Egypt Calls for Truce in Gaza As Fighting Rages
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SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 2014 SHAWWAL 28, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Kuwait named Islamist Nepalese Mnandzukic third ‘most militias attempt world’s hands Atletico livable’ seize Tripoli largest human Super Cup Arab state5 airport7 flag11 record win18 over Real Egypt calls for truce in Max 45º Min 29º Gaza as fighting rages High Tide 10:44 Israeli strikes kill 10 Apartment block, mosques destroyed Low Tide • 05:07 & 18:20 40 PAGES NO: 16264 150 FILS GAZA CITY: Israel pounded Gaza yesterday with scores of air strikes, killing 10 Palestinians, mostly women and Kuwait to boost children, and bringing down a 12-storey apartment China oil exports building as Egypt called for new truce talks. Since a pre- vious round of frantic Egyptian diplomacy collapsed last to 800,000 bpd Tuesday, shattering nine days of calm, 86 Palestinians and a four-year-old Israeli boy have been killed in the DUBAI: Kuwait plans to increase the volume of crude violence. Israel on Saturday sent text messages, voice oil exports to China to 500,000 barrels a day (bpd) in mails and leaflets warning Palestinians that “every three years, and eventually to 800,000 bpd, an execu- house from which militant activity is carried out, will be tive at the state-run Kuwait Petroleum Corporation targeted” and to stay away from “terrorists”. (KPC) said yesterday. On Friday, Kuwait concluded a Israel has vowed no let-up until it can guarantee the new 10-year deal with a China’s Sinopec Corp to nearly safety of its civilians, while Hamas insists that Israel double its supplies by must end its eight-year blockade of the territory as part offering to ship the oil of any truce. At least 2,103 Palestinians and 68 people and sell it on a more on the Israeli side, all but four of them soldiers, have competitive cost-and- been killed since July 8. The UN says 70 percent of the freight basis. Palestinians who have died were civilians. “With new and Israel said it had carried out 55 air strikes over Gaza mutual cooperation yesterday and that around 64 rockets and mortar between the two par- rounds from Gaza hit Israel, with another 14 intercept- ties, there is a good sign ed, including one over Tel Aviv. The deadliest Israeli air of increasing the vol- ume of our crude oil strike levelled a home in Al-Zawayda in central Gaza, exports to China up to killing a couple, their sons aged three and four, and a 45-year-old aunt, medics said. Distraught mourners Nasser Al-Mudhaf 500,000 bpd in the next three years,” Nasser Al- gathered at the cemetery, clawing at the dry soil and Mudhaf, KPC’s Managing Director of International using their bare hands to fill the graves after laying mar- Marketing told Kuwait’s News Agency (KUNA). Under ble slabs over the bodies in the burning morning sun. the deal signed last week, KPC will initially export Neighbours said the family house had been bombed 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil, which would earlier in the conflict and that the family had returned amount to 15 percent of Kuwaiti petroleum exports to camp out in the ruins, when it was hit overnight by and estimated to be worth $120 billion. an F16. Continued on Page 13 GAZA: Palestinian men look on as a bomb from an Israeli air strike hits a house in Gaza City yesterday. — AFP Continued on Page 13 Bombs kill dozens across Iraq BAGHDAD/ARBIL, Iraq: Bombings across ing of soldiers and Shiite militias Iraq killed at least 35 people in attacks that overnight, killing nine. Shiite militiamen Tennessee revives appeared to be revenge for an assault on a machine-gunned 70 worshipers at a vil- Sunni mosque that has deepened sectari- lage mosque in Diyala Province on Friday cursive teaching an conflict. A bomb also exploded in the as politicians try to form a power-sharing northern city of Arbil on Saturday, a rare government capable of countering NASHVILLE: Children in Tennessee will have to get attack unsettling the relative stability the Islamic State militants. used to holding a pencil again next year when new capital of the semi-autonomous Kurdish An advance by Islamic State through cursive handwriting standards go into effect in region has enjoyed. Local television northern Iraq has alarmed the Baghdad schools throughout the state. The trend around the footage showed firefighters dousing the government and its Western allies and United States is to emphasize keyboarding - a skill charred remains of a car in Arbil. A Reuters drawn US airstrikes in Iraq for the first that is included in the Common Core education journalist earlier saw a cloud of smoke, but time since the withdrawal of American standards adopted by most states. But Tennessee the source was not clear. troops in 2011. Although