SUBSCRIPTION MONDAY, MAY 2, 2016 RAJAB 25, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net 13th Arab Media Protesters quit ‘Obama out’: Martial strikes Forum kicks off Green Zone after President gets as Manchester with series unprecedented in final laughs United make of discussions3 breach 7 with36 US media Leicester20 wait Yemen talks suspended Min 21º Max 39º after Houthis seize base High Tide 07:00 & 18:02 Low Tide 12:32 40 PAGES NO: 16862 150 FILS Govt accuses rebels of ‘torpedoing’ peace talks KUWAIT: Yemen’s government temporarily suspended Nod to bedoons’ yesterday its participation in talks with Iran-backed rebels in protest at their takeover of a military base and contin- employment in ued ceasefire violations, officials said. “The delegation of the republic of Yemen has suspended its participation in Kuwait talks because of the continued violations by rebels government jobs and their takeover of Al-Amaliqa base,” foreign minister and head of delegation Abdulmalek Al-Mikhlafi said on By B Izzak Twitter. He said the suspension will last “until guarantees for compliance were provided”, without providing details. KUWAIT: The National Assembly’s financial and A spokesman for Mikhlafi told AFP that the govern- economic affairs committee yesterday approved a ment delegation has suspended its participation in both proposal to allow the employment of stateless peo- “direct and indirect” talks taking place in Kuwait. “The sus- ple or bedoons in government jobs, rapporteur of pension will continue until guarantees are provided that the panel said. MP Mohammad Al-Jabri said that the rebels will stop their ceasefire violations and withdraw the proposal gives the priority of jobs to children of from the base,” Mane Al-Matari told AFP. Kuwaiti women married to bedoons and those A statement by the government delegation called on counted in the 1965 census. The lawmaker said the the UN envoy, Kuwait and other Gulf states and countries proposal applies to bedoons holding high degrees. backing the peace process “to apply pressure on the other The government appoints bedoons under side to comply with peace requirements”. The United extremely exceptional cases like teachers and nurses, Nations said it was informed by the government delega- but their appointment is not permitted. Bedoons are tion that it will not attend a round of talks scheduled for people who or their ancestors were born in Kuwait later yesterday. decades ago and claim they have no other nationali- UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said he made ty documents. The government insists the bedoons contacts with members of both delegations and that he have discarded their identification documents in a had received assurances that they would continue to try bid to get Kuwaiti citizenship with its benefits. There to resolve their differences but without face-to-face meet- are around 110,000 bedoons in Kuwait. Head of the ings. Houthi rebel spokesman Mohammed Abdulsalam financial affairs panel MP Faisal Al-Shaye meanwhile ADEN: Yemeni security forces inspect the site of a car bombing in Aden’s Mansura district yesterday. The however criticized the Yemeni government’s decision. said the committee completed the approval in princi- bomb-laden car exploded as General Shallal Shayae’s convoy passed, damaging military vehicles and “Those who don’t want peace ... are the ones who create ple of the key public tenders law which included new prompting clashes between his guards and Al-Qaeda suspects in the area, officials said, adding that four false justifications and reasons to obstruct,” the talks, controls on the awarding of tenders. Yemeni guards were killed in the bombing that targeted the convoy of Aden’s police chief, the second such Abdulsalam wrote on Twitter. Continued on Page 13 attack on him this week. — AFP Continued on Page 13 Tear gas, tensions on May Day PARIS: French and Turkish police fired the French capital for a rally riding a wave Qaeda down but tear gas at protesters as tensions erupted of anger against planned labor reforms in both countries during May Day rallies set to come before parliament tomorrow. yesterday, while thousands marched Ten people were arrested, while one far from out five across the globe for the annual celebra- demonstrator and one officer were lightly tion of worker’s rights. From Moscow to injured in the scuffles, police said. years after Laden Madrid, workers chanted demands for The May Day rally was the second higher wages, better conditions and protest against the reforms in a week to DUBAI: Five years after the killing of Al-Qaeda chief more job security as many countries bat- descend into violence led by trouble- Osama bin Laden, the network he founded is far tle economic uncertainty and high makers known as “casseurs” (breakers) from dead even if it has suffered a series of set- unemployment. who actively seek confrontation with backs. Replaced as the preeminent