SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, JULY 24, 2016 SHAWWAL 19, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Playing cricket Defiant Turkey Russian Bolt eases in open extends police balloonist sets to victory, yards legal: powers, shutters world record for Harrison Municipality3 schools after7 coup circumnavigation40 hurdles19 to glory Kuwait being swept by Min 35º Max 47º ‘abnormal’ heat wave High Tide 03:05 & 14: 13 Low Tide Mitribah records hottest ever temperature of 54 C 08:44 & 20:23 40 PAGES NO: 16941 150 FILS KUWAIT: The northwestern part of the Arabian Peninsula was swept by an abnormal heat wave during Amir commends the past two days, particularly in Kuwait and Iraq, with temperatures soaring over 50 degrees Celsius, a senior officials over meteorologist said yesterday. These unprecedented temperature levels are most likely caused by the El Nino huge drug bust phenomenon’s recent impact on air masses in the KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- atmosphere, Essa Ramadan, meteorologist and consult- Jaber Al-Sabah on Friday sent a cable to acting Prime ant at the Directorate Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al- General of Civil Aviation Khaled Al-Sabah, congratulating him and ministry offi- (DGCA), told KUNA. Temperatures in Kuwait cials on thwarting an reached 54 degrees Celsius attempt to smuggle a last week, making Thursday huge amount of the hottest day ever record- Captagon pills into the ed. The blistering tempera- country. The Amir ture was recorded in praised Sheikh Mitribah in Kuwait. Weather Mohammad, the min- historian Christopher C istry undersecretary Burt, with the private and officials at the Weather Underground, said Drugs Control General the temperature is the Department for the dili- hottest “ever reliably meas- gent and sincere efforts ured air temperatures on Essa Ramadan HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah that led to a successful Earth”. Kuwait’s reading Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah operation. ties Death Valley’s 54 degrees Celsius (129.2 Fahrenheit) The Amir also sent a cable to Deputy Prime one, which was measured on June 30, 2013 as the Minister, Finance Minister and acting Oil Minister hottest reliably measured on Earth, Burt added. Many Anas Al-Saleh, congratulating him and finance min- other higher temperatures have been reported in the istry officials on contributing to thwart the smug- past but none are credible, he said. gling attempt. He also praised Saleh and officials at El Nino has affected the region significantly in the past, the General Administration of Customs for their dili- Ramadan noted yesterday, pointing out the heavy rains in gent and sincere efforts. KUWAIT: Pedestrians brave the blazing sun amid a heat wave that has raised temperatures to unprecedented 1997 and the abnormal heat wave in 1998 with 51.4 C Continued on Page 13 levels. A recent international report identified Kuwait as one of the hottest spots on earth this year. — Photo by recorded at Kuwait International Airport at that time. Yasser Al-Zayyat Continued on Page 13 Twin IS blasts kill 80 in Kabul KABUL: Islamic State militants claimed with ambulances struggling to reach the responsibility for twin explosions yester- site as authorities had overnight blocked Erdogan’s mass day that ripped through crowds of Shiite key intersections with stacked shipping Hazaras in Kabul, killing at least 80 peo- containers to control movement of the appeal saved him ple and wounding 231 others in the protesters. deadliest attack in the Afghan capital “As a result of the attack 80 people on night of coup since 2001. The bombings during a huge were martyred and 231 others were protest over a power line mark the first wounded,” the interior ministry said. “The ISTANBUL: More than his security forces, what major IS assault on Kabul, apparently attack was carried out by three suicide saved Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on aimed at sowing sectarian discord in a bombers... The third attacker was the night of the coup attempt was the extraordi- country well known for Shiite-Sunni har- gunned down by security forces.” The nary devotion the charismatic strongman inspires mony. Charred bodies and dismembered wounded overwhelmed city hospitals, among his followers. In the tense hours when rebel limbs littered the scene of the attack, Continued on Page 13 troops attacked with fighter jets and tanks, and commandos were closing in on him, Erdogan called directly on the Turkish people to resist the muti- neers. Using the social media he previously MUNICH: People take shelter as armed police officers are on the hunt for possible despised, and sometimes blocked, he mobilized the fugitives after a shooting in a shopping mall on Friday. — AP citizens who confronted and stopped the plotters. “What makes Erdogan different is that he knew Munich gunman ‘obsessed’ the people would move when he asked them to,” said Can