THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2014 THULHIJA 15, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Jahra road Swedish Palestine Clashes at Federer, project key statement signals Al-Aqsa Djokovic to resolve start of weightier ahead of win as Nadal traffic3 woes global10 role Jewish13 feast crashes20 Brawl at Avenues mall Max 38º Min 25º leads to free-for-all High Tide 12:31 18 youths, security guards arrested Low Tide 06:22 & 18:42 40 PAGES NO: 16307 150 FILS By Nawara Fattahova KUWAIT: Dozens of youths clashed with security guards at the Grand Avenues section of The Avenues mall Tuesday evening in one of the worst incidents of mall violence yet seen in Kuwait. Eighteen people, including several minors, were arrested after the melee. No seri- ous injuries were reported. “The arrested include seven Saudi nationals and four Kuwaitis - all from the same tribe. The security guards arrested include six Egyptians and one bedoon. Investigations are ongoing to determine the cause of the fight,” Head of Public Relations and Moral Guidance at the Ministry of Interior Brig Gen Adel Al-Hashash told Kuwait Times. According to witnesses, the fight started when a security guard saw a teenager wearing brass knuckles, which is considered a weapon in Kuwait. The guard approached the youth and asked him and his friends to accompany him to the security office. The youth refused and started fighting with the guard. A free-for-all then ensued with several dozen youth involved or watching the clashes. Security personnel later called ambulances after one of the youths was injured. The brother of the injured youth was also at the mall, and when he heard about the fracas, he went to the place of the fight with his friends and attacked the security guards, who defended KUWAIT: The sun sets over the Fourth Ring Road yesterday. Temperatures in Kuwait dropped below 40 themselves. The police were called and arrested all the degrees Celsius this week after reaching a high of 50 degrees Celsius during the summer. — Photo by Yasser KUWAIT: An image grab from video shows youths participants of the fight. Al-Zayyat fighting with security guards at the Avenues mall. Super-microscope Kenyatta appears before ICC THE HAGUE: Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta yester- bribes and intimidation. earns trio Nobel day became the first sitting president to Judges could decide to send the case to tri- appear before the International Criminal al or to abandon it after the prosecution said Court, where his lawyer sought an acquittal it did not have enough evidence. They could STOCKHOLM: Two Americans and a on charges of crimes against humanity. also find, as the prosecution has requested, German won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Kenyatta, who handed power to his deputy that Kenya is not cooperating, and postpone Chemistry yesterday for laying the foun- before flying to The Hague, was summoned to the case pending a referral to the Assembly of dations of an ultra-powerful microscope answer questions at his floundering trial for States Parties of countries that have signed that has exposed life at the molecular allegedly masterminding deadly post-election the ICC’s founding Rome Statute. “There is no level. The tool has revolutionised violence in 2007-2008. “The case has failed. It time limit in this type of decision. The judges research into diseases and drug design, has failed in a way that there’s no prospect to will now deliberate and issue their finding in the Nobel jury said, as it lauded go further,” Kenyatta’s lawyer Steven Kay said due course,” ICC spokesman Fadi El Abdallah Americans Eric Betzig and William after the prosecution admitted it did not have told AFP. Kenyatta, 52, faces five counts at the Moerner and Germany’s Stefan Hell. enough evidence because Nairobi was ICC over his alleged role in orchestrating “Their ground-breaking work has allegedly not cooperating. “It would be an unrest in 2007 and 2008 that left 1,200 people brought optical microscopy into the affront to common sense to say that we are THE HAGUE: Kenya’s president Uhuru dead and 600,000 displaced. The Kenyan Stefan Hell nano-dimension,” it said. “Today, not entitled to an acquittal,” Kay told the court Kenyatta smiles as he appears before the ICC leader has appeared at the ICC before, but not nanoscopy is used worldwide and new as a public gallery packed with Kenyatta sup- yesterday. — AFP since he was elected president in March 2013. knowledge of the greatest benefit to porters looked on. they wanted - and still there is nothing,” said Kenyatta arrived in The Hague on Tuesday, mankind is produced on a daily basis.” Kenyatta spoke to his supporters on the Kenyatta, referring to the lack of evidence in having temporarily handed power to his Working separately, the trio overcame steps of the ICC’s fortress-like building