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SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 2017 JAMADA ALTHANI 21, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net The history of KIB approves Afghan musical Cahill from zero Awazem tribe distribution of revolution; rap to hero; Chelsea in Arab3 world 10%23 dividends and37 stilettos down18 Stoke 2-1 Attacker shot dead Min 17º Max 24º High Tide at Paris Orly airport 04:10 & 15:59 Man tries to grab soldier’s weapon, triggering a major security alert Low Tide 09:46 & 22:40 40 PAGES NO: 17172 150 FILS PARIS: Troops at Paris’ Orly airport yesterday shot dead a man who tried to grab a female soldier’s weapon, triggering a major security alert that shut down the airport, leaving thousands stranded. The incident comes as France remains on high alert following a series of jihadist attacks that have claimed over 230 lives since January 2015. Prosecutors said they had opened an anti-terror investiga- tion. France goes to the polls on April 23 in the first round of a two-stage presidential election in which security is one of the main issues on voters’ minds. The shooting took place on the second day of an official visit to Paris by Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate. Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux said the man who was killed was “known to the police and intelligence serv- ices”. He said the suspect was also linked to an attack on police just north of Paris earlier yesterday in which an offi- cer was slightly wounded. At the airport, the man knocked the soldier to the ground and grabbed at her rifle, a senior military source said. The two other soldiers with her then opened fire, killing him, the source said. No-one else was injured in the incident. According to an eyewitness who spoke to AFP, the man had at one point held the female soldier hostage. “The man took a soldier hostage, he was holding her by the neck and he was threatening two other soldiers with the woman’s rifle,” said a man travelling to the Dominican Republic who gave his name only as Dominique. “I heard cries and I saw the soldiers who were holding a person at gunpoint.” Another witness told BFM TV he saw the man holding the soldier’s rifle and threatening her. “The soldiers were trying to reason with him,” he said, adding that he heard two shots. The incident took place at around 8:30 am in the Orly-Sud terminal. Located just south of Paris, Orly is the city’s second international airport. Addressing reporters at the airport, Le Roux said the man had tried “but not succeeded” in his bid to grab the rifle of the female soldier who was on patrol with two male PARIS: Travelers walk on the highway to the Orly airport, south of Paris yesterday. (inset) A picture taken of a television screen shows a man lying on the ground of a ter- colleagues. minal building at Paris’ Orly airport after he was shot by French security forces for taking a weapon from a soldier. — AP Continued on Page 13 News in brief Pope Francis to visit Egypt on April 28-29 VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis will visit Cairo on April 28-29 at the invitation of the Egyptian president and the grand imam of the capital’s famed Al-Azhar mosque, the Vatican said yesterday. The pontiff had hosted the grand imam, Ahmed Al-Tayeb, at the Vatican last May, in a landmark meeting with one of Islam’s top clerics. That encounter was the culmination of a steady improvement in a relationship that had broken down because of a series of spats under WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump and Germanyís Chancellor Angela Francis’s predecessor Benedict XVI. Merkel shake hands after a press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. — AFP Web-based counseling lowers blood pressure WASHINGTON: People who received regular lifestyle Germany owing counseling online were able to lower their blood pressure as much as a medication would, researchers said KFAR HATTA: Young supporters of Lebanon’s militant Shiite Hezbollah movement yesterday. Their study involved 264 people with high carry portraits of the founder of Iran’s Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah blood pressure and an average age of 58. The subjects’ Khomeini (left) and Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as they march in NATO ‘vast sums’ average blood pressure began at around 140/90 mmHg, the southern Lebanese town of Kfar Hatta yesterday during the funeral of a meaning they had what is clinically known as stage 1 Hezbollah fighter who died in combat in Syria. — AFP hypertension. Most were already taking at least one drug Trump unleashes a diatribe to cut their blood pressure. Patients enrolled through the website of the Heart and Stroke Association of Hezbollah blasts ‘weak’ UN WASHINGTON: US President Donald