Acun, a researcher with Turkish think-tank with mass killings: Police SETA. “He was aware of the strong linkage between him and the people that he had strengthened through long years.” Having risen from working- German-Iranian had no IS ties class roots, Erdogan served as Istanbul mayor and MUNICH: The teenager who shot dead Iranian student, had a history of mental went on to lead the nation, as premier and then nine people in a gun rampage in Munich illness. Interior Minister Thomas de president, in a success story celebrated by his loyal was “obsessed” with mass killers like Maiziere said the teenager had likely Muslim conservative base. Norwegian rightwing fanatic Anders hacked a girl’s Facebook account and The surreal turning point of the coup for millions Behring Breivik and had no links to the used it to lure victims to the McDonald’s of stunned TV viewers therefore came when the Islamic State group, police said yester- outlet where he began his rampage. strongman appeared pale-faced on CNN Turk televi- day. Europe reacted in shock to the third “There is absolutely no link to the Islamic sion, from the seaside resort of Marmaris where he attack on the continent in just over a State,” Munich police chief Hubertus was holidaying with his family. Speaking via the week, after 18-year-old David Ali Sonboly Andrae said, with prosecutors describing FaceTime app on a smartphone held up to the TV went on a shooting spree at a shopping the assault as a “classic act by a deranged camera by star presenter Hande Firat, he implored center on Friday in what appears to have person”. Investigators see an “obvious the Turkish people to “take to the streets” and been a premeditated attack, before turn- link” between Friday’s killings and defend democracy. KABUL: An Afghan protester screams near the scene of a suicide attack that targeted ing the gun on himself. Breivik’s massacre of 77 people Continued on Page 13 crowds of Hazaras during a demonstration at the Deh Mazang Circle yesterday. — AFP Officials said Sonboly, a German- Continued on Page 13 Clinton picks Kaine as running mate MIAMI: Hillary Clinton and newly-named run- ers - although at risk of alienating the party’s American community, dating back to his work ning mate Tim Kaine hit the campaign trail progressive left wing. The two rallied support- as a civil rights lawyer. Major labor and pro- together yesterday in the first test of the ers in Miami yesterday afternoon. Fellow Democratic groups also praised the Kaine Democratic presidential team as the battle to Democrats widely applauded Clinton’s choice pick, including Planned Parenthood, AFL-CIO beat Donald Trump in November enters its of a man who she said has “devoted his life to and other big unions, and the Sierra Club. final stretch. The former first lady tapped fighting for others”. Clinton “understands how important that Kaine, 58, late Friday in what was widely seen The Democratic Party sent out a fundrais- dynamic is between the vice president and as a safe but wise choice in a brutal election ing appeal yesterday signed by US President the president, and I don’t think she wants to race: The popular Spanish-speaking senator Barack Obama, calling Kaine an “optimist” and saddle herself with someone who might be from the swing state of Virginia is a political “progressive fighter”. “He’s the son of a teacher helpful for the next four months and unhelp- veteran and foreign policy hand who ticks a and an iron worker who’s always got working ful for the next four or eight years,” former lot of boxes. families on his mind,” the letter said.”And Obama advisor David Axelrod told CNN. Kaine himself jokes that he is “boring” - but when a gunman killed 32 people on the cam- “He also is a United States senator who the senator could help Clinton lock in two key pus of Virginia Tech (in 2007), Tim knew he serves on both the Foreign Relations voting blocs: Hispanics and his battleground had a responsibility as governor to offer more Committee and the Armed Services home state. With working-class roots and a than thoughts and prayers to the community Committee, and is very fluent in national MIAMI: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her running mate spotless record both as governor and senator, he mourned with - and as a gun owner, he security issues which is going to be increas- Sen Tim Kaine arrive at a rally at Florida International University Panther Arena he is also seen as helping Clinton garner sup- stood up to the gun lobby on their behalf.” ingly important apparently in this election.” yesterday. — AP port among reluctant independent male vot- Kaine also has strong ties to the African- Continued on Page 13 SUNDAY, JULY 24, 2016 LOCAL Amir condemns Munich shopping mall shooting KUWAIT/BERLIN: His Highness the Amir condemnation and denouncement of the Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah shooting incident which killed and wound- Friday strongly condemned the shooting in ed several people.