SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2014 SAFAR 10, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Petrol, cooking Erdogan Robot sells Packers best gas prices hosts Putin to espresso Patriots in to increase tighten Turkey, machines potential Super in early4 2015 Russia 7alliance in27 Japan Bowl20 preview ‘Journey of Hope’ welcomed Min 06º Max 20º home after landmark trip High Tide 07:57 & 20:23 Premier hails achievements of ‘sons of Kuwait’ Low Tide 01:52 & 14:01 40 PAGES NO: 16360 150 FILS KUWAIT: The ‘Journey of Hope’ boat was welcomed home yesterday in a ceremony held at the Marina Crescent under the auspices of HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. The party to cele- brate the safe return of the Journey of Hope after visit- ing 19 countries over nearly seven months was attend- ed by HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, senior officials, families of journey members and several others. The party started with the Kuwaiti national anthem, followed by verses from the Holy Quran, then a documentary on the details of the journey entitled “Dream Come True”. General Secretary of the Board of Trustees and Executive Director of the Journey of Hope Yousef Al- Jassim addressed the event, expressing gratitude to HH the Amir for his continuous support to the journey, which was essential to secure its success. Jassim also appreciated the backing of the prime minister whose “direct support was the major factor for achieving the set goals of the journey”. Member of the boat’s board of trustees and head of the crew Jassem Al-Rashid Al-Bader briefed the gather- ing on the course of the Journey of Hope and the activi- ties carried out in the target countries. The journey embodied the spirit of collective human action and constituted a national epic for Kuwait and the Kuwaiti people, Bader said. At the end of the event, the premier was handed a commemorative plaque in appreciation of the enor- mous attention by Kuwait to persons with disabilities. Sheikh Jaber expressed in a press statement his pride of what the “sons of Kuwait” achieved in the journey “that carried to the world a noble humanitarian message and targets for caring for this dear category of people with their obvious social and sports activities”. He also lauded the persistent efforts by the members of the expedition KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah is seen with members of the ‘Journey of Hope’ and a commemorative plaque at the Marina and those in charge for their efforts to highlight the “civ- Crescent in Salmiya after the expedition returned to Kuwait yesterday. — KUNA ilized face of Kuwait”. — KUNA Most Gulf firms can Indian embassy explains guarantee prosper with $70 oil By B Izzak other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) action against India, including reducing the states - Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab number of Indian workers in the country KUWAIT: The Indian embassy yesterday Emirates, Qatar and Oman. The embassy and to halt further recruitment from New Local bond markets eyed explained the decision by the Indian gov- said that the bank guarantee is not com- Delhi. DUBAI: Plunging stock markets in the Gulf economists say those fears are overblown. ernment to demand a $2,500 (KD 730) bank mercial in nature and not a bank deposit Separately, the National Assembly is show investors are panicking about the Even if oil stays at $70, two of the big GCC guarantee from employers seeking to but a simple guarantee that is beneficial to scheduled to debate today a request by MP prospect of $70 oil next year. But heavy state economies - Kuwait and Qatar - will still be recruit domestic workers from India. The both sides. It also insisted that in case of Abdullah Al-Turaiji to grill Commerce and spending means most firms in the region, running state budget surpluses and be embassy told the local electronic publica- petty disputes, it is not essential to take the Industry Minister Abdulmohsen Al-Mudej with the big exception of petrochemical pro- under no major pressure to cut spending. tion Darwaza News that the decision aims issue to authorities or courts but can be over allegations of financial and adminis- ducers, are likely to do just fine. Investors fear The two largest GCC economies, Saudi to provide protection for Indian citizens resolved in an amicable way. trative violations. Under the assembly char- that if the price of Brent crude stays around Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, will against abuse and that the guarantee will The embassy said that the guarantee will ter, the minister has the right to demand a $70 a barrel next year - down from around probably run budget deficits. But the huge be