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FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 2012<br />
LONDON: HH the Amir of <strong>Kuwait</strong> Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-<br />
Sabah left yesterday for the United States on a private visit. The Amir was<br />
seen off here by National Assembly Speaker Jassem Al-Khorafi, <strong>Kuwait</strong>’s<br />
Ambassador to the UK Khaled Al-Duwaisan and other officials. — KUNA<br />
AMMAN: Jordan said <strong>Kuwait</strong> has<br />
agreed to donate $1.25 billion for<br />
Jordanian development projects.<br />
Planning Ministry Secretary<br />
General Saleh Kharabsheh said the<br />
money will be spent on water,<br />
renewable energy and other crucial<br />
projects. A planning ministry<br />
statement said the first batch of<br />
$250 million will be dispersed<br />
soon through the <strong>Kuwait</strong>i Fund for<br />
Arab Economic Development. It<br />
said Jordan will receive a similar<br />
amount every year until 2016.<br />
The statement said an agreement<br />
to that effect was signed in<br />
Amman yesterday. With limited<br />
resources, Jordan depends on foreign<br />
donations to keep its sluggish<br />
economy afloat. Jordan’s<br />
longtime ally, the United States, is<br />
the largest aid donor to the Arab<br />
kingdom, with contributions<br />
exceeding $10 billion in the last<br />
decade. — AP<br />
KUWAIT: Director General of the Directorate General of Civil<br />
Aviation (DGCA) Fawaz Al-Farah said yesterday that the directorate<br />
has recently completed the construction of four new<br />
departure gates at <strong>Kuwait</strong> International Airport (KIA). Al-Farah<br />
told KUNA that these gates include lounges for departing<br />
passengers and directly overlook the aircraft runway. The<br />
gates are reached by buses that ferry passengers back and<br />
forth.<br />
He said that these gates include numbers (9) and (10) in<br />
the south-eastern terminal and (27) and (28) in the southwestern<br />
terminal of the building.<br />
He said that the addition of these new gates will lift the<br />
terminals’ capacity by 40 percent to keep pace with the continuous<br />
increase of air traffic and number of passengers at<br />
KIA. Farah noted that the directorate is currently working on<br />
the completion of the contractual procedures to schedule<br />
additional renovations and is awaiting the approval of funds<br />
in the state budget in order to sign a contract for this project<br />
with the winning company. — KUNA<br />
Local<br />
<strong>Kuwait</strong> donates<br />
$1.25bn to Jordan<br />
Money to be used on crucial projects<br />
AMMAN: KFAED and Jordanian officials sign an agreement yesterday.<br />
— KUNA<br />
4 new departure gates<br />
open at <strong>Kuwait</strong> Airport<br />
Qatar’s Rasgas hit<br />
by computer virus<br />
DUBAI: Qatar’s Rasgas has found a virus in its office computer<br />
network, the world’s second-biggest liquefied natural gas<br />
(LNG) exporter said yesterday, just two weeks after the<br />
world’s biggest oil producer in neighbouring Saudi Arabia<br />
was hacked into.<br />
“The company’s office computers have been affected by<br />
an unknown virus ... It was first identified on Monday,”<br />
Rasgas, one of two Qatari LNG producers, said in a statement.<br />
“Operational systems both onsite and offshore are secure and<br />
this does not affect production at the Ras Laffan Industrial<br />
City plant or scheduled cargoes.”<br />
It was not clear whether Rasgas has been victim of the<br />
same malicious software or hacker group that targeted about<br />
30,000 desktop PCs at Saudi Aramco on Aug 15. Saudi<br />
Aramco also said oil production and key data were unaffected<br />
by the intrusion into its office networks by a virus thought<br />
designed to wipe files from desktop hard drives. But two<br />
weeks on, the Saudi Aramco website www.aramco.com<br />
which was taken offline by the company to limit options for<br />
further attacks, remained down yesterday. — Reuters<br />
Bahrain police<br />
charged over<br />
teenager’s death<br />
DUBAI: A Bahrain policeman has been<br />
charged over shooting dead a Shiite<br />
teenager when a group of protesters<br />
attacked security forces with petrol<br />
bombs, an investigator said. The public<br />
prosecution “accused the policeman who<br />
opened fire on one of the attackers of<br />
premeditated murder,” said official,<br />
Nawaf Hamza, late on Wednesday,<br />
according to BNA state news agency. He<br />
said the accused was released but has<br />
been banned from travel. His name and<br />
nationality have not been revealed. But<br />
the public prosecution issued a later<br />
statement saying the charge against the<br />
policeman was “preliminary”, pending an<br />
investigation which so far shows the<br />
killing was “likely a case of self defence”.<br />
Sixteen-year-old Shiite Hussam Al-<br />
Haddad died of his injuries on August 17,<br />
after police opened fire under attack from<br />
petrol bombs in Sunni-dominated<br />
Muharraq, close to the capital, according<br />
to the interior ministry. The Sunni-ruled<br />
kingdom, home to the US Fifth Fleet and<br />
strategically situated across the Gulf from<br />
Iran, has continued to witness sporadic<br />
Shiite-led demonstrations mostly outside<br />
the capital since it crushed a pro-democracy<br />
uprising in March last year. Hamza<br />
said the investigation revealed that police<br />
fired warning shots at 25 to 30 protesters<br />
attacking their patrol with petrol bombs,<br />
and that the defendant shot Haddad as<br />
he was about to hit him from close range<br />
with a Molotov cocktail. The ministry had<br />
said at the time that security forces acted<br />
in self-defence. — AFP
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