MOHARRAM 19, 1441 AH WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2019 28 Pages Max 47º Min 26º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17935 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Jabri: New broadcasting studio Taleban kill 48 in bloody 3 one of the largest in the Mideast 6 day ahead of Afghan polls Acting defense minister calls on armed forces to be on high alert Iran rules out US talks after Saudi attacks • 3m bpd to remain offline for a month: S&P KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Deputy Prime He stressed in this context on the Minister, Foreign Minister and Acting need for caution and readiness to face Defense Minister Sheikh Sabah Al- any events that lead to destabilization of Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah received security and stability in the country and yesterday in the presence of Deputy the region, calling on the commanders of Foreign Minister Ambassador Khaled Al- the armed forces to intensify efforts to Jarallah a number of ranking officers of defend the country from any potential the Kuwaiti armed forces headed by dangers. Khodr and chiefs of the vital Army Chief of Staff Lt Gen Mohammed military sectors in the Kuwaiti army gave Al-Khodr and Deputy Chief of Staff of a detailed explanation of the recent the Army General Sheikh Abdullah events and their repercussions on Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, in addition to a Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled started the comprehensive presentation on how to meeting by conveying confidence of the deal with various possible scenarios, supreme political leadership in the reviewing efforts of the army sectors on armed forces. He praised the armed land, at sea and in the air. forces’ efforts in preserving the security During the meeting, they reviewed of the country, namely all vital installa- aspects of cooperation and coordination tions. He also reviewed the current between the foreign and defense min- regional situation and developments. He istries in monitoring and following up all reiterated Kuwait’s condemnation of the potential threats to security of Kuwait attack on oil installations in Abqaiq and and the region, in accordance with the Khurais in Saudi Arabia, voicing Kuwait’s directives of HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah solidarity with Saudi Arabia and the sta- Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and Crown KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and Acting Defense Minister Sheikh Sabah Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah meets a number of bility and safety of its people. Continued on Page 24 ranking officers of the Kuwaiti armed forces headed by Army Chief of Staff Lt Gen Mohammed Al-Khodr yesterday. — KUNA and for breathing air. Hashem polls scheduled for late next year. News in brief Hashem receives had also threatened to grill On Sunday, social media activists Minister Of Social Affairs and strongly criticized her on Twitter Qatar residency scheme for investors Labor Saad Al-Kharraz if coop- for being racist, while others death threat over erative societies continue backed her. DOHA: Qatar announced Monday it will grant resi- recruiting expats from a certain Meanwhile, MP Riyadh Al- dency to foreign investors for the first time, state anti-expat tirade Arab state, describing the matter Adasani warned the government media reported, the latest in a series of measures as an “unusual invasion”. of a “flurry” of grillings against designed to diversify the economy. Foreigners By B Izzak months ago when she made simi- The lawmaker has repeatedly ministers and the prime minister investing an unspecified level of “non-Qatari capi- lar statements to tax some 3.3 and openly called for sharply if the government does not deal Safa Al-Hashem tal” in the economy will be eligible for renewable KUWAIT: MP Safa Al-Hashem million expatriates in the country. reducing the number of foreign- effectively with key security and five-year residency permits, the state-run Qatar said yesterday that she received The lawmaker said the threat ers in the country, accusing them economic issues. He said that the women has been cut without News Agency reported. Real estate developers a threat to her life after calling on was sent through email and she of competing with native government’s method of calculat- justification. Opposition MP active in Qatar’s property market will also be eligi- the government to impose filed a complaint with the interior Kuwaitis for various public serv- ing subsidies for services and Shuaib Al-Muwaizri demanded ble for the scheme, under the new law. — AFP charges on expatriates for ministry, asking the cybercrime ices including medical treatment commodities is incorrect and yesterday that the defense and everything they do, including unit to identify the culprit. at public hospitals. Many social exaggerated and demanded a interior ministers should fully taxing the air they breathe in