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SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, MAY 16, 2017 SHABAN 20, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Jarallah: Stable Macron appoints Government Federer to skip environment for center-right PM scientist from Roland Garros women crucial to widen appeal, DC wins to focus on for development2 meets Merkel7 Miss38 USA title grass/hardcourt20 Security key to development, Min 28º Arab Spring an ‘illusion’: PM Max 41º High Tide 08:59 & 21:08 Low Tide Sheikh Jaber talks one-vote system, austerity, youth, conscription, past posts 08:53 & 20:46 40 PAGES NO: 17229 150 FILS KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Top court upholds Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah Amir honors talented youth yesterday said security is a key challenge, 5-year jail term and if it is restored, will lead to stability and consequently economic develop- against 3 royals ment. He was speaking in an interview with the National Assembly’s TV station KUWAIT: The court of cassation yesterday upheld late yesterday. a five-year jail term against three members of the Sheikh Jaber stressed that the waves ruling family, including the former secret service of the so-called Arab Spring were an “illu- chief, for insulting the judiciary. Dubbed the “Al- sion”, as HH the Amir said during the Fintas group”, those convicted include Sheikh Arab Summit in Jordan, adding that “our Athbi Al-Fahd Al-Sabah, former head of the secret Arab world was in chaos, which affected service police, according to an official court ver- nations”. The so-called Arab Spring creat- dict. He was one of three royals convicted, along ed several crises in many countries, in with two other Kuwaiti citizens, of publishing addition to the displacement of millions of people. Hundreds of thousands were posts on social media accusing judges of accept- killed and many others were wounded. ing bribes. Terrorism also spread intensively in the HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber The five men were sentenced last year. An aftermath of the revolutions that broke Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah appeals court upheld the verdict in January. The out in the Arab countries. represent five constituencies, ie 10 MPs supreme court also upheld a one-year jail term for The premier stressed that HH the from each district. a sixth defendant and acquitted six others, accord- Amir’s vision of the “one person, one Sheikh Jaber said dealing with eco- ing to the verdict. Charges included posting fake vote” system aims to provide equal nomic hardships should not be at the footage on Twitter and WhatsApp. A thirteenth opportunity to all the country’s seg- expense of citizens and is a core respon- defendant, who allegedly posted online the ments running for parliament. He noted sibility of the nation. In the interview, he that the system helped people from footage, was sentenced to 10 years in jail by a low- KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is present- said that wasted electricity and water is a er court. He did not appeal the challenge and has many tribes and categories be elected as serious issue and that “sacrifices should ed a memento during the Kuwait Capital of Arab Youth 2017 ceremony yes- MPs in the parliament. The National since left Kuwait, according to the verdict. —AFP terday. — KUNA (See Page 3) be made to put an end to the squander”. Assembly consists of 50 members who Continued on Page 13 Saudi king hails Trump summit RIYADH: Saudi King Salman yesterday Niger and Indonesia, which has the world’s expressed hope a “historic” summit to be largest Muslim population. Saudi Arabia’s Putin blames US as held Sunday between Arab and Muslim regional rival Iran is not invited. Salman nations and US President Donald Trump told a cabinet meeting in the Red Sea city cyber attacks ease will enhance ties and promote tolerance. of Jeddah that the meeting “comes in light The summit will be one of three forums of the challenges and sensitive situations LONDON: The world’s biggest ransomware attack held during a visit by Trump, who is mak- that the world is going through”. leveled off yesterday after wreaking havoc in 150 ing Saudi Arabia his first overseas stop According to the official Saudi Press countries, but Russian President Vladimir Putin since assuming office in January. Trump Agency, “he expressed his hope that this called it payback for the US intelligence services. has frequently been accused of fuelling historic summit will establish a new part- Microsoft’s president and chief legal officer Brad Islamophobia but aides described his nership in the face of extremism and ter- Smith has said the US National Security Agency decision to visit Saudi Arabia as an effort rorism and spreading the values of toler- developed the original code used in the attack, to reset relations with