GREAT meeting with German Chancellor Canada and were randomly assigned to either an e- Trump unleashed a diatribe against Angela Merkel.” counseling group or a control group. Germany yesterday, saying Berlin owes That appeared to be far from the case BEIRUT: The leader of the Lebanese Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised NATO “vast sums of money” and must pay on Friday, when the veteran German Hezbollah movement denounced the speech yesterday that the incident the United States more for security. His lat- leader arrived hoping to reverse a chill in Israel plane hits Gaza United Nations yesterday as weak after served as a reminder of the “truth of this est tweetstorm comes a day after he met relations after Trump criticized her during the withdrawal of a report accusing Israel organization, that it’s weak ... and it suc- German Chancellor Angela Merkel in his campaign last year, saying her decision after a rocket attack of imposing an “apartheid regime” on cumbs to the will of the United States Washington, where the two leaders to allow refugees into Germany was a “cat- JERUSALEM: A rocket fired by Palestinians in the Gaza Palestinians. A senior UN official resigned and Israel”. showed little common ground over a host astrophic mistake” and suggesting she was Strip slammed into southern Israel yesterday, prompt- on Friday after the secretary general The UN is “incapable of taking a stand” of thorny issues, including NATO and “ruining Germany.” During a joint news ing retaliatory Israeli air and tank strikes, sources on asked her to remove the report, pub- and the debacle over the report proved it defense spending. conference, Trump accused Germany of both sides said. The Israeli army said the rocket hit an lished by the United Nation’s Economic cannot be counted on “to defend human “Germany owes vast sums of money to unfair trade practices and ripped into open area. “No casualties have been reported,” it said. “In and Social Commission for Western Asia rights in our region,” he said. ESCWA, NATO & the United States must be paid Washington’s NATO allies, demanding they response, a tank and aircraft targeted two Hamas posi- (ESCWA), from the internet. which comprises 18 Arab states, pub- more for the powerful, and very expensive, pay back “vast sums of money from past tions in the northern Gaza Strip.” Palestinian security UN Under-Secretary General and lished the report on Wednesday and said defense it provides to Germany!” Trump years.” Merkel said Germany had commit- officials said an Israeli aircraft attacked a military train- ESCWA Executive Secretary Rima Khalaf it was the first time a UN body had clear- tweeted yesterday morning. He prefaced ted to increasing its military spending to ing facility of Gaza’s Hamas rulers, north of Gaza City said she was leaving after “powerful ly charged that Israel “has established an his statement by lashing out at the news two percent of GDP, a target NATO mem- and the tank fire targeted a Hamas observation post member states” had pressured the world apartheid regime that dominates the media. “Despite what you have heard from ber states formally agreed in 2014 to reach adjacent to Beit Lahiya in the north of the territory, body and its chief with “vicious attacks Palestinian people as a whole”. the FAKE NEWS,” he tweeted, “I had a within 10 years. — AFP (See Page 7) close to the border with Israel. and threats”. Hezbollah leader Sayyed Continued on Page 13 20 LOCAL SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 2017 In Brief Relief aid in Mosul Oil price down Movie screening IRBIL: Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) has KUWAIT: The price of Kuwaiti oil went down KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of Kuwait delivered food and medical aid to internally dis- by 40 cents to $48.40 per barrel Friday after (CBK) recently invited its youth @Tijari placed persons (IDPs) who have fled violence in being at $48.80 pb the day before, Kuwait account holders to an exclusive screening of Petroleum Corporation (KPC) said yesterday. Mosul and are now staying at Irbil’s southwestern the newly released ‘Power Rangers’ movie. Globally, the price of oil was stable amid antic- Jamkur refugee camp. KRCS aid workers distributed The screening takes place at 6:00 pm on ipation over efficiency of the OPEC and other Thursday, March 23, 2017 at Al-Hamra yesterday 3,000 food and medical parcels and major world producers’ decision to reduce oil Tower’s Grand Cinema. Each account holder 15,000 loaves of bread to over 11,000 IDPs at production. The increase of both US shale oil Jamkur refugee camp in Irbil, KRCS Emergency production and American oil reserves also had is eligible to get two free tickets to watch the Chief Fahad Al-Me’raj said.

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