SUBSCRIPTION THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2015 SAFAR 7, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Local farmer Opaque US The Real Fouz: Shock as gives away military justice Essential All Black 100,000 shields child factors for legend Lomu saplings4 sex abuse7 cases success37 dies36 aged 40 IS executes Chinese, Min 16º Max 27º High Tide Norwegian hostages 03:22 & 18:01 Low Tide 11:01 & 23:20 40 PAGES NO: 16702 150 FILS Group says ‘Schweppes bomb’ downed Russian plane CAIRO: Islamic State said in the latest edition of its English language magazine yesterday that it had killed Two killed in fierce Paris police raid a Chinese and a Norwegian captive, showing what appeared to be pictures of the dead men under a ban- PARIS: A woman blew herself up and a suspected ner reading “Executed”. “We condemn the killing,” jihadist was killed yesterday in a massive police assault Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg said, while in Paris targeting the possible mastermind of France’s adding that the government was still seeking further worst-ever terror attacks. Gunfire and explosions verification. “We have no grounds to doubt the contents rocked the Saint-Denis area in the north of the city, of the photos that have been published,” Foreign near the Stade de France stadium, from before dawn as Minister Boerge Brende added. terrified residents were evacuated or told to stay home. In September, Solberg said a Norwegian man had After a siege lasting several hours between security been held hostage in Syria since January and was forces and a group of people holed up in an apartment, believed to be in the hands of Islamic State. She said heavily armed police arrested seven people. Five police Norway did not intend to pay a ransom for his release. officers suffered minor injuries. Solberg said the man, named by the foreign ministry as Elite police were seen hauling away a naked suspect Ole Johan Grimsgaard-Ofstad, was in his 40s and had in the streets near where three suicide bombers blew been held by several groups since he was first captured. themselves up outside the stadium at the start of Continued on Page 13 Friday’s attacks. After the raid, white-suited forensic experts swarmed the building where the windows appeared to have blasted out, as police tried to verify if Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected mastermind of Friday’s attacks in Paris that killed 129 people, had been inside. Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said a probe into the attacks had allowed police “to obtain telephonic surveillance and witness testimony which led us to believe that Abaaoud was likely to be in an... apartment in Saint-Denis”. However, Molins said it was too early to say if he was among those arrested or killed. Some of the survivors of the assault had tried to hide in the rub- ble of the badly damaged building, the prosecutor said. A source close to the investigation said the dead woman might have been Abaaoud’s cousin, while the Washington Post quoted senior intelligence officials as saying Abaaoud himself had died in the shootout. Molins said none of the bodies had been identified, adding only that Abaaoud was not amongst those PARIS: Forensics officers of the French police search for evidence outside a building in the northern sub- detained. urb of Saint-Denis yesterday, where French police special forces raided an apartment, in which at least An undated picture shows a picture of an explosive, Continued on Page 13 two militants were killed and seven arrested. — AFP apparently contained in a soda can, used to bring down a Russian airliner. — AP News in brief MPs lower minors’ age to 16 in new law By B Izzak applied to people who are 18 years and above, while the future of any country and the crime rate among Two die from special penalties are applied to those under 18. them is frightening. MP Saleh Ashour blamed families seasonal flu KUWAIT: The National Assembly yesterday approved a Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al- for the delinquency of their children, because some of KUWAIT: Two seasonal-influenza death cases were new law for delinquent juveniles in which the age of Sabah said that the majority of drug crimes were com- them leave their children to maids to take care of announced by the health ministry yesterday. The deaths minors was lowered from 18 to 16 years in a bid to mitted by 17-year-old boys. He said that the govern- them, while some families even travel abroad and were mainly due to chronic diseases the two patients help authorities curb a sharp increase in the crime ment is planning to reduce the voting age from the leave their children behind in the care of maids. had before they contracted the flu, the ministry’s assis- rate. The law was approved in the first reading by 37 current 21 to 18. In a related development, former MP Abdulkareem tant undersecretary Dr Majedah Al-Qattan told KUNA. MPs including Cabinet ministers, opposed by seven Several MPs also warned that terrorist organizations Al-Kandari said he plans to file a complaint at the Anti- The first death was reported on Tuesday, while the sec- lawmakers, while two members abstained. The second have started targeting teenagers and called on author- Corruption Authority against MP Mohammad Tana, ond one was announced yesterday, she added. The first and final round of voting is scheduled to take place ities to adopt stricter measures. MP Jamal Al-Omar after the latter claimed that some people tried to bribe case was that of a person who had a myocardial heart after two weeks. warned that failure to resolve the crisis of the 120,000 him. Tana had claimed that some people visited him at failure and angina pectoris, while the second case was The approval came after a large number of MPs stateless people or bedoons is fueling serious crimes home and offered to pay him KD 2 million if he resigns that of a 68-year old who suffered from diabetes, high urged the government to crack down on violence and and violence and urged a swift solution. Omar said from the National Assembly. He did not name the peo- blood pressure and kidney problems. crimes, especially drugs-related crimes, which the inte- that minors form almost half of the society and they ple nor provided more details. Kandari, who resigned rior minister said was spreading among teenagers. But have become a target for drug dealers, and the gov- from the Assembly last year after the Assembly several lawmakers protested at lowering the age to 16, ernment has remained unable to curb them. refused to allow him to grill the prime minister, said Two Saudi police saying that it is not logical to send 16-year-olds to the MP Abdullah Al-Turaiji called for separating the that he will ask the authority to probe Tana’s allega- shot dead in east gallows like adults. prosecution of minors from the rest and also for doing tions and uncover the identity of those who offered to RIYADH: Two Saudi policemen were shot dead In the existing juvenile law, criminal penalties are the same at the central prison. He said that minors are bribe him. yesterday when they came under fire in the king- dom’s east, where most of the minority Shiite community live, the interior ministry said. The predawn attack happened near a farm in the Saihat area of Qatif, on the Gulf coast. A ministry NYT’s Freidman weighs spokesman said the suspect or suspects in the “terrorist crime” had not immediately been identi- in on global challenges fied. Hussein Al-Nemr, who lives in the area, said the early morning shooting happened near a KUWAIT: There are three sets of challenges imperative of removing impediments to highway checkpoint. He passed it later but could that countries should be ready to address trade and flow ideas, enabling the develop- see no signs of what happened. It is the latest inci- today as the world has evolved at an ever- ment of the private sector and diversifying dent in Eastern Province as police continue to increasing pace, said Thomas Freidman, a their production base, especially for oil pro- hunt suspects on a list of 23 wanted people issued Pulitzer Prize-winning author and colum- ducing countries. in 2011 after Shiites began protests. nist at the New York Times. He was speak- Regarding the challenge of digital revo- ing yesterday at a forum titled ‘The Word is lution, Freidman emphasized the role of Fast: How to Understand It and Thrive in it”, education reform in equipping new gener- Woman elected head of held at the Arab Fund headquarters in ations of graduates and workers with new Shuwaikh. skills and strengthening an aptitude for UAE advisory parliament Freidman said countries should address continual and flexible learning. He also dis- ABU DHABI: A woman was elected yesterday as the first the challenges on the basis of experiences, cussed ways in which Arab countries, espe- female to lead the UAE’s Federal National Council, the since globalization is tying economies more cially the Gulf countries, could prepare to half-elected parliament that serves as an advisory body, tightly together, making workers, investors temper the impact of the economic and state news agency WAM reported. Amal Al-Qubaisi, pre- and markets increasingly independent and social impact of heat waves that are fore- viously FNC deputy speaker, was elected as speaker after exposed to global trends. He said the digital cast to pose a serious threat to outdoor the new council convened following October polls.