the Muslim world. ance and coexistence” while enhancing which later leaked in a document dump. Along with the six-nation Gulf security. Trump is to also hold a bilateral “Microsoft’s leadership stated this directly, they Cooperation Council (GCC), at least 18 oth- summit with Saudi Arabia and talks with said the source of the virus was the special services er Muslim nations have been invited to the the GCC on Saturday. of the United States,” Putin said on the sidelines of a summit, including Turkey, Azerbaijan, Continued on Page 13 summit in Beijing. “A genie let out of a bottle of this KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti man looks at fishing vessels docked next to the central fish kind, especially created by secret services, can then market in Kuwait City in front of the new building of the Central Bank of Kuwait cause damage to its authors and creators.” Russia (right) yesterday.— Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat has recently been accused of cyber meddling in sev- eral countries, but Putin said they had nothing to do with the attack, which hit hundreds of thousands of computers. “A protection system... needs to be MP calls to reduce expat worked out,” he said. Smith earlier said he hoped the attacks would students in govt schools serve as “a wake-up call”, warning governments against stockpiling code that could be misused if it By B Izzak The lawmaker said there are 71,000 fell into the wrong hands. And vulnerabilities should teachers in the country including 46,000 be pointed out to manufacturers, he said. “An equiv- KUWAIT: Islamist opposition MP Osama Kuwaiti teachers, which means that there alent scenario with conventional weapons would be Al-Shaheen criticized the government’s are 25,000 Arab and foreign teachers, the US military having some of its Tomahawk mis- policy aimed at dealing with the demo- adding that some of these jobs should siles stolen,” Smith wrote. graphic imbalance and called for reduc- be given to Kuwaitis. According to edu- There had been concern that yesterday’s start of ing the number of expatriate students in cation ministry statistics, about 51,400 the working week would see an upsurge in attacks public schools as part of the solution. He expatriate students are studying in pub- but the number of incidents reported leveled off. said reforming the demographic imbal- lic schools, with each student costing the The cross-border police agency Europol said the sit- ance in the country requires a strong will government nearly KD 5,000. This uation was “stable”, after attacks that struck comput- by the government, but this will is not amounts to KD 253.6 million being spent ers in British hospital wards, European car factories there. Shaheen said based on official sta- on the education of non-Kuwaitis. and Russian banks. “The number of victims appears tistics in April, the number of expatriates Expat students are in general not not to have gone up,” a senior spokesman for reached 3.054 million, or 69.5 percent of allowed to join public schools, but the Europol, Jan Op Gen Oorth, told AFP. WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Crown Prince the population. Kuwaitis number about ministry has exempted several Continued on Page 13 Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan of Abu Dhabi during a meeting in the Oval 1.35 million, just 30.5 percent. Continued on Page 13 Office of the White House yesterday. — AFP Israeli navy kills Gaza fisherman Controversial new US envoy arrives in Israel GAZA: An Israeli patrol boat fired at Palestinian Bakr, 25. His body was transferred to a morgue called for the blockade to be lifted, citing fishermen accused of breaching the blockade in Gaza ahead of his funeral later yesterday. deteriorating humanitarian conditions, but off the northern Gaza Strip yestweday, leaving Ayash told AFP his union was suspending fish- Israel says it is needed to keep Hamas, which one of them dead, officials said. Israel and ing until the end of Thursday. runs the strip, from importing weapons or Palestinian militants in Gaza have fought three An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed materials used to make them. The size of the wars since 2008 and the territory has been the shooting but did not speak of additional fishing zone has varied over the years, having under an Israeli blockade for 10 years. Fishing arrests. “A vessel deviated from the designated been set at 20 nautical miles by the Oslo off the northern part of the strip, adjacent to fishing zone in the northern Gaza Strip,” the accords of the 1990s before being reduced by Israel, is limited to six nautical miles offshore spokeswoman told AFP. “Naval forces in the Israeli authorities. About 4,000 fishermen and the Israeli navy regularly fires at area called upon the vessel to halt and fired work off the coastal strip, more than half of Palestinians at the zone’s outer limit.