global jihadist Thick clouds of tear gas hung above security forces. “We will respond with the power by the Islamic State group, Al-Qaeda the Place de la Nation square in Paris greatest of determination to these trou- nonetheless remains a potent force and dangerous where youths in balaclavas and ski masks blemakers... the attacks and violence threat, experts say. With last year’s Charlie Hebdo lobbed cobblestones and bottles at against security forces are unacceptable,” massacre in Paris and a wave of shootings in West black-clad riot troops shouting: “Everyone said French Prime Minister Manuel Valls JEDDAH: In this May 8, 2014 file photo, a man works on construction of the Africa, Al-Qaeda has shown it can still carry out its hates the police.” Police estimated some on Sunday. Kingdom Tower, a planned 252-storey building which aims to become the trademark spectacular attacks. 17,000 protesters marched throughout Continued on Page 13 world’s tallest skyscraper when complete. — AP And in Syria and Yemen its militants have seized on chaos to take control of significant territory, even presenting themselves as an alternative to the Binladin employees set brutality of IS rule. By the time US special forces killed bin Laden in Pakistan on May 2, 2011, the buses ablaze in protest group he founded in the late 1980s had been badly damaged, with many of its militants and leaders RIYADH: Employees at the Saudi thousands of the firm’s employees have killed or captured in the US “War on Terror”. Binladin Group, a construction giant, been staging rare protests in Makkah Dissention grew in the jihadist ranks as new have set fire to more than seven compa- and the Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah, Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri struggled in bin ny buses in the latest protest by disgrun- with some saying they have not been Laden’s place, until one of its branches, originally Al- tled staff over not being paid salaries for paid for six months. Qaeda in Iraq, broke away to form the Islamic State months and a large round of reported The attack on the company’s buses of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). After seizing large parts layoffs. Maj Nayef Al-Sharif, the comes a day after the Saudi Al-Watan news- of Iraq and Syria in 2014, the group declared an spokesman for the Civil Defense in the paper quoted an unnamed source as say- Islamic “caliphate” in areas under its control, calling city of Makkah, said late Saturday that ing the company has terminated employ- itself simply the Islamic State. IS has since eclipsed firefighters put out the blaze without any ment for 50,000 foreign workers and issued its former partner, drawing thousands of jihadists to injuries reported. them exit visas. Many of those workers are its cause and claiming responsibility for attacks that The Binladin Group has not issued any apparently refusing to leave without being have left hundreds dead in Brussels, Paris, Tunisia, statements about the reported layoffs or paid their late wages, the newspaper Turkey, Lebanon, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and on a the unrest. Calls and an email request for reported. Also Friday, local newspapers Russian airliner over Egypt. Its self-declared “emir” comment to the company were not reported that five construction workers Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi has won pledges of PARIS: Police stand in formation as they clash with protesters at a traditional immediately returned. For several weeks, Continued on Page 13 Continued on Page 13 May Day demonstration yesterday. — AFP Qatar racing camels bred for success DOHA: Deep in the Qatari desert, Musharif increasing number of pens filled with resting ness, Tharb’s work is increasingly important, spends his afternoons “swimming” in a large camels dotted along the dusty highway close and the first camels bred at the center are pool that doubles as a jacuzzi, just one of the to the hospital. already racing in Qatar. Tibary admitted that perks of being a racing camel. “It’s for his mus- But there is a reason for its remoteness - it research into breeding camels had “lagged cles, it’s good for the speed,” shouts one of is not only a hospital, but also a breeding cen- behind” similar work with other animals, but Musharif’s handlers pointing at the water as tre for camels through embryo transfer and no longer. “I think it’s the future just like we the calm three-year-old animal is led by a artificial insemination and it needs to be iso- have seen in other species,” he said. Artificial rope along the length of the pool at Tharb lated to protect its valuable “crops”. “You want breeding means owners of camels being sent camel hospital. The pool stands next to the a centre like this to be far enough yet accessi- to stud can command increasingly high hospital, in what looks like a huge agricultural ble to the potential users,” said Ahmed Tibary, prices.