SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 2016 THULQADAL 4, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net 25 runaway Bar fire Trump, eyeing American teen maids, nurse kills 13 at campaign Thrasher wins arrested in birthday party reset, backs first gold of two raids3 in France7 Ryan, McCain9 Rio20 Games Yemen talks suspended after Min 35º rebels name governing body Max 49º High Tide 02:57 & 14:18 UN envoy slams ‘unilateral’ step, praises Kuwait Low Tide 08:47 & 21:42 40 PAGES NO: 16955 150 FILS KUWAIT: The UN suspended talks between Yemen’s warring parties yesterday after the rebels and their allies appointed a council to run the country in a blow to the peace process. In July, the rebels and forces allied to for- mer Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh rejected a UN peace plan and announced the creation of a “supreme political council” to run Yemen. At the time, UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed denounced the council as a “grave breach” of UN Security Council Resolution 2216 and a violation of commitments to the peace process. Yesterday, he said he was suspending peace talks that Kuwait has hosted for more than three months, but also said he would con- tinue to consult with both sides to arrange further negotiations. “We will be leaving Kuwait today but the Yemeni peace talks are continuing,” Ould Cheikh Ahmed told reporters in Kuwait City. He said he will Ould Cheikh Ahmed hold bilateral consultations with the two delegations in the coming weeks to work out details of a peace plan. “We have guarantees and commitments from the two sides that they are ready to return to the negotiat- ing table,” he said, adding that a new round of talks could begin in a month’s time. Ould Cheikh Ahmed RIO DE JANEIRO: People watch fireworks exploding over the Maracana Stadium from the Mangueira refused to call the talks under way since April a failure, favela during the opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games late Friday. (Inset) Former although they made no headway. But he did say the Brazilian athlete Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima lights the Olympic cauldron with the Olympic torch dur- creation of the council by the rebels and their allies was ing the opening ceremony. — AFP (Full coverage on Pages 17-20) not in the interests of Yemen or the peace process. “We condemn any unilateral step,” he said. Rio Games get off to troubled start Continued on Page 13 Manila, Riyadh Gisele, samba at glittering opening ceremony to negotiate over RIO DE JANEIRO: The Rio Olympics got off to a trou- police. The explosion stunned crowds gathering for the Olympic Boulevard. stranded workers bled start yesterday as a loud blast erupted near the the end of the race. The race leaders were about 100 The events overshadowed a busy opening day of cycling race’s finish line and a bullet ripped through km away at the time. action in which little-known American teenager MANILA: The Philippines said yesterday it would the media tent at the equestrian venue. Long Elsewhere at the Deodoro venue, onlookers were Virginia Thrasher became the first gold-medalist, in the within days send government missions to Saudi queues also formed outside venues - as competition shocked when a bullet pierced the temporary venue women’s 10m air rifle, the first of 306 medal events. In Arabia to help thousands of jobless Filipinos left went on inside - as volunteers and security staff housing media, leaving visible holes in the fabric roof swimming, China’s Sun Yang was to defend his 400m stranded across the kingdom after the plunge in oil struggled to cope with a sudden influx of fans. and wall. It made for an unsettling day one of the Rio crown later yesterday, and Britain’s Tour de France Chris prices. The first batch of officials would fly to Saudi The Brazilian military carried out a controlled Games, which were launched in a blaze of color by Froome was among the road race competitors. Serbian Arabia on Wednesday “to provide immediate explosion near the Copacabana finish line of Rio Friday’s flamboyant opening ceremony. But in further rowers Milos Vasic and Nenad Bedik capsized in chop- humanitarian, legal, and other consular assistance Olympics men’s road cycling race yesterday, witness- violence on Friday, police gunned down a mugger out- py waters at the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon, while Iran’s to the overseas Filipino workers stranded in work es said. Military bomb disposal experts were at the side the ceremony venue, the Maracana stadium, and a Ghader Mizbani suffered a terrifying crash in the camps across Saudi Arabia,” a foreign department scene of the explosion and kept crowds away with woman was shot and killed by armed assailants near cycling race. — Agencies statement said. Continued on Page 13 Rebels break Aleppo siege BEIRUT: Syrian rebels said yesterday they Islamists and jihadists have