SUBSCRIPTION WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 2015 SHAWWAL 13, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Man hurt Platini set after fake to run for police storm FIFA Jleeb flat3 president19 Blast kills two Bahrain Min 34º Max 48º policemen, Iran blamed High Tide 08:21 & 22:06 Six injured in bombing Amir sends condolences Low Tide • 00:34 & 15:33 40 PAGES NO: 16593 150 FILS MANAMA: A bomb killed two policemen and wounded six in the deadliest such attack in Bahrain in months, Probe ordered and state media said the explosives resembled some seized at the weekend that authorities say were smug- into leaked gled in from Iran. Sunni-ruled Bahrain has long accused Iran of stirring up unrest among its Shiite population Khafji letter and tensions between the two sides have risen in recent days, with Bahrain recalling its ambassador from Tehran on Saturday. A nuclear deal reached this month Two activists jailed between Tehran and global powers has also set its Gulf Arab neighbors on edge, who fear less foreign pressure By B Izzak on Iran due to the deal could embolden its foreign poli- KUWAIT: The Kuwait Gulf Oil Company, which repre- cy on their turf. sents Kuwait in the neutral zone operations with Saudi HH the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Arabia, yesterday ordered an immediate probe into Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday sent a cable to Bahraini who leaked a letter by the oil minister to his Saudi Monarch King Hamad bin Issa Al-Khalifa expressing his counterpart over oil production in the area. The com- condolences over the victims of the blast. The Amir pany said in a statement that an investigation commit- affirmed Kuwait’s strong stance with Bahrain against tee has been formed to look into the matter and such terrorist attacks, adding that Bahrain has the right expressed dismay over the way confidential correspon- to implement all measures to protect its national securi- dence had been leaked and published in the press. ty. HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al- Several Kuwaiti dailies yesterday published the con- Jaber Al-Sabah and HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber tents of what they said was a letter sent by Oil Minister Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah sent similar cables. Ali Al-Omair to his Saudi counterpart Ali Al-Naimi urg- National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem and ing him to resume production in Khafji oilfield in the several MPs strongly also condemned the attack. neutral zone, which pumped over 300,000 barrels per Ghanem sent his condolences to the Bahraini people day. Saudi Arabia suspended production unilaterally at and expressed the solidarity of the Kuwaiti people with the offshore field in October citing environmental Bahrain against terrorist attacks. Continued on Page 13 The bombing outside a girls’ school in the Shiite vil- SITRA, Bahrain: A Bahraini forensic police officer inspects the site of a bomb blast in this village south of lage of Sitra was the first in Bahrain for several months, Manama yesterday. —AFP Continued on Page 13 News in brief $11.5bn contracts awarded for Zour KUWAIT: National Petroleum Co said it ed into five packages, is estimated to cost to increase the refinery budget by $2.9 bil- KUNA this month that there were proposals 4 Egyptians handed awarded four contracts worth $11.5 billion $16.1 billion after Kuwait’s Supreme lion after bids exceeded the initial esti- to build a petrochemical complex alongside death for murder (10.5 billion euros) to international consor- Petroleum Council agreed two weeks ago mates. Oil minister Ali Saleh Al-Omair told the refinery. He did not elaborate. KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti court yesterday sentenced four Egyptian tia yesterday to build a 615,000 barrel per Construction of the refinery could be a men to death for murdering a Pakistani guard during a rob- day refinery. A $4.25 billion contract for the major boost to Kuwait’s economy, which bery at a construction site. Another three Egyptians were sen- main manufacturing units went to Spain’s Kuwait readies sukuk laws has slowed in recent years by political ten- tenced to seven years in jail each for helping them. According Tecnicas Reunidas, China’s Sinopec sions and is now grappling with a blow to to the verdict, the four used a hammer to beat the Pakistani Engineering and South Korea’s Hanwha state finances from low oil prices. The proj- until he died. They admitted to police that they killed the Engineering and Construction Corp, as budget deficit hits $9bn ect was originally planned more than a guard at a construction project, and stole 36 tonnes of steel spokesman Khaled Al-Assoussi said in a KUWAIT: Kuwait is preparing legislation has shown a KD 2.721 billion ($9 billion) decade ago but has been delayed repeat- which they sold for $18,000. The verdict can be appealed. statement. to facilitate issues of Islamic bonds by the deficit caused by a nosedive in crude oil edly by bureaucratic and political prob- Execution in Kuwait is by hanging, but has generally not been The second and third contracts for infra- lems, including conflict between the carried out since 2007, barring a brief resumption in April government as it assesses options to prices triggering less proceeds, marking structure, worth a combined $5.75 billion, finance a big budget deficit caused by low the first actual deficit since FY 1998-99. National Assembly and the Cabinet. 