SAFAR 23, 1439 AH SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2017 Max 29º 32 Pages 150 Fils Established 1961 Min 19º ISSUE NO: 17379 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Youth stabs father Chinese consumers spend US comedian Louis C K ‘Karate kick’ Evra leaves 3 to death in Jahra 20 billions in shopping binge 29 admits sexual misconduct 16 club, banned until June 30 Militants attack Bahrain oil pipeline, opening new front Manama links ‘terrorist act’ to Iran • Saudi Arabia tightens security DUBAI: An explosion ripped through a pipeline rity support to the kingdom. This “is a dangerous belonging to Bahrain’s state-run oil company and sent Iranian escalation aimed at terrorizing citizens and flames shooting up into the night sky, with government damaging the world’s oil industry,” the minister tweet- officials yesterday blaming the blast on an attack by ed. Iran had no immediate comment yesterday, though militants guided by Iran. No one was injured in the it long has denied being behind Bahrain’s militant explosion late Friday night near the Shiite village of groups. Buri and no militant group immediately claimed the Bahrain produced some 64,000 barrels of crude oil blast. However, it potentially opens a new front in the a day in 2016, far lower than the other oil-producing low-level insurgency plaguing Bahrain since its 2011 nations of the Arabian Gulf, according to the US Arab Spring protests. Energy Information Administration. It has faced The explosion damaged cars and nearby buildings, increasing financial pressure in recent years. Bahrain forcing firefighters to evacuate those close to the flames relies on the Abu Safa oilfield for the majority of its oil. in Buri, just outside of the capital, Manama. Authorities It shares the field with Saudi Arabia. Oil to Bahrain is later extinguished the blaze on the pipeline belonging to transported via the 55 km A-B pipeline which has a the state-run Bahrain Petroleum Co, which closed the capacity of 230,000 barrels per day (bpd). A new flow of oil to the stricken pipeline. Bahrain’s interior min- 350,000-barrels per day oil pipeline between the two ister, Sheikh Rashid bin Abdullah Al-Khalifa, said in a countries will be completed next year and will serve the statement that the blast was “the latest example of a ter- planned expansion of Bahrain’s refinery capacity. rorist act performed by terrorists in direct contact with, Arabian Light crude oil will flow from Saudi Aramco’s and under instruction from, Iran”. He did not say what Abqaiq plant via the 115-km new pipeline, 73 km of caused the explosion, nor did he name any suspects. which will run overland and the rest under the Gulf. Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al- Saudi Arabia’s energy ministry said pumping to Khalifa later tweeted that the explosion had targeted a Bahrain had been suspended and the kingdom was Bahraini Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid bin Abdullah Al-Khalifa talks with a member of pipeline running between the island nation and neigh- stepping up security precautions at its own facilities. the emergency services during his visit to the scene of an explosion yesterday. — AP boring Saudi Arabia, which provides financial and secu- Continued on Page 11 was “not a good thing for our country”. Trump believes “I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it,” added Trump, who is marking one year since his shock elec- Socialism finds Putin’s election tion victory. In May, US intelligence chiefs told comrades among meddling denials Congress that they agreed with their analysts’ conclusion that Russia had meddled in the election. The US presi- US millennials DANANG, Vietnam: Donald Trump dent’s latest comments suggest he said yesterday he believes Vladimir accepts Russia’s staunch denials that the WASHINGTON: While working as an electrician Putin is being sincere when he denies Kremlin played no part in helping him Lee Carter received a literal shock, through one meddling in the election that propelled get to the White House - allegations that hand and across the chest, that jolted him into poli- the US president to power, adding that continue to dog Trump’s administration. tics and turned him on to what was a dirty word in the Russian leader felt “very insulted” Putin also addressed the allegations America for nearly a century: Socialism. His strug- by the allegations. Trump, whose key yesterday after his meeting with Trump, gle to obtain compensation for the workplace former aides are under a US investiga- describing them as a US “domestic polit- injury inspired him to run for office, and this week tion for alleged collaboration with the ical struggle”. “I think these are some Carter ousted a top Republican incumbent to nab a Kremlin, said he repeatedly asked Putin sort of fantasies,” he told