refunded immediately after the return be refunded in full once the workers com- delay for two weeks and is automatically $115 in June - governments in the six-nation fiscal reserves that they have built up over of the worker to India. plete their terms and get their full contrac- granted but he also can accept to debate Gulf Cooperation Council will cut back their the last several years mean they will easily be The embassy said that the decision was tual rights. A number of Kuwaiti MPs have the grilling today. The minister has not said spending in line with shrinking oil revenues, able to keep spending high. taken after the 2007 joint ministerial meet- strongly blasted the guarantee decision whether he will debate or delay the grilling. which are their main source of income. According to Thomson Reuters data, ana- ing and it was applied long ago in all the and called on the government to take Continued on Page 13 State procurement budgets could be cut, lysts have only marginally changed their subsidies removed and big construction average forecasts for 2015 corporate earn- projects slowed or cancelled. If that happens, ings in the UAE and Qatar over the last three corporate profits throughout the region months. would suffer. But many fund managers and Continued on Page 13 Indian IS recruit home after made Saudi woman arrested to clean toilets at border for driving Kuwait job spurned RIYADH: A Saudi woman who tried to Cooperation Council which includes NEW DELHI: An Indian student who travelled to Iraq drive into the kingdom in defiance of a Saudi Arabia. Hathloul also posted to join the Islamic State group has returned home ban was arrested yesterday after being details about her long confinement in disillusioned after jihadists made him clean toilets blocked at the UAE border for a day, her car. and do other menial jobs, according to media activists said. Conservative Saudi Arabia is She said Alamoudi arrived “and has reports. Areeb Majeed, 23, left for Iraq with three the only country in the world which does brought me a toothbrush. Refreshing”. friends in late May amid fears by authorities that IS not allow women to drive. “I have been at “Thank God I still have some petrol left,” militants were attempting to recruit from India’s large the Saudi border for 24 hours. They don’t she wrote. “If it weren’t for that I would pool of young Muslim men. The engineering student want to give me my passport nor will have died of the cold last night and my flew home Friday to Mumbai where he was arrested they let me pass,” Loujain Hathloul said in phone switched off. Yaala, I am almost 20 and charged by India’s elite National Investigation CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts: In this Oct 24, 2014 photo, researchers Randall a Tweet at around midday, before Tweets hours now at the border.” Six hours into Agency (NIA) with terror-related offences. Briggs (left) and Will Bosworth monitor a robotic cheetah during a test run on an from @LoujainHathloul stopped. her wait she had said she was “opti- Majeed told NIA officers he was sidelined by the Activists said she was arrested at the mistic”, and earlier joked: “If someone jihadists for whom he fetched water and performed athletic field at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. —- AP border with the United Arab Emirates brings me a horse or a camel to the bor- other lowly tasks such as cleaning toilets, instead of yesterday afternoon, but the interior der, maybe then I’ll be allowed to pass.” taking part in the deadly offensive like he wanted, MIT engineers have high ministry could not immediately com- The other activist who spoke to AFP the Press Trust of India news agency reported. He ment on her case. Another woman, UAE- said Hathloul was trying to make a point phoned his family to say he wanted to come home based Saudi journalist Maysaa Alamoudi, in her unusual attempt to drive through after suffering an unexplained bullet wound for hopes for cheetah robot who went to support her, was also arrest- the border. “She knew that they wouldn’t which he did not get proper medical attention, the CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts: It’s a ed, an activist told AFP. “They transferred let her pass,” the activist said. During agency said late Sunday. “Only after I begged them, I to design key elements from scratch robot unlike any other: Inspired by the her and Maysaa... to the bureau of inves- October dozens of women drove in was taken to a hospital,” he was quoted as saying by because of a lack of or shortcomings in world’s fastest land animal, controlled by tigation” at a Saudi police station, said Saudi Arabia and posted images of NIA officers. “There was neither a holy war nor any of existing technology.