SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 2016 THULQADA 25, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Kuwait tenth Police kill Filipinos seen Substitute in Arab world ‘mastermind’ backing Duterte Rashford breaks over tourism of Dhaka despite rising Hull resolve revenue2 earned cafe attack7 drug12 killings with20 late winner Turkish warplanes hit Min 27º Max 45º Kurdish militia in Syria High Tide 06:55 & 21:55 Regime barrel bombs kill 15 civilians in Aleppo Low Tide 01:20 & 15:12 40 PAGES NO: 16976 150 FILS KARKAMIS, Turkey: Rebels supported by Turkey fought Kurdish-backed forces in north Syria yesterday, as French resorts Ankara ratcheted up its cross-border offensive by saying it had launched air strikes on Kurdish forces and Islamic defiant as ban on State. Turkey’s government, which is fighting a Kurdish insurgency at home, has said the Syrian campaign burkinis nixed launched this week is as much about targeting Islamic State as it is about preventing Kurdish forces filling the MARSEILLE: French resorts were defiant after a ban vacuum left when Islamists withdraw. on the burkini in a Riviera town was overturned, Turkish security sources said two F-16 jets bombed a vowing to keep the restrictions in place and contin- site controlled by the Kurdish YPG militia, which is part ue imposing fines on women who wear the full- of the broader US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces body swimsuit. In a judgement expected to lead to (SDF) coalition. The sources also said the jets hit six bans being overturned in around 30 coastal towns, Islamic State targets. Ankara’s opponents said Turkish the State Council, France’s highest administrative forces had targeted YPG-allied forces but that no court, ruled Friday the measure was a “serious and Kurdish forces were involved. clearly illegal violation of fundamental freedoms”. On the ground, Turkish-backed Syrian rebels fought The suspension of the ban on the Islamic swim- forces aligned to the SDF near the frontier town of suit, which has triggered a fierce debate in France Jarablus. Forces opposed to Ankara said Turkish tanks and sparked critical headlines around the world, was were deployed, a charge denied by Turkey’s rebel allies. welcomed by the UN, and a French Muslim group Yesterday’s use of warplanes against what Turkey said said it was a “victory for common sense”. But the rul- was a Kurdish YPG militia target highlights its determi- ing, which only applied to the ban imposed by nation to prevent any Kurdish territorial expansion in Villeneuve-Loubet, was quickly dismissed by several north Syria. other towns, including Nice, which vowed to keep Any action against Kurdish forces in Syria puts Turkey the restrictions in place and continue imposing fines at odds with its NATO ally the United States, which on women who wear the full-body swimsuit. backs the SDF and YPG, seeing them as the most reli- In its decision, the court said local authorities able and effective ally in the fight against Islamic State could only introduce measures restricting individ- in Syria. It adds complexity to the Syrian conflict that ual freedoms if wearing the swimsuit on beaches erupted five years ago with an uprising against Syrian represented a “proven risk” to public order. President Bashar Al-Assad and has since drawn in Continued on Page 13 ALEPPO: A Syrian rescue worker evacuates a dead baby and a wounded child as civilians search for victims in regional states and world powers. the Maadi district of this city after regime aircrafts dropped explosive-packed barrel bombs yesterday.— AFP Continued on Page 13 English no longer must for NY cabbies NEW YORK: People who hope to drive It’s also a recognition of how technol- New York City’s famous yellow cabs must ogy has transformed the business. Many NY train panic pass tests on such details as driving rules drivers now rely on computer navigation and where they can pick up passengers. programs, rather than verbal directions, as insects let But one test they no longer have to take? to reach a destination. For-hire drivers for Whether they have a grasp of English. A app-based services such as Uber, for new law that streamlines licensing example, never had to take an English loose in prank requirements for different kind of drivers test. But critics, including some drivers, has done away with the longstanding are giving a side-eye to the idea that a NEW YORK: It could have been a scene straight out English proficiency test for taxi drivers, good command of English is no longer of a horror movie. A woman who said she was sell- which supporters say will eliminate a considered a basic requirement for a