after the prosecution’s case. The repeatedly- deputy and erstwhile political opponent a presumed limit on optical enlargement, the hearing, thanking them for coming to delayed case has seen at least seven prosecu- William Ruto. theorised in 1873 by microscopist Ernst court. “We came here today which is what tion witnesses drop out, allegedly through Continued on Page 13 Abbe. He said the laws of physics meant the resolution of an image would never be better than around 200 nanometres News (200 billionths of a metre), which is half in brief the wavelength of light. Because of this so-called diffraction limit, it was thought, for instance, that the inner workings of a Biden calls Riyadh Eric Betzig cell would never be clearly observed, after diplomatic gaffe preventing a full understanding of how WASHINGTON: US Vice President Joe Biden called Saudi Arabia’s foreign affairs minister Tuesday and “clarified” his diplomatic cells function, reproduce or become gaffe in which he suggested Saudi Arabia and other key allies infected. had financed the Islamic State group, the White House said. “These are discoveries that have been Biden had already apologized to the leaders of the two other made in spite of the fact that most scien- countries, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, which, like tists thought that it would be impossi- Saudi Arabia are key members of the US-led coalition taking on ble,” medical biochemist and Nobel IS in Syria and Iraq. The remarks had caused consternation in the Committee member Claes Gustafsson Middle East and questions in Washington as to whether they told AFP. “The strength of the finding is would dampen the resolve of US allies who have signed up to more the way that it opens a door and fight the jihadist group, which has overrun large swaths of Syria allows us to ask questions that couldn’t and Iraq in recent months. The vice president thanked Foreign Affairs Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal for Saudi Arabia’s coopera- be asked before.” tion in the international coalition, a White House official said. Continued on Page 13 William Moerner Biden also “clarified” his remarks regarding how the conflict first DALLAS: A lunar eclipse appears behind a gargoyle atop the old red Dallas unfolded in Syria, the official added, saying both officials agreed County Courthouse early yesterday. — AP Prophecy rallies IS the issue had been closed. Ebola patient ‘Blood moon’ has CAIRO: An infidel horde flying 80 ban- Institute. “It is fair to assume that the vast in Texas dies ners meets a Muslim army at the Syrian majority of (IS) fighters believe in this WASHINGTON: A Liberian man who was the first person diagnosed with Ebola outside of Africa has died in a Texas town of Dabiq in an apocalyptic battle. type of talk.” stargazers in awe hospital, officials said yesterday. “It is with profound sadness The Muslims are decimated but ultimate- Among IS supporters on social media, and heartfelt disappointment that we must inform you of the ly prevail, ushering in the end of days. Dabiq has become a byword for a strug- death of Thomas Eric Duncan this morning at 7:51 am (1251 WASHINGTON: Stargazers in the Americas ed about an hour, and ditto for the return to This Muslim prophecy - mentioned in gle against the West, with Washington GMT),” said the statement from Texas Health Presbyterian and Asia were treated to a lunar eclipse yes- its normal colour. The total eclipse happened canonical accounts of Prophet and its allies bombing jihadists portrayed Hospital Dallas spokesman Wendell Watson. “Mr Duncan suc- terday, a celestial show that bathed the at 6:25 am on the US east coast (1025 GMT). Muhammad’s (PBUH) sayings - has as modern-day Crusaders. IS has even cumbed to an insidious disease, Ebola. He fought coura- moon in a reddish tint to create a “blood The NASA web site was peppered with become a rallying cry for Islamic State named its official magazine simply geously in this battle.” Meanwhile, US media reported that moon”. During the total lunar eclipse, light Tweets bubbling with questions and com- jihadists in Iraq and Syria, especially since “Dabiq”. “The lions of Islam have raised airports were to begin tougher screening of passengers arriv- beams into Earth’s shadow, filling it with a ments on the heavenly phenomenon. “This is they seized Dabiq in August. the banner of the Caliphate in Dabiq,” ing from the West African nations where Ebola has killed coppery glow that gives it a red hue. The ear- amazing. Thank you for this opportunity,” more than 3,400 people since the beginning of the year. The town itself has negligible military one Tunisian IS supporter wrote recently Duncan flew from Liberia to Texas to visit family, arriving in ly phase of the eclipse began at 0800 GMT, or read a Tweet from the handle @The Gravity value compared with the strategic IS- on Twitter.