SUBSCRIPTION MONDAY, MARCH 17, 2014 JAMADA ALAWWAL 16, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Moves to Abu Dhabi US lags as Seven up for enforce ban extends period commercial Barca as on beach of $20bn drones take off Messi breaks barbeques2 loans21 to Dubai around27 globe another19 record Maid kills employer’s Max 26º Min 10º daughter in Sulaibikhat High Tide 00:01 & 12:52 Low Tide Suspect turns self in • MPs vent anger on Ethiopian workers 06:46 & 18:55 40 PAGES NO: 16107 150 FILS By Hanan Al-Saadoun, B Izzak and A Saleh which confirmed that the death was a result of four stab wounds - two in the chest and two in the abdominal Only 6,400 KUWAIT: An Ethiopian domestic worker stabbed her area. employer’s teenage daughter to death in Sulaibikhat The suspect later turned herself in. She told officers yesterday, in yet another stab-murder case in which that she stabbed the victim multiple times in the girl’s hajj pilgrims housemaids target children of their employers in bedroom while she was asleep, then locked her inside Kuwait. No reason was given for the murder, but it was the room before leaving her employer’s house. She also from Kuwait reported that the maid said she had been insulted the handed over the knife she used in the crime. She also night before. Several Kuwaiti lawmakers meanwhile confessed that she had planned the murder days earlier vented anger on Ethiopian workers, demanding a total and that her plans had been delayed because of the By A Saleh ban on their recruitment. presence of the victim’s younger sister. The suspect, identified as 22-year-old Rabiya The victim’s father was a member of the Kuwait KUWAIT: Saudi authorities have informed Kuwait Mahmoud, turned herself in at Sulaibikhat police sta- national team that participated in the 1982 World Cup. that the kingdom will only accept 6,400 hajj pilgrims tion at 5:45 am. She admitted killing 19-year-old Seham He currently serves as the Deputy Director General for from Kuwait this year. This was announced during a Al-Shemmari, daughter of former Kuwaiti national foot- Youth Affairs at the Public Authority for Youth and meeting of the head of Kuwait’s hajj mission and ball team defender Hmoud Flaiteh Al-Shemmari, earlier Sports. Shemmari confirmed the news on his Twitter Awqaf Ministry undersecretary Adel Al-Falah and act- that morning. She confirmed that the murder hap- account yesterday, and stated that his daughter was to ing Saudi Hajj Ministry undersecretary Sahel Al- pened at Shemmari’s house where she worked as a be laid to rest yesterday afternoon. Seham Al-Shemmari Sabban to discuss preparations for the coming hajj housemaid, and cited conflicts with the victim as the was a freshman at Kuwait University’s Faculty or Arts, Al- season. Ongoing expansion works at Makkah’s Grand reason. Aan news website reported yesterday. It added that stu- Mosque has required reducing pilgrims from outside The circumstances behind the crime and the sus- dents and teaching staff were in ‘a state of shock’ follow- Saudi Arabia by 20 percent and those from within the pect’s exact motives remain unclear as of the newspa- ing the murder. country by 50 percent. per’s publishing. The police report says that officers Separately, MP Abdulhameed Dashti warned of responded to an emergency call reporting that a door ‘Heinous crime’ the consequences of the involvement of Kuwaitis in was locked in a Sulaibikhat house with a girl inside. The The case drew an outcry in Kuwait where around the Syrian conflict and urged the government to take girl was found bleeding heavily after firefighters broke 800,000 of the country’s nearly 4 million people are immediate and serious steps in this regard. He was the door open with her parents present, before she was domestic workers. People took to social media to commenting after a senior Kuwaiti fighter was killed KUWAIT: Ethiopian maid Rabiya Mahmoud is seen rushed to the hospital. The victim arrived dead at the demand the death penalty for the suspect, which is the in Syria late on Friday. after she turned herself in at Sulaibikhat police sta- tion yesterday. Mubarak Hospital according to the medical report, Continued on Page 13 Syrian army captures PAGE 100 killed in Nigeria as PAGE rebel bastion Yabroud gunmen storm villages Crimea votes to join Russia ‘93%’ vote for union • West outraged SIMFEROPOL: Crimeans voted over- “I am happy. Honestly, I’m 60 and I nev- whelmingly yesterday in favor of joining er thought I would live to see this happy former political master Russia as tensions day,” said Alexander Sorokin as he strolled Myth of soared in the east of the splintered ex- the waterfront of Sevastopol, home of Soviet nation amid the worst