SUBSCRIPTION WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2016 SHAABAN 11, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Yemen talks on verge of Min 25º Max 42º collapse over differences High Tide 10:03 & 22:27 Govt threatens to quit peace negotiations, warns UN envoy Low Tide 03:44 & 16:29 40 PAGES NO: 16877 150 FILS KUWAIT: Yemen’s government threatened yesterday to quit peace talks with Iran-backed rebels, giving the UN envoy a “last chance” to make them comply with UN res- Wave of Baghdad bombings kills 77 olutions. “We have informed the UN special envoy to bring a document signed by the rebels in which they BAGHDAD: At least 77 people were killed and more recognize the basic references and UN Security Council than 140 wounded by three bombings in Baghdad resolutions,” Foreign Minister Abdulmalek Al-Mikhlafi, yesterday, extending the deadliest spate of attacks in who heads the government delegation, told a press the Iraqi capital so far this year and driving Shiite fight- conference. “If they sign and comply, we will go back to ers into the streets to defend some areas. Powerful the talks ... If they don’t comply, the talks will then have cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr blamed the government for no meaning... They become a failing to provide security and hundreds of militiamen waste of time,” Mikhlafi said. loyal to him deployed in Sadr City and five other main- He said the document should ly Shiite areas where the worst of the recent violence include a clear acknowledge- has been centered. ment by the rebels of UN Islamic State claimed a suicide bombing which killed Security Council Resolution 2216 41 people and wounded more than 70 in the northern and of the legitimacy of district of Al-Shaab as well as a car bomb in nearby Sadr President Abedrabbo Mansour City that left at least 30 dead and 57 wounded, police Hadi and his government. The and medical sources said. Another car blew up in Al- minister said his team will Rasheed, south of the capital, killing six and wounding remain in Kuwait City until the 21, the sources said. weekend and then take a deci- Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi ordered the arrest of sion, adding this was a “last the official in charge of Al-Shaab’s security, his office Al-Mikhlafi chance” for UN special envoy said in a statement, without giving a reason. Attacks claimed by Islamic State in and around Baghdad last Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed to salvage the talks. “The week killed more than 100 people, the highest death talks have made no progress” after almost four weeks of toll in the capital in so few days so far this year. Security negotiations with the Houthi militia and their allies, he had improved in recent years as sectarian tensions said. waned and the city’s perimeter was fortified. Islamic The foreign minister’s threat came hours after the State, the ultra-hardline militants who control parts of government delegation suspended its participation in northern and western Iraq, have not tried to take the the UN-brokered negotiations for the second time this capital but carry out increasingly regular suicide bomb- month. Mikhlafi said the rebels had repeatedly refused ings there, hitting Shiite areas and government targets. BAGHDAD: Security forces and citizens inspect the scene after a suicide car bomb hit a crowded outdoor to discuss key issues and insisted on power-sharing first, Continued on Page 13 market in Baghdad’s eastern neighborhood of Sadr City yesterday. — AP in violation of UN resolutions. Continued on Page 13 Outdoor work ban to start June 1 MP rejects plans to give bidoons Comoros citizenship By B Izzak Meanwhile, MP Mohammad Tana yester- day criticized a statement by the external ‘Bachelor ban’ KUWAIT: The Manpower Authority said affairs minister of Comoros, who said his yesterday that a decision banning laborers country is prepared to consider taking in tests relations from working under the sun between 11 thousands of stateless people locally am and 4 pm will commence from the known as bedoons. Tana said bedoons are beginning of next month. The decision was brothers of Kuwaitis and part of Kuwait’s with workers issued several years ago to spare laborers social fabric, adding that they are not for AL KHOR, Qatar: As Nami Hader, a 30-year-old gar- from having to work under direct sunlight sale. He said that no one can force the dener from Nepal, approached the entrance to a park in extremely high temperatures for three bedoons out of their “second country” outside Qatar’s second city Al Khor one day last month, months between June and the end of Kuwait, unless it is done with their approval, a security guard blocked his way. “No bachelors,” the August, acting director of the authority and said calls to evict bedoons from Kuwait guard said. The