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LOCAL KUWAIT: Police on Monday recovered the body of a man, half-buried in the ground in Shaddadiya near a major university project, after a security guard noticed it and called to alert them. Examination carried out by criminal investigators revealed that the victim sustained a fatal blow to the head, leading detectives to suspect that foul play was involved. The victim was identified as a 30-year-old Egyptian man after detectives found his wallet in his pocket. Preliminary investigations indicated that the man was likely to have been killed 24 hours before the body was discovered. The body was taken to the forensic department after crime scene investigators examined the scene. Search for rapists Police are looking to identify and arrest three male suspects accused of sexually assaulting two teenagers they kidnapped in Salmiya recently. According to the police report, the suspects first kidnapped one boy and then forced another into their vehicle before driving to a remote location where they assaulted them physically and sexually. The two Jordanian teenagers headed to the area’s police station after the suspects left them and escaped. Student killed A student died in Sulaibikhat after he was hit by a car on his way home. Paramedics rushed to the scene shortly after the accident was reported, and pronounced the Egyptian boy dead on the spot. The body was taken to the coroner while a Kuwaiti driver who reportedly accidentally ended up hitting the child was taken into custody for further action. Officer hurt A policeman was seriously wounded while being in pursuit of three suspects who were caught in Hawally for possessing drugs. Two patrol officers gave a chase to a vehicle after the driver ignored orders to pull over for reckless driving. They were able to intercept and stop the car and then arrested two Kuwaiti men while their third accomplice managed to escape on foot. The suspects were referred to the Drug Control General Department after 13 drug pills were found from their car. The officer reportedly fractured his knee while trying to overpower the suspects who put up strong resistance. Farwaniya crackdown More than 40 women were arrested on Sunday on charges of prostitution during an operation carried out in Al-Farwaniya. Security officers reportedly raided nine homes during the crackdown after obtaining warrants based on investigations which confirmed that the places were being used for illegal activities. A total of 46 women, described as “prostitutes” in the police report, were arrested. Three of the detainees are African nationals while the rest belong to different Asian nationalities. The women were taken to the proper authorities for further action, along with a number of men who were also caught during the campaign. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013 KUWAIT: Public Relations Director at the Fire Department, Lt Col Khalil Al-Amir, delivered an informative lecture in both Arabic and English language to the workers at the JW Marriott Hotel yesterday. During the lecture and live demonstration that focused on ways to use fire fighting equipment and how to carry out an evacuation till firefightersí arrival, Al-Amir advised that the best strategy was to stay calm and not let confusion prevail. KOC projects progressing in full swing KUWAIT: Deputy Managing Director of Services at Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) Ismail Abdullah said yesterday that the company has a number of projects aimed to develop Ahmadi City. Abdullah told reporters that KOC has started off with the rehabilitation of markets and buildings as initial projects. He added during the opening of the 8th travel and tourism exhibition today organized by KOC that the company aims to develop Ahmadi City to become more distinctive and beautiful, noting that an adequate budget has been earmarked for these projects. As for the new Ahmadi Hospital building, Abdullah explained that the work is progressing well and in full swing, saying the hospital would serve all the workers in the oil sector. He said the new hospital would be opened in 2015. — KUNA MPs to examine oil installations KUWAIT: The National Assembly will form a delegation to inspect Mina Mubarak, border marks and oil installations located along the northern borders of the country. The parliament, during a regular session yesterday, approved a request by a member of the assembly to form the delegation for this inspection mission. The bureau of the assembly will be tasked with establishing it. MPs, during yesterday’s session, in response to a written request by the chairman of the parliamentary committee of health and social affairs, approved adjourning the period for presenting its report regarding condition of public hospitals, health