SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2013 SHAABAN 23, 1434 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Hollande says Timberlake, Lisicki ends Maracana US spying Wilson, Serena’s reign magic as threaten free Monae shine as Wimbledon Brazil trade10 pact at38 BET Awards champion20 rout20 Spain Egypt army gives Morsi Max 48º Min 35º 48 hours to share power High Tide 06:35 & 19:53 President meets Sisi • Brotherhood HQ torched • 5 ministers quit Low Tide 00:22 & 13:38 40 PAGES NO: 15857 150 FILS CAIRO: Egypt’s armed forces handed Islamist President Mohamed Morsi a virtual ultimatum to share power yes- terday, giving feuding politicians 48 hours to compro- mise or have the army impose its own road map for the country. A dramatic military statement broadcast on state television declared the nation was in danger after millions of Egyptians took to the streets on Sunday to demand that Morsi quit and the headquarters of the ruling Muslim Brotherhood were ransacked. Since the fall of Hosni Mubarak more than two years ago as the Arab Spring revolutions took hold, the Arab world’s most populous nation has remained in turmoil, arousing concern amongst allies in the West and in neighbouring Israel, with which Egypt has had a peace treaty since 1979. Morsi’s backers were furious at the military statement: “The age of military coups is over,” said Yasser Hamza of the Brotherhood parliamentary wing. But it provoked delight among liberal leaders and crowds in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, who cheered when a flight of military helicopters swooped overhead trailing national flags. Silhouetted against the sunset, it was a powerful illustration of the military’s desire to be seen in tune with the people. “If the demands of the people are not realised within the defined period, it will be incumbent upon (the armed forces) ... to announce a road map for the future,” chief-of-staff General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said in the statement, which was followed by patriotic music. The people had expressed their will with unprecedented clarity in the mass demonstrations, he said, and wasting more time would only increase the danger of division and strife. The army said it would oversee the imple- mentation of the roadmap it sought “with the participa- tion of all factions and national parties, including young people”, but it would not get directly involved in politics or government. Morsi’s office later said the president met Sisi and Prime Minister Hisham Kandil, releasing a picture of them seated together smiling, but did not respond to the military statement. Anti-Morsi demonstrators out- side the presidential palace cheered the army state- ment, and the main opposition National Salvation Front, which has demanded a national unity govern- ment for months, applauded the military’s move. CAIRO: A protester holds an Egyptian national flag as he andothers attack the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in the Muqattam district yesterday. — AP Continued on Page 15 2 Kuwaitis die New petition to suspend polls filed in Saudi crash By Hanan Al Saadoun Heavyweights among 38 new candidates KUWAIT: Two Kuwaitis were killed when their SUV By B Izzak citizens to vote, their residential areas Labour Thekra Al-Rasheedi is the elected the election until the constitutional court flipped over east of Rafha governorate in Saudi must be part of any of the five con- MP but her membership has been nulli- explains parts of its June 16 ruling. The Arabia yesterday. Saudi Red Crescent spokesman KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti voter residing in the stituencies.It was the third petition fied after the constitutional court ruling court is scheduled to issue the explana- Musaed Al-Enezi said after receiving a call at dawn new residential area of Nahdha yesterday against the election. on June 16. Abdulhadi said that all deci- tion on Sept 18. about a car accident, ambulances rushed to the scene filed a new petition calling for the court Lawyer Adel Al-Abdulhadi filed a peti- sions issued by the Cabinet are illegal A number of heavyweights were to find two Kuwaiti killed and two injured. Enezi said to suspend the July 27 election because tion calling the administrative court to and warned that if the election was not among 38 new candidates who filed to that one of the injured was taken to hospital by his area is not listed among any of the call off the election because the Amiri stopped to rectify the constitutional run in the election yesterday, including ambulance, while the other was taken by a citizen. He five electoral constituencies. As a result, decree calling for polls was approved by error, the results will be challenged and several candidates who were among the urged people not to transport the injured themselves the voter will not be able to participate an illegitimate Cabinet. The constitution this may lead to