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N O I T P I R C S B U S THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 2017 THULHIJJA 9,1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net His Highness Harvey hits Qatar crisis KFA amends the Amir extends Louisiana as shakes East laws to get 3 6 7 15 Eid Al-Adha Texas rescuers Africa, home to FIFA ban greetings race against clock Gulf militaries lifted Faithful gather for start S L FI 0 5 1 of annual hajj pilgrimage Min 28º 0 2 Max 47º 3 7 1 O: High Tide N 05:29 & 20:16 ES Environmentally-conscious worshippers eye green inspiration Low Tide G A 13:38 P 2 3 UN chief calls MAKKAH:More than two million Muslims from around the world began the hajj pilgrimage at Islam’s holiest sites yesterday, a religious duty and an epic multi-stage journey. On for lifting of the esplanade of Makkah’s Grand Mosque, the excitement was palpable as crowds from all four corners of the world Gaza blockade gathered for a pilgrimage that all able Muslims are required to perform at least once in their lives. Tidjani Traore, a public service consultant from Benin, said he was on his 22nd pilgrimage at the age of 53. “Every time, there GAZA: UN chief Antonio are new emotions,” he said. “There are new innovations for Guterres called for the blockade organizing and hosting the pilgrims. Now, for example, the of Gaza to be lifted yesterday as tents are air-conditioned.” he visited the Palestinian Wearing the simple garb of the pilgrim, the faithful enclave enduring “one of the waited at dawn with their suitcases for buses to take them most dramatic humanitarian to Mina five kilometers to the east. There, hundreds of crises” he had seen. The secre- thousands will gather before setting off today at dawn to tary general’s comments came climb Mount Arafat, the pinnacle of the hajj. First, however, as he wrapped up his first visit they must perform a ritual walk known as the tawaf seven to Israel and the Palestinian ter- Antonio Guterres ritories since taking office. times around the Kaaba, a black masonry cube wrapped in Repeatedly throughout the visit a heavy silk cloth embroidered in gold with Quranic verses he had called for a two-state solution to the Israeli- at the center of Makkah’s Grand Mosque. The shrine is the Palestinian conflict, long the focus of international point towards which Muslims around the world pray. diplomacy but currently under threat. “I still have to finish the tawaf!” said a breathless Nour, Yesterday in Gaza, Guterres said he had been struck 30, from Saudi Arabia as she rushed past without stopping. by humanitarian conditions in the overcrowded and Sitting on a folding chair in the middle of the esplanade, Pilgrims walk and pray yesterday on Mount Arafat, also known as Jabal Al-Rahma (Mount of Mercy), southeast of impoverished enclave, where an electricity crisis has Continued on Page 11 the Saudi holy city of Makkah, on the eve of Arafat Day, which is the climax of the hajj pilgrimage. — AFP worsened and clean water is lacking. “I am deeply moved to be in Gaza today, unfortunately to witness one of the most dramatic humanitarian crises that I’ve Qatar and Russia to 1PA7GE In smartphone age, PAGE seen in many years working as a humanitarian in the United Nations,” Guterres said. boost economic ties hajj is for sharing Continued on Page 11 THURSDAY, AUGUST31,2017 LO C A L News I n b r i e f Kuwaiti Ambassador to Tanzania Jassem Al-Najem KUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah met His holds talks with Second Vice President of Zanzibar Seif receives Speaker of the National Assembly Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem.— KUNA photos Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah yesterday. Ali Iddi. — KUNA Crown Prince receives senior officials Zanzibar, Kuwait seek stronger bilateral ties KUWAIT: Zanzibar is keen on strengthening ties with Kuwait especially within trade and commerce, Second KUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah and First Minister of Interior Sheikh Khaled Al- Al-Jalawi and KGAC Assistant Vice President of Zanzibar Seif Ali Iddi said yesterday. This Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Jarrah Al-Sabah. Separately, His Highness Undersecretary for Financial and Taxes remark came during a meeting between Iddi and Kuwaiti Sabah yesterday received Speaker of the Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al- the Crown Prince hosted Deputy Prime Affairs Aseel Al-Munaifi, as well as KGAC Ambassador to Tanzania Jassem Al-Najem. In a statement National Assembly Marzouq Ali Al- Hamad Al-Sabah. He also received Deputy Minister and Finance Minister Anas Al- Assistant Undersecretary for State’s by the Kuwaiti embassy, Iddi thanked Kuwait for its efforts Ghanem at Bayan Palace. His Highness Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Saleh who introduced to His Highness the Property Affairs and Legal Affairs Ghazi Al- to support his country’s plans for development. Zanzibar, the Crown Prince also received His Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad General Manager of Kuwait General Enezi on the occasion of their new a semi-autonomous region of Tanzania, is about to wit- Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Sabah and Deputy Prime Minister and Administration of Customs (KGAC) Jamal appointment. — KUNA ness a new era of its history after recent oil and gas dis- coveries, which will increase chances of economic cooperation with Kuwait, he added. Iddi said he is looking forward to the upcoming visit by a delegation from Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) which will include the signing of a loan agreement to expand and re-equip the main hospital in Zanzibar. On his part, Ambassador Al-Najem affirmed his country’s keenness on developing ties Zanzibar on all possible domains. The relation between Kuwait and Zanzibar dates back to the early 20th century. Kuwait oil price down 40 cents to $48.28 pb KUWAIT:The price of the Kuwaiti oil dropped by 40 cents to settle at $48.28 per barrel (pb) Tuesday com- pared with $48.68 pb last Monday, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) said yesterday. At the global level, oil prices were down more than 1.5 percent due to a decline in US crude oil as Hurricane Harvey is wreaking His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah held talks with havoc in the Gulf of Mexico. The storm affected 16 per- His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad cent of US oil operations and production. The price of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sab. Al-Sabah yesterday. the West Texas Intermediate’s future contracts for September delivery went down by $62 to reach $45.95 per barrel, the same case for the Brent crude’s future contracts for October delivery, which went down 20 cents to reach $51.69 pb. ISESCO blasts magazine’s anti-Morocco front page RABAT: The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) condemned French magazine Jeune Afrique for the cover of its latest edition which depicts the Moroccan flag with the phrase “terrorism born in Morocco”. “This an unprofessional act,” the ISESCO Director General Abdulaziz Al-Tuwaijri said in strongly- worded statement. ISESCO added that labeling a whole nation, which has long history of civilization and a flour- ishing present and adopts a wise internationally-recog- nized policy approach in the fight against terrorism and extremism, is unacceptable. The magazine also published His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah poses for a the photos of 10 young European men of Moroccan ori- group photo with General Manager of (KGAC) Jamal Al-Jalawi, (KGAC) Assistant gins belonging to the cell which carried out the recent His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receives Undersecretary for Financial and Taxes Affairs Aseel Al-Munaifi, (KGAC) Assistant terror attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils in Spain. “The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah. Undersecretary for state’s property affairs. perpetrators of these terrorist acts in European countries were born and raised in these countries and have nothing Hajj mission keen on fulfilling the needs of pilgrims to do with Morocco and its culture,” Al-Tuwaijri stressed. ISESCO urged all member states as well as human rights and press organizations to denounce the magazine’s actions as a vilification of a well-respected country and a MAKKAH: The Hajj mission is keen on is following up on the latest develop- form their first day Hajj rituals, ahead of Central Hajj Committee, Prince Khaled violation of the ethics of journalism. offering topnotch services to Kuwait’s ments during the season, affirming that grouping on Mount Arafat today. Al-Faisal and other ranking officials over- Hajj pilgrims, aiming at fulfilling their the mission will work hard to answer According to the official Saudi Press saw the pilgrims flow and the procedures needs during this great Islamic rite, an the needs of the state’s pilgrims. Head Agency, traffic squads backed by security taken for their safety. The pilgrims would Society of Engineers to official from the Kuwaiti Ministry of of the Kuwaiti mission Khalifa Al- personnel organized flow of the faithful stay in Mina until today’s sunrise, where take part in first forum Awqaf and Islamic Affairs said yester- Othaina and other officials accompa- from Holy Makkah to Mina. they start heading to Mount Arafat, KUWAIT: The Kuwait Society of Engineers and the day. Undersecretary at the Ministry of nied Emadi during his visits. Interior Minister, Chairman of the about 20 kilometers east of Makkah. Union of Engineering Offices and Consultancy Houses Awqaf Fareed Emadi made this state- Meanwhile, waves of white-robed pil- Supreme Hajj Committee Prince Arafat day is the main ritual of Hajj, agreed to more cooperation during a meeting held ment during his visits to the headquar- grims, beseeching His Almighty for for- Abdulaziz Bin Saud and Advisor of the where worshippers stand in contempla- between the society’s chairman Faisal Al-Ottol and the ters of several Kuwaiti Hajj groups. giveness, mercy and blessing, completed Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, tive vigil to repent from their past sins union’s president Bader Al-Salman. Ottol said the soci- Emadi said that the Kuwaiti Hajj mission gathering in Mina yesterday as they per- Makkah Amir and Chairman of the and seek mercy from God. — Agencies ety is currently preparing to take part in the first forum of government projects’ consultancy services due to be held under the auspices of HH the PM from Sept 17- 19. Salman stressed that both the society and the union work jointly on developing engineers’ vocational and professional performance. OIC