SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, MAY 1, 2016 RAJAB 24, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Speaker Protesters storm Building Bale hits urges world parliament collapse, floods Real winner, to stop Aleppo in Iraq’s kill 19 in Griezmann puts massacres3 Green Zone7 Kenyan10 capital Atletico20 top Study calls for deporting Min 19º Max 36º terminated expat workers High Tide 07:16 & 17:29 Low Tide MoI readies plan to crack down on absconders 00:03 & 12:08 40 PAGES NO: 16861 150 FILS By A Saleh Yemen foes hold direct talks, prisoners freed KUWAIT: Kuwait is studying a proposal to force a for- eign worker to leave the country if he or she is sacked KUWAIT: Yemen’s warring parties held “productive” by their employer, according to sources, who explained face-to-face peace talks yesterday on “key issues” in a that this step comes as the state mulls ways to cut its bid to end the conflict in the impoverished Arab expatriate population. Under the current law, a worker country, the UN envoy said. “The talks today were who loses his job has three months to find another one positive and productive... It is an encouraging begin- or leave the country. This condition allows expatriate ning,” Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed told a news confer- workers to remain in Kuwait, hampering efforts to ence after the first direct talks since the delayed adjust the country’s demographic imbalance, according negotiations began on April 21. “Today, we heard the to a recent study presented to the Supreme Council for parties pledge total commitment to (UN Security Planning and Development (SCPD). Council) Resolution 2216 and related decisions, the In order to make the proposed condition applicable, Gulf initiative and results of Yemeni national dialogue a worker would only be entitled to his financial claims as the basis for a peaceful solution,” he said. once he terminates his residency visa and leaves the Meanwhile, the Houthi movement said yesterday country, the study suggests. The sources, who spoke on that Saudi Arabia had handed over 40 prisoners as the condition of anonymity, declined to provide the part of an agreement to quell border fighting. “We source of this controversial study. They also did not clar- received 40 prisoners, 20 of those were captured ify whether it includes workers in both the public and inside Yemen,” Houthi spokesman Mohammed private sectors. Abdul-Salam said in a statement. He did not say The study suggests that an expatriate worker is ter- where the remaining prisoners had been captured. minated because his employer no longer needs his Yesterday’s talks came after the government and services, and thus his stay in Kuwait “puts further pres- rebel delegations each submitted a framework for a sure on public services” and becomes unfeasible. political and security solution to end the 13 -month However, recent studies give different indications with war. Ould Cheikh Ahmed said that despite the regards to the labor market’s needs of foreign workers, progress made “we still have obstacles and ideas are particularly in the private sector. According to the still far apart”. Most of the meetings in talks have so 2015 Labor Force Survey published by Kuwait’s Central far been confined to encounters between rival dele- Statistical Bureau (CSB) last month, almost 95 percent gations and Ould Cheikh Ahmed. of employees in the private sector are foreigners, and More than 6,800 people have been killed and it currently employs nearly 75 percent of expatriate around 2.8 million displaced in Yemen since a Saudi- workers in Kuwait (not including around 600,000 led coalition began operations in March 2015 against KUWAIT: Yemen’s United Nations envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed holds a press conference at the min- domestic helpers, who make up 17 percent of expatri- Continued on Page 13 istry of information yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat ate workers). Continued on Page 13 Teen killed in ‘staring’ fight Suspect surrenders, claims self-defense By Hanan Al-Saadoun according to preliminary investigations based on eyewitnesses’ accounts. Fights 2 colonels among KUWAIT: A teenager was stabbed to over trivial matters are very common in death during a fight yesterday in Sabah Kuwait, especially among youngsters, and 13 arrested for Al-Nasser. The victim, a Kuwaiti, had an they often end with deadly results. Last altercation with a stranger that escalated August, a 16-year-old boy was stabbed to lewd conduct when the latter took a knife out of his car, death during a fight at 360 Mall. In 2013, a stabbed the victim and fled the scene, 24-year-old man died after he was KUWAIT: Nine Kuwaiti men, among them two law according to eyewitnesses’ reports. attacked by three knife-wielding young- enforcement officers, three Kuwaiti women, and a Passersby rushed the victim to Farwaniya sters in Marina Mall. And in Dec 2012, an female expatriate were arrested yesterday at a beach Hospital where he was pronounced dead altercation in the parking lot of The house in the coastal area of Sabah Al-Ahmad on due to severe blood loss. Avenues mall left a 26-year-old dentist charges of drunkenness and lewd behavior, a press The alleged killer later turned himself dead after four persons followed him statement by the Ministry of Interior said. The state- in at a Jahra police station, and told police inside the crowded mall and stabbed him ment indicated that Deputy Premier and Interior there that he was acting in self-defense. there. NAIROBI: A ranger stands in front of burning ivory stacks at the Nairobi National Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al- He said that the teenager was the one The government has identified youth who had the knife, adding that he man- violence as a problem that needs to be Park yesterday. — AFP Sabah ordered that the two law enforcement offi- aged to pin him to the ground, took away addressed. “The government is keen on cers, both bearing the rank of colonel, be subjected the knife and attacked him. The suspect, protecting the youth and fighting the to punitive and legal measures for their unaccept- also a Kuwaiti, had a stab wound on his youth violence phenomenon,” Sheikh Kenya torches world’s able conduct. hand. The victim was stabbed in the Salman Al-Humoud Al-Sabah, Minister of The arrest took place following complaints heart. The suspect was remanded in cus- Information and State Minister for Youth biggest ivory bonfire received by police regarding the arrestees’ boisterous tody pending further action. Affairs said during a parliament session and disturbing behavior from residents of the beach The fight apparently started when the on Wednesday. He mentioned programs NAIROBI: Eleven giant pyres of tusks were one of the pyres, spoke of the “massacre” of area in Sabah Al-Ahmad, said the statement. It victim approached the suspect because through which the youth affairs ministry set alight yesterday as Kenya torched its forest elephants in central Africa, and said stressed that the interior ministry “will not allow any of he thought he was staring at him in a “interacts with the youth through social vast ivory stockpile in a grand gesture he backed moves to stop the sale of all its personnel to act outside the boundaries of the law”, provocative manner. The two exchanged media”, and highlighted families’ ‘key role’ words and a fight ensued, ending up with as part of any successful strategy to com- aimed at shocking the world into stopping ivory. “Unless we take action now we risk in reference to the arrest of the two officers. — KUNA the teen lying dead in a pool of his blood, bat youth violence. the slaughter of elephants. Huge white losing this magnificent animal,” Bongo said clouds of smoke spiraled into the sky as the at the ceremony, telling poachers he was flames took hold, fuelled by thousands of “going to put you out of business, so the litres of diesel and kerosene injected best thing you can do is to go into retire- Pop goes the weasel as through steel pipes. Lighting the fire in ment now”. Nairobi’s national park, Kenyan President Africa is home to between 450,000 to Uhuru Kenyatta demanded a total ban on 500,000 elephants, but more than 30,000 collider shuts down trade in ivory to end the “murderous” traf- are killed every year on the continent to GENEVA: A weasel shut down the days,” he said. “Not the best week for LHC!” ficking and prevent the extinction of ele- satisfy demand for ivory in Asia, where world’s most powerful particle smasher CERN said in its summary. phants in the wild. raw tusks sell for around $1,000 a kilo. when it wandered onto a 66,000-volt The LHC, housed in a 27-km tunnel “The height of the pile of ivory before us The pyres contained some 16,000 tusks transformer and caused a short circuit, straddling the French-Swiss border, was marks the strength of our resolve,” Kenyatta and pieces of ivory. Kenya has a long his- Europe’s physics lab CERN said yesterday. used to prove the existence of the Higgs said, before thrusting a burning torch onto tory of ivory burnings, spearheading a The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was Boson, also known as the God particle, the ivory. “No-one, and I repeat no-one, has wider movement of public demonstra- halted “following technical issues, includ- by crashing proton beams at velocities any business in trading in ivory, for this tions across the world, but nothing on ing a power cut due to the passage of a near the speed of light.