insurance for Kuwaitis and privatization of health services to the next session. The issue of medical treatment abroad was exempted for further investigation. They okayed another letter, presented by the head of the parliamentary health committee, requesting that the Audit Bureau be tasked with preparing a study about the treatment abroad in the fiscal years 2012-2011 and 2012-2013. The study should be submitted to the assembly within three months. They also responded positively to request by Minister of State for Planning and Development and Minister of State for National Assembly Affairs Dr. Rola Dashti for specializing the Thursday session for following on recommendations of the security issues’ session, discussing health topics and delaying debates on demographic issue and unemployment to later sessions. Discussing two other proposals was delayed for two weeks, upon a government request, one related to the formation of a temporary committee for examining recent personnel promotion in the oil sector and the other concerning the formation of a fact-finding commission to ponder problems involving Kuwaiti students in Jordan. — KUNA Foul play suspected in death of Egyptian Officer hurt in car chase Theft cases Two thieves impersonated as police officers to commit a theft in Jahra recently. Officers at the area’s police station were approached by two Iranian men who complained of having been robbed of KD5000 and a cell phone. They explained that two people in national dress (dishdasha) approached them at their work place and then stole their belongings after claiming that they were investigation officers. Probe is on. Meanwhile, Hawally police nabbed an Egyptian man who duped many pedestrians of their cell phones by claiming to be in an emergency situation and borrowing their phones. Investigations began to trace the suspect after a number of Asian men reported losing their phones in the same fashion. The suspect would reportedly approach his victim and ask to make an important phone call, then escape as soon as he was handed the cell phone. The man was caught red-handed in an ambush near a building in the area while he was trying to rob a pedestrian. Ingrate son Search is on for a young man who reportedly tried to assault his father when his request to buy a new car was rejected. Police were called on Sunday night to an Andalus house where the incident was reported. The youngster reportedly went berserk after his father asked him to wait till he learnt to drive better before he buys him a brand new car. He reportedly tried to attack his father but his older brother intervened. He disappeared before police arrived at the scene.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013 Indian court ends travel ban on Italy ambassador KERBET AL-KHALDIYE: A Syrian woman carries her children near their makeshift refugee camp in the mountains in the area of Kherbet Al-Khaldiye, on the Syria-Turkey border. — AFP News in brief Saudi deports Yemenis SANAA: Thousands of Yemeni workers have been expelled from Saudi Arabia after it imposed new labor constraints affecting millions of expatriates in the oil-rich kingdom, an official said yesterday. The new regulations introduced by the Saudi labor ministry aim to reduce the number of foreign workers to create jobs for millions of unemployed Saudis. “Thousands of Yemenis had to leave Saudi Arabia. They were victims of an arbitrary application of the new regulations,” a Yemeni government official said. He said workers saw their residency permits torn into pieces by Saudi government representatives. Under the new rules, foreigners are allowed to work only for their legal sponsors in the kingdom while their spouses cannot take up jobs. Many foreigners enter Saudi Arabia on the sponsorship of a Saudi national but end up working for others, or set up their own businesses. Around one million Yemenis live in neighboring Saudi Arabia, transferring around $4 billion annually to their impoverished nation, according to non-official estimates. ‘Restoring BBC’s reputation’ LONDON: New BBC director-general Tony Hall took up his post yesterday, starting the task of restoring the reputation of the world’s biggest broadcaster that has been rocked by a child sex abuse scandal. Hall walked into the BBC’s Broadcasting House headquarters in central London to tackle an in-tray topped with the fallout from police investigations which concluded that the corporation’s late presenter Jimmy Savile was one of Britain’s most prolific sex offenders. The British Broadcasting Corporation was subsequently damaged by a botched television report wrongly indicating that a lawmaker was a paedophile. KHERBET AL-KHALDIYEH: For millions of Syrians displaced by fighting, every day is a struggle to survive, and for those in Kherbet Al-Khaldiye, that means