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SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2015 THULQADA 22, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Bake and Educate: Canada less Nadal falls in Rooney equals Sending children welcoming five, Serena Charlton’s to school one to refugees fights on at record of 49 cake at a time under Harper US Open England goals 4No Syrians8 to be18 deported,20 no Min 31º long-term visas, no amnesty Max 40º High Tide 04:40 & 18:05 MoI clarifies stand on Syrian residents, visa violators Low Tide 12:00 & 18:05 40 PAGES NO: 16632 150 FILS By Faten Omar KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry yesterday said Syrians in UAE pounds Houthis after deadliest day Kuwait must pay any outstanding fines to remain in the country until the Syrian conflict is over. “Syrian violators who have work or family visas or Syrian refugees who Yemen attack also killed 10 Saudi troops entered the country with visit visas are allowed to stay SANAA: UAE warplanes carried out air strikes on in Kuwait - there will be no deportations for them, but Yemeni rebels yesterday as Emiratis mourned 45 of the ministry will not give them long-term visas,” Brig their soldiers, who were among dozens killed in the Adel Al-Hashash, Director deadliest day yet for the Saudi-led coalition. Media in of the General Department Riyadh said 10 Saudi soldiers died in Friday’s missile of Public Relations and attack in the battleground eastern oil province of Moral Guidance, told Marib. The strike hit an arms depot, triggering huge Kuwait Times. He also explosions that the Yemeni government said also denied any plans to grant killed five Bahraini troops. The UAE denounced the residency law violators in “cowardly” attack, which it said would not sap its the country a new grace commitment to the coalition’s mission to restore period to adjust their sta- exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi. The Iran- tus. backed Shiite Houthi rebels hailed the strike as Hashash’s comments “revenge” for six months of deadly coalition air raids. came after Mohammed Abu Asaker, a spokesman Coalition spokesman General Ahmed Assiri told Adel Al-Hashash Saudi online media yesterday the war against the for the United Nations High rebels would not ease. “The mission of the coalition Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told the dpa news forces is to restore peace and stability to Yemen,” dai- agency on Friday that Kuwait has informed the United ly Al-Riyadh quoted him as saying. “They will contin- Nations that it will allow all Syrians currently in the ue their military operations until their objectives are country to remain even if their visas expire. “For each achieved.” The coalition launched an air war when one whose visa expires, they will, by default, get a long- Hadi fled to Saudi Arabia in March after the rebels term visa,” he had said. entered his last refuge, Yemen’s second city Aden. Hashash confirmed to Kuwait Times that the ministry After his loyalists recaptured the southern port in will not give residency law violators any amnesty to get July, the coalition launched a ground operation that “temporary residency” in the country. He said reports has seen the rebels pushed back from five southern about giving violators under Articles 18 (work permit) provinces, although they still control the capital and and 22 (family visa) an opportunity to apply to the much of the north and centre. AJMAN: Emiratis bury the body of Abdullah Ali Hassan Al-Hammadi, an Emirati armed forces’ soldier who was Department of Residency Affairs, pay fines and get a Continued on Page 13 killed the previous day in Yemen’s eastern province of Marib, at a cemetery in this emirate yesterday. — AFP temporary residency for three months are not true, adding the ministry will deport any iqama violators. Regulation mulled for home businesses Draft on licensing sent to MoCI AMMAN: The issue of home-based busi- ness in Kuwait is in need of regulation, so Visa traffickers a draft paper on issuing licenses for such business has been sent to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry for deliberation, face mandatory an official said yesterday. After the Gulf- Jordanian Economic Communication jail terms, fines Forum, head of small projects at the Manpower and Government Restructur- By Meshaal Al-Enezi ing Program (MGRP) Faris Al-Enezi told KUNA that running a business from home KUWAIT: The Manpower Public Authority introduced was an essential part of developing tougher penalties against employers who fail to pro- economies worldwide, adding that to vide jobs for workers they recruit from outside Kuwait grow such businesses, a number of regu- Faris Al-Enezi WASHINGTON: Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir speaks during a news con- in a bid to tackle human trafficking in the country. As lations should be set to protect both ference at the Saudi Embassy on Friday. — AFP per regulations approved