmakers resigned en masse in protest at ALEPPO: A Syrian civil defense worker carries the body of a child following air the crushing of demonstrations in 2011 calling for an strikes yesterday in the rebel-controlled neighborhood of Maysar in this northern elected government. The court said Al-Wefaq incited Syrian city. — AFP violence and encouraged demonstrations and sit-ins which threatened to spark “sectarian strife”. It said the bloc had “criticized the performance of the state Syria regime besieges authorities - executive, judicial, and legislative”. On June 28, Al-Wefaq’s defense lawyers withdrew from court proceedings in protest at the government’s rebel parts of Aleppo push to accelerate the process, which had initially been set for Oct 6. The court had already suspended ALEPPO: Opposition-controlled parts of tated by Syria’s five-year conflict. all of Al-Wefaq’s activities on June 14, ordering its Syria’s battered northern city Aleppo Yesterday, regime fighters descended offices closed and assets frozen. But Prime Minister came under total siege yesterday, after on the Castello Road and fully cut it, said Khalifa bin Salman Al-Khalifa insisted “there will be no government forces severed the last route Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Britain- backtracking on the measures taken to preserve the out of the east. An estimated 300,000 based Syrian Observatory for Human nation’s security and stability”. “There are hands that civilians live in rebel-held neighborhoods Rights. “The eastern neighborhoods are sought to become tools used by foreign regimes of Syria’s second city, the UN says, and now completely besieged,” he told AFP. which want no good for Bahrain and its people. Their there are fears that they could face star- The Observatory also reported that six attempts have failed,” he said in remarks published on vation. The rebels have failed to thwart a civilians, including a child, were killed the official BNA news agency. ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) and former Turkish major Russian-backed army offensive yesterday in regime air strikes on the Continued on Page 13 around Aleppo, which has been devas- Continued on Page 13 President Abdullah Gul carry the coffin of Erdogan’s friend Erol Olcak yesterday. — AFP News in brief Grenade blast kills 2 Israeli soldiers JERUSALEM: A grenade explosion killed two Israeli sol- diers and wounded three others yesterday near a military outpost in the Golan Heights, the army said in a state- ment. The incident occurred at Mount Hermon near the demarcation line with Syria. Details on how the Israeli grenade went off were being investigated. The two sol- diers killed were identified as Staff Sergeant Hussam Tafesh, a 24-year-old Druze, and Sergeant Shlomo Rindenow, 20 and originally from the United States. Israeli media reported that one of the soldiers exited an army vehicle holding the grenade and approached another sol- dier standing outside the outpost when it exploded. Fire engulfs Makkah hotel RIYADH: A fire ripped through an uninhabited hotel in the Saudi holy city of Makkah yesterday without causing casualties, the civil defense spokesman said. Firefighters put out the blaze at the 10-floor hotel, the spokesman said in state- ments carried by the official Saudi Press Agency. The fire had spread from palm trees facing a KUWAIT: A huge fire broke out in an under-construction 18-storey building in Salmiya yesterday at noon. The fire was on the top floor, and winds helped the fire to facade of the hotel and gutted all 10 floors of the spread to another building, also under construction. Twelve firemen suffered heat exhaustion, two of whom were sent to hospital,while two workers onsite were slightly building which comprises two towers. injured. — By Hanan Al-Saaoudn MONDAY, JULY 18, 2016 LOCAL KUWAIT: His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with Minister of Information and Minister of State Ali Al-Ghanem. —KUNA photos Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah. for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah. Crown Prince receives state officials KUWAIT: His Highness the Deputy Amir and Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem at Seif Palace yesterday. Hamad Al-Sabah, Deputy Prime Minister and Sabah, Minister of Information and Minister of for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Al- Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber His Highness also received acting Prime Minister Minister of Interior and Acting Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Abdullah Al-Sabah, and the Minister of State for Al-Sabah received National Assembly Speaker, and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al- Defense Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al- Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah, Minister of State Housing Affairs Yasser Abul. — KUNA Kuwait reiterates solidarity with Ankara KUWAIT: Acting Prime Minister and developments in Turkey, and the events Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled that followed afterwards, which His Al-Hamad Al-Sabah reiterated yesterday Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Kuwait’s stand in solidarity with the Turkish Al-Jaber Al-Sabah described, in his cable to Government, in aftermath of the futile bid President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as to bring it down.