condemns violence against the Rohingyas JEDDAH:The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has condemned the renewed outbreak of violence against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State. The condemnation comes in the wake of ongoing violent and bloody confrontations between Rohingya rebels and state police and army forces across several districts and villages in the state since Friday. The renewed violence has so far killed over 100 people, and forced thousands of civilians to flee their homes to neighboring Bangladesh. The violence against the Rohingya has been evident through the systematic and organized destruction of many villages and homes by army and police forces, OIC said in a statement. The organization denounced the indiscriminate use of military force, including heavy artillery against civilian populations, which has displaced over 20,000 Rohingya civilians across the region. The OIC also called upon the Myanmar government to bring back displaced families to their homes immediately, and allow humanitarian aid agencies to Undersecretary at the Ministry Of Awqaf Fareed Emadi poses for a group photo during a visit at the headquarters of several Kuwaiti Hajj groups. — KUNA assist the conflict-affected people. NBK Hospital to open new stem, hematology clinics KUWAIT: The National Bank of Kuwait’s (NBK) Hospital will start operating its outpatient clinics for hematology, cancer and stem cells in its new building after Eid Al- Adha, the Health Ministry said. The fully equipped clinics will offer chemotherapy for leukemia patients and other vital services for children suffering from blood dis- eases, Director of the hospital, Dr Maitham Hussein, said in a statement yesterday. The opening of the clinics comes within the first phase of the hospital’s opera- tional plan, which will be followed by the opening of an education unit and a lecture hall, he said. According to the NBK, the opening of outpatient clinics aim at providing comprehensive healthcare for children with Director of the hospital Dr Maitham Hussein hematology and oncology. — KUNA The National Bank of Kuwait’s Hospital THURSDAY, AUGUST31, 2017 L O C A L PM hosts top officials KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime and Tax affairs in the Ministry of Finance Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- Aseel Al-Munaifi and Assistant Hamad Al-Sabah yesterday received Undersecretary for State’s property Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of affairs and legal affairs Ghazi Al-Enezi on Finance Anas Al-Saleh. Minister Al-Saleh the occasion of their appointment to then presented to His Highness Sheikh their new posts. The meeting was Jaber Al-Mubarak the Director General attended by Undersecretary at His of Kuwait General Administration of Highness the Prime Minister’s Diwan Customs (KGAC) Jamal Al-Jalawi, Sheikha Etemad Khaled Al-Ahmad Al- Assistant Undersecretary for Financial Jaber Al-Sabah. — KUNA KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah hosted Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Anas Khaled Al-Saleh at Bayan Palace as he presented to His Highness Director General of General Administration of Customs (KGAC) Jamal Al-Jalawi. He also presented to His Highness the Amir KGAC Assistant Undersecretary for Financial and Taxes Affairs Aseel Al-Munaifi and KGAC Assistant KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Undersecretary for State’s Property Affairs And Legal Affairs Ghazi Al-Enezi, on the occasion of their new appointment. The meeting was Al-Sabah receives Minister of Finance Anas Al-Saleh, Director General of attended by Advisor at the Amiri Diwan Mohammad Dhaifallah Sharar. — KUNA Kuwait General Administration of Customs Jamal Al-Jalawi and Assistant Kuwait pardons disciplined soldiers ahead of Eid Undersecretary for Financial and Tax Affairs Aseel Al-Muna — KUNA photos Amir extends Eid Al-Adha greetings KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti Army’s Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Mohammad Al-Khoder yes- KUWAIT: The Bishop of terday granted amnesty to soldiers penalized for Armenian Church Father Masis disciplinary offenses, as a gesture of goodwill to Zobouyan has extended his mark the Holy Eid Al-Adha festival. The decision heartiest congratulations to was made as per instructions given by Deputy HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah to give the sol- HH the Crown Prince Sheikh diers the chance to celebrate the joyous occasion Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- with their families, read a statement by the Ministry of Defense. The Minister of Defense went Sabah on the occasion of Eid on to extend Eid greetings to the people of Al-Adha. Father Masis Kuwait, wishing the country security and stability. Zobouyan said that Kuwait is a Meanwhile, His Highness the Amir Sheikh unique example of co-exis- Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday tence amongst the followers congratulated citizens and residents of Kuwait of various religions - thanks to His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah on the advent of Eid Al-Adha, expressing his Kuwait tolerance, moderation poses for a group photo with the new appointed undersecretaries. best wishes for health, security, and prosperity and generosity. He wished to all. A statement by the Amiri Diwan noted Kuwait more stability and that His highness the Amir extended similar sen- prosperity. Kuwait Airways and ALAFCO sign timents to the Arab and Islamic worlds, wishing everyone security and stability. — Agencies aircrafts selling/re-leasing deal KUWAIT: Kuwait Airways and the Aviation company succeeded in regaining the con- Lease and Finance Company (ALAFCO) fidence of its former clients and attract signed a deal to sell and re-lease four 777- growing numbers of new clients. 300ER aircrafts. ALAFCO is now the legal On his part, ALAFCO’s assistant mar- owner of the four aircrafts and Kuwait keting manager Suleiman Al-Mudhaf Airways will be leasing the planes for 12 said the company aims to increase its years, Kuwait Airways Chairman Sami Al- fleet to reach 100 aircrafts by 2020. With Rasheed said in a press statement yester- the new agreement, ALAFCO’s fleet went day. Kuwait Airways is taking measures to up to 63 aircrafts, he added. Kuwait reduce losses, boost financial perform- Airways is one of the oldest aviation ance, and develop services to become a companies in the Gulf. It was established top competitor in the regional aviation in 1953 as a private company under the market, he noted. name “Kuwait National Airways”, before The company aims to assign tasks such the Kuwaiti government ceased full own- as maintenance, engineering services and ership of the company in 1962. ALAFCO air cargo to other independent companies was established in 2000 and was enlisted in order for Kuwait Airways to focus main- in Kuwait bourse in 2006. The company ly on aviation, Al-Rasheed said. The com- offers services that include aircraft sell- pany needs a period of five years to gain ing and leasing, marketing and invest- profits, said the chairman, adding that the ment in aviation. — KUNA KUWAIT: Kuwait Airways, ALAFCO top officials signed a deal to sell and re-lease four 777-300ER aircrafts. — KUNA photos Humid weather expected to continue during weekend KUWAIT: Humid weather is expected to speeds will be between 8-28 kph with continue during the weekend, especially high temperature between 45-43 in the coastal areas, the official at the Degrees Celsius. The status of sea tomor- Kuwait Meteorological Department row will be “light to moderate waves at Yasser Al-Bloushi said yesterday. Al- heights of one to four feet. The lowest Bloushi said that hot and humid weather temperature will between 30-25 degrees would continue today and would gradu- where humidity will reduce at night,” said ally reduce late evening as the highest the meteorologist. temperature would reach around 44-46 As for Saturday Al-Bloushi said the degrees Celsius. Wind will be light to weather would be hot and humid during moderate - coming from the northwest. the daytime, with a light to moderate As for the status of the sea, Al-Bloushi southeast winds at the speed of 10 to 30 said that waves would be light to moder- kph. Highest temperature would be ate at a height of one to four feet. between 45-42 Degrees Celsius and the The lowest temperature would reach lowest will be between 30-24 degrees. around 30-25 degree Celsius with light to Status of the sea will be light to moderate moderate southwestern wind at speeds waves at one to four feet high. On between 8-26 kilometers per hour (kph). Sunday, the weather would be hot and Waves would be light to moderate at a humid with southeastern light to moder- height of one to four feet, he said. ate wind at speed of 10 to 23 kph. Tomorrow’s weather will also be hot and Highest temperature would be between humid especially in coastal areas - with 45-42 degrees, and the lowest between southeastern light to moderate wind. The 30-24 degrees. — KUNA THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 2017 LO C A L KUWAIT: People gather at Al-Rai livestock market as Muslims prepare to celebrate the annual holiday of Eid Al-Adha, or the Festival of Sacrifice. