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SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2015 SHAABAN 13, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Kuwait Road accident Magnitude Arsenal rout eyes food victims tell 8.5 quake Villa in final sufficiency stories of hurt, strikes off to claim FA by 20402 grief, survival3 eastern7 Japan Cup20 record Regime barrel bombs Min 29º Max 47º kill 71 Syria civilians High Tide 10:15 & 23:15 Low Tide IS demolishes notorious prison in Palmyra 03:30 & 17:05 40 PAGES NO: 16537 150 FILS ALEPPO, Syria: Barrel bombs dropped from regime hel- New treatments icopters Saturday killed more than 70 civilians in Syria’s Aleppo, while government forces in neighboring Iraq of breast cancer retook an area west of the jihadist-controlled city of Ramadi. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said “at least 71 civilians were killed, and dozens wounded prolong health when regime helicopters dropped barrel bombs” on the CHICAGO: Promising advances in research could provincial town of Al-Bab and the Al-Shaar district of mean longer, healthier lives for women with breast the city of Aleppo. cancer, the number one cancer in women worldwide, In the worst carnage, 59 civilians, all male, were killed experts said yesterday at a major US cancer confer- at a market in jihadist-controlled Al-Bab, Observatory ence. A new targeted therapy that appears to double director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP. “People often the amount of time cancer can be held in check, a gather on Saturday mornings at the Al-Hail market in drug that offers more women a chance at healthy lives Al-Bab, which is why the number of dead was so high,” post-diagnosis and a surgical option to remove extra explained Abdel Rahman. Those killed were all male tissue in order to reduce the likelihood of cancer’s because women have much less freedom of movement return were among the findings presented at the in areas controlled by the Islamic State (IS) jihadist American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting group, he added. in Chicago. The head of the Britain-based monitoring group said The targeted drug, palbociclib, is made by Pfizer 12 people were also killed in rebel-held Al-Shaar, includ- and was granted accelerated approval by the US Food ing eight members of a single family. Victims’ bodies and Drug Administration earlier this year for use in were laid out on the streets of the neighborhood, with women with the most common form of advanced the limp blood-covered hand of one of them protrud- breast cancer, known as estrogen receptor positive ing from under a blanket, said an AFP correspondent at (ER+), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 neg- the scene. Shahud Hussein, one of the civil defence vol- ative (HER2-). According to the findings of a phase III unteers helping to clear rubble in Al-Shaar, said the trial presented at the ASCO meeting, the drug - when blasts were so powerful that buildings were “likely to Continued on Page 13 ALEPPO: Syrians stand next to the bodies of those killed in a bomb barrel attack by the Syrian air force on collapse”. the eastern Shaar neighborhood of this northern Syrian city yesterday. — AFP Continued on Page 13 FIFA’s Blatter comes out fighting ZURICH: FIFA President Sepp Blatter the end of Blatter’s new four-year term. “I came out fighting yesterday as he began think he (Blatter) will be then forced to Saudi IS branch his fifth term in charge of soccer’s gov- resign,” he told reporters. But Blatter, who erning body, implying that the United has run FIFA for nearly 20 years during calls for more States timed the announcement of a which it has regularly been subject to major corruption probe to try to scupper suspicions of sleaze and corruption, went his re-election bid. The 79-year-old Swiss on the offensive, criticizing US authori- Shiite attacks comfortably won Friday’s vote at a FIFA ties for how they had handled their DUBAI: An Islamic State-affiliated group in Saudi congress in Zurich, having secured the investigation. Arabia has urged more attacks against Shiites, support of blocks of votes from Asia and “No one is going to take it off me that after IS claimed two bomb attacks on mosques in Africa, which outweighed dissenters it was a simple coincidence (that) this the kingdom. An IS suicide bomber on Friday blew including Europe’s powerful soccer body American attack (happened) two days himself up at the entrance to a mosque in Saudi’s UEFA. He now faces the daunting task of before the elections of FIFA,” Blatter told Eastern Province, killing three people, after securi- restoring public faith in an organization the Swiss RTS television channel late on ty volunteers and police prevented him from tainted by allegations of rampant graft Friday. “Why didn’t they (the police) do entering during the weekly prayers. The attack