SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 SHAWWAL 5, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Speaker, MPs Indian serial Germany eyes Blatter departure slam Dashti’s child killer Iran business date set as FIFA visit to family confesses but Israel tops tries again of Mughniya5 to11 crimes differences25 with19 reforms New UAE law outlaws all Min 32º Max 47º forms of discrimination High Tide 03:38 & 14:36 Legislation seeks to promote tolerance, acceptance Low Tide 08:38 & 21:10 40 PAGES NO: 16585 150 FILS DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates has outlawed religious or racial discrimination, the state news agency WAM said yester- Cuba flag flies in US as ties restored day, citing a royal decree by President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan. The law is aimed in part at countering Islamist mili- tancy, particularly the practice known as takfir, whereby hard- WASHINGTON: The Cuban flag was yesterday proudly line Muslims label followers of other schools of Islam unbeliev- hoisted over Havana’s newly restored embassy in ers, but it also outlaws insults against religions. The legislation Washington for the first time in 54 years as the two bars discrimination based on “religion, caste, creed, doctrine, nations resumed diplomatic ties, ending decades of hos- race, color or ethnic origin,” according to WAM. tility. In a historic ceremony attended by Cuban Foreign “The new law No. 02 of 2015 criminalizes any acts that stoke Minister Bruno Rodriguez, a large crowd cheered and religious hatred and/or which insult religion through any form of shouted “Fidel, Fidel” and “Viva Raul” as the flag was expression, be it speech or the written word, books, pamphlets or raised by an honor guard. They were referring to Cuba’s via online media,” WAM reported. “The law is intended to provide revolutionary leader Fidel Castro and his brother Raul a sound foundation for the environment of tolerance, broadmind- Castro, who is now the president of the communist-run edness and acceptance in the UAE,” the report said. Penalties Caribbean island. include six months to more than 10 years in prison and fines up to After the US and Cuba officially resumed relations at two million dirhams ($545,000). Authorities held out the possibili- one minute after midnight, an American official con- ty of amnesty for those who proactively turn themselves in. firmed to AFP that US Secretary of State John Kerry will The UAE, an oil-exporting confederation of seven Muslim visit Havana on Aug 14. He will be the first US secretary emirates ruled by hereditary dynasties and bordering Saudi of state to visit Cuba since 1945, sealing what will be a Arabia and Oman, is worried about political Islam, which major foreign policy legacy of President Barack appeals to religious conservatives while challenging its lack of Obama’s eight-year tenure. The historic turnaround democratic rule. It has declared the Muslim Brotherhood a ter- rorist organization - the Brotherhood denies any involvement in between two bitter adversaries has come at breakneck militant violence - and taken part in US-led air strikes on the pace after Obama and Raul Castro in December agreed ultra-radical Islamic State insurgent group in Syria. The UAE is to normalize ties. also concerned about efforts by Sunni Muslim jihadists to stoke The shift came after Washington acknowledged its sectarian tensions in the Gulf with recent blasts at Shiite Muslim policy of trying to affect change in tightly controlled mosques in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. communist Cuba through isolation and trade restrictions Militant violence is rare in the UAE, but Islamic State has had failed. At about 4:00 am (0800 GMT), the Cuban ban- urged Muslims in Gulf countries to target Western expatriates in ner first took its place in the columned marble entrance retaliation for attacks against it. While all UAE citizens are hall to the State Department, hoisted between the flags Muslims, most of them are Sunni. The country is also home to of Croatia to the left and Cyprus to the right. It was then hundreds of thousands of non-Muslim expatriates and is a pop- raised at the embassy in Washington, which until yester- ular destination for foreign tourists. Human rights organizations day had been operating as an interests section. WASHINGTON: Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez (second right) applauds as the Cuban flag is criticize the country for clamping down on free speech and Continued on Page 13 raised in front of the country’s embassy for the first time in 54 years yesterday. — AFP accuse it of using laws against terrorism to jail peaceful critics of the government. — Agencies UN endorses Iran nuke deal Mental, drug issues dogged US gunman CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee: A man who shot and killed five service members in Tennessee