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RABI ALAWWAL 17,1440 AH SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2018 25º 28 Pages Max 150 Fils Established 1961 Min 17º ISSUE NO: 17690 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Benevolent refrigerator bright Value of tendered projects To reclaim Baghdad, Iraqi India’s Kom wins record 5 humanitarian image of Kuwait 12 in Kuwait hits $3.6bn: NBK 19 artists grapple with ghosts 28 sixth world boxing gold French police fire tear gas at protesters on Champs-Elysees Thousands of ‘yellow vests’ take to streets • Kuwait urges citizens to avoid demos PARIS: Police fired tear gas and water cannon yester- government said 81,000 ‘yellow vests’ demonstrated day in central Paris against “yellow vest” protesters yesterday across France by mid-afternoon, compared demanding French President Emmanuel Macron roll with about 124,000 at the same time the previous back tax hikes on motor fuel. Some 3,000 police were Saturday. Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said deployed in the capital as demonstrators who have 8,000 took to the streets in Paris, with about 5,000 on blocked French roads over the past week wearing their the Champs-Elysees. He blamed the violence in the now signature high-visibility jackets caused another day iconic boulevard on the far-right and Marine Le Pen, of disruption after calls to bring Paris to a standstill. leader of the National Rally (formerly the National AFP reporters said several thousand had gathered by Front) party. early yesterday on the famous Champs-Elysees where The police were facing seditious groups “who they clashed with police trying to prevent them moving notably had responded to the call of Marine Le Pen and down to the Place de la Concorde near the Louvre want to attack the country’s institutions just as they museum. The Kuwaiti Embassy in Paris warned, in a want to attack (government) lawmakers,” the minister statement yesterday, Kuwaiti citizens to avoid crowded said. Le Pen rejected the remarks, saying she had never areas near labor demonstration sites. In the statement, called for violence and claiming the government was the embassy urged Kuwaitis to exercise caution and trying to make her the scapegoat. Police said eight peo- contact it in case of an emergency. ple had so far been arrested for throwing projectiles. Police said the protestors had tried to break The demonstrations were sparked by an increase in through a cordon several times but had been prevent- diesel tax, justified as an anti-pollution levy by the gov- ed from doing so, with tear gas used more than once. ernment but have morphed into a broad opposition “We have just demonstrated peacefully, and we were front to centrist Macron. Protesters had converged early teargassed,” said Christophe, 49, who traveled from yesterday on the Place de l’Etoile at the top of the the Isere region in eastern France with his wife to Champs-Elysee avenue, shouting “Macron resign”. protest in the capital. “We see how we are welcomed Police had cordoned off a zone that included the Place in Paris.” Police said yesterday’s incidents were linked de la Concorde, the National Assembly and a section of to the “presence of members of the far-right who the Champs-Elysees. “In this zone, no demonstration, no harassed the security forces”. gathering, no march linked to the ‘yellow vests’ can take PARIS: A truck burns during a protest by ‘yellow vests’ against rising oil prices and living costs near the Arc of Nearly 300,000 people blocked motorways, round- place,” said Paris police chief Michel Delpuech. Triumph on the Champs-Elysees yesterday. — AFP abouts, businesses, and fuel depots last Saturday. The Continued on Page 24 mentary vote. News in brief Bahrain holds More than 350,000 Bahrainis were Cabbie’s killer arrested eligible to vote in yesterday’s poll, according to justice minister Sheikh parliamentary, Khalid bin Ali Al-Khalifa, adding that KUWAIT: The interior ministry’s relations and secu- there were 54 polling stations across the rity information department said Hawally detectives country. Yesterday, the interior ministry identified and arrested the suspect in the murder of a municipal polls warned voters to “dismiss rumors that roaming taxi driver in Jabriya. Detectives had received affect the electoral process”, accusing a call last week about a person stabbed in an open DUBAI: Bahrain held a parliamentary Iran of interference in the process. It area in Jabriya. Eyewitnesses said a person stabbed election yesterday amid boycott calls urged citizens to depend on “reliable the victim several times, then got into a taxi and fled. from dissolved opposition groups which sources” after people reportedly Detectives later located the taxi in Rawda with blood have been banned from taking part. The received text messages warning them inside and outside the car, which the suspect had country’s two main opposition groups, not to head to polling stations as they