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Kuwait to restudy petrol prices in December: KNPC Motorists switch to cheaper gas KUWAIT: Fuel prices in the country will be revalued early December, as people have started consuming premium-grade petrol instead of super-grade fuel, said a senior official at Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC). The Cabinet has assigned the subsidies committee to re-examine prices of petroleum products every three months, KNPC’s Deputy CEO for Support Services Basem Al-Essa told KUNA yesterday. The committee will discuss the current conditions to decide the suitable prices, he added. Local consumption of fuel has changed since the recent hike in prices, especially with the price difference between the premium and super grades of petrol. Consumption rates of premium petrol jumped from 20 percent to 80 percent after the hike, the official said. He added that KNPC has launched an application called “Kuwait Fuel” for smartphones, aiming to help people choose the right fuel for their cars. Meanwhile, Essa noted that the company is currently executing the biggest projects in
its history since its establishment in 1960. The most prominent project is the Clean Fuel Project at Mina Abdullah and Ahmadi refineries set to launch in mid-2018, with a production capacity of 800,000 barrels per day, he said. KNPC is also working on the Zour refinery project, set to open in Q3 2019, with a production rate of 615,000 barrels per day, he said. The company’s refining capacity is expected to jump to 1.4 million barrels per day, once the two projects are complete, he added. Essa also spoke of the fifth LPG train project for processing additional gases from fields and refineries. The project is set to launch in April 2019, with a production rate of 805 million cu ft of gas daily. KNPC is also developing a sulphur handling facilities project at Mina Ahmadi refinery and a flare gas recovery unit project to reduce environment pollution caused by gas flaring, said Essa. The company provides essential energy products all over Kuwait, he said, adding that KNPC made profits of KD 176 million in the fiscal year 2015-16. — KUNA
DOHA: HH the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (left) meets Qatar’s Father Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani (right) and Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani (center) yesterday to offer condolences on the death of late Qatari Father Emir Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad Al-Thani. — KUNA
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Municipality confirms infected chicken reports
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By Hanan Al-Saadoun KUWAIT: Municipal director of Capital and Mubarak AlKabeer governorate affairs Faisal Sadiq Al-Juman said reports on social media about chicken infected with salmonella are correct. He said the supervisory department took several random samples of chicken and sent them to health ministry laboratories, and the meat was found unfit for human consumption.
Kuwait has third freest press in Arab world
Tycoon eyes messaging app for Middle East DUBAI: Billionaire Mohamed Alabbar, one of Dubai’s most prominent businessmen, plans a phone messaging service for the Middle East that aims to compete with services such as WhatsApp. Alabbar, who made his fortune as the chairman of Dubai’s largest listed property developer, Emaar Properties, has been moving into other areas, in particular technology. Asked on the sidelines of a conference in Dubai yesterday if he was considering launching a messaging app akin to WhatsApp, Alabbar replied: “Yes, soon,” adding “it’s regional” when asked if the service would be designed for an Arabic-speaking audience. Mobile phone penetration in the Gulf region is among the highest in the world, with Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the UAE in the top seven globally with rates near to the equivalent of two phones for every person.
KUWAIT: Bader Al-Kharafi, Vice Chairman of Zain Group (right), Corey Owens, Head of Public Policy at WeWork (center), and Hassan Al-Mosawi, the event’s moderator, are seen during the opening seminar of the Youth Empowerment Symposium (Tmkeen) yesterday. —Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat (More photos on Page 4)
KUWAIT: The fifth annual Youth Empowerment Symposium ( Tmkeen) kicked off yesterday with the aim of providing opportunities for Kuwaiti youth to gain valuable insights about entrepreneurship from industry leaders, academics and experts. At the inaugural seminar, Bader Al-Kharafi, Vice Chairman of Zain Group, and Corey Owens, Head of Public Policy at WeWork, spoke about innovation and the future of technology. Kharafi said Zain has continually invested in new technologies to stay ahead of the competition. “If we ask people what they want, they will say the latest car and the latest phone - the answer will always be related to the newest technologies,” he said. Aside from continuing the family legacy, Kharafi has shown a
dedication to investing in other people and providing the youth of Kuwait with new opportunities, as the job market continues to change and adapt. Along with Owens, the former head of public policy at Uber and Facebook, Tmkeen is hosting two other successful startup entrepreneurs - Jeremy Liew, a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners and a key investor in Snapchat, and Jennifer Boulanger, Head of Global Recruitment at Booking.com. Tmkeen is a national initiative that is delivered by Kuwaiti youth to the youth in Kuwait. It has been holding this annual youth symposium, as well as separate events during the year to educate, inform and inspire. It also works to assist youth business leaders by providing a training and development leadership program.
