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SUBSCRIPTION WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 2015 JAMADA ALAWWAL 13, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Motorists ‘Alien of the Legend talks Roma salvage complain cars deep’ goblin about justice point but are impounded shark found at sold-out Juventus for silly5 reasons in28 Australia Bahrain40 gig tighten20 grip Netanyahu warns Obama Min 10º Max 27º against Iran nuclear deal High Tide 12:20 & 23:20 Low Tide Dozens of Democrats boycott speech as ties fray 06:07 & 17:48 40 PAGES NO: 16449 150 FILS WASHINGTON: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin News Netanyahu warned US President Barack Obama yester- in brief Amir opens Shaheed Park day against accepting a nuclear deal with Iran that would be a “countdown to a potential nuclear night- mare” by a country that “will always be an enemy of Dubai hotel income America”. “If the deal now being negotiated is accept- best since 2009 crisis ed by Iran, that deal will not prevent Iran from devel- DUBAI: Dubai’s hotels posted a 9.8 percent rise in rev- oping nuclear weapons - it will all but guarantee that enues to $6.5 billion in 2014, the tourism authority said Iran will get those nuclear weapons - lots of them,” the yesterday, in the sector’s best annual result since the Israeli leader said in a 39-minute speech to the US 2009 financial crisis. The Department of Tourism and Congress that offered a point-by-point critique of Commerce and Marketing said in a statement that more Obama’s Iran diplomacy. than 11.6 million guests stayed in Dubai hotels and In an appearance that hotel apartments last year, bringing revenues of 23.9 billion dirhams ($6.5 billion). The figures reflected a 7.4 strained US-Israeli relations percent year-on-year rise in guest nights in the glitzy and was boycotted by city-state, home to some of the world’s most iconic dozens of Obama’s fellow hotels, including the sail-shaped Burj Al-Arab. The state- Democrats, Netanyahu said ment said Saudis continued to top the list of visitors, fol- Iran’s regime was “as radical lowed by Indians, Britons, Americans and Iranians, while as ever”, could not be trust- it noted a 25 percent rise in the number of Chinese visi- ed and the deal being tors which hit 344,000 in 2014. worked out with world powers would not block Iran’s way to a bomb “but Long-term use of paves its way to a bomb”. Benjamin Netanyahu paracetamol risky Obama saw it differently, PARIS: Doctors may be under-estimating the risks and said so from the White House. He said that the to patients from long-term use of paracetamol, the Israeli leader offered no “viable alternatives” to the world’s most popular painkiller, researchers said nuclear negotiations with Iran and that the prospect of yesterday. Chronic users of the drug - people who typically take large, daily doses over several years - an agreement had already resulted in a freeze and may increase their risk of death, or kidney, intestinal rolling back of Iran’s program. Obama said he read a and heart problems, they found. Led by Philip transcript of Netanyahu’s speech, adding “there was Conaghan at the Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and nothing new” in the speech. Musculoskeletal Medicine in northern England, the “This deal won’t be a farewell to arms, it will be a team analysed data from eight previously-pub- farewell to arms control ... a countdown to a potential lished studies into long-term paracetamol use. The nuclear nightmare,” Netanyahu told lawmakers and data came only from people who had paracetamol visitors in the House of Representatives. His speech prescribed by a doctor, as opposed to over-the- KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf drew 26 standing ovations. But not everyone was per- counter purchases. Two of the eight studies had Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah inaugurate the Al-Shaheed Park project in Sharq yesterday. The Al-Shaheed suaded by his rhetoric. found an increased risk of mortality, up to 63 per- Park was previously known as Al-Hizam Al-Akhthar (Green Belt) Park. — KUNA (See Page 2) Continued on Page 13 cent, among long-term paracetamol users, com- pared to those who had not been prescribed the PAGE PAGE drug during the study period. Four found a height- Amla helps South Africa Emerging world drives ened risk, ranging from 19 to 68 percent, of cardio- vascular problems. The risk of gastro-intestinal cheap smartphone boom bleeding and other intestinal side-effects was up to to big win over Ireland 49 percent as high. Three studies found an adverse effect on kidneys. UK plane spotters Indian