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat MoH prepares special budget By A Saleh Dead body found were found near the body, which had no IDs on The body of a citizen in his twenties was it. Initial reports suggest that the cause of death KUWAIT:MoH recently arranged to prepare a found in an Andalus park, said security sources, might be an overdose. However, further investi- special budget to appoint 530 doctors and noting that cigarette rolling paper and a joint gations are in progress. pharmacists at Jaber Hospital after the CSC agreed to hire 500 doctors and 30 pharmacists for the hospital. Meanwhile, informed high-ranking sources stressed that both the legislative and executive powers agree on 10 bills that will be prioritized once the parliament is convened. The sources explained that the bills include granting citizenship to illegal residents once the numbers are agreed upon before the end of this year. In addition, the sources said that both powers agree on pass- ing child protection and charity laws, in addition to amending the anti-corruption and army laws to include enlisting bedoons and non-Kuwaitis. Commenting on plans to use fingerprint check-in and -out systems with teachers, the sources said that CSC stressed that teachers were role models for others and that there was no reason why they should be exempted from using it. KUWAIT: Minister of Education and Minister of Higher Education Dr Mohammad Al-Fares seen during the inspection. — KUNA photos Preventing fraud Education Minister Ministry of Commerce And Industry’s Assistant Undersecretary for Commercial Control and Consumer Protection Affairs Eid inspects schools Al-Rasheedi stressed the ministry’s keenness on having strict control over local markets to prevent commercial fraud. Rasheedi added KUWAIT: Minister of Education and er facilities needed during the academic that special preparations have been made for Minister of Higher Education Dr year. Director General of Al-Jarha the Eid and inspectors are deployed in various KUWAIT: Ahmadi Fire Department Prevention teams recently inspected various schools and Mohammad Al-Fares has emphasized Educational area Waleed Bin Ghaith said markets to monitor quality and prices, espe- universities in the governorate to make sure they were all fully equipped and matched safety the importance of continuing field that he is exerting all possible efforts to cially sheep prices. standards. inspection of schools in various educa- encounter any obstacles that might tional areas to check their readiness for hamper cherishing a successful academ- the new academic year. He made these ic year to students and teaching staff. remarks to the press yesterday after He also inspected readiness of the inspecting Taima primary school for teaching, administrative staff at the boys and Taima Kindergarten affiliated kindergarten, primary and middle level to Al-Jahra educational area. schools to start by September 5, to be Al-Fares checked classes, school- followed by the high school level by books, conditioning devices and all oth- September 10. — KUNA KUWAIT: Two people were seriously injured when their vehicles collided along airport road, said security sources, noting that firemen had to use special machinery and equipment to cut open the tangled metal and evacuate the injured to hospital for treatment. ‘Shrimping season’ begins Sept 1 By Meshaal Al-Enezi hoped that this season will be better than last Sholaimi said the handicapped law has many year’s to help fishermen make up their losses. privileges for people with special needs, KUWAIT: The head of Kuwait Fishermen Union which encouraged many people to fake dis- Thaher Al-Sowayyan urged MoI to cancel condi- Tender approved abilities in the period between 2010-2015, tions that fishermen should carry their passports The Central Tender Committee (CTC) when over 185,000 citizens applied to get dis- on sailing in and out of national waters, as long approved a tender filed by MEW to maintain fire abled citizens’ benefits, which posed great as they carried their Kuwaiti civil IDs and special and alarm systems at Doha power and water dis- pressure on the understaffed authority, forms. Sowayyan also said that the shrimping tillation plant at a total cost of KD 888,250. slowed down work and affected the transac- season in Kuwait territorial waters will begin on tions of the handicapped. Sholaimi added that Sept 1, 2017, and accordingly, urged all fisher- Handicapped law all files must be automated to help input data men to respect related Amiri decree number The former head of the handicapped into a digital system, especially since the 46/1980 and other PAAAFR regulations. He authority employees’ syndicate Nasser Al- authority deals with 61,000 cases. CBK presents Eid gifts to kids at Al-Razi hospital KUWAIT:In collaboration with Al-Razi hospital administration, CBK’s PR Department recently visited children at Al-Razi hospital and presented some Eid gifts to them. Speaking on the occasion, CBK’s Assistant Manager for PR and Publicity Amani Al-Wer’a said that CBK is keen on sharing joy with children on various occasions, especially those in hospitals. She also thanked the hospital manager Dr Mona Abdul Samad for receiving the bank’s team. THURSDAY, AUGUST31, 2017 From the Arabic press Crime Al-Jarida R e p o r t Teach your kids Fingerprint ‘Wanted man’ nabbed KUWAIT:Jahra detectives recently arrested a GCC national By Arwa Al-Waqian after a fierce resistance. The suspect had been on the run T for two years and is wanted for a 3-year prison sentence each your kids that all the killings, car rammings and 12 other cases. Security sources said that the suspect and blasts taking place nowadays are extreme had been hiding and only move around in the night to actions, because we all were created to coexist avoid arrest. and accept each other on this earth. What is happen- Traffic police recently seized nine vehicles with GCC ing now is the result of exaggeration and extremism. license plate numbers which were being used for reckless Teach your kids to evaluate others according to their driving in Jaber Al-Ali area. Responding to residents’ personality and conduct rather than according to col- reports, police patrol rushed to the scene and found many or, race or origin. Teach them to accept others the way cars racing and crowd watching the drivers. Security they are without showing any wish to change or sources said that the crowd blocked the police and destroy them, because you never know your child stopped them from arresting the drivers. However, police might stay for some time in a society that views him or combed the area later on and confiscated the vehicles. her differently! Teach them that religion means Fire in Faiha Fire broke in a house in Faiha. Firemen rushed to the peace and love - not blasts, booby scene and found out that the fire had started in an air- traps and blood. Teach them to help condition unit. No casualties were reported. In another development, fire ravaged three vehicles parked out- people in distress without inquiring side a citizen’s house in Ferdous. Al-Anbaa about their religion; to just help for the sake of help. Teach them that religion means peace and love not blasts, booby traps and blood. Teach them to help people in distress without inquiring about their reli- Al-Anbaa gion; to just help for the sake of help. Teach them to cherish human diversity rather than rejecting it. They Kuwaiti fur in Russia cannot enjoy the rainbow if it were not for its diverse colors. Teach your kids that whenever someone is in pain, they should help him merely because he is a human being, not because he shares the same reli- By Salah Al-Sayer gion, doctrine or nationality. Teach them to give to all M the needy and not only to those belonging to their y later father, may Allah have mercy on his soul, Kuwaiti dhows used to dock during the date harvest. sect. Teach them that charity has room for everyone was born at the beginning of the twentieth cen- Kuwaiti merchants were keen on hiring Kuwaitis who without favoritism or racism. tury, over a hundred years ago. Just like many used to flock to Basra during this season. The same Teach them that someone is different from the oth- other Kuwaitis, he worked in many jobs on land or at sea. used to happen with non-Kuwaiti ships and dhows er only by knowledge, conduct and modesty, rather Many Kuwaitis used to work as builders then, and when- docked in GCC ports in preparation to sail out to India. than by boasting about someone’s origin and the land ever the diving or commercial travel season began, they Whenever those ships needed sailors, Kuwaitis were from which his ancestors came. Teach them to boast Fake passport rushed to get a job onboard a diving or commercial ship favored at all these ports. about the present and what they have actually A Bangladeshi was arrested on arrival at Kuwait and dhows. My father’s testimony is one of an eyewitness that achieved rather than bragging about ancestors’ leg- International Airport for using a fake passport. Security In spring, he used to work as a logger, traversing the was later confirmed by the situations in local markets ends and legacies. Teach them to create their own officials checked the man’s fingerprint and found out that desert collecting dry wood or plants to earn a living and that attracted many jobseekers, and this is logical. pride by pro-humanity achievements, not by ones he had been deported from Kuwait. not ask for anybody’s help. A Kuwaiti used to take risks in Kuwaiti markets and fleets would not have developed against it. the quest of making a living. My late father told me that without enough and well-qualified human resources. Teach them that peace should have been adopted in 1904, Rashid Ahmed Al-Rasheed competed with a Jew This cannot be achieved without geniuses. Similarly, as law in this life and that what is happening nowa- Fake detectives specialized in purchasing fur from local markets, and good-quality and perfect produce cannot be achieved days is weird, though peace is spreading. Teach them A laundry man in Jleeb reported that three unidenti- thus Rashid carried pelts on camelback to sell it in Russia. without skilled and productive labor. This is how that virtue starts by a single seed and that they them- fied robbers who claimed to be police detectives He even died during one of his many trips there. Kuwaitis used to be. They always worked whenever oth- selves might be that seed for a brighter future filled assaulted and tied him up before stealing his money. My father always told me about Kuwaiti hands and ers stopped. I finally have to lament that these facts exist with peace, love and respect with hopes that we might Security sources added that the man managed to take a laborers who were greatly in demand, even in foreign no more and have been changed or obscured in educa- see a better world before we perish! photo of their vehicle. —Al-Rai/ Al-Qabas markets such as date palm farms in Basra, where tion and the media! —Translated by Kuwait Times —Translated by Kuwait Times Municipality launches inspection campaign KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality’s Acting PR manager storage areas, ads and licenses. Al-Mutairi added that the citations, washing and replacing 8485 garbage containers, of foul vegetables and 365.5 tons of expired food items Mohammed Al-Mutairi said that a campaign has been first phase of the campaign resulted in removing 331.367 removing 3755 ads and closing down 26 stores. found in some stores and warehouses. Al-Azmi added that launched to improve the standard of cleanliness as well as cubic meters of garbage, destroying 83.631 tons of expired Meanwhile, Farwanya Municipality Manager Saeed Al-Azmi his teams removed 9975 cubic meters of garbage and 138 to have more control over foodstuff providers, warehouses, food items, removing 836 abandoned vehicles, filing 2378 said that his teams had confiscated and destroyed 13 tons abandoned vehicles. Photo of the day KUWAIT: A magpie is spotted in Bneider. Magpies are birds of the Corvidae (crow) family, including the black and white Eurasian magpie, which is widely considered one of the most intelligent animals in the world, and the only non-mammal species able to recognize itself in a mirror