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SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2015 RABI ALTHANI 12, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Shops, cafes ordered Min 11º Max 23º to close by midnight High Tide 11:31 & 21:53 Municipality, MoI seek to combat rising crime Low Tide 05:01 & 16:18 40 PAGES NO: 16420 150 FILS By Hanan Al-Saadoun KUWAIT: The municipality will enforce a Cabinet deci- sion mandating all stores, restaurants, cafes, billiard halls and similar facilities to close by midnight. Municipal Director Ahmed Al-Subaih said that the municipality and the interior ministry have agreed to acti- vate this decision in all areas - commercial, investment and residential - while shops in the industrial areas of Shuwaikh, Sharq, Ardiya, Sabhan and Fahaheel will have to close by 10:00 pm. Speaking to the press after Abdul Fattah Al-Ali a meeting with the Interior Ministry’s assistant undersec- retary for public security affairs Maj Gen Abdul Fattah Al-Ali, Subaih said that the closing time on weekends (Thursdays and Fridays) and on official holidays would be 1:00 am. “Exceptions will only be made upon official permis- sion from the interior min- istry,” he added. Ahmed Al-Subaih Subaih noted that Ali was fully convinced of the need for such measures to main- tain security in view of the growing number of crimes such as drug abuse, vehicle theft, shootings and others. Subaih added that the new timings would be circulated to all six governorates’ municipal offices so that they could be put into practice. News in brief Citizenship of 72 KUWAIT: Gulf University for Science and Technology students collect and pack Bahrainis stripped over 56 tons of clothing for charity yesterday, breaking a world record held by DUBAI: Bahrain said yesterday it had revoked the citi- Qatar. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat (More photos on Page 3) zenship of 72 people convicted of “harming the inter- ests of the kingdom” in unrest by the Shiite majority since 2011. The official BNA news agency said their nationality had been rescinded in a decree as part of GUST students break record for charity measures to “preserve security and stability and fight the dan- By Faten Omar tiatives. Boubyan Bank and ministry of youth staff and light students’ good deeds,” he said. ger of terrorist threats”. BNA students from other schools and universities also partici- “This is what prompted us to exploit our specialty to published a list of the 72 people KUWAIT: Gulf University for Science and Technology stu- pated in the campaign, which was organized under the serve the good, and I’m proud of the donators. It shows affected by the measure adopt- dents yesterday shattered a world record held by Qatar supervision of Guinness World Records to collect donat- that the people of Kuwait are humanitarian people and ed by the interior ministry and by collecting and packing over 56 tons of clothes for ed clothing and break the record currently registered by represent our humanitarian leader. I represent at this approved by the cabinet. “Proper charity. The event took place over 24 hours in GUST’s Qatar of 29 tons. The clothes will be distributed in Syria, moment all the Kuwaiti youth, and I would like to thank legal procedures will be taken by parking lot, starting at 5 pm on Friday and ending at 5 Lebanon, Yemen, Jordan, Palestine and Kuwait. everyone who participated in this campaign,” Saai added. the interior ministry to imple- pm yesterday. GUST’s Public Relations Club broke the Faisal Al-Saai, Head of the Public Relations Club, was in General director of administrative affairs at Boubyan ment this decision,” it added. Turki Al-Binali record in 5 minutes and 20 seconds, and there were still a tears. “I’m so happy that we did it, and to anyone who Bank Walid Khaled Al-Yaqout said the bank’s staff also This is the largest number of lot of clothes and other stuff that wasn’t packed up in says that the goal of this campaign was just to show off, I donated clothes, and the bank will promote its own cam- Bahrainis to be stripped of their nationality since a law time. invite them to see all these caring people who are still paign on social media to support the Kuwaiti youth and passed in 2013 on the punishment of those convicted The event was overseen by students who worked con- donating. The Public Relations Club represents the motivate the bank’s clients and others to donate for the of “terrorist” acts. The list includes Sunni and Shiite tinuously as part of supporting various humanitarian ini- media, and we should attract the media in order to high- benefit of the poor and needy in the Arab world. Bahrainis. Among those affected is Turki Al-Binali, a 30- year-old Sunni preacher who has emerged as one of the Islamic State group’s leading ideologues. Lavish Saudi Egypt bans Hamas armed wing Suicide bomber kills freebies will Aniza tribal leader Sisi says battle will be long, tough BAGHDAD: A suicide bomber killed a prominent buoy economy tribal leader and five other people in an attack CAIRO: An Egyptian court yesterday banned the which the authorities have also declared a terrorist southwest of Baghdad, police said yesterday. The bomber blew up a tanker truck rigged with explo- DUBAI: A lavish payout to public employees ordered by armed wing of Palestinian group Hamas and listed it as group and repressed thoroughly since the army ousted Saudi Arabia’s new King Salman will help to sustain the a terrorist organization, a ruling in keeping with a sys- Morsi in 2013. “We reject the Egyptian court’s decision sives outside the home of Sheikh Lorens Al-Hadhal kingdom’s consumer boom and reassure financial markets tematic crackdown on Islamists by President Abdel against Qassam Brigades. It is a political, dangerous in the Al-Nikhaib area of Anbar province on Friday that the government is not slashing expenditure in the Fattah Al-Sisi. Sisi said yesterday Egypt faces a tough, decision that serves only the Zionist occupation,” night, Major Alaa Al-Dulaimi said. A former member face of low oil prices. On Thursday, Salman ordered the prolonged campaign against militancy. “(It) will be diffi- Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri, referring to Israel’s of parliament, the sheikh was head of the powerful immediate payment of two months of bonus salary to all cult, strong, evil and will take a long time,” he said in control over Palestinian territories. Aniza tribe, which has members in neighboring state employees and pension to retired government work- comments broadcast on state television after meeting The ruling came days after Egypt was hit with some Kuwait and Saudi Arabia as well as in Iraq. The blast ers, in a string of decrees which also reorganized the eco- top military officers. of the bloodiest Islamist militant attacks on security also wounded 14 people, Dulaimi said. There was no nomic policy-making apparatus. Flanked by his top generals and occasionally raising forces in years. “The court ruled to ban the (Hamas) immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but The announcement did not give a monetary figure, but his voice in anger, Sisi said “we will not abandon the Qassam Brigades and to list it as a terrorist group,” said suicide bombings are a tactic almost exclusively Saudi Arabia’s 860 billion riyal ($229 billion) state budget Sinai to anyone”. He also repeated accusations that the Judge Mohamed Al-Sayid of the special Cairo court employed by Sunni extremists in Iraq, including plan for 2015 said salaries, wages and allowances would now-banned Muslim Brotherhood of deposed presi- which deals with urgent cases. The case was based on jihadists of the Islamic State group. IS spearheaded a comprise 50 percent of total spending. That implies the dent Mohamed Morsi is behind the violence, a claim allegations that the Qassam Brigades staged terrorist lighting offensive that overran much of the Sunni new payout, announced a week after Salman succeeded the group denies. Sisi said Egypt was confronting the attacks to support the Brotherhood, and carried out a Arab heartland north and west of Baghdad last his brother Abdullah as king, will be worth up to around 70 “strongest secret organization in the world”, a reference bombing and shooting operation which killed 33 secu- June. The country’s powerful tribes are key to the billion riyals - about 8 percent of the original budget, or 2.5 to the Brotherhood. rity personnel in the Sinai Peninsula in Oct of 2014. government’s efforts to retake and maintain control percent of last year’s gross domestic product. Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, Continued on Page 13 of areas currently held by the jihadists. 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