newly-renovated park - its boating lake, Ahmad Al-Mousa said in a statement. He should cease. miniature golf course and neatly manicured lawns - said that authority’s inspection teams will The Comorian external affairs minister was off-limits to men unaccompanied by women or monitor companies and will issue penalties Abdulkarim Mohamed was quoted as say- children, the guard said. “It’s for families only.” for those who make their employees work ing that his country is ready to consider tak- LONDON: Winner of the 2016 Man Booker International prize for fiction Han So-called “bachelor bans” that bar lone men from during these hours. ing thousands of bedoons if requested offi- Kang poses for the media with her book ‘The Vegetarian’ following the award entering malls and parks on certain days of the week Kuwait is known for its harsh climatic cially by the Kuwaiti government. In late ceremony on Monday. — AP and from living in residential neighborhoods are a conditions during the summer months, 2014, assistant undersecretary for nationali- common, often loosely-enforced, practice in the con- when temperatures in the shadow hit more ty and passports affairs Maj Gen Mazen Al- servative Gulf. Local authorities say the measure, than 50 degrees Celsius, especially in these Jarrah Al-Sabah revealed that a plan to First South Korean wins enforced by businesses and municipalities, allows fami- three months. The temperature under grant bedoons Comorian economic citizen- lies and women who live in crowded and male-domi- direct sunlight is much higher. Mousa said ship was under consideration. nated cities space to enjoy public facilities. that violations of the ban were very few in Rapporteur of the Assembly priorities Man Booker Int’l Prize But a recent ramping up of family-only rules in the past year, an indication that companies committee MP Ahmad Lari said yesterday LONDON: South Korean author Han ating” by chairman of the judges Boyd Qatar is excluding the country’s vast South Asian work- were complying with the ban. Kuwait is the committee will discuss on Sunday with Kang won the Man Booker International Tonkin, the tale traces the story of an force, mostly young men who live as temporary resi- home to over two million expatriate work- Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and Prize on Monday, sharing the £50,000 ordinary woman’s rejection of conven- dents away from their families, and cutting them off ers, a majority of them unskilled menial Planning Hind Al-Subaih a report about ($72,000) award with her translator - who tion from three different perspectives. It Continued on Page 13 laborers who work under harsh conditions. Continued on Page 13 had only taught herself Korean three was picked unanimously by the panel of years before. Han Kang, 45, an author five judges, beating six other novels and creative writing teacher who is including “The Story of the Lost Child” by already successful in South Korea, is like- Italian sensation Elena Ferrante and “A ly to enjoy a spike in international sales Strangeness in My Mind” by Turkey’s following the win for “The Vegetarian”. Orhan Pamuk. “This is a book of tender- “I’m so honored” she told AFP. “The work ness and terror,” Boyd told guests at the features a protagonist who wants to award ceremony dinner at the Victoria become a plant, and to leave the human and Albert Museum in London. race to save herself from the dark side of Han Kang’s first book to appear in human nature. Through this extreme nar- English, “The Vegetarian” was described rative I felt I could question... the difficult by newspaper The Guardian as a shock to question of being human.” the system. “Across the three parts, we She was the first South Korean to win are pressed up against a society’s most SUPPLEMENTSUPPLEMENT INSIDEINSIDE the prize. Described as “lyrical and lacer- Continued on Page 13 WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2016 LOCAL Al-Shagaya renewable energy project ‘a go’ KISR team meets Amir, Crown Prince KUWAIT: Director General of Kuwait (MENAREC 6) which was held in renewable sources by the year 2030, Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) Kuwait in April. She also thanked His he said. Dr Omar, Hajraf and other Dr Sameera Al-Sayyed Omar indicated Highness the Crown Prince for his KISR teammates explained in their yesterday that the ambitious Al- interest in the Project. meeting with His Highness the Amir Shagaya Project for renewable energy Al-Shagaya Project is part of the the upcoming second stage in the Al- has begun building a solar power sta- Innovative Renewable Energy Shagaya Project which will involve tion and a wind power station to be Research program at KISR, which, offering the private sector the oppor- ostensibly completed toward the when completed, will be comprised of tunity to invest in a 500 megawatt year’s end.