SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 2017 RABI AL-THANI 24, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net NATO-ICI Jammeh, Indian PM Rooney breaks Centre to facing military overturns United record, deepen ties pressure, to ban on Swansea rocks with Kuwait2 step down8 bull-wrestling11 Liverpool20 Women lead massive rights Min 09º protests across US, world Max 19º High Tide 07:37 & 19:05 ‘Dump Trump’: Protesters flood Washington, other cities Low Tide 01:40 & 12:40 40 PAGES NO: 17118 150 FILS WASHINGTON: Women in pink “pussyhats” flooded into UK: Attack ‘very Washington by the trainload yesterday for a massive rights march that drew hundreds of thousands in defi- ance of America’s hardline new president, Donald likely’ in Kuwait Trump. Tens of thousands of people also took to the KUWAIT: In an advisory, Britain warned its nationals streets of London, Paris and other cities across the world travelling to Kuwait that attacks in Kuwait are “very chanting “Dump Trump” in solidarity with US protesters. likely”, adding they should “take care” if they plan to Washington’s metro stations overflowed as trains travel in “conservative” areas like Jahra and Jleeb Al- packed to bursting moved cheering, clapping marchers Shuyoukh. “Attacks in Kuwait are very likely and into the city for what was expected to be a record- could be indiscriminate, including in places fre- breaking inauguration-related protest. Michele Phillips, quented by expatriates and foreign travellers. You a 45-year-old Canadian from New York State who took should be especially vigilant at this time and follow US citizenship in 2013, came to make a stand against the advice of the local authorities,” the advisory said, what she calls Trump’s “platform of hate and bigotry”. “I urging Britons to take additional safety precautions. know that we can do better, we have to fight for the “Violent crime against foreigners is rare. However, change we want to see,” she told AFP. According to you should take care if you intend to travel in conser- Washington’s deputy mayor Kevin Donahue, organizers vative areas like Jahra, where there have been inci- have upped their initial turnout estimate from 200,000 dents involving firearms, and Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh to 500,000 people faced with the early morning flood of where there have been riots by migrant workers protesters. The city provides no official crowd counts. protesting about their conditions,” the advisory added. Trump’s defeated rival Hillary Clinton tweeted her sup- It also reminded travelers that following maritime port to the crowds massed near Washington’s National restrictions issued by the Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior Mall, preparing to march on the White House led by in 2011, they should take care when sailing in celebrity participants including Scarlett Johansson and Kuwaiti waters. “Many areas of the Gulf are highly Michael Moore. “Thanks for standing, speaking & march- sensitive, including near maritime boundaries and ing for our values, @womensmarch. Important as ever. I the islands of Boubiyan and Warbah... The area in truly believe we’re always Stronger Together.” the northern Gulf, between Iran, Iraq and Kuwait has Women made up the overwhelming majority of the not been demarcated and vessels entering these people who emerged whooping and cheering from areas have been detained and inspected. Demonstrators protest on the National Mall in Washington yesterday to Washington’s Union Station, arriving on jam-packed Continued on Page 13 send a defiant message to US President Donald Trump. (Inset) A banner is trains and buses. Many carried homemade signs. seen at a march in Sydney yesterday. — AFP Continued on Page 13 Trump moves to weaken Obamacare WASHINGTON: US President Donald fiscal burdens on states, companies or Trump directed government agencies on individuals. Militants blow Friday to freeze regulations and take It also called for efforts to give states steps to weaken Obamacare, using his greater flexibility in implementing health- themselves up first hours in the White House to make care programs while developing “a free and good on a campaign promise to start dis- open market in interstate commerce for mantling his predecessor’s healthcare the offering of healthcare services and in Jeddah clash law. Heading into the Oval Office shortly health insurance.” Health experts had spec- after the conclusion of his inaugural ulated that Trump could expand exemp- RIYADH: Two suspects blew themselves up yesterday parade, Trump signed an order on the tions from the so-called individual man- during a firefight with security forces in the Red Sea Affordable Care Act that urged govern- date, which requires Americans to carry city of Jeddah and a third was arrested in another ment departments to “waive, defer, grant insurance or face a penalty, or the require- operation, the interior ministry said. Security forces exemptions from, or delay the imple- ment that employers offer coverage. raided a suspected “terrorist” hideout used for making mentation” of provisions that imposed