the air cam- lawmakers, concerned that some children do not In Baghdad, a bomber rammed a vehi- paign has caused a few setbacks for have a signature and struggle to read their teachers’ cle into an intelligence headquarters, Islamic State, they do not address the far handwriting, overwhelmingly passed a bill making killing at least eight people, police and broader problem of sectarian warfare JIDHAFS, Bahrain: A Bahraini protester holds a petrol bomb during clashes with cursive a mandatory subject in grades two through medical sources said. Near Tikrit, a suicide which the group has fueled with attacks riot police following an anti-government protest against the manipulation of four. bomber driving a military Humvee on Shiites. demography in Bahrain in this village west of Manama yesterday. — AFP Schools are expected to start bringing back the packed with explosives attacked a gather- Continued on Page 13 declining art of cursive in 2015-2016 under the new rules, signed into law this year by Governor Bill Bahrain Shiites protest Haslam. Keyboarding and print writing will still have their place, but legible penmanship will be required naturalizing foreigners by third grade. “I am surprised we have stopped teaching it in some places,” said Gary Nixon, execu- DUBAI: Thousands of Shiites protested in ity,” they said. The protest came two days tive director of the Tennessee School Board. “It’s an Bahrain yesterday against what they say are after Human Rights Watch urged Bahrain to art that is losing its form because of the keyboard.” attempts by the Sunni authorities to tip the repeal a law allowing dissidents’ citizenships For millennials, cursive is quaint and not much kingdom’s demographic balance in their to be revoked if they have been convicted of more. “It’s kind of like hopping on a Pogo stick. If you favor by naturalizing foreigners, witnesses terrorism. The law was introduced last year. can do it, great, but if not, it doesn’t matter,” said said. The Shiite opposition accuses Sunni- On August 6, a court stripped nine Cory Woodroof, 21, a student at Lipscomb University ruled Bahrain of having naturalized tens of Bahraini men of their citizenship. HRW also in Nashville who felt grade school handwriting class- thousands of Sunni foreigners in the Shiite- said that 10 other Shiites, whose citizenships es were wasted time. Also at Lipscomb, 20-year-old majority kingdom over recent years. “The were revoked two years ago, are now facing Janice Ng of Singapore said she took immersion indigenous people of Bahrain are in danger,” jail terms or deportation from Bahrain. studies in English back home but “they didn’t men- banners read, as protesters waving Bahraini Hundreds of Shiites have been arrested and tion cursive. It’s not used.” flags marched near the Shiite village of Daih, many have faced trials over their role in anti- The benefits of cursive teaching standards are near the capital Manama, according to wit- regime protests that erupted in February questionable, according to one national literacy nesses. 2011. Security forces crushed the protests in expert. “I don’t think it’s bad, but I don’t think there’s Police heavily patrolled the area but no mid-March 2011, but smaller demonstrations much of a point to it,” said Sandra Wilde, chair of the clashes were reported. In a statement read at frequently take place in Shiite villages, trig- National Council of Teacher of English Elementary the end of the protest, the opposition gering clashes with police. Bahrain is a strate- Section Steering Committee. Dedicating teaching accused authorities of “following a destruc- gic archipelago just across the Gulf from Iran. time to cursive could take time away from touch- tive policy aimed at replacing the indigenous Washington is a long-standing ally of the rul- KIRKUK: Iraqi emergency service personnel wheel a body at the site of a road- typing, a more important skill these days, she said. side bomb attack near under-construction buildings in this Kurdish-controlled people with regime supporters”. “Naturalising ing Al-Khalifa dynasty, and Bahrain is home Continued on Page 13 poses a threat to Bahrain’s security and stabil- to the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet. — AFP northern Iraqi city yesterday. — AFP Ice bucket challenge may change nonprofit world NEW YORK: The ice bucket challenge’s phenomenal suc- the Ohio State University Fisher College of Business, who Boston man with ALS, a neurodegenerative disease that cess is making other charitable organizations rethink teaches courses in nonprofit finance. “Normally the mod- affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, did a how they connect with a younger generation of poten- el is to find people who are passionate about a cause group challenge. tial donors. 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