attempted to burn but failed. Investigations led to the Shiite Al-Wefaq and secular Waad, had been stricken from the electoral roll. identifying the suspect, a Kuwaiti, who was found in a were barred from fielding candidates. The ministry said Tehran was behind Jabriya flat. He said a dispute with the driver led him King Hamad in September urged voters around 40,000 texts sent to Bahraini to stab the victim before escaping. He was charged to take part in the vote, in which offi- citizens that “aimed to negatively affect” with murder. — Hanan Al-Saadoun cials say 293 people - including 41 women - are running for parliament. A the elections, adding that other MUHARRAQ, Bahrain: Bahraini voters cast their ballots at a polling station yesterday. — AFP municipal poll coincides with the parlia- Continued on Page 24 5,000 Filipinos arrive monthly KUWAIT: Head of the domestic labor offices union public order”. Khaled Al-Dakhnan said over 5,000 workers from the Clashes follow The arrests came ahead of a sched- Philippines enter Kuwait monthly and denied any uled party rally today in Islamabad, but delays by the Kuwaiti Embassy in Manila. Dakhnan detention of Punjab information minister Fayyaz ul expressed gratitude for the efforts exerted by the Hassan Chohan said TLP supporters ambassador and the embassy staff to complete pro- would be banned from gathering in the cedures within 24 hours after receiving passports. Pakistani cleric neighboring province. “We are detaining Dakhnan said along with the union’s secretary Ali supporters of TLP across the province Shammouh and board member Khaled Al-Qallaf, he ISLAMABAD: Pakistan authorities to avoid any backlash after the arrest of had visited the embassy and found around 400 pass- launched a crackdown yesterday against their leaders,” said Chohan. “Police has ports are processed daily, including those of domestic hundreds of supporters of a hardline been deployed in all major cities of the helpers and other workers and visitors. He added that cleric whose party recently paralyzed province to deal with any untoward inci- the embassy receives 160 passports weekly from each the country with violent protests over dent. There is a complete ban on all type labor office. — A Saleh the acquittal of a Christian woman of political gatherings in the province.” accused of blasphemy. Hours after fire- The country’s information minister brand cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi was Fawad Chaudhry said the detention of Seventh Ring Road reopens himself arrested late Friday, police said Rizvi “has to do nothing with (the) Asia over 300 Tehreek-Labaik Pakistan Bibi case,” referring to a Christian KUWAIT: The interior ministry announced yester- KARACHI: A Pakistani policeman fires teargas towards protestors early yesterday during (TLP) party supporters were detained in woman who was on death row for eight clashes after the arrest of hardline cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi. — AFP day the reopening of the Seventh Ring Road, which Punjab province in efforts to “maintain Continued on Page 24 was closed due to recent rainfall that swamped some roads and formed puddles at various public locations. The ministry said in a statement that traffic has been the burial site of nobles and senior offi- restored on the main road in both directions - from cials close to the pharaohs. Dhahr to Jahra. Competent authorities are working Egypt unveils Among the finds in the tomb are sar- relentlessly to remove rainwater puddles and facilitate cophagi, statues and some 1,000 funer- traffic throughout the country. Kuwait recently wit- ancient tomb ary figurines called “Ushabtis” made of nessed heavy rains, unprecedented in the country wood, faience and clay. The tomb since 50 years. — KUNA and sarcophagi dates back to the Middle Kingdom, which spanned the 11th and 12th dynas- Kuwaiti student killed in US LUXOR: Egypt yesterday unveiled an ties, and belonged to “Thaw-Irkhet-If”, ancient tomb, sarcophagi and funerary mummification supervisor at the KUWAIT: Education Minister Hamed Al-Azmi Friday artifacts discovered in the Theban Temple of Mut in Karnak, according to expressed his deep sadness over a deadly traffic acci- necropolis of Al-Assasif in the southern the ministry. dent in California in which student Abdulrazzaq Fuad city of Luxor. In a ceremony in front of Separately, archeologists from the Al-Khamis was killed and Abdulaziz Al-Said, Abdulaziz the temple of Queen Hatshepsut, French Institute of Eastern Archeology Al-Romaih and Youssef Al-Bader were injured. Azmi Antiquities Minister Khaled Al-Anani (IFAO) and the University of Strasbourg sent heartfelt condolences to the student’s family, pray- announced that French and Egyptian have discovered two sarcophagi dating ing to Allah to bless his soul and bring solace to his fam- archaeologists had discovered “a new back to the 18th dynasty, Anani told a ily. National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem tomb..