Continued on Page 13 explosive belts and other devices in a southern district of Jeddah, a spokesman for the ministry said in a state- ISTANBUL: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses supporters yesterday. — AP ment. Two men holed up inside the premises shot at security forces, who returned fire, according to the statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency. Erdogan buoyed by vote The suspects refused to surrender and “blew them- selves up by detonating their explosive belts”, it said, for powerful presidency confirming an earlier statement by Jeddah authorities. Pictures posted on Twitter showed a fire at the site of the shootout. The interior ministry spokesman also Parliament endorses move said that a third suspect was arrested yesterday in a ANKARA: Turkey’s President Recep debate, Turkish lawmakers passed the security operation targeting another Jeddah neighbor- Tayyip Erdogan yesterday began cam- controversial set of 18 articles. The hood. The suspect, a Saudi national, is believed to have paigning for constitutional reforms that measures still need to be approved in a had links to the two men who blew themselves up. He would greatly expand the powers of his national plebiscite slated for April. The was arrested along with a Pakistani woman whom he office, only hours after a vote in parlia- bill would abolish the role of the prime identified as his wife, the spokesman said. ment cleared the way for a national ref- minister and introduce a presidential Earlier this month, security forces shot and killed erendum on the issue. Speaking in system that critics fear lacks effective two suspected jihadists including an explosive belt Istanbul, he hailed the assembly’s early- checks and balances. A change to the maker during a police operation in the north of Riyadh. morning decision, saying a more power- presidential system would be a crown- Both were Saudi citizens. At the end of October, ful presidency will catapult Turkey to a ing achievement for Erdogan, who has authorities said they had foiled a plot to bomb a foot- position of strength. “God willing the outmaneuvered and crushed all his ball stadium in Jeddah during a football match and dis- people will give the true decision, the major foes. The reforms would poten- mantled two “terrorist” cells linked to the Islamic State WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump, flanked by Vice President Mike Pence final decision,” Erdogan said. tially allow him to remain in power group. Eight suspects were arrested in the operation, and Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, signs his first executive order on healthcare on After an all-night session capping until 2029. including two Pakistanis, a Syrian and a Saudi. — AFP almost two weeks of acrimonious Continued on Page 13 Friday in the Oval Office of the White House. — AP 16 killed in Italy school bus crash VERONA, Italy: Sixteen people died when a time. The Hungarian government said that said. One of the drivers was among those coach bringing Hungarian teenagers home three people were in a very serious condition, killed, Italian media reported. Describing a from a skiing trip crashed and burst into including one in an artificial coma. Ten more “devastating” scene, Lacquaniti told Radio flames on a northern Italian motorway were seriously hurt and 13 had minor injuries. Capitale that 13 passengers had managed to overnight, authorities said yesterday. It All were being treated in nearby hospitals. escape by jumping out. appeared the death toll from the tragedy near Twelve others who were not hurt were receiv- “Those who were seated at the back of the Verona at around 11:00 pm (2200 GMT) could ing counseling at a hotel in the vicinity. bus saved themselves by smashing the win- have been much worse had it not been for the “These were children. It’s the hardest thing to dows amid shouting and panic,” Hungary’s bravery and quick thinking of a teacher. take. Everyone thinks of their own,” consul in Italy Judit Timaffy told Italian media. Emergency workers said that the bus carrying Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, “A gym teacher rescued lots of those on board 56 people returning from France, most of fighting back tears, told a news conference in by getting back on the bus. He was taken to them teenagers aged 14-16 as well as several Budapest. “Of course the Hungarian govern- hospital with serious burns on his back,” teachers and two drivers, ploughed into a ment will do everything necessary to ease Timaffy said. She said that the drivers had bridge pillar. the families’ pain.” changed over around an hour before the acci- A huge inferno very quickly engulfed the Girolamo Lacquaniti, Verona traffic police dent. Traffic police were still gathering evi- bus, dramatic pictures released by police chief, said on radio that no other vehicle was dence and consulting video evidence mean- showed, completely destroying the interior involved, pointing to mechanical failure or ing it was “still too early to determine the and reducing the vehicle to a burned-out human error such as the driver falling asleep.