2013. Dozens of people are believed to be on death row in the were awarded to a consortium of US Fluor Last year, Kuwait awarded tenders for state, mostly for murder and drugs crimes. Kuwait has execut- oil prices, Finance Minister Anas al-Saleh He said the retreat of oil revenues affect- Limited with South Korean Hyundai heavy a $12-billion project to upgrade two of ed 71 men and three women since introducing the death said yesterday. “It is among the priorities ed the general budget of the state. penalty in mid-1960. Industries and Daewoo Engineering and of the government,” Saleh said of the Speaking to KUNA, Saleh projected a the three existing refineries. When that Construction. A fourth contract valued at sukuk legislation. He was speaking via bigger deficit in FY 2015-16 due to a work is completed by around 2018 and $1.5 billion was awarded to South Korean Twitter in a question-and-answer session continuous fall in oil prices. The deficit, the new refinery is built, Kuwait’s refining Cairo furniture factory Hyundai Engineering and Construction and with the public that addressed citizens’ he added, represented around 5.6 per- capacity will increase to 1.4 million bpd fire leaves 25 dead SK Engineering and Construction and concerns about the widening deficit. cent of the Gross Domestic Product from 930,000 bpd currently. Kuwait says Italian Saipem, Assoussi said. A fifth con- Saleh said on Monday the final finan- (GDP), “which is a relatively high it sits on 10 percent of the world’s proven CAIRO: At least 25 people died in a fire that gutted an tract is scheduled to be awarded within the cial statement of the fiscal year 2014-15 Continued on Page 13 crude reserves and is pumping 2.8 mil- Egyptian furniture factory north of Cairo yesterday, a next two weeks, he said. The project, divid- lion bpd. — Agencies health ministry official said. Twenty-two more workers suf- fered from burns and smoke inhalation in the blaze in the Al-Helw factory on the outskirts of the capital, health min- Female bodybuilder looks istry spokesman Hossam Abdel Ghaffar said. Security offi- cials said the fire raged through the three-storey factory and its warehouse after a gas cylinder exploded. The inte- abroad for recognition rior ministry said 23 fire trucks were at the scene to extin- guish the blaze. Video footage posted on social networks DUBAI: Flexing her muscles in defiance of tures about bodybuilding. “At that age, I showed thick smoke billowing from the factory as rescuers the Gulf’s conservative cultural stereo- didn’t have the experience or knowhow to crowded to help the victims. Another fire at a supermarket types, bodybuilder Haifa Musawi has lost become a bodybuilder,” she recalls. “It in a town near the Mediterranean city of Alexandria yester- all hope of pumping iron for Bahrain so wasn’t easy... bodybuilding for women in day injured 12 people, security officials said. now is looking elsewhere for recognition. our society is rare.” But “I was at the gym The 32-year-old began working out a every day and to me it was more important decade ago after finding a personal trainer than anything else”. Musawi’s family encouraged her efforts UAE petrol to shed weight and despite worrying about the supplements she took as part of her training program, she said “they finally price hiked accepted” what she was doing. Ten years on, Musawi has several certificates from international fitness and bodybuilding DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates has become the first associations and has been working as a This picture taken on Oct 21, 2012 shows a much-loved Zimbabwean lion called Gulf state to take a major step towards taming the gas- weights specialist in Dubai, where she “Cecil” which was killed by an American dentist on a hunt using a bow and arrow guzzling habits of its drivers, who see cheap fuel as part trains both men and women. In June, she on July 15, 2015. — AFP of their birthright. The UAE said it would raise domestic came sixth in the physique category of the prices for gasoline and cut them for diesel in a politically International Natural Bodybuilding sensitive reform designed to save it money and encour- Association championships, a drug-free US dentist kills beloved age fuel efficiency.