test. — KUNA THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 2017 18,500 Rohingya flee to Bangladesh Mumbai floods toll jumps to 14, rain eases up as unrest rages Page 10 Page 8 Interstate 69 is covered by floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey on Tuesday in Humble, Texas. (Inset) US President Donald Trump, accompanied by First Lady Melania Trump, holds up a Texas flag after speaking with supporters outside Firehouse 5 in Corpus Christi, Texas on Tuesday, where he received a briefing on Harvey relief efforts. — AP Harvey hits again in Louisiana Texas rescuers race against clock Nighttime curfew in Houston • NEW ORLEANS: Monster storm Harvey made recede in some areas and bodies are found. sands of homes, local officials have said. “After wit- For now, southwestern Louisiana was taking round-the-clock rescue operation, as the National landfall again yesterday in Louisiana, evoking Hundreds of people are still unaccounted for, nessing first hand the horror & devastation caused the hardest hit, but New Orleans proper appeared Weather Service predicted weather conditions there painful memories of Hurricane Katrina’s deadly though officials stress they may simply have no by Hurricane Harvey, my heart goes out even more to have dodged a bullet, with minimal rain. The were to improve at last. But the damage wrought strike 12 years ago, as time was running out in access to phones or power. More than 30,000 peo- so to the great people of Texas!” President Donald arrival of the storm was nevertheless bittersweet was staggering - Enki Research put its “best esti- Texas to find survivors in the raging floodwaters. ple found refuge in shelters across the Lone Star Trump said after visiting the storm zone. Trump was for many in New Orleans, coming just one day mate” at between $48 billion and $75 billion. Sheryl The fresh hit comes five days after the monster State, from the giant Houston convention center to planning a second trip to Texas on Saturday, and after the 12-year anniversary of Katrina, which rav- Kunai, a 57-year-old accountant from Rosenberg, storm slammed onshore as a Category Four hurri- small churches, according to the head of the may go to Louisiana as well, the White House said. aged the vulnerable city famous for its jazz music southwest of Houston, left her home and was stay- cane, pummeling the US Gulf Coast with torrential Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and cuisine. “I began to pray for the people in Texas ing at a hotel in Winnie. She said her home was fine, rains that turned neighborhoods into lakes in Brock Long. “We are in this for the long haul,” acting Drenching rain after having gone through that same experience but she was wary about heading back. “I still don’t America’s fourth largest city, Houston. Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke told So far, parts of Texas have seen more than 50 myself as a Katrina survivor,” said Crystal Harris, want to chance it. I’ll just go ahead and give it one While Harvey is technically packing less of a wal- reporters in a briefing yesterday on emergency inches (1.27 m) of rain, while in Louisiana, the top who works for the Second Harvest Food Bank, more day,” she told AFP. “I’m more scared about driv- lop as a tropical storm, heavy rains are still drench- operations. “We’ll continue to support the people total 18 inches so far - was increasing. Harvey which was taking donations for storm victims. “It ing in the water than anything else.” ing parts of southeastern Texas and neighboring of Texas as long as necessary.” made its second landfall just west of the Louisiana brings back memories,” she said. “When you see At least one bridge had crumbled, one levee southwestern Louisiana, complicating rescue mis- In Houston, Mayor Sylvester Turner issued an town of Cameron, not far from the Texas border, images like... Houston, it reminds you of where had breached and dams were at risk in Texas. A sions and compounding the misery for millions of nighttime curfew aimed at aiding search efforts packing maximum sustained winds nearing 45 you were 12 years ago.” Houston police officer was one of the latest con- Americans. So far, only a handful of deaths have and thwarting potential looting in the flood-rav- miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center said. firmed victims of the storm - the body of Steve been formally confirmed, but when combined with aged city. At least a quarter of Harris County, which Forecasters are predicting another five to 10 inch- Rescue teams scrambling Perez, who went missing after reporting for duty in suspected deaths, US media reported that the toll includes Houston and the immediate surrounding es of rain in the region, with the downpour finally In Texas, emergency crews were still struggling the early hours of Sunday, was recovered by divers could be 30 so far - and still rising - as floodwaters area, is now under water, affecting tens of thou- expected to stop on Thursday. to reach hundreds of stranded people in a massive on Tuesday. — AFP US-led strike in Syria blocks Venezuela policies leave democracy ‘barely alive’ IS fighters leaving Lebanon GENEVA: The widespread rights abuses com- the illegal or rogue acts of isolated officials,” it mitted against protesters in Venezuela has left said. The extent of violations “in our view point BEIRUT: The US-led coalition carried out an air and destroyed a small bridge,” said coalition Hezbollah had fought a week-long offensive democracy “barely alive”, the UN said yesterday, to the existence of a policy to crush dissent and strike yesterday to block Islamic State group spokesman Colonel Ryan Dillon, without provid- against IS on the Syrian side of the border with after France branded the Caracas regime a “dic- instil fear in the population with the intention of fighters evacuated from Lebanon from reaching ing further details on the exact location. Lebanon, coinciding with a simultaneous assault tatorship”. A fresh UN report warned that the curbing these demonstrations,” one of the eastern Syria, its spokesman told AFP. Hundreds “IS is a global threat; relocating terrorists from by Lebanese troops on their side of the frontier. rights situation in Venezuela was at “grave risk” report authors, Herman Vales, told reporters. of IS fighters and civilians were evacuated one place to another for someone else to deal The battles ended Sunday with the of unravelling further as the authorities contin- Venezuela, which is suffering from an acute Monday from the border region between with is not a lasting solution,” he added. The announcement of a deal that would see IS forces ue to brutally repress demonstrators, and urged economic crisis marked by shortages of basic Lebanon and Syria under a ceasefire deal and evacuation deal was negotiated between IS and bussed hundreds of kilometres from Syria’s west- were headed to an IS-held town near Syria’s east- powerful Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, ern border with Lebanon to its eastern frontier international action. Recent actions by goods, has experienced months of deadly street ern frontier with Iraq. “To prevent the convoy which has intervened in the war in neighboring with Iraq. Jihadists and civilians, including chil- Venezuela’s authorities “support the feeling that demonstrations against Maduro that have left from moving further east, we cratered the road Syria to prop up the Damascus government. dren, left the border region two days ago, but what is left of democratic life in Venezuela is 125 people dead, according to prosecutors. yesterday their buses were still held up at the being squeezed”, UN human rights chief Zeid Wednesday’s report found that security forces entrance to Deir Ezzor province. “We know and Ra’ad Al Hussein told reporters in Geneva, where and pro-government groups were responsible understand that there are civilians” aboard the the report was launched. for at least 73 of the protester deaths. It buses, Dillon said. “If we are able to strike them Democracy in Venezuela “must be barely remained unclear who was behind the remain- without harming civilians, then we will do so,” he alive, if still alive”, Zeid said. He did not go as far ing deaths, the rights office said. said, adding that the coalition was monitoring as French President Emmanuel Macron, who on Zeid also pointed out that his office had doc- the convoy’s movement in real time. Asked Tuesday accused his Venezuelan counterpart umented “serious violations of due process and whether the presence of civilians had prompted Nicolas Maduro of creating a “dictatorship ... at patterns of ill-treatment, in some cases amount- the coalition to bomb the road instead of the an unprecedented humanitarian cost”, in one of ing to torture”. The tactics listed in the report convoy itself, Dillon said that would be “consis- the harshest condemnations yet of the South included “the use of electric shocks, severe beat- tent” with protocol. The Syrian Observatory for American regime by a European leader. Caracas ings, stress positions, suffocation, and threats of Human Rights confirmed that there was a delay hit back against Macron yesterday, with the for- sexual violence and death”. After receiving no in the buses reaching Deir Ezzor province but did eign ministry expressing “firm rejection of the response to repeated requests for access to not specify why. Syrian military sources reached deplorable comments” by the French leader. Venezuela to investigate the situation, Zeid by AFP declined to comment. The evacuation “They constitute clear interference in the inter- deployed a team of human rights officers to agreement had sparked a furious reaction from nal affairs” of Venezuela, it said in a statement. monitor the country remotely. The investigators the United States, which considers Hezbollah to conducted 135 interviews between June 6 and be a “terrorist” organization. “Irreconcilable #ISIS ‘Crush dissent’ July 31 with victims and their families, witnesses, terrorists should be killed on the battlefield, not The UN report accused Venezuelan authori- civil society organizations, journalists, lawyers bused across #Syria to the Iraqi border without ties of implementing a policy of repression to and doctors, among others. More than 5,300 #Iraq’s consent,” US presidential envoy to the crack down on months of street protests against people have been detained in Venezuela since anti-IS coalition Brett McGurk said yesterday. Maduro. “The generalized and systematic use of April 1, with more than 800 still held, the report “Our @coalition will help ensure that these excessive force during demonstrations and the authors said, adding that more than 700 RAS BAALBEK, Lebanon: Youths ride on an armored vehicle next to Lebanese army soldiers terrorists can