job ing crickets and worms on a crowded New York City barrier to the profession for immigrants, that involves communicating with pas- subway car appeared to become frazzled by some who make up 96 percent of the 144,000 sengers and reading street signs. teenagers and let the critters loose on riders, then cabbies in the city. Continued on Page 13 urinated on herself, according to social media posts and news reports. Riders on the subway train were CAIRO: Egyptian pilgrims arrive at Cairo International Airport late Aug 25, 2016 for locked in close quarters with the bugs for half an their departure to the annual hajj pilgrimage in the Islamic holy cities of Makkah hour during rush hour on Wednesday evening after and Madinah in Saudi Arabia. — AFP a passenger pulled the train’s emergency brake while they were on the Manhattan Bridge. Ecstatic Egyptian pilgrims Two days later, on Friday, a woman who identi- fied herself as Zaida Pugh came forward, saying she start journey to Makkah staged the episode as a prank to raise awareness of how people treat the homeless. She said she is an CAIRO: Pilgrims have been saying their started crying and I prostrated to God,” actress and was not concerned about a backlash farewells at Cairo airport before leaving she says, her beaming husband standing from inconvenienced commuters. “Of course they’ll for Saudi Arabia to perform the hajj in next to her outside the terminal late on be angry with me, but I guess I’m just doing me. I’m the tradition of Prophet Muhammad Thursday. waking people up with my shows, my acts,” she said (PBUH) and Abraham (PBUH) before him. Nearby a policeman pushes a wheel- by telephone. Every year tens of thousands of chair carrying an elderly women with a The teenagers, whom she said were also acting, Egyptians apply for visas to travel to cane into the terminal. Every Muslim who had pushed her as she offered the creepy-crawlies Makkah to join more than a million can undertake the journey is expected to for sale, and knocked the container holding them Muslims from across the world at the pil- perform the pilgrimage at least once in into the air. After the crickets were set free, some of NEW YORK: Taxi driver Luis Rosado speaks to a reporter while stopped at a red grimage. “When I was chosen, I couldn’t his or her lifetime, but it can also be per- them jumped on passengers, who apparently were light on Aug 24, 2016. Nearly 96 percent of cabbies are immigrants, and the city believe it,” says Afaf Hasan Rifai, who was formed on behalf of another follower of not in on the prank. has dropped a longstanding requirement that they be required to speak and selected by Egypt’s authorities to per- the faith who is unable to do so. Continued on Page 13 form the hajj to start early next month. “I Continued on Page 13 understand basic English. — AP Italy weeps for earthquake dead ASCOLI PICENO, Italy: Italy held a tear-drenched funer- ter, Giorgia, for long enough for the five-year-old to be al yesterday for dozens of its earthquake victims as the pulled from the rubble virtually unscathed. Giorgia was country mourned the victims of a disaster that has one of the last survivors to be rescued and there have claimed nearly 300 lives. President Sergio Mattarella, been no reports of anyone else being found alive since Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and other leaders were late Wednesday. On Giulia’s coffin a little note had been among hundreds of mourners in a sports hall in Ascoli left: “Ciao little one. Sorry that we arrived too late.” It had Piceno. The hall in the capital of the central Marche apparently been written by one of the firemen who res- region had been converted temporarily to a place of cued Giorgia. worship for the funeral of most of the people who per- Away from the TV cameras, the tiny hamlet of San ished in the villages of Arquata del Tronto and Pescara Benedetto, near Amatrice, buried one its sons, 13-year- del Tronto in the region’s mountainous interior. old Sergio Giustiniani. The strains of three exhausting Hundreds more stood silently outside, the somber days were apparent as a woman screamed at a man proceedings of the mass relayed to them by loudspeak- who had been stopped by police, presuming he was a ers, three days after the deadly quake struck before thief. “I have lost everything and they come to rob us,” dawn, killing 291 people according to the latest count. she cried as a hearse pulled up behind her to collect a Relatives of the dead sat alongside the flower-bedecked corpse from a neighboring house. coffins, some draping themselves across them and sob- Head of state Mattarella vowed “we will not abandon bing inconsolably.