East-West cri- tsarist and Kremlin navies since the 18th sis since the Cold War. Exit polls cited by century and a city that like most of the Planet X the Russian RIA news agency showed 93 peninsula is heavily Russified. Ukraine’s percent of the voters in favor of leaving new pro-European leaders and the West Ukraine and joining Russia in the most have branded the vote as “illegal” because debunked serious redrawing of the map of Europe the strategic Black Sea peninsula has been Crewmembers onboard a US Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft assist in search and rescue since Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of inde- under de facto control of Russian forces operations for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in the Indian Ocean yesterday. — AP pendence from Serbia. Another Russian since the start of the month. WASHINGTON: It was an elusive planet that for 200 agency said turnout was over 80 percent. Continued on Page 13 years appeared to explain Uranus’s wobbly orbit. And there was the sister sun theorized to be near our solar Final words from jet system that caused asteroids to swerve toward Earth. There is just one problem: neither “Planet X” nor came after shutdown “Nemesis” ever existed, researchers now say. Or probably not. “The outer solar system probably KUALA LUMPUR: The final words from trollers after the ACARS system was shut does not contain a large gas giant planet (“Planet X”), or a the missing Malaysian jetliner’s cockpit down. Whoever spoke did not mention small, companion star (“Nemesis”),” concluded University gave no indication anything was wrong any trouble on board, seemingly mis- of Pennsylvania astronomer Kevin Luhman, who directed even though one of the plane’s commu- leading ground control. the study using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey nications systems had already been dis- Air force Maj Gen Affendi Buang told Explorer (WISE) telescope. The results were published in abled, officials said yesterday, adding to reporters he did not know whether it the most recent edition of The Astrophysical Journal. suspicions that one or both of the pilots was the pilot or co-pilot who spoke to air Most theories had estimated Planet X to be up to four were involved in the disappearance. traffic controllers. Given the expanse of times the size of Jupiter - the biggest planet in our solar system. They suggested it would be found some 1,486 As authorities examined a flight simu- land and water that might need to be billion km from the sun, or about 10,000 times farther lator that was confiscated from the home searched, the wreckage of the plane than the Earth’s orbit. But the images gathered by the tel- of one of the pilots and dug through the might take months - or longer - to find, escope did not detect any object larger than Jupiter. background of all 239 people on board or might never be located. Establishing Luhman doesn’t rule out the possibility that a planet is and the ground crew that serviced the what happened with any degree of cer- lurking somewhere in the asteroid belt. It would be hard plane, they also were grappling with the tainty will likely need key information, to find if it were closely aligned with a bright star that enormity of the search ahead of them, including cockpit voice recordings, from blinds the telescope or were much smaller than had warning they needed more data to nar- the plane’s flight data recorders. been theorized. But after this latest survey, Luhman said row down the hunt for the aircraft. The search area now includes 11 the odds of finding one are very unlikely: “That is like a SIMFEROPOL: Pro-Russian demonstrators wave Russian flags as they gather in The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 took countries the plane might have flown one in a hundred chance.” — AFP (See Page 28) Lenin Square yesterday. — AFP off from Kuala Lumpur at around 12:40 over, Hishammuddin said, adding that am on March 8, headed to Beijing. On the number of countries involved in the Saturday, Malaysia’s government con- operation had increased from 14 to 25. firmed that the plane was deliberately “The search was already a highly com- Saudis ban books in major crackdown diverted and may have flown as far north plex, multinational effort. It has now as Central Asia, or south into the vast become even more difficult,” he said. The RIYADH: Saudi authorities have banned hun- police had protested at “blasphemous pas- forced to cover in public from head to toe, are reaches of the Indian Ocean. search effort initially focused on the rela- dreds of books, including works by renowned sages” in works by the late Darwish, widely not allowed to drive.