never enter #Iraq or escape from arbitrary detention of protesters and perceived detained civilians had had their cases handled in during a celebration of their return from battling Islamic State (IS) group militants on the what remains of their dwindling ‘caliphate’,” he political opponents indicate that these were not the military justice system. — AFP country’s eastern front bordering with Syria in this eastern town yesterday. — AFP wrote on Twitter. — AFP THURSDAY, AUGUST31, 2017 I N T E R N AT ION A L Crisis shakes E Africa, Israel decides against revoking journo’s cred home to Gulf militaries JERUSALEM:Israeli authorities said yes- pending a hearing, which was held five terday they had decided not to revoke days later. The government press office the credentials of a journalist for Al- distributed video of an interview last Jazeera over comments that his work year in which the 40-year-old Arab DUBAI: Though far-removed from the Gulf, East was part of the Palestinian “resistance”. Israeli journalist called his work an “inte- Africa has been shaken by the Arab diplomatic Elias Karram’s reports will instead be gral part” of Palestinian resistance to crisis gripping Qatar. In recent years both Qatar monitored for six months with the possi- Israel’s occupation. During the hearing, and the other energy-rich nations arrayed bility of revoking his credentials later, Karram said “he had no intention of sup- against it have made inroads in the Horn of Israel’s government press office said. porting or expressing sympathy for Africa by establishing military bases, managing Israeli authorities had earlier moved armed resistance”, according to the ports and showering friendly nations with for- to revoke Karram’s press credentials press office. eign aid. after Prime Minister Benjamin “The ‘resistance’ he spoke of was not As the rivalry heats up, with Saudi Arabia, Netanyahu said last month that he violent, but rather through the pen, the Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain wanted to expel the Qatari broadcaster word and the camera. According to seeking to isolate Qatar, East African nations from the country, accusing it of inciting him, ‘the resistance means only media stand to gain or lose from an increasingly fierce violence. His comments raised concerns exposure to the reality of the competition for influence. And with Saudi Arabia among free press advocates, with Palestinian people living under occupa- and its allies mired in a war just across the Red Amnesty International saying Israel’s tion. I did not adopt, call for or incite to Sea in Yemen, the area has never had more move against the broadcaster was a resistance of any kind.’” Karram also said strategic value. “I think we’re seeing a game of “brazen attack on media freedom”. in the hearing that he never mixes geopolitical chess being played out,” said Authorities said on Aug 16 they were opinion with his reporting, according Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, a research fellow at moving to revoke Karram’s credentials to the press office. — AFP the James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. MOGADISHU: In this Aug 27, 2011 file photo, an unidentified aide to Saudi Prince Al Waleed Iran slaps up to 5-year jail Military Expansion bin Talal shakes hands with a child during a visit to a refugee camp. — AP The importance of the Horn of Africa to Gulf terms on Telegram admins nations can be seen with just a glance at a map. Somali government’s biggest benefactor, while Meanwhile, Eritrea hosts the UAE military base The Horn’s shoreline comes as close as 30 km to the UAE has trained the country’s military and at Assab while siding with the Saudi-led coali- Yemen at the Bab Al-Mandeb straight, a crucial launched a high-profile aid appeal this year. tion fighting in Yemen. Eritrean leaders likely TEHRAN: A revolutionary court in Iran has reformist labor news agency that a sixth chokepoint at sea for oil tankers heading from Somalia has meanwhile allowed Qatari aircraft hope this improves their image. sentenced six reformist social media defendant, named Bagheri, was not in the Gulf to Europe. For years, the shores of East to increasingly fly through its airspace as Arab “There’s no doubt that Eritrea is looking administrators to up to five years in jail, court for the verdict, apparently a two-year Africa provided a crucial point for smugglers to nations have closed theirs off. beyond the horizon and saying, ‘We are becom- their lawyer told the ILNA news agency jail term.The lawyer said he would not be reach Yemen, as well as a target-rich hunting Gulf states are believed to have taken sides in ing rehabilitated, we are now a major player in yesterday. Ali Mojtahedzadeh said the six able to file an appeal until he received a ground for pirates. Securing the area has taken lawmakers’ February election of Somali the region, we are getting noticed and whatever group admins on the Telegram messaging copy of the 60-page verdict. Iran’s conser- on new importance for Gulf countries since President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, which the West thinks of us, at least our Arab neigh- app who were free on bail after their vative-dominated judiciary arrested 12 March 2015, when a Saudi-led coalition was marked by allegations of massive bribery. bors are taking us serious,’” Abdi said. “That is a arrest in March were sentenced in court, social media admins supporting reformist launched its war against Shiite rebels and their Mohamed appointed a former reporter of the big psychological victory.” without giving the date of the verdict or and moderate President Hassan Rouhani’s allies who hold Yemen’s capital. Qatar-funded satellite news channel Al-Jazeera the charges. camp ahead of the country’s May election, Since the conflict began, the United Arab Arabic as his chief of staff. The UAE backed a dif- An Increasingly Nervous Ethiopia “According to the verdict by Branch 15 on security and obscenity charges. “Some Emirates and others have established military ferent candidate. For Ethiopia, which fought wars against of the revolutionary court, Mr Nima of these people have been arrested on bases in East Africa. In Eritrea, the UAE has a base Meanwhile, Turkey soon will open an over- Somalia and Eritrea in the last 20 years, the Keshvari and Mr Ahmadnia received five national security charges and some... for at the port in Assab. Another Emirati military seas military base in Mogadishu. Its only other ongoing Gulf crisis adds new uncertainty. The years, Mr Naghdi and Mr Jamshidi four committing crimes against public decency base will be built in Somalia’s breakaway north- overseas base is in Qatar, which Ankara has country maintains one of the region’s strongest years, and Mr Sobhan Jafari received three and publishing obscene content,” deputy ern territory of Somaliland. “The UAE is very backed amid the boycott. “You couldn’t find any militaries, but sees itself as being hemmed in by years in prison,” he said, without giving all judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni keen to show that it’s a provider of security, not place more strategic for the Arab powers than foreign military bases. Ethiopia has struggled to their first names. Mojtahedzadeh told the Ejeie said in April. — AFP just a consumer of security,” Ulrichsen said. Somalia,” said Rashid Abdi, the Horn of Africa remain neutral in the dispute. In July, Ethiopian Saudi Arabia meanwhile has discussed put- project director for the International Crisis Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn even ting its own base in tiny Djibouti, already home Group. “That explains the intensity of these pow- acknowledged his concerns in a speech before Dubai cleaners beating to an under-construction Chinese military base ers’ interest in Somalia.” parliament. “Ethiopia could be affected in the and a US base that launches drone missions over event of a regional destabilization,” he said. heat with ‘cool collars’ Somalia and Yemen. Analysts believe all these Bringing Eritrea Out of the Cold An empowered Eritrea may push back Gulf military installations will become perma- For Eritrea, the Qatar diplomatic dispute actu- against Ethiopian gains in their costly war, which nent features in East Africa. “They are not only ally could be a good thing. Ruled by an autocrat- killed tens of thousands of people. Nearly all of BEIRUT: Street cleaners in Dubai are wear- tect the body from high temperature so that just momentarily engaging in the Horn and its ic and repressive president, Eritrea has seen tens landlocked Ethiopia’s foreign trade passes ing new ‘cooling collars’ to prevent heat the worker is not subject to heat exhaus- countries, but they are becoming long-term of thousands of its citizens flee mandatory through the port at Djibouti, now run by Dubai’s stroke as they work in rising Gulf tempera- tion,” Abdulmajeed Saifaie, director of the strategic actors in the whole region,” said Umer national conscription that can last over a DP World. Egypt, part of the Arab nations now tures that can hit 45 degrees Celsius, Dubai waste department, said in a statement. Karim, a researcher at the University of decade, something rights groups say amounts boycotting Qatar, remains worried about a new said yesterday. The glitzy Middle East emi- Projections show the Gulf region will be the Birmingham. to slavery. The former Italian colony routinely giant dam in Ethiopia cutting into its share of rate issued 4,000 cleaners with orange fab- world’s hottest region by 2100 as a result of ranks last among nations in personal and press the Nile. “The rift in the (Gulf) and the Saudi-led ric collars containing a chilled gel, similar to climate change. With small, wealthy popula- Jockeying for Position in Somalia freedom. camp, and the acts of the UAE to become not the cold compresses used for injuries, to tions and minimal domestic food produc- In Somalia, whose first civilian government But when the Gulf crisis began, Qatar only a port management power but also a mili- fasten around their necks and stay cool as tion, oil-rich states in the Gulf can respond after decades of lawlessness is fighting against removed 400 peacekeepers from a disputed Red tary power in the greater Horn of Africa, poses a they work outdoors. better to rising heat than poorer countries in the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabab militant group, Sea island claimed by both Eritrea and Djibouti. threat to Ethiopia,” political analyst Mehari “This type of cooling material (can)... pro- South Asia, experts say. — Reuters Gulf countries loom large. Saudi Arabia is the Eritrea quickly sent its own troops in to seize it. Tadele said. — AP THURSDAY, AUGUST31, 2017 I N T E R N AT ION A L 18,500 Rohingya flee to Bangladesh as unrest