the Hashem, the only female member media activists however accused rational way of doing it. explain to the public true facts Blast in lab holding smallpox country. The lawmaker told the in the 50-seat National her of making such statements MP Al-Humaidi Al-Subaei about the drone that flew over electronic edition of Al-Rai Assembly, has frequently issued only to gain popularity among a also threatened to grill Kharraz HH the Amir’s residence. The MOSCOW: Russia has said there is no threat of newspaper that it was the sec- controversial statements highly certain section of Kuwaitis and for suspending social aid to lawmaker questioned if the drone contamination after an explosion and fire at a ond time she received death critical of expatriates, calling to to boost her chances of re-elec- needy Kuwaiti women, adding was a threat message from out- Soviet-era biological weapons facility in Siberia threats - the first was several tax them for walking on roads tion in the forthcoming general that so far, aid to 3,000 Kuwaiti side or from within the country. that stocked samples of the Ebola and smallpox viruses. The blast happened Monday at “Vector”, a state-run virus and biotechnology research center Tunisia’s political establishment, in place that is one of only two locations in the world to Prof, prisoner since the fall of dictator Zine El Abidine hold the smallpox virus. The Russian health watch- Ben Ali eight years ago after the mass dog Rospotrebnadzor said a fire broke out when a protests that sparked the Arab Spring gas cylinder exploded, injuring one worker at the to face off in revolts. The Islamist-inspired Ennahdha facility. Glass was broken but the structure of the party, a main force in parliament, came building remained intact and there were no biohaz- Tunisia runoff third with almost 12.9 percent of the vote ardous materials in the room where the explosion for its first-ever presidential candidate happened, the watchdog said. — AFP TUNIS: Official results in Tunisia’s presi- Abdelfattah Mourou. dential election confirmed yesterday a Shortly before the official results were duel in the second round of voting announced, Ennahdha congratulated the between law professor Kais Saied and two winners, implicitly dispelling rumors Ecuadorians’ online data leaked imprisoned media mogul Nabil Karoui. that Karoui would be disqualified over Saied led the first round with 18.4 percent alleged violations during his campaign. QUITO: Almost the entire population of Ecuador of the vote, and is set to challenge Karoui Any such disqualification would have had their personal data leaked online in a major in polls next month after he earned 15.6 seen Mourou qualify for the final runoff. security breach, officials and security experts said percent, according to the electoral com- ISIE has said it is investigating alleged Monday. Data on an estimated 20 million people, mission (ISIE). Sunday’s election was the electoral violations, including campaign- including almost seven million minors as well as country’s second free vote for head of ing on behalf of Karoui by Nessma TV, TUNIS: The official results of Tunisia’s presidential election are projected on a deceased citizens, was exposed by the breach. The state since the its 2011 uprising. founded by the media mogul. screen during a press conference held by the Independent Higher Authority for data was hosted on an unsecured server run by an The result is a major upset for Continued on Page 24 Elections yesterday. — AFP Ecuadoran marketing and analytics firm. Ecuadoran authorities said the data was allegedly from a server based in the US. The security com- pany vpnMentor uncovered the breach on the server run by the firm Novaestrat, which included Spicy salsa: citizens’ full names, dates and places of birth, edu- Woman crosses cation levels, phone numbers and national identity Spicer makes card numbers.— AFP Channel 4 times dance debut Mountain skier dies cutting wood in record swim WASHINGTON: He may be an old LJUBLJANA: A Slovenian who was the first person hand in Washington’s corridors of power LONDON: An American breast cancer to ski down Everest from the summit in 2000 has but when it comes to ballroom dancing survivor yesterday became the first per- died felling a tree, a news agency reported yester- former White House press secretary son to swim across the English Channel day. Davo Karnicar, 56, died in the accident in his Sean Spicer looks a little, well, green. four times non-stop in a 54-hour feat of mountainous home region of Jezersko in northern The political communications specialist endurance. Sarah Thomas, 37, an open US swimmer Sarah Thomas Slovenia, news agency STA said. Besides Everest, the is practicing a different kind of spin LOS ANGELES: Sean Spicer attends the water marathon swimmer from the US extreme athlete had skied down the highest moun- these days, and on Monday swapped the “Dancing With The Stars” Season 28 show state of Colorado, could be seen in a km due to strong tides.