FREE Established 1961 Friday ISSUE NO: 17880 THULQADA 10, 1440 AH FRIDAY, JULY 12, 2019 New mobile app helps organize Assad hits a wall in Syrian Nigeria grab late winner against 4 campaigns, rally constituents 13 war as front lines harden 47 South Africa to reach semi-finals An October 2005 handout photo released in London on July 11, 2019, shows the British Royal Navy’s HMS Montrose, a Type 23 Frigate, perform- ing turns during exercise ‘Marstrike 05,’ off the coast of Oman. Britain said on July 11, 2019, that Iranian military vessels tried to ‘impede the pas- sage’ of UK oil tanker ‘British Heritage’ in the Strait of Hormuz, but were warned off by British warship HMS Montose. — AFP Iran tried to ‘impede’ UK tanker in Gulf: Britain See Pages 10 & 11 2 Friday Local Friday, July 12, 2019 Wealth in Kuwait PHOTO OF THE DAY Local Spotlight By Muna Al-Fuzai
[email protected] he Wall Street Journal recently published a list of the Tworld’s richest countries. Kuwait ranked fifth in the world and the second in the Arab and Gulf region in terms of per capita gross national income of $72,872 annu- ally, while Qatar ranked first in the world. Kuwait’s gross domestic product for 2017 was $271.1 billion and was ranked 57th among 196 countries in the world. Kuwait is one of only five countries with a per capita gross national income of more than $70,000. Unlike most of the world’s richest countries, Kuwait has no diversified economy, with oil making up more than 84 percent of exports.