rages DHAKA: At least 18,500 Rohingya have come across,” Chris Lom, the IOM’s Asia- vessels. Khadija Begum, a Rohingya woman crossed into Bangladesh since fighting Pacific spokesman, told AFP, adding an from Rathedaung, was detained on arrival erupted in Myanmar’s neighboring unknown number were still stuck on the by Bangladeshi officials. Rakhine state six days ago, the Myanmar side of the border. “We thought it would be easier to face International Organization for Migration An estimated 6,000 Rohingya on the sea than the (Myanmar) army,” she told said yesterday. Tuesday massed at the “zero line” border AFP in tears. Plumes of smoke billowed from several with Bangladesh, days after the area came burning villages in the worst-hit section of under mortar and machine gun fire by Fight and flight the state, according to an AFP reporter on a Myanmar security forces. The Rohingya, the Ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and other government-led trip to the area, as the vio- world’s largest stateless minority and sub- tribal groups are also among the dead and lence showed little sign of abating despite ject to severe restrictions on their move- displaced after allegedly being targeted by security sweeps by Myanmar’s police and ments, are barred from officially crossing. Rohingya militants. Five ethnic Buddhist troops. The streets of Maungdaw-northern Bangladeshi authorities yesterday men were found stabbed to death early Rakhine’s largest town-were virtually toughened patrols in a bid to prevent more Wednesday in Maungdaw, which is under deserted as fires flickered among charred arrivals in a country that already hosts an curfew, Ye Htut, the town’s district chief, remains of houses and occasional burst of estimated 400,000 Rohingya, albeit in told AFP. gunfire echoed in the distance. abject conditions. Rohingya have sneaked With information trickling out, a picture The clashes began on Friday when mili- across the land border in large number or has emerged of a cat-and-mouse game tants from Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim swum the Naf River which marks part of between militants and security forces minority community staged deadly attacks the frontier. played out in remote hamlets, fields and on police posts, prompting raids on the But tragedy befell some of them. The forest hideouts. community and searches by troops and bodies of two Rohingya women and two The office of de facto leader Aung San police. children washed up on Bangladeshi soil Suu Kyi said militants have repeatedly det- An ethnic Rakhine woman, San Win, who escaped from unrest in Kin At least 110 people, including 11 state yesterday, an official there told AFP, onated homemade explosives and tried to Chaung village near Maungdaw in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, cries while officials, have been confirmed dead since drowned after their rickety boat capsized. firebomb police posts and ambush patrols. holding her baby after arriving at Sittwe’s jetty yesterday. At least 18,500 then and thousands of Rohingya have Scores more were found alive on the Myanmar classes the militants as “Bengali Rohingya have crossed into Bangladesh since fighting erupted in poured across the border to Bangladesh remote Bangladeshi island of St Martin’s, terrorists” and accuses them of setting fire Myanmar’s neighbouring Rakhine state six days ago, the International despite Dhaka’s attempts to stop them. according to coastguards there, after tak- both to Rohingyahomes and those of other Organization for Migration said yesterday. “As of last night, 18,500 people have ing a risky passage on barely seaworthy communities. — AFP US diplomats set to leave Russia as ties deteriorate Moscow deadline expires tomorrow MOSCOW: A Moscow deadline for almost two- not clear how many of the 755 staff losing their closer to Moscow. thirds of US diplomatic staff to leave Russia jobs will be physically leaving the country, or how The United States this month complied with a expires tomorrow, an exodus that starkly demon- many are Russian citizens. The RBK news site cited demand from Moscow to stop using a Russian strates the souring relationship between Vladimir sources saying that at least 600 are Russian. country house and a storage facility. The request Putin and Donald Trump. The head of a firm servicing the Russian diplo- came as a response to a US move to close access There were hopes of improved ties between matic corps, Alexei Izotov, said some former US to two compounds used by Russian diplomats Moscow and Washington after Trump’s election embassy technical staff are applying for work and last year, a move that caused much bitterness in to the US presidency last year, when both leaders “have been added to the database”. Moscow. showered each other in praise. SEOUL: People watch a TV screen showing a local news program reporting about But after the US Congress approved new eco- ‘It could have been love’ ‘Total impasse’ North Korea’s missile launch at Seoul Train Station in Seoul yesterday. — AP nomic sanctions against Russia over Moscow’s “It could have been love between Trump and In another retaliatory move, Washington alleged meddling in the November election, Putin. Hope remained until the latest sanctions announced it would suspend the issuing of all Trump says ‘talking is not Putin in July ordered the drastic embassy cuts in were passed but it seems Russian authorities non-immigrant visas in Russia between August retaliation. Putin said 755 diplomatic staff-both have come to the conclusion that Trump is hope- 23 and September 1. the answer’ for N Korea Russian and American-would have to stop work less,” said political analyst Andrei Kolesnikov of Visa operations at US consulates will remain by September 1, although the US State the Carnegie Moscow Centre. “Neither Putin nor suspended indefinitely. Russian foreign ministry Department has not confirmed the number. The Trump know how to build such a relationship. spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the deci- WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump dialogue also appears at odds with his top number of US diplomatic staff will now be They don’t have a strategy or a real topic of con- sion “genocide of the common people” in an says that “Talking is not the answer” when diplomat, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, capped at 455, the same number that Russia has versation except technical questions about Syria.” interview released Monday by independent it comes to North Korea. And he’s claiming who had in recent weeks been softening in the United States. While Trump has put a stop to US support for Dozhd television channel. “The war of sanctions the US has been paying North Koreans the conditions for a possible, formal dia- “We have waited long enough, hoping that Syrian rebels, to the Kremlin’s great satisfaction, and counter-sanctions has got a new lease of life,” what he calls “extortion money” for logue with Pyongyang. The US also has the situation would perhaps change for the bet- he has fundamentally changed his thinking on political analyst Kolesnikov said, and sanctions decades. “The US has been talking to been maintaining a diplomatic back chan- ter,” Putin said when he announced the cuts. “But other contested areas, digging in his heels over have now become “the only way to demonstrate North Korea, and paying them extortion nel with North Korea. it seems that even if the situation is changing, it’s the Ukraine conflict, Moscow’s annexation of discontent.” money, for 25 years,” Trump tweeted yes- Trump offered a surprisingly subdued not for any time soon.” Trump only reluctantly Crimea and NATO’s expansion in eastern Europe. Noting the current state of relations, Moscow terday morning, adding: “Talking is not the response to Pyongyang’s latest missile test signed off on the Congress-backed sanctions, During a trip to Kiev last week, Pentagon chief has appointed a hawkish new ambassador to answer!” Tuesday, avoiding a repeat of his bombas- describing them as “significantly flawed” and par- Jim Mattis vowed to continue helping Ukrainian Washington, Anatoly Antonov, known as a hard- The tweet comes on the heels of the tic warnings earlier this month of a poten- tially unconstitutional. armed forces as they battle pro-Russian rebel liner and a tough negotiator with a deep suspi- North’s recent missile test over Japan, a tial military confrontation. “Our relationship with Russia is at an all-time & fighters. Trump himself has stressed his desire to cion of the United States. “No one pays attention close American ally. Trump’s tweet did not Nonetheless, US officials announced very dangerous low,” he tweeted. Russian Prime “move forward in working constructively” with to Trump anymore,” said Kolesnikov. “All that spell out what he meant by “extortion” in yesterday morning that they had conduct- Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Twitter the Russia, including on cyber security to prevent remains is a battle between the Russian authori- the current standoff over North Korea’s ed a missile defense test that resulted in sanctions demonstrated Trump’s “total weakness” hacking of future elections. His own team, how- ties and the US establishment. “The situation is nuclear program, and the White House did the successful intercept of a medium- and amounted to a “full-fledged trade war”. It is ever, has been skeptical over any moves to draw mired in a total impasse.” — AFP not immediately respond to questions. range ballistic missile off the coast of North Korea has in the past temporarily Hawaii. The test was conducted by the halted nuclear development when the US Missile Defense Agency and US Navy Britain’s May visits Japan and others provided food aid or other sailors. types of compensation. But the North has- “We are working closely with the fleet n’t been making such demands, at least to develop this important new capability, with eye on Brexit fears publicly, since Trump came into office. and this was a key milestone in giving our Instead, it has been focused on finishing Aegis BMD ships an enhanced capability its decades-long effort to master the tech- to defeat ballistic missiles in their terminal nology for fitting a nuclear warhead on a phase,” Missile Defense Agency Director Lt. missile that can striking the US mainland, Gen Sam Greaves said in a statement. “We TOKYO: British Prime Minister Theresa May calling such capability essential for its will continue developing ballistic missile arrived in Japan on an official visit yesterday national defense. defense technologies to stay ahead of the with an eye to soothing Brexit fears and pushing Trump’s assessment about the need for threat as it evolves.” — Agencies ahead on early free-trade talks with the