SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2016 SHAABAN 3, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Filipinos in Impeachment Indian PM Cavs sweep into Kuwait elect drive against releases his Eastern finals, Duterte in Rousseff tips degrees in ‘fake Thunder pull landslide3 into chaos7 graduation’11 row level20 with Spurs Yemen foes resume direct Min 25º Max 38º talks after mediation: UN High Tide 02:50 & 13:33 Low Tide Saudi forces intercept ballistic missile from Yemen 08:16 & 21:05 40 PAGES NO: 16869 150 FILS KUWAIT: Yemen’s warring parties resumed face-to-face talks yesterday following a two-day interruption after Two killed mediation efforts and an appeal by the UN envoy, the United Nations said. A UN spokesman told AFP that by lightning three joint working groups formed last week met yester- day afternoon in an attempt to resume discussion of the key issues. These include the withdrawal of the Iran- strike at sea backed Houthi rebels from areas they occupied in a 2014 offensive, the surrender of weapons, the release of pris- By Hanan Al-Saadoun oners and detainees and agreeing a political settlement. Hours after the talks resumed, Saudi air defenses KUWAIT: In a rare incident of its kind, a coast- intercepted a ballistic missile fired from Yemen. The Arab guard diver and a citizen were killed after they coalition backing the Yemeni government made the were struck by a lightning bolt off Khairan beach announcement and slammed a “dangerous escalation” yesterday. The Interior Ministry said in a statement by the Houthis. The coalition is cooperating with the that a jet ski of citizen Saad Khaled Al-Shereeda international community “to maintain calm and help the broke down and a coastguard boat was dis- Kuwait talks to succeed”, a statement said. But it also patched to rescue him. The ministry added that warned that the coalition “reserves the right to retaliate the coastguard diver, Abdullah Othman Al- at the appropriate time and place” if there are further Doussary, jumped in the water to help the man, attacks. but they were both struck by lightning and were The renewed direct talks came a day after mediation killed instantly. In October last year, an Asian was by the Kuwaiti foreign minister, ambassadors of the killed by lightning in northern Kuwait during a mostly Western 18 countries backing the peace process freak storm. It is estimated that 6,000 to as many and UN Special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed. Earlier as 24,000 people are killed around the world by yesterday, Ould Cheikh Ahmed urged the two warring lightning strikes every year. parties to make concessions to save peace talks aimed at ending a devastating 13-month war in the Arabian Peninsula country. “The participants in the Kuwait nego- tiations must reflect the aspirations of the Yemeni peo- ple. I am confident that Yemenis want an end to the con- flict,” Ould Cheikh Ahmed said in a statement. Ould Cheikh Ahmed later praised the delegations for SEOUL: Kuwaiti Prime Minister HH Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah meets South Korean their cooperation but warned that problems still existed. President Park Geun-hye at the Blue House yesterday. — KUNA (See Page 2) “There is no doubt that we are at a true crossroads. Continued on Page 13 Nod to labor law amendments Cabinet OKs Limak airport contract • MP threatens to grill Saleh By B Izzak KUWAIT: The National Assembly health and labor com- mittee yesterday agreed to amend five articles of the 2010 labor law for the private sector to mainly stiffen penalty against visa traders, the rapporteur of the panel said. MP Saadoun Hammad said the panel agreed to amend article 138 to increase the fine against employ- ers who recruit workers from outside the country or hire them locally and fail to provide them with the pre- scribed jobs. The original article penalizes such employers for up to three years in jail and a fine of between KD 1,000 and 5,000. The amendment raised the fine to between KD 2,000 and 10,000 per worker. The fine also applies to workers who employ foreign workers not on their CAIRO: Egyptian firefighters fight a fire at the popular market area of Al- DAVAO CITY: Presidential candidate Mayor Rodrigo Duterte clenches his fist pri- residency. Visa trading has been one of the most seri- Atabaa in downtown Cairo yesterday. — AFP or to voting in a polling precinct at Daniel R Aguinaldo National High School in ous crimes in the labor market and for which Kuwait the Matina district of his hometown yesterday. —AP has been repeatedly placed on the US blacklist of traf- ficking in persons. Two dead, 88 injured in The ministry of social affairs and labor has referred a Duterte wins Philippine large number of companies to the public