was first treated by a child psychiatrist for depression when he was 12 or 13 years old, a family representative said. The representative, who spoke Sunday on condition of anonymity to avoid unwanted publicity, said 24-year-old Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, a naturalized American citizen born in SURUC, Turkey: Bodies are seen on the ground after an explosion in this town Kuwait, also fought drug and alcohol abuse, spending not far from the Syrian border yesterday. — AFP time in Jordan last year to help clean himself up. The representative said rela- Suicide bomber kills tives of Abdulazeez believe UNITED NATIONS: Thomas Mayr-Harting (left), head of the delegation of the those personal struggles are at European Union to the United Nations, shakes hands with Iran’s UN Ambassador the heart of last week’s killings at Gholamali Khoshroo at the UN headquarters yesterday. — AP 31 in Turkey attack a pair of military sites in Chattanooga. “They do not know UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council Britain, China, France, Russia and the United of anything else to explain it,” yesterday unanimously adopted a resolution States, plus Germany. ANKARA: A suicide bomber attacked yes- tors of this brutality,” he said. “Terror must be said the representative, who has endorsing the historic deal on Iran’s nuclear US President Barack Obama welcomed terday a cultural centre hosting anti-Islamic condemned no matter where it comes been involved with the family program and cleared a path to lift sanctions the resolution and said he expected a hostile State activists in a Turkish town near the from.” The force of the explosion blew out since the shootings. The claim crippling its economy. It marks formal UN Congress to “pay attention” to the broad con- border with Syria, killing 31 people in an “act the windows of the building and set off a Muhammad fits a pattern of behavior by approval for the hard-won, groundbreaking sensus behind the deal. Obama said he of terror” blamed on the jihadist group. The blaze, witnesses said. Television footage Abdulazeez Abdulazeez that includes a agreement reached between Tehran and the hoped resolution would “send a clear mes- blast ripped through the centre in Suruc, a showed several people lying on the ground drunken driving arrest earlier permanent members of the Security Council, sage that the overwhelming number of town opposite the Syrian flashpoint of covered in blood and ambulances rushing this year and the loss of a job over a failed drug test. plus Germany, after 18 straight days of talks countries” recognize that diplomacy is “by far Kobane -which was itself later hit by a sui- to the scene. Several years ago, relatives tried to have Abdulazeez that capped almost two years of momentous our strongest approach to ensuring that Iran cide car bombing. Most of the dead were “The Turkish authorities have strong rea- admitted to an in-patient program for drug and alcohol negotiations. does not get a nuclear weapon.” university students who had been planning son to believe that the terrorist attack was abuse but a health insurer refused to approve the The passing of the resolution sets in In the Security Council, ambassadors said a mission to help Kobane residents, accord- perpetrated by ISIS,” a government official expense, said the representative. “He was medicated like motion a gradual process - conditional on the years of hard work on Iran should ing to a pro-Kurdish party official. told AFP, using another name for IS. If con- many children are. Through high school and college he Iran abiding by the deal-that can terminate become a blueprint for how the world deals President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on a vis- firmed, it would be the first such attack by IS did a better job sometimes than others staying with it,” seven UN resolutions imposing sanctions on with other crises such as those in Syria and it to northern Cyprus, condemned the fighters against Turkey, a regional military the representative said. Abdulazeez had spent several Iran since 2006. The agreement with Tehran Yemen. “When our nations truly unite to con- attack as an “act of terror”. “On behalf of my power and NATO member. months in Jordan last year under a mutual agreement was reached last Tuesday in Vienna by the front global crises, our influence grows people, I curse and condemn the perpetra- Continued on Page 13 Continued on Page 13 UN council’s five permanent members - Continued on Page 13 Aussie surf pro fights off shark SYDNEY: Australian surf champion Mick Fanning’s punched it in the back. There’s a small depression fighting back tears. “When Sean was killed in the shocked mother feared she had lost another son in my board and my leg wrap (was) bitten. I’m just car accident, I didn’t see it. I saw this just in front of after he was attacked by a huge shark in South totally tripping out.