waged fierce have broken a three-week government assaults since July 31 to end the siege by siege of second city Aleppo, turning the government forces of some 250,000 peo- Firemen tackle tables on Russian-backed regime forces ple in Aleppo’s eastern districts. who are now on the defensive. To the Yesterday, rebel groups successfully Dubai building northeast, a Western-backed alliance of broke the siege by opening a new route Arab and Kurdish fighters scored a major into the city from the southwest, opposi- fire, no injuries victory against the Islamic State group in tion officials said. the town of Manbij after a fierce two- “Rebels break Aleppo’s siege,” tweeted DUBAI: Firefighters fought for hours to control a blaze month battle. The developments have the Istanbul-based opposition National at a multi-storey building under construction in rocked the key northern province of Coalition. Islamist faction Ahrar Al-Sham Dubai’s Jumeirah Village Circle yesterday, the latest in Aleppo, a microcosm of Syria’s chaotic said rebels had seized control of Ramussa a series of fires in the business and tourism hub of the multi-front war that has killed more than on the southwestern edges of the city and United Arab Emirates. The English-language Gulf News 280,000 people. thereby “opened the route to Aleppo”. But said there were no injuries in the fire, which broke out Rebel and regime forces have fought state television said late yesterday the at midday. The newspaper published pictures and a for control of the provincial capital since army had regained control of several key RIO DE JANEIRO: A man points to a Rio 2016 Olympic badge as he displays pins video of the building mid-2012, transforming the former eco- points in a military complex south of and badges for swapping outside the media center of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games showing flames and nomic powerhouse into a divided, Aleppo that rebels overran earlier. on Thursday. — AFP clouds of black smoke. bombed-out city. Opposition fighters, Continued on Page 13 A spokesman said the fire was brought under Badge of honor for control some five hours after it started, Gulf News reported. It was not Olympics pin fans immediately clear if the building was being devel- RIO DE JANEIRO: Basketball legend Yao bright Hawaiian shirt, told AFP. The oped for residential or Ming, Prince Albert II of Monaco and a sprightly septuagenarian, a veteran of 16 commercial purposes. former Finnish president - an eclectic Olympics, has brought 1,000 duplicates Last month a fire broke DUBAI: Smoke billows range of people that Olympic badge to the Rio Games in a bid to swap them out at the residential 75- from an under-construc- enthusiast Sidney Marantz has traded for 1,000 new ones for his burgeoning storey Sulafa Tower in the tion building near pins with. The eccentric 71-year-old is a collection back home. upscale Marina District, Jumeirah Village Circle regular sight at Summer and Winter The Californian and wife Joan have on New Year’s Eve a blaze yesterday.— AFP Games where he and his wife mingle with been causing quite a buzz in the grounds hit a downtown hotel other serious collectors, as well as first- of the main press centre this week, laying and in February last year there was a fire at a 79-storey timers, to supplement their 5,000-strong out an assortment of around 200 pins on residential tower. In Nov 2012, a 34-storey Dubai resi- badge collection. “At Torino ten years ago towels for display each day. They have dential building was badly damaged by fire. I was very excited because I thought I was been joined by fellow American and In some of those cases, experts said the flames may trading with the Finnish Olympic commit- Olympiad badge aficionado Bud Kling, have been encouraged to spread by exterior cladding, tee president. But she turned out to be the proud owner of a whopping 25,000 used for decoration or insulation. The UAE revised its the president of Finland.” pins collected over 15 Games. “What can I building safety code in 2013 to require that cladding “I’ve also traded with Prince Albert. He say? I like trading pins,” the 69-year-old on all new buildings over 15 m tall be fire-resistant, ALEPPO: Syrian civil defense volunteers, known as the White Helmets, gather in a was a very nice guy and very down to told AFP. but older buildings are exempt. — Reuters street in this northern city yesterday in celebration after rebels said they have bro- earth for a royal,” Marantz, wearing a Continued on Page 13 ken a three-week government siege.— AFP SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 2016 LOCAL Pakistan Air Force Chief visits Zain recognizes efforts of Kuwait, meets top army officials Value Added Services partners KUWAIT: Air Chief Marshal Sohail and Commander of Kuwait Air Force Aman NI (M) Chief of Air Staff, Pakistan Major General (Staff) Abdullah Yaqoob Air Force carried out an official visit to Al-Foudari.