THULQADA 6, 1440 AH TUESDAY JULY 9, 2019 Max 47º 28 Pages Min 36º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17877 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Mitsotakis becomes Greece’s new How conspiracy theories US financier Epstein charged Brazil win Copa America 621PM on vow to end economic crisis followed man to the Moon 24 with sex trafficking minors 27 despite Jesus dismissal Performance of Kuwait bourse fourth best globally this year Bader Al-Kharafi stresses role of private sector to achieve Amir’s vision KUWAIT: Kuwait’s stock exchange (Boursa Kuwait) has emerged as the fourth best in the world in 2019 in terms of performance, while it has surpassed all others in the Gulf region since the start of this year, according to a local investment firm. Boursa Kuwait’s performance was worth 14.8 percent in the first half of the year, while Gulf markets had risen by 2.3 per- cent based on leading index provider Standard and Poor’s rankings, read an NBK Capital report. HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received yesterday at Bayan Palace Minister of Commerce and Industry and Minister of State for Services Khaled Al-Roudhan, who pre- sented members of the Board of Commissioners of Kuwait Capital Market Authority and the Board of Directors of Kuwait Stock Exchange and Kuwait Clearing Company on the occasion of Kuwait being promoted as an emerging market by Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI). HH the Amir praised efforts exerted by all concerned parties, KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives yesterday at Bayan Palace Minister of Commerce and Industry and Minister of State for which resulted in this achievement, which would Services Khaled Al-Roudhan, members of the Board of Commissioners of Kuwait Capital Market Authority and the Board of Directors of Kuwait Stock Exchange and enhance confidence in the national economy status Kuwait Clearing Company. — KUNA locally and internationally. Private sector representative and head of Boursa nomic developments achieved through the bourse’s egation, adding HH the Amir is keen on giving the with HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al- Kuwait’s executive committee Bader Al-Kharafi privatization. Speaking after being received by HH private sector ample chances to play its role in Mubarak Al-Sabah, Kharafi demanded full support stressed HH the Amir’s vision on empowering the the Amir, Kharafi stressed that meeting the Amir developing the national economy and leading it to enlist government firms such as oil and petro- private sector is fully compatible with recent eco- gave a great deal of moral support to the entire del- towards leadership. In addition, following a meeting chemical companies in the bourse. — Agencies job because the government agency responsible for uralization, adding the draft law only deals with basic human MP urges probe bedoons refused to renew his special security ID. He was rights. “Even if we accept that the forefathers of the bedoons Tremors in Kuwait buried yesterday. were wrong, how should we deal with the current generation His death stirred strong reactions on social media from who should be enjoying humanitarian and civil rights?” into suicide by rights activists and Kuwaiti citizens, who demanded a quick Damkhi asked. He strongly criticized the central committee for as quake hits Iran solution for the plight of over 120,000 bedoons living in bedoons for fighting bedoons in every aspect of their lives and bedoon denied ID Kuwait. Damkhi expressed sorrow over the incident, describ- depriving them from leading a decent life. KUWAIT/TEHRAN: A 5.7-magnitude earth- ing the suicide as a “tragedy” and called for probing the Meanwhile, the court of appeals yesterday upheld a quake struck southwest Iran near the border with issue. The lawmaker said the Assembly’s human rights panel five-year jail term against prominent Shiite cleric Hussein Iraq yesterday, causing one death due to a heart By B Izzak discussed the issue of suicide or attempted suicide incidents Al-Maatouq and another person for giving shelter ille- attack and dozens of injuries, the country’s relief among bedoons and the panel found it was rising, adding that gally to members of a pro-Hezbollah cell which was and rescue organization said. The quake, whose KUWAIT: Head of the National Assembly’s human rights “we found pain, sufferings and misery” among bedoons in busted by police. While police were searching for the epicenter was in the Masjed Soleiman area of committee MP Adel Al-Damkhi called the suicide of a young every aspect of life. He added the official body overseeing suspects, who were eventually convicted and sentenced Khuzestan province, hit at 11:30 am (0700 GMT) stateless or bedoon man as alarming and dangerous and bedoons had attributed this to reasons other than their plight. to various jail terms, the