SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2014 JAMADA ALAWWAL 8, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net More dolphins Russia ups Brutality yields Stylish United found dead threats as confessions of demolish woeful in Kuwait2 crisis escalates7 graft14 - in China West20 Brom Malaysia plane with Max 30º Min 17º High Tide 239 aboard ‘missing’ 03:16 & 14:57 Low Tide 09:18 & 21:55 40 PAGES NO: 16099 150 FILS Two passengers may have been carrying stolen passports KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew went missing off the Vietnamese coast yesterday and was presumed to have crashed. There were no reports of bad weather and no sign why the Boeing 777-200ER would have vanished from radar screens about an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing. There were no signs of sabo- tage nor claims of a terrorist attack. However, in Europe, news reports and officials said at least two people on board may have been carrying stolen passports. The Italian foreign ministry said in Rome that an Italian was listed on the flight’s manifest although no national from the country was on board. The passenger list provided by the airline includes Luigi Maraldi, 37, an Italian citizen. Newspaper Corriere Della Sera reported that Maraldi’s passport was stolen in Thailand last August. The Italian Interior Ministry was unable to immediately comment on the report. In Vienna, the Austrian foreign ministry said an Austrian listed among the passengers was safe and had reported his passport stolen two years ago while he was travelling in Thailand. Asked for a possible explanation for the plane’s dis- appearance, Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya told a news conference: “We are not ruling out any pos- sibilities.” By yesterday night, there were no confirmed signs of the plane or any wreckage, over 20 hours after it went missing. Operations will continue through the night, officials said. Vietnam said its rescue planes had spotted two large oil slicks and a column of smoke off its coastline, but it was not clear if they were connected to the missing plane. “We sent two maritime boats and some military boats there to clarify, each boat with about 20 people,” PARIS: Photo shows the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER that disappeared from air traffic control Pham Quy Tieu, vice minister of transportation, told screens yesterday, taking off from Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport in France. (Inset) A relative of Reuters by telephone yesterday evening. passengers cries at their house in Kuala Lumpur. — AP Continued on Page 13 Hollywood film Government to reject PAGE Seven Kuwait inmates PAGE ‘Noah’ banned in proposals on bedoons charged with arson the Arab world CAIRO: Three Arab countries have banned the Hollywood film “Noah” on religious grounds even before GCC internal crisis brews its worldwide premiere and several others are expected to follow suit, a representative of Paramount Pictures By A Saleh and agencies countries remain strategic allies for the said yesterday. Islam frowns upon representing holy fig- United States,” according to high level ures in art and depictions of the Prophet Mohammad Kuwait Airways KUWAIT: While indications suggest that sources. (PBUH) in European and North American media have Gulf states will try to end the crisis before repeatedly sparked deadly protests in Islamic countries the Arab Summit later this month in Keeping issue internal over the last decade, fanning cultural tensions with the Kuwait, preparations are ongoing to hold The visit comes at a critical time for the West. denies report an Arab-American summit during US six-member Gulf Cooperation Council “Censors for Qatar, Bahrain and the UAE (United Arab President’s upcoming visit to Saudi Arabia. (GCC) following the decision of Saudi Emirates) officially confirmed this week that the film will KUWAIT: Kuwait Airways has denied and all 81 passengers were safe. The Obama’s high profile visit to Riyadh is Arabia, UAE and Bahrain to withdraw their not release in their countries,” a representative of reports of gun shots targeting one of statement noted that “the pilot told expected during the last week of March, as ambassadors from Qatar last Wednesday. Paramount Pictures, which produced the $125 million its planes that was coming from Doha the control tower about what part of his regional tour. But there is growing realization among the film starring Oscar-winners Russell Crowe and Anthony Friday evening. “Reports regarding a appeared to be a shooting incident at US President is scheduled to meet with Gulf states that the issue must be resolved Hopkins said. “The official statement they offered in shooting incident at Airbus A320, flight a considerable distance from the plane Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King internally, and