Militants kill 61 in Pak police attack QUETTA: Pakistan yesterday mourned the killing of at least 61 people in a brutal gun and suicide bomb assault on a police academy, the deadliest attack on a security installation in the country’s history. Three masked gunmen burst into the sprawling academy in the southwest, pretending to be soldiers as they targeted sleeping quarters home to some 700 recruits, in a strike that
sent terrified young men fleeing. “They... knocked at the locked rooms and told the cadets that they were from the army, and when they opened the doors, they fired at them,” a 22-year-old cadet called Hikmatullah told AFP from his hospital bed, where he was recovering from a gunshot wound to the shoulder. Continued on Page 13
CALAIS, France: Workers begin the demolition of the Calais “Jungle” camp yesterday as hundreds of migrants boarded buses on the second day of a massive operation to clear the squalid settlement. — AFP
France begins demolition of ‘Jungle’ migrant camp
Gunmen kill two Saudi policemen RIYADH: Unidentified gunmen killed two Saudi policemen in the eastern city of Dammam early yesterday, authorities in the region said. The officers came under “heavy fire from an unknown source” as they parked their vehicle in a commercial area, the official SPA news agency quoted a police spokesman as saying. Meanwhile, one of 85 suspected Islamist militants on a Saudi wanted list sent to Interpol in Feb 2009 handed himself in to Saudi authorities, the interior ministry said. Osama Ali Abdullah Damjan had contacted security services from abroad expressing a willingness to surrender and was flown home yesterday, a ministry statement published by SPA said, without specifying from which country.
KUWAIT: The interior ministry is working on a new draft bill amending DNA law 78/2015, responding to directives by HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber AlSabah. Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah made the statement as he briefed a Cabinet meeting yesterday on the ministry’s efforts to implement the Amir’s directives. The meeting was held at Kuwait International Airport and chaired by HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber AlMubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. The law has not yet been put into effect, Sheikh Mohammad stressed, pointing out that Amiri directives have always embodied the civilized and humanitarian considerations HH the Amir advocates, and is keen on committing to them. The ministry has already begun providing the human and technical requirements for the law that will continue for two years, Sheikh Mohammad said. He emphasized keenness on preserving people’s freedoms and privacy, in line with the constitution, laws and the genuine principles and values of the Kuwaiti society. Separately, in a surprising ruling, the administrative court said former MP Abdulhameed Dashti, who is currently living abroad and has received jail terms of more than 31 years, can run in the coming election and ordered the interior ministry to accept his papers. The government immediately filed an objection against the ruling at the court, which means that Dashti cannot file his nomination papers until the court has reviewed the objection. Continued on Page 13
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KUWAIT: The Freedom House has ranked Kuwait highly in its annual freedom of the press report. According to the report issued on Thursday, Kuwait stands third amongst Arab countries after Tunisia and Lebanon in the press freedom index. The report, which included 197 countries around the world, said there has been a considerable retreat in freedom of the press worldwide, namely in the Middle East. Freedom House has been annually issuing this report since 1980, which has been used as a reference by governments, international organizations, academics, activists and media networks around the world.
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QUETTA, Pakistan: People wait to collect the bodies of their family members who died in an attack on the Police Training Academy yesterday. — AP
CALAIS, France: Workers escorted by scores of French police officers moved into the “Jungle” in Calais yesterday, demolishing shacks and tents emptied of migrants being bussed to shelters around France. The workers used electric saws to take down wooden shelters and earthmoving equipment to carry debris away from the sprawling camp that people have used for years as a launchpad for attempts to reach Britain. The demolition work comes on the second day of a massive operation to clear the squalid settlement in northern France, where an estimated 6,0008,000 migrants, mostly Afghans, Sudanese and Eritreans, have been living. Around 2,700 people have already
been bussed away to shelters around France and around 600 unaccompanied minors have been taken into a part of the camp where families had been living, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said. The cleanup workers piled discarded mattresses, blankets, clothes, pots and suitcases on top of the wood and plastic sheeting used to build the tents and huts that hours previously had been home to migrants hoping to sneak into Britain. Before the demolition work began aid workers and government officials went tent-to-tent to ensure the area had been emptied. Riot police carrying shields sealed off the area. Continued on Page 13