world’s number three economy. May is scheduled to sit down with Toyota’s chairman during her three- German foreign minister says day tour which starts in Osaka before moving to Tokyo where she will meet with Emperor Akihito European unity key to future and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who visited Britain this year. Britain formally told the EU in March it will PARIS: Germany’s foreign minister said yes- Germany’s vice chancellor. In future crises, withdraw from the 28-member bloc, stirring terday that Europe must stand together if it Europe may not always be able to “wait on fears in Japan about what the move would wants to stay relevant as its population the US and Russian foreign ministers to mean for companies with significant business shrinks, the US focuses more on Asia, and come up with a road map” and then see interests in the country. “We’re going to ask for China’s influence expands. that translated into a cease-fire, he said. transparency and predictability so as to mini- Sigmar Gabriel warned against retreating Germany has to offer its “capabilities” and mize the impact on (our) companies,” a Japanese into survival-of-the-fittest nationalism and be more engaged, he said. He acknowl- foreign ministry official in charge of European urged a more vigorous European role on edged, however, that with Germany’s mili- affairs said ahead of May’s visit. the world stage - especially important as taristic past, the question of how the coun- More than 1,000 Japanese companies do Britain’s pending exit from the European try can be more involved is complicated. business in Britain, employing some 140,000 Union threatens the bloc’s international He urged a common European stance local people with many using Britain as as a standing and future viability. toward China, saying that “not only should staging post to do business in Europe. Among Gabriel picked a symbolic place for there be a one China policy from us, China them, automakers Toyota and Nissan have facto- Wednesday’s appeal: the center of Paris, should have a one Europe policy that does- ries in Britain while tech giant SoftBank last year where he attended a French Cabinet meet- n’t attempt to divide us.” TOKYO: Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May, left and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced the $32 billion purchase of British ing and stood with his French counterpart Gabriel lamented what he called a “social wait for their Shinkansen bullet train bound for Tokyo at Kyoto station in Kyoto, western iPhone chip designer ARM Holdings. to try to reinvigorate European unity in an Darwinist” attitude toward international pol- Japan yesterday. — AFP But Britain is now at risk of losing the “pass- address to a gathering of French ambassa- itics from the Trump administration and porting rights” financial firms use to deal with dors. “If our children or grandchildren want some nationalist voices in Poland, driven by clients in the rest of the European bloc. That, to have a voice in the world ... it will be a “the idea that not only is the world an arena 70,000 to be evacuated over along with political uncertainty surrounding common European voice,” said Gabriel, a on which one fights, but also that in the end Brexit negotiations, has spurred foreign compa- Social Democrat who also serves as only the stronger has the right to live.” — AP nies that have set up shop in Britain, or estab- WWII bomb in Frankfurt lished European headquarters there, to begin looking for alternative locations. Japanese megabank Mitsubishi UFJ has said FRANKFURT AM MAIN: Some 70,000 people air raids by British forces. “Due to the large Amsterdam and Paris were favourites to be the in Frankfurt will have to leave their homes this size of the bomb, extensive evacuation meas- new European base for its securities operations. weekend in one of the biggest such evacua- ures must be taken,” police said. The Wismarer Brokerage Nomura, Daiwa Securities and tions in post-war Germany, police said yester- street where the ordnance was found is close Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group are planning day, after an unexploded World War-II bomb to the city centre and just some 2.5 kilome- to move their main EU bases from London to nicknamed “blockbuster” was uncovered. The tres (1.5 miles) north of the main Zeil shop- Frankfurt. operation on Sunday will allow for the safe ping area. More than 70 years after the end of defusing. of the 1,400-ton British bomb, the war, unexploded bombs are regularly ‘Best scenario’ which German media said was nicknamed found buried on German land, legacies of the Britain’s foreign minister Boris Johnson boast- “Wohnblockknacker” (blockbuster) during the intense bombing campaigns by the Allied ed about Japan-UK investment when he visited war for its ability to wipe out whole streets or forces against Nazi Germany. One of the this summer, but local firms will be looking for buildings. The unexploded bomb was discov- biggest such evacuations to date took place solid assurances from May, who is travelling with ered on Tuesday during building work a last Christmas, when another unexploded a business delegation. “The best scenario for us stone’s throw from the Westend Campus of British bomb forced 54,000 people out of is that Britain cancels its Brexit decision,” said the Goethe University Frankfurt, police said in their homes in the southern city of Augsburg. Ichiro Hara, head of the international affairs a statement. Officers are guarding the site Another 50,000 residents had to leave bureau at Japan’s top business lobby Keidanren. and there “is currently no danger”. their homes in the northern city of Hanover in “But if that isn’t an option, we are saying we Police said the bomb in question was a HC May for an operation to defuse several WWII- PARIS: German Vice Chancellor and German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel need a transitional period... to mitigate the neg- 4000, a so-called high capacity bomb used in era bombs. — AFP (Right) pets French President’s dog, Nemo, as he meets with French president ative impact,” he told AFP. — AFP Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee presidential Palace in Paris yesterday. — AP THURSDAY, AUGUST31, 2017 I N T E R N AT ION A L Mumbai floods toll jumps to 14, rain eases up MUMBAI: Two toddlers were among 14 hours but rainfall wasn’t heavy like yes- Karandikar said seven other people were people killed in Mumbai after floods terday,” said K S Hosalikar, a senior India missing in Mumbai. caused by heavy monsoon rains destroyed Metrological Department official. In neighboring suburbs six people were homes and disrupted traffic in India’s finan- “However in the next few hours Mumbai missing, said a police official, who declined cial capital, police said, but lighter-than- and adjourning areas are likely to get to be named. The deluge revived memo- feared rain yesterday helped relief efforts. fairly widespread rainfall, which will be ries of 2005 floods that killed more than More than 1,200 people have died heavy in few pockets.” Officials said train 500 people, the majority of them in shanty- across India, Bangladesh and Nepal in the and air services were operating normally town slums where more than half of the worst flooding to strike South Asia in years. late yesterday in the city, which is home city’s 20 million people live. Several villages in the east Indian state of to India’s two biggest stock exchanges Unabated construction on floodplains Bihar are still inundated, with people living and several major companies. and coastal areas, as well as stormwater in makeshift shelters for days amid wide- Police said a 45-year-old woman and a drains and waterways clogged by plastic spread heavy damage to farmland. 1-1/2-year-old child, members of the same garbage have made the city increasingly Tuesday’s deluge in Mumbai - nearly a family, died after their home in the north- vulnerable to storms. On Tuesday several month’s average rainfall in a single day - eastern suburb of Vikhroli crumbled on firms made arrangements to provide food had halted train services and led to flight Tuesday, while a 2-year-old girl died in a and rest areas for employees stuck in cancellations. More heavy rains had been wall collapse. In the neighboring city of offices, while officials of temples and reli- forecast for yesterday, forcing the gov- Thane, three people died after being swept gious bodies offered help to those strand- ernment to order schools and colleges away by floods, police added. Some died ed on streets. “Together, we can overcome shut, but in many areas the downpours by falling into open manholes in flooded any ordeal,” the Mumbai Police tweeted. were lighter. “The city and suburbs streets in various suburbs. “Thank you all for showing what humanity MUMBAI: The monorail train runs as it resumes service in Mumbai yester- received a few showers in the last few Mumbai Police spokeswoman Rashmi is in the face of adversity!” — Reuters day after heavy rains brought major flooding to the coastal city. — AFP Former sex slave finds freedom in her one-room Mumbai flat MUMBAI: On a workday morning in her capability in Hindi. one-room apartment on Mumbai’s out- “That Sonika could step out of the shel- skirts, Sonika packed her lunch box, got ter, live on her own and trust her flatmate dressed in a black shirt and blue jeans, ate and her co-workers is a victory for us, and a sago snack for breakfast and took a hur- of course for her,” Tahiliani said. ried selfie before rushing to catch the 8.45 am bus to work. Basket weaving Her morning routine seems little differ- Recent Indian government data has ent to that of other working girls. But shown a year-on-year rise in trafficking cas- Sonika, 19, appreciates the normality more es in India, but while the government has a than most. Until two years ago she was a cash compensation scheme for youth vic- sex slave - trapped in a cycle of physical tims of sexual assault, adult survivors get and sexual abuse for nearly five years. no such support. Prostitution is illegal in “I hated my life, but I had no choice. My India and girls are often “rescued” by police days stretched for 18 hours or more. I want- during raids on brothels. “We did a study ed to die,” said Sonika, who was trafficked on rescued girls in 2007 and found less to work as a prostitute when she was bare- than 10 percent had reintegrated into the ly 13. Sonika moved into the simple home society. We couldn’t trace most rescued she shares with a roommate earlier this girls,” said Tahiliani, a social worker and year - a move that Kshamata, a charity that campaigner. helps trafficking survivors live independ- Tahiliani founded Kshamata in 2013 to ently, helped her take. support trafficking