state slaps ban on beef detained in UAE LONDON: Three British men are being detained in the MUMBAI: India’s western state of legal amendment - which was passed by #BeefBan,” Ramesh Srivats said on Twitter. tle, citing religious scriptures. The main United Arab Emirates on national security grounds after Maharashtra has introduced a ban on beef the state parliament two decades ago, but The decision led to many angry exchanges players in the beef industry are Muslims, being arrested while plane spotting, their relatives said so strict that even possession could land was never sent to a president for approval. on social media with people on different the country’s largest religious minority, yesterday. Valerie Clitheroe said her husband Conrad, 53, you in jail for five years, media reports and The measures include a ban on the sides of the divide citing personal free- who make up some 13 percent of India’s and his friend Gary Cooper, 45, are being held with their the chief minister said yesterday, in a blow slaughter of bulls and bullocks, hitherto dom, religious beliefs, history, environ- 1.25-billion population. Maharashtra former work colleague, Neil Munro, who lives and works to meat traders who are now considering legal with a vet’s certificate, although it will ment and even animal rights to make their state is ruled by Prime Minister Narendra in the UAE. She said they were taking notes of plane num- legal action. The country’s Hindu majority still be legal to slaughter buffalo. point. Many took snarky jibes at the local Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata bers at Fujairah airport on Feb 21 when they were arrest- considers cows sacred, and several states Maharashtra’s chief minister Devendra state government for its decision. “And in Party in alliance with the far-right Shiv ed. Valerie Clitheroe told BBC radio she had spoken to her already ban their slaughter. But the latest Fadnavis tweeted his thanks to the presi- other news, safer to be born a cow than a Sena party. husband on the telephone and said “he seems very dis- measures in Maharashtra - home to India’s dent, saying “our dream of ban on cow girl in India,” Sonika Mehta said on Twitter. Following the ban, there is concern tressed, very upset that this has happened - they’re just commercial centre Mumbai - go even fur- slaughter becomes a reality now”. However there were many who came over what will happen to bulls and bul- very scared in there”. Cooper’s son, Adam, told the same ther, making the sale or possession of beef The ban didn’t go unnoticed and led to out in open support of the government’s locks or to cows too old to produce milk program that the three men had already had a hearing an offence punishable by a five-year jail an acrimonious debate on social media ban. “No problems with #BeefBan what- or to give birth. Critics of the bill say their and the authorities were in the process of transferring the term or a 10,000 rupee ($160) fine. with #BeefBan top-trending on India’s soever. Totally support it,” Twitter-user owners, mostly farmers, could now be case to the capital Abu Dhabi. Both Cooper and Clitheroe The Indian Express newspaper said the twitter. “In Maharashtra, all chicken, goats Shivani Sahay posted. Rightwing Hindu stuck feeding them for years until they said that they weren’t taking photos because they were measures became law after President and sheep are currently thinking - Why groups in India have long demanded a die of natural causes. aware that they could find themselves in trouble. Pranab Mukherjee gave his assent to a should gais (cows) have all the fun? complete ban on the slaughter of all cat- Continued on Page 13 Unremorseful Delhi rapist blames victim NEW DELHI: One of the men sen- no remorse for the crime, and said the tenced to death for raping and killing a planned broadcast of his comments woman in a brutal 2012 gang attack would be an insult to the memory of on a New Delhi bus says in a TV docu- the woman. “What is there in spread- mentary that if their victim had not ing the views of a rapist,” said Vrinda fought back she would not have been Adiga, an activist. Singh’s interview is killed. Instead, the 23-year-old woman from the documentary “India’s should have remained silent and Daughter” by British filmmaker Leslee allowed the rape, said Udwin. It is to be shown on Mukesh Singh, who was Sunday, International driving the bus for much of Women’s Day, in India, the time that the woman Britain, Denmark, Sweden was being attacked. and several other coun- Singh was among four tries. A transcript of the men convicted and sen- 2013 interview was tenced to be executed for released yesterday.