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SUBSCRIPTION WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2015 THULHIJJA 23, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Low rainfall, Facebook blow WWF: Sneezing Nadal thrown rise in sea level as EU quashes monkey, ‘walking’ by ex-ball and temperature transatlantic fish found in boy, Djokovic seen by3 2035 data27 deal Himalayas28 catches20 fire MoI bans gatherings Min 26º Max 45º High Tide outside husseiniyas 05:50 & 20:55 Low Tide Five ministers face grillings • MP slams e-media law 00:35 & 14:12 40 PAGES NO: 16660 150 FILS Foul odor hangs By B Izzak KUWAIT: The ministry of interior won’t allow any gather- in air after gas ings to be held outside husseiniyas (Shiite worship places), said MoI Undersecretary Lt Gen Suleiman Al- leak at refinery Fahd, urging commitment and abidance to genuine Kuwaiti customs and traditions. During a meeting with By A Saleh senior security field officials yesterday, Fahd stressed the necessity of immediately and directly handling potential KUWAIT: Residents of Fahaheel and Mangaf security emergencies, the ministry’s security media were advised to close all doors and windows department said in a statement. Fahd also urged police tightly after a malfunction at the Ahmadi refin- personnel to be on full alert, noting that the nation’s ery resulted in a gas leak yesterday. The foul security requires full cooperation with concerned bodies and positive response by husseiniya goers. He also odor of the ammonia and sulfur dioxide gases reviewed with the field operation team plans and proce- reached all the way to Shuwaikh. Kuwait dures for securing husseiniyas, reiterating keenness on National Petroleum Co CEO Mohammed Ghazi public order and safety. Al-Mutairi said he had immediately contacted Separately, independent MP Jamal Al-Omar said yes- the manager of the Ahmadi refinery, who con- terday that five ministers are expected to be grilled in the firmed that the leak happened due to a malfunc- next parliamentary term starting after three weeks, “after tion and assured it was controlled within 20 min- they had been given enough time to carry out reforms utes. There was reportedly no threat to public and failed”. Omar said the ministers on the list include the safety. ministers of social affairs and labor, oil, health, finance Green Line Group Chairman Khalid Al-Hajri and commerce and industry. The lawmaker said he sup- reported receiving various complaints from resi- ports plans to activate monitoring powers enjoyed by dents of nearby areas. There was no official MPs, especially since the Assembly has been very cooper- ative with the government in the past terms. response at the time of going to print. A similar He called on the prime minister to “read the political foul-smelling gas leak took place in Oct 2012 at KUWAIT: HH the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets visiting scene well”, a reference to calls for the premier to reshuffle the Rawdatain oil well, when residents in areas German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier yesterday. — KUNA his Cabinet by changing the ministers being targeted for as far as 100 km away reported smelling the rot- questioning. Acting Prime Minister and Foreign Minister ten-egg odor of hydrogen sulfide gas. Kuwait Oil Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah meanwhile told Co had said the leak happened due to a very Kuwait-German ties hailed reporters yesterday he has no knowledge of any plan to high pressure of crude, but the incident caused By Meshaal Al-Enezi tries’ strong relations were best manifested during the reshuffle the Cabinet or change any Cabinet minister. no casualties. KOC added it had set fire to the 1990 Iraqi aggression when Germany fully supported The Cabinet is already one member short after well in the huge oilfield close to the border with KUWAIT: Acting Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Kuwait’s legitimacy,” Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled said, Electricity, Water and Public Works Minister Ahmad Al- Iraq, which had sharply reduced the leak. KOC Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah yesterday adding that HH the Amir’s historic visit to Germany Jassar submitted his resignation after he was convicted also evacuated workers from near the well as a hailed the strong ties between Kuwait and Germany was another manifestation of such deep-rooted rela- by a court in a corruption case, which he has already challenged. precautionary measure. during a joint press conference with visiting German tions. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. “Our coun- Continued on Page 13 Continued on Page 13 Yemen PM survives ‘IS’ attack 15 Gulf, loyalist troops killed in Aden bombings ADEN: Yemen’s premier survived an and Syria and have affiliates elsewhere in attack in Aden yesterday claimed by the the region, said an unspecified number Islamic State group but officially blamed of soldiers were killed. A third suicide US boy, 11, on Shiite rebels, with 15 coalition troops bomber drove an armored vehicle into a and loyalists killed there and elsewhere “central operations headquarters of kills girl, 8, in the city. While Prime Minister Khaled Saudi and Emirati forces, killing dozens”. Bahah escaped unharmed in the attack And a fourth blew up a UAE-held military on government headquarters at Al-Qasr position using another armored vehicle, Takaaki Kajita Arthur McDonald over puppy Hotel, some of his ministers were “lightly the group said. IS published the names wounded”. Military installations were also and photographs of the four alleged Japanese, Canadian win hit. Bahah and some ministers only assailants. Boy, 11, kills bro, 12 returned to Aden in mid-September from But the UAE’s official WAM news CHICAGO: A simple childish spat over a puppy led six months in Saudi exile after fleeing agency said the attacks were carried out Nobel for neutrino work an 11-year-old boy to shoot and kill his eight-year- with President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi by the rebels and their allies, who “tar- as the Iran-backed Houthi rebels geted the government headquarters and STOCKHOLM: Takaaki Kajita of Japan and verse. Their existence was tentatively pro- old neighbor in the US state of Tennessee, the girl’s advanced on the city. several military positions (and) left 15 Arthur McDonald of Canada were award- posed in 1930, but was only proved in the grieving mother said. Latasha Dyer said her daugh- IS said four suicide bombers struck Arab coalition and Yemeni resistance ed the Nobel Physics Prize yesterday for 1950s, when nuclear reactors began to ter was playing outside when the boy asked to see the government headquarters and posi- martyrs”. It said four Emirati soldiers were determining that neutrinos have mass, a produce streams of the particles. The pre- her puppy. Little McKayla said “no,” and shortly after tions of the Saudi-led coalition, a claim among the coalition forces killed and key piece of the puzzle in understanding vailing theory was that neutrinos were was shot in the chest. “When we first moved to that contradicted official accounts of a that several others were wounded. The the cosmos. “The discovery has changed massless, but experiments carried out sep- White Pine, the little boy was bullying McKayla,” rebel rocket attack. Bahah wrote on coalition said three Emiratis and one our understanding of the innermost work- arately in underground labs by teams led Latasha Dyer told WATE 6 news in a video posted on Facebook that two rockets had hit the Saudi soldier died. Katyusha rockets were ings of matter and can prove crucial to our by Kajita in Japan and McDonald in the station’s website Sunday. “He was making fun of hotel while other rockets struck else- used, and coalition forces “responded to view of the Universe,” the Royal Swedish Canada showed that this was not the case. her, calling her names, just being mean to her. I had where. But an IS statement, posted the source of fire and destroyed the vehi- Academy of Sciences said. The findings are Many neutrinos blasted out from the to go the principal about him and he quit for a while online, said two bomb-laden vehicles cles” used to launch them, the official so far-reaching that they challenge the so- Sun - a type called electron neutrinos and then all of a sudden yesterday he shot her.” Dyer was overcome with emotion as she spoke to driven by its members had struck the Saudi SPA news agency quoted a state- called Standard Model, the conceptual “oscillated” en route to become cousin the local television station from the front steps of a heavily fortified, multi-storey hotel. The ment as saying. model of fundamental particles and particles called muon-neutrinos and tau- home in White Pine, Tennessee. “I want her back in jihadists, who control large parts of Iraq Continued on Page 13 forces, it said. neutrinos, they found. Since the 1960s, sci- my arms, this is not fair. Hold and kiss your babies Neutrinos are electrically neutral sub- entists had estimated the number of neu- every night because you’re never promised the next atomic particles that are created as the trinos created in the nuclear reactions that day with them,” she said. “I hope the little boy result of nuclear reactions, such as the make the Sun shine. But when this figure learned his lesson because he took my baby’s life - process that makes the Sun shine. Next to was compared against actual measure- and I can’t get her back.” particles of light called photons, they are ments on Earth, an anomaly emerged. Continued on Page 13 the most abundant particles in the uni- Continued on Page 13 Israel razes Palestinian homes JERUSALEM: Israel yesterday demolished the They were placed under demolition orders the interior of the structure but the support- homes of two Palestinians behind attacks last after the men attacked Israelis last year.

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