eating and drinking whatever they can forage. “We eat herbs and collect stagnant rainwater to drink and wash in,” says 24-year-old Hisham, his head covered in a red and white chequered keffiyeh scarf. Hisham, who sports a budding blonde beard, was about to enter university when the fighting that has engulfed Syria erupted in 2011. Now he has joined the wave of his compatriots displaced by the conflict. In Kherbet Al-Khaldiyeh, a makeshift camp near the Turkish border, Hisham shows off a nearly-dry rivulet of water, infested with fungi and insects, surrounded by a swarm of children, many of whom have contracted skin infections because of the dirty water. Naida, 35, has seven young children. She bathes them in the infested water because the nearest clean water supply is several kilometers away. “We pick herbs like mint and mallow in the countryside and we cook them. We don’t have anything else to eat,” she says. “My husband used to work in a quarry, breaking stone, but now we have no more resources and no one to help us. Once we brought a kilo of potatoes per family-how can we all live on a potato a week?” Every so often, along with a group of other women, Naida goes to the nearest village in search of potable water. “We carry the cans on our heads for several miles,” she says, her blue eyes faded with exhaustion. Ibrahim, 25, was living in a village near the Minnigh airport-a key flashpoint between Syrian rebel forces and the regime. The non-stop air raids and shelling eventually forced him to flee, along with his two sons, and around 20 other families. His village was able to save a few of their animals and bring them along. “Each day we slaughter a chicken like that one,” he says, glancing at a paltry specimen as it passes. “That chicken would be for all of us, can you imagine how much each person gets?” he says with a bitter smile. More than a million Syrians have left the country since peaceful protests against the regime of President Bashar Al- Assad erupted in March 2011, spiraling into a civil war after his forces unleashed a brutal crackdown on dissent. But not everyone is able to cross the border and escape the violence, with many lacking passports or sufficient money to make the journey. Those residents have been forced to seek the safest places they can within Syria. For the roughly 100 people here, the safest place available was this strip of countryside in Aleppo province, where they live among the scattered remains of Roman ruins, a few kilometers from the Turkish border. At first, they were living in holes in the ground, lined with straw to provide some protection against the cold and the snow, Naida says. Now they have managed to get tents marked with the logo of the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR. In cold and unhealthy living conditions, the little makeshift village also struggles on with almost no access to Page 11 medicine, particularly for sick children. “By the time they get to the nearest pharmacy, in Azaz (in northern Syria) or in Turkey, the child is dead,” 25-year-old Issa says, dressed in a warm coat in camouflage colours that came from Syrian rebel fighters. Seated on a stone, set back from the Jerusalem deal boosts Jordan in Holy City Displaced Syrians eat herbs to survive Air raids force thousands to flee Saleh hospitalized RIYADH: Former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has been accused of meddling in his country’s fragile political transition, was in Saudi Arabia yesterday for treatment, a Yemeni diplomat said. Saleh arrived for medical tests and treatment in the Saudi capital on Monday, his party, General People’s Congress (GPC), said. He spent time recovering in a Riyadh hospital in June 2011 after an attack on his compound left him seriously wounded. A Yemeni diplomat confirmed to AFP that Saleh was in Riyadh and sources in the GPC said that Saudi Arabia chartered a plane to take him to the kingdom. Saleh was admitted to hospital, the head of the GPC parliamentary bloc, Sultan Al-Barakani, said. He did not elaborate on the nature of the treatment. After 33 years as Yemen’s head of state, Saleh left power in February 2012 as part of an agreement for the transition of power in the country, which also gave him and his family immunity from prosecution. He last visited Saudi Arabia in November 2011, when he travelled to Riyadh to sign the transitional agreement in the presence of Saudi King Abdullah, one of the plan’s main sponsors. —Agencies Page 8 other residents, 80-year-old Rajab observes the life of the makeshift village in the middle of nowhere. “Under the tent, you feel the wind, the cold,” says Rajab, the patriarch of a family of 40 people. “Who can live in these conditions? Look around you, who can live like this?” —AFP
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