scrapping the Assembly opposition that boycotted the Dec 1 because paramedics have the necessary tools to pro- in the election either as a candidate or stipulates that the Cabinet must include for the third time since June last year. The election. The new candidates included tect them and deal properly with various injuries. voter. Under Kuwait election law, a candi- at least one elected MP. In the current second petition was filed by Jassem Al- Riyadh Al-Adasani and Abdullah date must be a registered voter and for Cabinet, Minister of Social Affairs and Enezi who called on the court to freeze Continued on Page 15 Snowden seeking Deadline looms US wildfire rages after for illegal expats killing 19 firefighters asylum in Russia in Saudi Arabia PRESCOTT, Arizona: Reinforcements most from a US wildfire in 80 years. “The poured in yesterday to battle a runaway Yarnell fire exploded into a firestorm that MOSCOW: US leaker Edward Snowden the Sheremetyevo airport, where he had RIYADH: Illegal foreign workers in Saudi Arabia, wildfire which quadrupled in size overran the local Granite Mountain hot- has applied for asylum in Russia and been staying for more than a week in mostly Asians, are in a race against time to take overnight after killing 19 firefighters in shots,” Arizona governor Jan Brewer told President Vladimir Putin said yesterday legal limbo, a foreign ministry official advantage of an amnesty ending tomorrow that one of the worst such incidents in US his- reporters. Recalling the 340 who died on he was welcome to stay as long as he told AFP. “At 10.30 pm (1830 GMT) yester- would allow them to stay or return home without tory. The Yarnell Hill fire - which killed all 9/11, she added: “Just as we honor the stopped leaking US intelligence reports. day, British citizen Sarah Harrison turned prosecution. King Abdullah announced the but one member of a 20-strong “hotshot” memory of the firefighters lost that day as On Sunday night, Snowden applied for up at the consulate department at amnesty on April 3, granting foreign workers three team - was the biggest loss of firefighters’ they charged into the burning towers, we political asylum at the consulate office of Continued on Page 15 months to regularise their residency or leave the lives since the Sept 11 attacks, and the Continued on Page 15 oil-rich Gulf monarchy to avoid being blacklisted or jailed and fined. More than 1.5 million illegal foreign workers came forward during the first two months of the amnesty, the labour ministry said. It did not say how many illegal foreign workers currently live in the kingdom, but the number is reported to be around two million. Of these, some 180,000 have left in addition to more than 200,000 unregistered workers expelled at the start of the year under new regulations to stamp out illegal immigration. Many workers are still queueing out- side their embassies to obtain documents to either leave Saudi Arabia or legalise their status before tomorrow. As in most Gulf states, foreigners in Saudi Arabia need to be sponsored by a local business to obtain entry and work permits. Foreigners desperate to work in the country are willing to pay for sponsor- ship, and sponsoring expatriates has become a MOSCOW: (From left) Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki, Iranian President lucrative business for some Saudis. But under the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Venezuelan new rules workers can be employed only by their President Nicolas Maduro and Bolivian President Evo Morales attend a family own sponsors. photo session during the Gas Exporting Countries Forum at the Kremlin yester- Continued on Page 15 day. — AFP YARNELL, Arizona: A wildfire burns homes in the Glenn Ilah area on Sunday. — AP TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2013 LOCAL KUWAIT: The Kuwait Cabinet holding a session yesterday. It approved a draft decree appointing Saleh Ahmad Al-Sarawi as assistant Undersecretary at the Finance Ministry. Al-Sarawi currently holds the post as Director of Financial Planning and Follow up in the Budget department in the Finance Ministry. Cabinet approves draft decree granting nationality to 55 KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti Cabinet approved yes- Mubarak Al-Sabah said that the decision was violations. Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled also briefed the terday a draft-decree granting Kuwaiti citizen- taken after recommendations from the Higher Meanwhile, the Ministers sent congratula- Sabah from President of Nicaragua JosÈ Daniel Cabinet about talks held with US Secretary of ship to 55 persons in accordance with articles Committee of Citizenship. tions to Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani on Ortega Saavedra and President of CÙte State during his recent visit to Kuwait. five and seven of Kuwait nationality Law No. Minister of Education and Minister of assuming his new role as the Amir of Qatar.