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SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, MAY 30, 2017 RAMADAN 4, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Food names: Swedish comedy Muguruza strolls Passion, ‘The Square’ as Nadal, place or is surprise Djokovic personality Cannes winner enter fray Imsak Fajr Shorook Duhr Asr Maghrib Isha 3 38 20 03:06 03:16 04:49 11:45 15:20 18:42 20:12 Admit bedoons in public Min 32º Max 47º schools: Assembly panel High Tide 03:48 & 14:14 Low Tide Tabtabaei inquires how Fali entered Kuwait 09:03 & 21:55 40 PAGES NO: 1723 150 FILS By B Izzak KUWAIT: The National Assembly committee for bedoons or stateless people yesterday approved a pro- posal calling to allow children of bedoons who were counted in the 1965 census to join public schools, head of the committee said. MP Nasser Al-Dossari also called on the education minister to admit bedoons who passed the higher secondary examination into Kuwait Fasting: The 4th University. Dossari called for dealing with bedoon students in a pillar of Islam humanitarian way and allow them to complete their university education at Kuwait University in order to be able to join the labor market to replace expatriates. The Thekra Azouzi lawmaker said the committee discussed with the for- asting (‘Sawm’) during the month of Ramadan eign ministry about the issue of coordination with Saudi is the fourth pillar of Islam and Muslims from authorities to allow easy access for bedoons to perform umrah and hajj, minor and major pilgrimage to Makkah. all corners of the planet are required to fast as F Bedoons have had difficulties in recent years to go to it is mentioned in the verses 183-185 of Surah Al- Saudi Arabia for hajj because of visa problems. Baqarah: 183. “O’ you who have Faith! Fasting is Islamist MP Waleed Al-Tabtabaei yesterday asked prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those Interior Minister Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah how before you, so that you may guard yourselves Shiite cleric Mohammad Al-Fali managed to enter the (against evil).” country although he was deported several years ago. 184. “(Fast for) a certain number of days. But Tabtabaei asked the minister how did Fali manage to whoever among you is sick or on a journey, then enter Kuwait using a fake passport and whether his fin- (he shall fast) the same number of other days, and gerprints were taken at the airport or not. He asked for for those who are hardly able to do it, (there is) a the reason if the fingerprints were not taken and if they redemption by feeding an indigent. But whoever KUWAIT: A baker prepares a traditional Ramadan pancake known as Qatayef on the third day of the fasting were taken how he was allowed to enter. volunteers to do good, it is better for him; and it is month of Ramadan in Kuwait City yesterday.— Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Continued on Page 13 better for you that you fast, if you did (only) know.” 185. “The month of Ramadan that wherein the Holy Quran was sent down to be a guidance for mankind, and as clear signs of guidance and a cri- N Korea fires Scud-class ballistic missile terion (between right and wrong). Therefore, who- ever of you is present (at his home) during the SEOUL: North Korea fired at least one Korean officials said. North Korea has a month, he shall fast therein and whoever is sick or short-range ballistic missile yesterday that large stockpile of the short-range missiles, on a journey, he shall then (fast) the same number Tiger Woods arrested landed in the sea off its east coast, the lat- originally developed by the Soviet Union. of other days; Allah desires ease for you, and He est in a fast-paced series of missile tests Yesterday’s launch followed two suc- does not desire hardship for you; so you should for ‘drunk driving’ defying world pressure and threats of cessful tests of medium-to-long-range complete the number (of days decreed), and exalt more sanctions. The missile was believed missiles in as many weeks by the North, Allah for His having guided you, and that haply you WASHINGTON: Golf superstar Tiger back which has limited him to three to be a Scud-class ballistic missile and which has been conducting such tests at might be grateful (to Him).” Woods was arrested yesterday in tournament starts worldwide in the flew about 450 km (280 miles), South Continued on Page 13 Continued on Page 13 Florida on suspicion of driving under past two years. Woods wrote on his the influence of alcohol or website last week that drugs, according to since his latest proce- Delivery Hero to buy records from the Palm dure he was