that efforts on that regard confirming this news is because ‘it contradicts the 618 from Doha to Kuwait are inaccu- toward the sky, but not on the plane,” Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, but must be improved to end the crisis before teachings of Islam’,” the representative said, adding the rate,” the airline said in a press state- adding that “the pilot followed the reports suggest that leaders of Kuwait, the Arab Summit that Kuwait hosts on the studio expected a similar ban in Egypt, Jordan and ment to KUNA. The statement added necessary procedures and aviation reg- Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, 25th and 26th of March. “In case a solution Kuwait. that the plane arrived at 6:48 pm local ulations by informing aviation authori- Oman, as well as Egypt and Jordan could is not reached before that date, Gulf states Continued on Page 13 time at the Kuwait International airport ties.” — KUNA attend the meeting. “The talks will high- are likely to hold an impromptu GCC sum- light the strategic relationship between mit at the sidelines of the Arab Summit,” Washington and the Gulf states, and will sources said. send a clear message to Iran that those Continued on Page 13 Domestic violence cases spark protests in Lebanon BEIRUT: Nada Sabbagh received a brief, chilling telephone call from her son-in-law last month telling her: “Come to your daughter. I am going to kill her.” Sabbagh said by the time she arrived to her daughter’s home in Beirut, her husband had kicked, punched and beaten her with a pres- sure cooker, leaving her mortally wounded and bleeding on the floor. “I walked in and started jumping in shock then begged him to let me take BEIRUT: Nada Sabbagh weeps in front her out,” Sabbagh later recounted. She of a picture of her daughter, Manal said he responded by saying: “I will not Assi, who was killed last month. — AP let her out. I want her to die in front of Lebanon appears very progressive on you.” Manal Assi’s husband, women rights compared to other coun- Mohammed Nuheili, was detained tries in the Middle East, domestic vio- shortly afterward and is still being lence remains an unspoken problem questioned by authorities. It remains and the nation’s parliament has yet to unclear if he has a lawyer and he could vote on a bill protecting women’s rights not be reached for comment. nearly three years after it was approved The killing of Sabbagh’s daughter is by the Cabinet. “If a woman does not one of three domestic violence slayings have authority in her house, how can in Lebanon in recent months, drawing she take an authoritative post (in gov- new attention to women’s rights in this ernment)? It starts here,” said KUWAIT: Britain’s based Breitling Wingwalkers display team performs over Kuwait City yesterday during a promotional event to mark country of 4 million people. Although Continued on Page 13 the opening of the first dedicated store of the Swiss luxury brand, Breitling watches in Kuwait. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat (See Page2) SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2014 LOCAL Two more dolphins found dead in Kuwait Officials silent on ‘real reason’ Kuwaiti fund to sponsor 14,910 bedoon students KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti charity fund male and female students are registered announced yesterday sponsorship of for elementary, 4,263 for middle school, 14,910 students of illegal residents in and 2,790 for high school. Kuwait for the second semester of cur- He also added that all students rent school year 2013-2014. resumed their studies and were back to On the occasion of end of the mid- their school seats following end of the semester break, the fund will pay off full mid-semester break as the Fund is close- costs and fees of educating students of ly following workflow of the educational illegal residents in Kuwait, Dr Tariq Al- process, affirming at the same time the Shatti, Executive Director of the Fund’s keenness to provide all required Charitable Fund for Education saidthat necessities to prepare a supportive envi- the total budget for educating them for ronment for education. the school year 2013-2014 is KD 4.453 In addition, Dr Al-Shatti mentioned million. that the Fund takes care of all expenses KUWAIT: The dolphins that were found dead in Kuwait yesterday. Dr Al-Shatti pointed out that the for educating needy students who are By Nawara Fattahova the Kuwait Diving Team Waleed Al-Fadhel told the beach for some time because of the negli- number of male students included in registered at one of the civil Arab the Kuwait Times yesterday. gence of the responsible institutions, and they the Fund’s sponsorship is 7,168, which is schools that are licensed by Kuwait’s KUWAIT: In addition to seven dolphins that died He excluded the oil pollution to the reason only took action after the media publicity.