and deeply divided over his leadership. this in March when we had the same came exactly seven days after the jihadist group One of his most fierce critics, English meeting? At that time, we had less jour- struck another Shiite mosque in the oil-rich Football Association Chairman Greg nalists.” region. Dyke, predicted further scandals before Continued on Page 13 The so-called Najd Province, which claimed DUBAI: Indian Bollywood actor Salman Khan speaks onstage during the Arab both bombings, defended attacks on Shiites and Indo Bollywood Awards ceremony early yesterday. — AFP (See Page 39) said they should be “killed everywhere”, in an audio message posted online late Friday. The jihadist group “has ordered its soldiers everywhere Bailed Bollywood star to kill the enemies of religion, especially (Shiites),” a spokesman is heard saying in the audio mes- Khan performs in UAE sage. The unidentified speaker said Shiites were “apostates”, adding: “it is our duty to kill and dis- DUBAI: Bollywood superstar Salman guards. Among the attendees were Indian place them... wherever they may be”. Khan, on bail over a deadly hit-and-run 13 actress Urvashi Rautela as well as actor Four people were also wounded in Friday’s years ago, performed in Dubai on his first and producer Anil Kapoor. Bollywood attack in the city of Dammam, which coincided overseas public appearance since his con- stars Varun Dhawan and Parineeti Chopra with weekly prayers. The attack sparked wide- viction earlier this month. Arriving at the as well as Indian band Meet Brothers per- spread condemnation. The United States first season of the Arab-Indo Bollywood formed during the ceremony that went denounced the “brutality of the terrorists” and said Awards ceremony held in the Emirati city on until early dawn. Khan presented the it was committed to working with Saudi Arabia to late on Friday, Khan was met by loud best director award to Sajid Nadiadwala fight extremism. “We deplore the brutality of the cheers from a massive audience that for his film “Kick”. terrorists who perpetuated this violence at places included Indian and Arab celebrities. The A court on May 6 sentenced Khan to of worship,” said US State Department spokesman controversial actor was found guilty earli- five years in prison for culpable homicide Jeff Rathke. “The United States stands with the er this month of killing a homeless man and other charges, including driving while people of Saudi Arabia against this violence and with his SUV after a night out drinking in under the influence of alcohol. But two remains committed to working with the Saudi an upmarket bar in Mumbai in 2002. days later the Bombay High Court agreed government and our international partners to fight violent extremism in the region,” he added. He arrived nearly five hours later than to suspend the 49-year-old’s sentence ZURICH: FIFA president Sepp Blatter attends a press conference yesterday after Continued on Page 13 scheduled Friday to an almost full theatre, pending an appeal. being re-elected during the FIFA Congress. — AFP and surrounded by several dozen body- Continued on Page 13 Tense standoff outside US mosque PHOENIX: Anti-Islam protesters - some of them the standoff eased - though officers kept the “We should remind ourselves that we do not heavily armed - faced off against religious rights two groups apart. match wrongness with wrongness, but with demonstrators outside a US mosque Friday, in a Organizers of the anti-Islam protests said on grace and mercy and goodness,” Usama Shami tense but peaceful standoff. About 200 demon- their Facebook page that it was in response to a told worshippers during Friday prayers. While strators from each group stood outside the recent failed attack in Texas where two gunmen some counter-protesters outside the mosque mosque in Phoenix, Arizona, where a biker crew were shot dead before they could storm an responded to the anti-Islam protest with had said they would hold a cartoon contest. event including a cartoon drawing competition. obscenities, others followed his advice and Dozens of officers lined up between the two sets “Everyone is encouraged to bring American chanted “Love your neighbor”. of protesters, using yellow police tape to sepa- flags and any message that you would like to Todd Green, a religion professor at Luther rate them near the gates of the Islamic send to the known acquaintances of the 2 gun- College in Iowa who studies Islamophobia, said Community Center mosque in north Phoenix. man,” who frequented the Phoenix mosque, the that the brutal acts committed by Islamic State “Stop Islam” was among the slogans on plac- Facebook page said. The anti-Islam protest’s and other militant groups have colored many ards held by bearded bikers, one of whom wore organizer, former Marine Jon Ritzheimer, told Americans’ impressions of Muslims.

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