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THULQADA 23, 1439 AH SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 2018 Max 46º 28 Pages Min 33º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17600 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Ghalia Al-Heis from Kuwait South Korea women hold record Art of cinema comes alive in Stokes treble sees England 3 wins Hajj Hackathon award 9 mass rally against ‘spycam porn’ 20 basement of Iraq aficionado 28 to thrilling win over India Saudi Arabia resumes oil exports through key strait Coalition takes measures to ensure security • Houthis willing to attend UN talks RIYADH: Saudi Arabia said yesterday that it was by Saudi shipping group Bahri were attacked, slightly Netanyahu said. About 4.8 million barrels of oil and negotiations. Meghles cast doubt over the expected resuming oil shipments through the Bab al-Mandab damaging one vessel. Saudi leads a coalition backing petroleum products pass through the strait every day, meeting saying he did not sense “any serious or real Strait, ending a 10-day suspension triggered by rebel Yemen’s government in a war against Houthi rebels. The according to US government figures. stance by the aggressors towards reaching a political attacks off the coast of Yemen. The decision came after pro-Houthi Al-Masirah television said at the time that Separately, a member of the political wing of the solution”. He was referring to the Saudi-led coalition measures by a Saudi-led military coalition to “ensure the rebels had targeted a Saudi warship named Al- Houthi rebels said yesterday the insurgents were willing that has intervened in Yemen since 2015 to restore the the security of navigation in this strait and in the Red Dammam, without providing further details. The to attend UN-brokered talks, although they had low internationally recognized government to power, which Sea”, said Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Khaled Al- Houthis are backed by Saudi Arabia’s regional rival Iran expectations of a positive outcome. Salim Meghles said has been driven out of the capital Sanaa by the rebels. Falih, quoted by the official Saudi Press Agency. in Yemen’s conflict and retain control of the strategic the Ansarullah (Supporters of God) political wing is A government official on Friday said the Saudi- Measures had been taken “in coordination with the Red Sea port of Hodeida. “not opposed to such consultations” which are aimed at backed government was ready to attend the Geneva international community”, Falih added, without provid- On Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “reaching a general framework for negotiations”. “We talks. The war in the impoverished country has left ing further details. Netanyahu warned Iran his country would join military are not opposed to travelling to any neutral country to nearly 10,000 people dead and unleashed what the Bab al-Mandab is a crucial shipping lane between action to stop Tehran if it attempted to block the strait. take part in such consultations,” he told AFP. United Nations describes as the world’s worst humani- the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa, linking the “If Iran tries to block the Bab al-Mandab, I am con- The UN envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, on tarian crisis. UN-brokered political talks on Yemen Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden. On July 26, Saudi Arabia vinced that it will find itself facing a determined inter- Thursday told the Security Council that the United broke down in 2016 amid demands for a rebel with- said it was temporarily suspending oil shipments national coalition to prevent this. This coalition would Nations will invite Yemen’s warring sides for talks in drawal from key cities and power-sharing with the through Bab al-Mandab after two oil tankers operated also include the state of Israel and all its arms,” Geneva on Sept 6 to discuss a framework for peace Saudi-backed government. — AFP scenario. “Today I will give our friends Turkey. But analysts say the sanctions are still Erdogan sanctions instructions to freeze the assets in Turkey of of critical importance. “Although it is unlikely the American justice and interior ministers, if the sanctions will have much practical effect they have any (such assets),” Erdogan said in in either case, it is significant and unprece- US officials in a televised speech. He did not specify to dented that two NATO allies have sanctioned which members of the US administration he members of each other’s government,” tit-for-tat row was referring. Amanda Sloat, a former State Department The US attorney general is Jeff Sessions official and now a senior fellow at the ANKARA: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and while the United States does not have an Brookings Institution, told AFP. yesterday said Turkey would impose sanc- interior ministry similar to Turkey, the The Turkish lira, which has plunged in tions on two US officials as retaliation for a Secretary of the Interior is Ryan Zinke and value this year, has already reached the five similar move by Washington, hitting back in Secretary of the Department of Homeland to the dollar mark for the first time in histo- an unprecedented row between the NATO Security is Kirstjen Nielsen. Erdogan’s ry over the sanctions. “There is a risk of allies. Turkey’s holding of pastor Andrew announcement was a response to more sanctions to come... which could hit Brunson on terror-related charges for almost Washington’s decision to impose sanctions on more directly at the heart of Turkish gov- two years has sparked one of the most Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu and ernment interests and which have the intense crises between Washington and Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul over potential to cause a run on the lira,” Ankara since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus Brunson’s detention. Anthony Skinner, director of Middle East in 1974. The sanctions freeze any property or and North Africa at risk management con- But in his first comments on the dispute assets on US soil held by the two ministers, sultants Verisk Maplecroft, told AFP. He said since Washington imposed the sanctions on and bar US citizens from doing business with the “Achilles’ heel” of Turkey’s fragile econ- Wednesday, Erdogan also appeared keen to them. Turkish ministers have denied having omy was its exposure to foreign portfolio ward off any further escalation by saying that any assets in the US and it is highly unlikely investments and credit. ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses members of his ruling neither side had an interest in a “lose-lose” the American officials would have assets in Continued on Page 24 AK Party during a meeting yesterday. — AFP News in brief told AFP. “In fact, attracting foreign investment was his Behzadian, former head of the Tehran chamber of Is Rouhani a lame Plan A, B, C and D. Now, he’s a lame duck president.” commerce. For many progressive Iranians, it is Coptic pope quits Facebook Even when the nuclear deal was intact, it never worked Rouhani’s civil rights record that has most exposed his quite as hoped. Rouhani set a target of $50 billion in weakness. His failure to win the release of political CAIRO: The head of Egypt’s Coptic Church, Pope duck president? foreign investment for its first year, but only $3.4 billion prisoners and prevent the blocking of Iran’s most Tawadros II, has shut down his Facebook page, TEHRAN: Having staked everything on a now-crum- showed up, according to the World Bank, with foreign popular messaging app, Telegram, went directly saying it was a “waste of time”, after the church firms and banks remaining wary of US penalties. against promises made during his re-election cam- ordered monks off social media. State-run Al- bling nuclear deal, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has little to show for his five years in power and is seeing Moreover, little was done to tackle corruption and paign last year. Ahram newspaper said yesterday that Tawadros’s the toxic debt poisoning Iran’s banking system, or the “Every president has made the same promises to decision was in line with a dozen measures his support evaporate. The fifth anniversary of Rouhani’s first inauguration fell on Friday, but with the huge jobless rate, particularly among young people. create hope but once elected they don’t do anything. If announced Thursday by the church relating to the The “Rouhani-meter”, created by a US-based tech (the election) happened again, I wouldn’t vote for activities of monks. One of the measures gave economy in crisis and US sanctions set to return just four days later, there were no celebrations. Rouhani group, found the president had achieved only 20 of Rouhani, I wouldn’t vote for anyone,” said Arash, a 21- monks a month “to deactivate and close any social 100 election pledges by his fifth anniversary, with a year-old photographer in Tehran, reflecting a typical media pages or accounts and voluntarily renounce was supposed to be the centrist who could heal Iran’s divisions and build a China-like development model in further 17 “in progress”. His successes included view among the young. For many, it mirrors the second these behaviors that are not true to monastic life”. reduced inflation and better Internet, but all the unful- term of Mohammad Khatami, the reformist president On Thursday the church also said it will stop which economic growth would head off demands for major political reform. filled promises had “caused disappointment and alien- from 1997 to 2005 who tried and failed to weaken the accepting any new monks for a year after the mys- ated many supporters,” the report concluded.

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