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SUBSCRIPTION SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2017 JAMADA ALAWWAL 7, 1438 AH No: 17131 Bishtakhta: Top Emirati desert Iran bans travel audio system festival brings of US wrestlers in old Kuwait4 tradition27 to life over41 Trump order Man shot after machete attack at Paris Louvre Min 01º 150 Fils Museum evacuated after lockdown Max 15º PARIS: A French soldier shot and wounded a man armed with machetes and carrying two bags on his back yesterday as he tried to enter the Paris Louvre museum in what the govern- ment said appeared to have been a terrorist attack. Initial indi- cations were that the man, who was hovering between life and death after being shot, was an Egyptian who arrived in France at the end of January, a source close to the investiga- tion said. The man shouted Allahu Akbar (God is Greatest) and rushed at police and soldiers before being shot and seriously wounded near the museum’s shopping mall, police said. A second person was also detained after acting suspiciously. Paint-spray cans - but no explosives - were found in his back packs, a source close to the investigation told Reuters. “The soldier fired five bullets,” Michel Cadot, head of Paris police, said, describing how the man hurried threateningly towards the soldiers at around 10 am. “It was an attack by a person ... who represented a direct threat and whose actions suggested a terrorist context.” At a meeting of EU leaders in Malta, French President Francois Hollande praised the courage and determination of the soldiers. “This operation undoubtedly prevented an attack whose terrorist nature leaves little doubt,” he said. The soldier who shot the man was from one of the patrolling groups which have become a common sight in Paris since a state of emergency was declared in Nov 2015 fol- lowing bomb and shooting attacks by Islamist militants. An anti-terrorism inquiry has been opened, the public prosecutor PARIS: A man is seen on the floor as two soldiers guard him in the Louvre museum yesterday after an attack. — AP said. Another soldier received a scalp wound in the incident. More than a thousand visitors, including many young chil- dren, were kept for an hour inside the Louvre, home to Leonard da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’ and countless other treasures, before Snow alert issued in UAE being released. US President Donald Trump also weighed in yesterday: “A new radical Islamic terrorist has just attacked in DUBAI: A snow alert has been issued in the Louvre Museum in Paris. Tourists were locked down. France on United Arab Emirates where a rare storm and edge again. GET SMART US,” he tweeted. — Agencies high winds yesterday toppled one of thousands of cranes in the Gulf desert state. One person was injured and three cars were destroyed in a fire sparked by the collapse of the crane on Saudi cleric: Social Dubai’s main thoroughfare, the multi-lane Sheikh Zayed Road, local officials said. The storm media have led to led to the cancellation of a stage in the Tour of Dubai yesterday because of the strong winds ‘strange’ practices posing a danger to riders, organizers said. The tour’s 170-km penultimate stage, from RIYADH: Social media have led to “strange practices” such Dubai to Hatta near the Omani border, would as the use of “fingertips instead of minds” to think, a Saudi have left riders exposed to blustery winds. religious leader said yesterday in the Islamic kingdom Today’s stage was to go ahead as planned. Apart where online platforms are used widely. “The nature of from rough seas and winds of between 75 and social media has given rise to strange practices contradict- 80 km an hour across the UAE, there was rare ing morals, customs and norms,” Sheikh Saud Al-Shiraim snowfall on Jebel Jais, a mountain in Ras Al- said during weekly prayers at Makkah’s Grand Mosque, Khaimah emirate. The met office said there was the official Saudi Press Agency reported. a depth of 10 cm of snow in some places on the “People are using their fingertips to think instead of their less than 2,000-m mountain. The mercury fell to minds and tongues,” he said, adding that the ease of online minus two degrees Celsius, with the light snow communication has detracted from the “grandeur and serving as a magnet for hundreds of Emiratis DUBAI: A construction crane is seen collapsed during high winds yes- importance” of the spoken word. “This has removed a lot of snapping pictures with smartphones to post on terday on the main highway running through Dubai, disrupting traffic the reservations or barriers of the spoken word that would social media sites. — AFP in the heart of the commercial hub. — AP normally not be uttered in front of people,” he said. — AFP LOCAL SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2017 Kuwait eager to bolster ties with South Korea: Embassy SEOUL: Kuwait and South Korea great development in the past discussed means of promoting few years. bilateral ties, especially those on His Highness the Prime trade and commerce, in light of Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak an upcoming visit by South Al-Hamad Al-Sabah visited Seoul Korean Minister of trade to in May 2016 where the two coun- Kuwait, said the Kuwaiti Embassy tries saw eye-to-eye on increas- in Seoul yesterday. This desire to ing the development of environ- boost ties came during a meeting mental trade, economy and between Kuwaiti Ambassador to investments. South Korea Bader Al-Awadhi Kuwait and South Korea and South Korean Minister of agreed that His Highness the Trade, Industry, and Energy Joo Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Hyunhwang, said a statement by Jaber Al-Sabah’s 2035 vision the embassy. would establish greater strategic During the meeting, Awadhi cooperation. Kuwait is hoping President of Croatia lauded relations between Kuwait that South Korea will get involved Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic and South Korea, stressing that in its short-term and long-term the two countries were keen on developments plans. South Croatian President promoting cooperation in the Korea is considered Kuwait’s fields of energy and oil; in addi- biggest trade partner. It exports in Kuwait today tion to encouraging investments more than 400,000 oil barrels to in both countries. Seoul daily. Kuwait’s imports KUWAIT: President of Croatia Kolinda Grabar Awadhi said that the South from South Korea reached 70 Kitarovic and her accompanying delegation will Korean minister’s visit to Kuwait percent in the years 2013-2014. arrive in Kuwait today on a three-day official SEOUL: Kuwaiti Ambassador to South Korea Bader Al- would result in stronger bilateral Trade volume between the two visit which includes a meeting with His Awadhi meets with South Korean Minister of Trade, ties. Relations between Kuwait countries amounted to $20 bil- Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Industry , and Energy Joo Hyunhwang. —KUNA and South Korea have seen lion in 2015. —KUNA Jaber Al-Sabah. —KUNA UN official praises Iraq’s ‘exceptional’ efforts towards the Kuwaiti file NEW YORK: UN official praised on Thursday the “excep- tional and proactive” efforts and determination of Iraq’s Government in pursuing the important work of tackling files with the neighboring State of Kuwait, namely the issue of re-collecting and returning items of the national archive of Kuwait. UN Special Representative to the Secretary General Jan Kubis updated the Security Council with the 13th report of the Secretary General on the issue of missing Kuwaiti and third-country national and missing Kuwaiti Kuwait’s Consulate in Irbil distributes property, including the National Archives. Positively, he said there was an increased number of witnesses that 10,200 heaters for displaced Iraqis came forward to give information on this issue. Even with the weight of regional challenges, Kubis IRBIL: The State of Kuwait, represented by its Consulate in were also handed to the displaced Iraqis in the past two days told the Council that the strong working relations and Irbil, distributed yesterday some 10,200 heaters and blankets in Mosul and Irbil. He described the distribution process of positive dynamics between the two countries have led to to displaced Iraqis residing in camps in Kirkuk and Sulaimaniya the aid as successful, adding that some 60,000 people bene- a better cooperation, coordination and a measure of con- as well as those residing outside Irbil in light of the prevailing fited from such aid. fidence with is invaluable in moving the process forward. severe cold weather conditions. He said that the campaign was in response to the initiative In recovering Kuwait’s missing patrimony, the UN offi- Kuwait’s Consul General in Irbil, Dr Omar Al-Kandari said in of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- cial confirmed that over 6,000 Kuwaiti books have been a statement that the aid was provided by Kuwait’s Al-Najat Sabah to ease the suffering of the needy people in the region. located and itemized from the libraries of the Kufa and Charitable Society as a result of the increasing cold wave and Meanwhile, Director of Sulaimiya aid office of the Al-Barzani Babil Universities. Ergo, the books are being prepared for snowfall in northern Iraq. He added that some 3,412 heaters Charitable Society Soran Khalaf thanked the state of Kuwait for an official handover, he added. Kubis also confirmed that were also distributed yesterday on four camps in Kirkuk, such generous aid, urging Kuwait to continue provision of Iraqi security personnel seized what is believed to be an pointing out that some 3,000 heaters and 6,000 blankets food supplies to the displaced Iraqis in the region.