reporters in spot in Virginia’s House of Delegates, becoming about the claims during their chats at Danang. Trump’s former campaign chair- one of over a dozen unabashed socialists newly the APEC summit in the Vietnamese man Paul Manafort and an associate are elected to US state and municipal seats one year resort of Danang. under house arrest on charges unrelated DANANG, Vietnam: US President Donald Trump shakes hands with after Donald Trump took the White House. “He (Putin) said he didn’t meddle. I to the election which were brought by Russian President Vladimir Putin as they pose for a group photo ahead of The 31-year-old former Marine is part of a asked him again,” Trump told reporters special counsel Robert Mueller, who is the APEC Summit leaders’ gala dinner on Friday. — AFP growing cadre of Americans, particularly millen- on Air Force One as he flew to Hanoi for investigating the allegations that the nials, pledging their allegiance to the Democratic a state visit. “You can only ask so many Trump campaign colluded with Russia. scrutiny on ties between the nations. tone, with Trump describing a “very Socialists of America, the nation’s fastest growing times... He said he absolutely did not Revelations by Facebook and Twitter Trump and Putin met three times on the good feeling” after the talks, and Putin leftist group that was originally founded in 1982 meddle in our election,” Trump said, that Russian-sponsored fake news margins of the APEC summit, sharing remarking on the “well-mannered” for- as a foothold for Marxists. Riding the wave of adding he felt Putin seemed “very insult- flooded US social media during the elec- warm handshakes and brief words. The mer reality TV star. democratic socialist Bernie Sanders’s spirited ed” by the persistent accusations which tion run-up have further deepened pair appeared to have struck a chummy Continued on Page 11 White House bid against primary rival Hillary Clinton, the organization is helping propel social- ism out of the shadows. President Michel Aoun yesterday called on the king- In the years prior to the Sanders campaign, the Lebanon asks Saudi dom “that is linked to us through deep brotherly and DSA’s number of card-carrying members hovered friendly relations to clarify the reasons that have pre- around 6,500 - and has nearly quintupled since vented the return of PM Hariri to Lebanon to be among 2016’s presidential race to more than 30,000. Its Arabia for explanation his people and supporters”. “The obscurity surround- median age has dropped from about 60 to 35, ing the condition of PM Saad Hariri since his resigna- according to organizers, some of whom have play- on premier’s absence tion a week ago means that all positions and actions fully referred to the surge among youth as a declared by him or attributed to him do not reflect the “socialist baby boom”. BEIRUT: Lebanon’s president urged Saudi Arabia yes- truth,” Aoun added. “They are instead a result of the Dismayed by Trump’s rise to power Jacquelyn terday to explain why Saad Hariri had not returned to ambiguous and obscure conditions (under which) PM Smith in January joined the DSA, which has chap- Beirut since his surprise resignation as prime minister a Hariri is living in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.” ters in nearly every US state. And at just 22 years week ago. Hariri announced on Nov 4 in a televised Aoun yesterday spoke by phone to French President old, she managed Carter’s victorious campaign. statement from Riyadh that he would be stepping down Emmanuel Macron on the “latest developments” around Organizing as a DSA member means “I am chal- from the post, sending shockwaves through Lebanese Hariri’s resignation, Lebanon’s presidency said in a statement. BEIRUT: A woman and her daughter pass by a lenging the root of the problem and not the symp- politics. The premier has yet to return to Lebanon and Aoun has yet to formally accept Hariri’s resignation and has poster of outgoing Lebanese Prime Minister toms,” she told AFP, speaking at a recent conven- rumors have swirled that he is being held in Saudi criticized the circumstances surrounding it as “unacceptable”. Saad Hariri yesterday. — AP tion of the organization’s local Washington branch. Arabia against his will. Continued on Page 11 “I focus a lot less on challenging Trump and a lot more on challenging why he got there in the first place,” she said, citing forces including economic Napoleon Bonaparte. inequality and white supremacist movements. A decade in making, Hundreds of Asian, European and Arab expatriates Today Smith said millennials - a generation that dressed in stylish attire roamed through the vast muse- grew up during the 2008 financial crisis - are eager um alongside Emirati couples in traditional Arabic for socialism, to “embrace the ideology and really Louvre Abu Dhabi dress.