recently, violators of Article service providers and consumers. Enezi said around 70 percent of busi- 10 of the labor law in the private sector, which stipu- The policy is to give home business nesses fit the label of home-based busi- lates that ‘an employer shall not recruit laborers from owners a license valid for three to five nesses on social media apps and web- outside the country or appoint laborers from inside Saudis satisfied with US years, said Enezi, noting that this period sites including Instagram and others, the country without making them to work for him’, are will allow business owners to assess the indicating that acquiring the proposed now punishable by a jail term ranging between one success of their ventures before going on assurances on Iran deal and three years, as well as a KD 1,000 to KD 5,000 fine. license will help develop this field. The to develop their services. If such a proce- current status quo leaves such business- WASHINGTON: Saudi Arabia is satisfied Arabia supported the deal. “Now we The current law stipulates a maximum three-year jail sentence and/or a maximum KD 1,000 fine for dure is approved in Kuwait, owners will es unmonitored by the concerned with assurances from US President have one less problem for the time violators of the article. The new regulations were have an official platform to start their authorities, and thus fraud might occur Barack Obama about the Iran nuclear being to deal with, with regards to Iran,” approved during a meeting on Wednesday chaired home-based businesses, which will pro- more frequently, said the official. deal and believes the agreement will Jubeir said. “We can now focus more by Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Hind Al- tect their interests and others. He indicat- Regulations to start a home-based busi- contribute to security and stability in the intensely on the nefarious activities that Subaih, who is also the chairperson of the manpow- ed that the draft paper by the program ness are almost the same as those gov- Middle East, a senior Saudi official said Iran is engaged in the region.” er authority’s board of directors, said Dr Mubarak Al- has selected 32 home-based business erning private institutes, said Enezi, on Friday. Saudi King Salman met with Gulf Arab states had previously Jafour, Director of the Legal Affairs Department at types from a list 120, revealing that the adding that the possible addition of Obama at the White House on Friday to expressed their support for the Iran the authority. business list included the selling of food more regulation to suit the business will seek more support in countering Iran, as nuclear deal, but fear that the lifting of Continued on Page 13 products as well as media, general and IT be introduced once the issue of licenses the Obama administration aimed to use sanctions on Iran would enable it to pur- services. is resolved. — KUNA the visit to shore up relations after a sue destabilizing policies in the Middle period of tensions. The visit is the king’s East. Salman skipped a Gulf Arab summit first to the United States since ascending at Camp David in May, a move widely to the throne in Jan 2015, and comes seen as a diplomatic snub over Obama’s after the United States agreed to a Iran strategy, though both governments nuclear deal with Iran in July. denied that interpretation. Critics say The US-Saudi relationship has suf- the nuclear deal will empower Iran eco- fered strain because of what Riyadh sees nomically to increase its support of mili- as Obama’s withdrawal from the region, tant groups in the region. a lack of direct US action against Saudi Arabia and Iran are opposed on President Bashar Al-Assad in Syria, and a a number of regional issues, especially perceived US tilt towards Iran since the the 4 1/2-year-long Syrian civil war and 2011 Arab uprisings. But the countries unrest in Yemen, where a coalition of share many strategic objectives and Arab states led by Riyadh, assisted by depend on each other on a number of the United States, are targeting Iran- core security, economic, and political allied Houthi forces. Obama said on issues. Friday that he and Salman share con- Speaking after the meeting between cerns about Yemen and the need to Obama and Salman, Saudi Foreign restore a functioning government and Minister Adel Al-Jubeir said Obama had address the humanitarian situation assured the Saudi king that the agree- there. US Deputy National Security ment prevents Iran from acquiring a Advisor Ben Rhodes said ahead of nuclear weapon, includes inspections of Salman’s visit that the United States military and suspected sites, and has a believed more care needs to be taken to provision for the snapback of sanctions avoid civilian casualties in the air strikes SALZBURG, Austria: A woman holds her smiling baby in her arms as she arrives at the Hauptbahnhof station yesterday on their way to if Iran violates the agreement.

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