defendant along with others at a depth of 17 km, the national seismological called for a probe to prevent this from happening again. Damkhi recalled that the committee approved a draft law provided them with shelter. The verdict is not final as the center reported. The region was rattled by seven Twenty-year-old Ayed Hamad Medath was found hanging in for civil rights for bedoons, but the committee came under fire suspect can appeal to the court of cassation, the highest aftershocks, the strongest of which measured 4.7 his room on Sunday after he was reportedly fired from his because of the bill, which was deliberately mixed up with nat- court in the country. magnitude, it said. Kuwait yesterday felt the effects of the earth- quake, leading to a tremor that did not cause any News in brief reported damages. The National Seismic UAE cuts troops in Network, a Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) affiliate, confirmed that a 5.9- Ethiopia to send 50K workers to UAE mangitude earthquake hit western Iran, causing Yemen; drawdown the tremor felt in Kuwait. The epicenter of the ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia will send 50,000 people to earthquake in Iran was 10 km in depth and agreed with Saudis work in the UAE, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy occurred 256 km from Kuwait City, it added. The Ahmed announced yesterday. “Ethiopia is planning network indicated that several aftershocks were DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates said yesterday it short-term measures to reduce unemployment in also registered at 4.6 and 5.2 magnitude - howev- was redeploying and reducing troops across war-torn Ethiopia and to cope with the increasing job er, the general populace did not feel them. Yemen and moving from a “military-first” strategy to a demands of our people,” Abiy told parliament in the Continued on Page 24 capital Addis Ababa. He said that under the deal, “peace-first” plan. The UAE is a key partner in a KHOKHA, Yemen: In this file photo taken on Jan 20, 2019, Saudi-led military coalition which intervened in Yemen 50,000 workers would be sent to UAE in the Emirati fighters from the Saudi-backed coalition forces 2019/2020 fiscal year, and discussions are being held in 2015 to back the internationally recognized govern- board a helicopter at a military base. — AFP ment of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi against to send 200,000 over the next three years. — AFP Iran-aligned Houthi rebels. “We do have troop levels Iran warns to up that are down for reasons that are strategic in (the Red The official however reiterated the UAE’s commit- Sea city of) Hodeida and reasons that are tactical” in ment to the Yemeni government and the Saudi-led Ex-minister quits Turkey ruling party other parts of the country, a senior UAE official, who coalition, saying discussions on redeployment have enrichment, slams requested anonymity, told reporters. “It is very much been ongoing for more than a year. “This is not really a ANKARA: Turkey’s former economy minister Ali to do with moving from what I would call a military- last-minute decision. This is part of the process and Babacan resigned from the ruling party yesterday, first strategy to a peace-first strategy, and this is I naturally a process within the coalition seizure of tanker local media reported, in a blow to President Recep think what we are doing.” Continued on Page 24 Tayyip Erdogan. Babacan, a founding member of GENEVA/DUBAI: Iran threatened yesterday to restart the Justice and Development Party (AKP), cited deactivated centrifuges and ramp up enrichment of “deep differences” over policy and said Turkey was uranium to 20 percent purity as its next potential big in need of a “new vision”, in a statement criticizing moves away from a 2015 nuclear agreement that 29 killed as bus the government’s direction. There has been fevered Washington abandoned last year. The threats, made by speculation that Babacan will set up his own politi- Tehran’s nuclear agency spokesman, would go far plunges off India’s cal party. Babacan appeared to confirm the rumors, beyond the small steps Iran has taken in the past week insisting a “new effort” was “inevitable” for to nudge stocks of fissile material just beyond limits in Turkey’s future. — AFP the pact. That could raise serious questions about ‘highway to hell’ whether the agreement, intended to block Iran from making a nuclear weapon, is still viable. AGRA, India: At least 29 people were killed and 18 oth- The two threats would reverse major achievements ers injured when a bus careered off a notorious Indian Morocco seizes 27 tons of cannabis of the agreement, although Iran omitted important highway after the driver apparently fell asleep at the details about how far it might go to returning to the RABAT: Moroccan police seized a “record” 27.3 wheel, officials said yesterday.