survivors become finan- “I feel safe here. I have my own sched- cially independent as it was “the only way ule. I do what I like,” Sonika told the to protect them from being trafficked Thomson Reuters Foundation, sitting cross- again”. legged in her apartment. Sonika, who did Rehabilitation programs at some chari- not want to give her full name, is among ties have moved from traditional embroi- some 50 trafficking survivors in Mumbai dery and basket weaving lessons to career who have been helped by Kshamata to find counselling and public speaking sessions, jobs and live independently. said Pratishta Kale, who runs training mod- Of an estimated 20 million commercial ules for trafficking survivors at Kshamata. In this Oct 16, 2016 file photo, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (left) talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the signing ceremony by sex workers in India, 16 million women and “The girls are young and often confused foreign ministers during the BRICS summit in Goa. — AP girls are victims of sex trafficking, according about their career choices. So we guide Ahead of Modi visit, China sees to campaigners. Nearly half of them are them and help them find a job in line with adolescents and children, some as young their interests,” Kale said. as nine. Studies have shown that most res- Other charities such as Save the huge potential for cooperation cued girls are re-trafficked as they are not Children India also are working on similar able to find any alternative sources of rehabilitation models. income or livelihood options when they “There are shelters and hostels run by return to their communities. charities and also the government where Asian giants’ ties remain strained after border standoff Those staying at government and chari- working girls can stay at a subsidized rate ty-run hostels are given vocational training but over the last few years, they prefer to and some also finds jobs, but few step out stay independently,” said Jyoti Nale, pro- BEIJING/NEW DELHI: China yesterday sought while competing for influence across Asia. whom the Chinese regard as a dangerous sepa- of the institutions that become their new gram director for Save the Children India. to cast its strained ties with India in a positive Neither country should claim victory after ratist, and growing military ties with the United homes. “There are better (work) opportunities. In light ahead of a likely meeting next week the standoff, said former Indian foreign secre- States and Japan. “They never leave institutional care. some cases, the education level of sur- between President Xi Jinping and Prime tary Nirupama Rao, an expert on relations with China has said its forces will continue to They are not independent,” said Bharathy vivors is better, helping them find a job. Minister Narendra Modi following their most China. “The forthcoming summit can provide patrol in Doklam, which is claimed by Bhutan. Tahiliani, founder of Kshamata, meaning This is the best way forward.” — Reuters serious military confrontation in decades. an opportunity to begin that restoration Wang said he hoped India had learned a lesson The countries agreed this week to end a process when the leaders of the two countries from the incident. Chinese road construction more than two-month-old stand-off on their meet,” Rao said. “Diplomatic and not military had stopped and equipment removed, said a disputed Himalayan border, just in time for the manoeuvres must be the name of the game in second government official in New Delhi aware start on Sunday of a summit of the BRICS this relationship.” of the situation. grouping of nations, which also includes Brazil, Hundreds of troops were deployed on the But it was not clear whether China had given Russia and South Africa. Doklam plateau, near the borders of India, its an assurance not to resume construction in a It was normal for the two neighbors to have ally Bhutan, and China after New Delhi object- territory New Delhi says is too close for comfort differences, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi ed to China building a road through the moun- for the security of its northeast. told a news briefing. “What’s important is that tainous area. The quiet diplomacy that ulti- India and China have deep historical and we put these problems in the appropriate place, mately ended in de-escalation was based on a cultural links, but relations have seesawed and appropriately handle and control them in principle of stopping “differences becoming since India lost a brief border war in 1962. the spirit of mutual respect and based on the disputes” that Modi and Xi had agreed in Chinese troops have made about 300 trans- consensus of both countries’ leaders,” he said. Astana in June, an Indian official with knowl- gressions this year into territory claimed by “There is huge potential for cooperation edge of the matter told Reuters. India, the second official in New Delhi said, up between China and India,” Wang added, without from about 225 last year. giving details. Road building Media on both sides kept up a nationalistic Xi and Modi are expected to hold talks on the Still, ties remain strained over the disputed drumbeat during the recent crisis. Ties between summit sidelines in the southeastern city of frontier and India is deeply suspicious of the two appeared to be heading to a “breaking Xiamen, officials in New Delhi said. That has China’s growing military activities in and point”, with neither backing down from its own raised hopes they will try and repair a relation- around the Indian Ocean. For its part, Modi’s nationalist agenda, said one Beijing-based ship that has deteriorated as the two countries government has upset China with its public Western diplomat, speaking on condition of find their interests diverge - and often clash - embrace of Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, anonymity. — Reuters Pakistan National Assembly SRINAGAR: A Kashmiri Muslim livestock vendor smokes as he waits for customers at a market ahead of Eid Al-Adha festival in Srinagar yesterday. — AP condemns Trump comments Trapping girls as trainees in Indian factories to end with legal change ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s National Assembly Pakistani Foreign Minister Khwaja Asif Asif urged On Sunday, Pakistan’s foreign office CHENNAI: Trainee workers in India’s gar- it will give workers medical benefits, social passed a resolution yesterday condemning US the government to consider postponing any vis- announced that it had postponed a visit by a US ment manufacturing hub in south India security, proper holiday schedules and a President Donald Trump’s accusations that its by US delegations to Pakistan or by Pakistani acting Assistant Secretary of State Alice Wells to can no longer be trapped in apprentice- more dignified existence.” Islamabad was prolonging the war in officials to the United States and closing off discuss Washington’s new Afghan policy, but at ships for years after changes to a 56-year- Campaigners said the revised rules will Afghanistan, denouncing them as “hostile” and “ground and air lines of communication through the time did not provide a reason. old law that must be implemented imme- bring an end to schemes where young girls “threatening”. Speaking before the assembly, Pakistan”. Trump accused Pakistan of harboring “agents diately, campaigners and trade unions said were employed as trainees but put on reg- of chaos” and providing safe havens to militant yesterday. After a decade of lobbying, the ular production within a week with the groups waging an insurgency against the US- state government of Tamil Nadu has promise of a lump sum after three years. backed government in Kabul. amended a 1961 apprenticeship law that The girls will now have formal contracts, Pakistani officials bristle at what they say is a restricts the time a worker can be kept in limited training periods, and the possibility lack of respect from Washington for the coun- training and only allows 10 percent of a of a permanent job. “In many instances, try’s sacrifices in the war against militancy and workforce to be trainees. workers are not even given a pay slip its successes against groups like al Qaeda, Campaigners had voiced concerns that telling them what they have earned and Islamic State or the Pakistani Taleban. Pakistan tens of thousands of girls were trapped in what has been deducted,” said Thivya estimates there have been 70,000 Pakistani trainee jobs in spinning mills and garment Sesuraj, advisor to the all women casualties in militant attacks since it joined the factories for three years or more, working Tamilnadu Textile and Common Labor US war on terror after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks long hours for below minimum wages with Union (TTCU). Tamil Nadu is the largest hub on the United States. no welfare benefits or job security. in India’s $40 billion-a-year textile and gar- Successive US administrations have struggled The new rules will limit apprenticeships ment industry with about 400,000 people with how to deal with nuclear-armed Pakistan. to six months to a year and give workers working in spinning mills and garment fac- Washington fumes about inaction against the the opportunity to join the permanent tories there to produce garments exported Taleban, but Pakistan has been helpful on other workforce. Campaigners called for the to Europe and the United States. counterterrorism efforts, including against Al- amended law to be implemented immedi- The industry draws its largely female Qaeda and Islamic State. ately. “Exploitation had become epidemic workforce from poor families. In a detailed The United States also has no choice but to in the industry,” said Anantharaman presentation in 2016, the state labor use Pakistani roads to resupply its troops in Sivakumar of the All India Council of Trade department said apprentices outnum- KILLA ABDULLAH: Pakistani vendors sell apples on a roadside stall in Killa Abdullah, a district landlocked Afghanistan. US officials worry that if Unions (AICCTU), who has been campaign- bered permanent workers in most textile in the north west of Balochistan province. Pakistan has postponed a visit by a US diplomat Pakistan becomes an active foe, it could further ing for changes in the law for over a decade mills, were paid less and most were fired who had been due to arrive on September 4, a week after President Donald Trump publicly destabilise Afghanistan and endanger US sol- now. “It has been a long road for these at the end of a “three year apprenticeship upbraided Islamabad for harboring militants attacking US and Afghan troops. — AFP diers. — Reuters changes in the law and once implemented, period”. — Reuters

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