prosecution on suspicion of visa trading. The committee also agreed downtown Cairo fire to amend article 140 which deals with violations against CAIRO: Two people died and 88 others materials which helped the fire to spread. presidential elections ministry inspectors who make sure private sector busi- including firefighters were injured yester- “There are two dead and 88 injured,” health nesses comply with the law. It raised the fine on the vio- day when a fire spread quickly through a ministry spokesman Khaled Megahed told MANILA: Anti-establishment firebrand staunch supporter of electoral reform, I lation from the current maximum of KD 1,000 and made Rodrigo Duterte secured a huge win in have a firm belief in the voice and senti- commercial area in downtown Cairo, AFP. “Two charred bodies were found in it at least KD 500 and up to KD 1,000. Egyptian officials said. It is not yet known the rubble,” he said, adding that most of the Philippine presidential elections, ment of our people. I honor the result of It also amended article 142 which stipulates a jail what caused the blaze that erupted the injured were suffering from smoke according to a poll monitor, after an our elections,” Poe told reporters in term not exceeding six months and a fine of up to overnight in a small hotel in the Al-Mosky inhalation. By midday the fire had been incendiary campaign dominated by his Manila. “I congratulate Mayor Rodrigo KD 2,000 for those who open an establishment after neighborhood not far from the Al-Azhar brought under control, Cairo fire chief profanity-laced vows to kill criminals. Duterte and pledge my support in work- the ministry inspectors have ordered its partial or mosque, and spread rapidly to four nearby Gamal Halawa said, adding that 16 fire- Duterte, the longtime mayor of the ing to heal our land and to unite our total closure. buildings, police told AFP. The buildings fighters and police also suffered from southern city of Davao, hypnotized mil- people toward the continued develop- Continued on Page 13 included warehouses containing plastic smoke inhalation. — AFP lions with his vows of brutal but quick ment of our country.” In the Philippines, a solutions to the nation’s twin plagues of winner is decided simply by whomever crime and poverty, which many believed gets the most votes. had worsened despite strong economic Duterte, a pugnacious 71-year-old, Earthlings watch as tiny growth in recent years. surged from outsider to the top of sur- And after a record turnout of voters in veys with cuss-filled vows to kill tens of Mercury sails past sun yesterday’s elections, Duterte scored a thousands of criminals, threats to estab- commanding victory, according to data lish one-man rule if lawmakers dis- CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: Tiny Mercury, Green said. About 13 times a century, released by the PPCRV, a Catholic obeyed him and promises to embrace the solar system’s innermost planet, sailed Mercury and Earth line up, giving armchair Church-run poll monitor accredited by communist rebels. He also boasted across the face of the sun yesterday, a stargazers and professional astronomers a the government to tally the votes. With repeatedly about his Viagra-fuelled celestial dance that occurs about once chance to view Mercury as it passes 88 percent of the vote counted early affairs, while promising voters his mis- every decade as Earth and its smaller between Earth and the sun. today morning, Duterte had an insur- tresses would not cost a lot because he neighboring planet align in space. The Yesterday’s transit was the first since mountable lead of 5.84 million votes kept them in cheap boarding houses and journey, which astronomers refer to as a NASA’s MESSENGER mission to Mercury, over his nearest rival, administration can- took them to short-stay hotels for sex. “transit,” began with what looked to be a which orbited the planet from 2011 to didate Mar Roxas, according to the data. Duterte caused further disgust in small, black dot on the edge of the sun at 2015. The spacecraft relayed startling “It’s with humility, extreme humility, that international diplomatic circles with a 7:12 am EDT (1112 GMT), images relayed details of Mercury’s heavily cratered and I accept this, the mandate of the people,” joke that he wanted to rape a “beauti- live on NASA TV showed. Over the next unexpectedly diverse landscape. Though Duterte told AFP as the results came in. ful” Australian missionary who was seven and a half hours, Mercury, which temperatures on Mercury’s surface reach “What I can promise you is that I will do killed in a 1989 Philippine prison riot, travels at a speed of 48 km a second, 427 degrees Celsius - hot enough to melt my very best not just in my waking hours and by abusing the pope.