feeling Beach County Sheriff’s better than he had in Mideast firm Carriage Office. The 14-time major years and remained champion was booked committed to return- KUWAIT: Online food takeaway firm Delivery Hero, which sources have said is considering a flotation imminently, into the Palm Beach ing to competitive golf. has agreed to buy Middle East food delivery platform County jail yesterday at “My surgeon and Carriage, the latest in a series of technology deals in the 7:18 am (1118 GMT) after physiotherapist say region. he was arrested by police the operation was suc- Chief Executive Niklas Ostberg said in a statement yes- in Jupiter, Florida. cessful. It’s just a mat- terday that Kuwait-based Carriage, which operates in the He was released on his ter of not screwing up Gulf Council countries, would strengthen Delivery Hero’s own recognizance at and letting it fuse,” foothold in a region with “significant growth potential”. 10.50 am. Woods, 41, has- Woods wrote. “I’m The parties agreed not to disclose financial details. n’t played competitive walking and doing my Major investors in Delivery Hero include Germany’s golf since pulling out of the Tiger Woods exercises, and taking my Rocket Internet and South African media and e-com- Dubai Desert Classic in kids to and from school. merce firm Naspers. The deal comes after Dubai’s Emaar February after one round because of All I can do is take it day by day. There’s Malls announced last week it will buy a 51 percent stake back pain. He had spinal fusion surgery no hurry. “But, I want to say unequivo- in e-commerce fashion website Namshi from Global on April 20 — his fourth surgery in cally, I want to play professional golf Fashion Group (GFG), a firm set up by Rocket Internet and three years to treat his troublesome again.” — AFP OSAKA: People walk near a screen which reports North Korea’s missile launch in Sweden’s Kinnevik. — Reuters Osaka, western Japan yesterday. — AP Fears grow of increasing IS Cities may be 8 degrees foothold in south Philippines Celsius hotter by 2100 PARIS: Under a dual onslaught of global “The top five percent (of cities per MARAWI, Philippines: Inside this lakeside city dotted warming and localized, urban heating, population) could see increases in tem- with hundreds of mosques, a powerful militant desig- some of the world’s cities may be as peratures of about 8 C and larger,” nated by the Islamic State group as its leader in the much as eight degrees Celsius (14.4 study co-author Francisco Estrada of Philippines has managed to unify a disparate group of degrees Fahrenheit) warmer by 2100, the Institute for Environmental Studies gunmen under a single command. researchers warned yesterday. in the Netherlands told AFP. Estrada Over the past week, his fighters have shown their Such a temperature spike can have and a team used different projections muscle, withstanding a sustained assault by the dire consequences for the health of city- of average planetary warming, com- Philippine military and increasing fears that the Islamic dwellers, robbing companies and indus- bined with the UHI effect and potential State group’s violent ideology is gaining a foothold in tries of able workers, and put pressure harms, to estimate the future costs of on already strained natural resources this country’s restive southern islands, where a Muslim warming on cities. such as water. The projection is based separatist rebellion has raged for decades. The army The median city, right in the middle insists the drawn-out fight is not a true sign of the mili- on the worst-case-scenario assumption of the range, stands to lose between 1.4 tants’ strength, and that the military has held back to that emissions of planet-warming and 1.7 percent of GDP per year by 2050 spare civilians’ lives. greenhouse gases continue to rise “They are weak,” Gen Eduardo Ano, the military chief throughout the 21st century. The top and between 2.3 and 5.6 percent by of staff, said of the gunmen, speaking at a hospital quarter of most populated cities, in this 2100, they concluded. where injured soldiers were being treated. “It’s just a scenario, could see the mercury rise 7 C “For the worst-off city, losses could matter of time for us to clear them from all their hiding or more by century’s end, said a study in reach up to 10.9 percent of GDP by places.” Still, the fighters have turned out to be remark- the journal Nature Climate Change. 2100,” wrote the team. UHI “significant- ably well-armed and resilient. For some, nearly 5 C of the total would ly” increases city temperatures and Attack helicopters were streaking low over Marawi be attributed to average global warming.