BUSINESS | Page 1 SPORT | Page 1 Infantino slams FIFA ‘fake news’ INDEX DOW JONES QE NYMEX QATAR 2, 16 COMMENT 14, 15 Opec raises ’17 estimate ARAB WORLD 3 BUSINESS 1-12 and defends for supply growth from 20,920.94 10,110.84 47.78 INTERNATIONAL 4-12 CLASSIFIED 7 -22.17 +119.17 +0.45 ISLAM 13 SPORT 1-8 rival producers by 64% record -0.11% +1.19% +0.95% Latest Figures published in QATAR since 1978 FRIDAY Vol. XXXVIII No. 10451 May 12, 2017 Sha’baan 16, 1438 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Minister visits defence industry exhibition White House fumes after In brief Moscow makes photos public QATAR | Offi cial AFP Washington FM attends London meeting on Somalia onald Trump’s administration Foreign Minister HE Sheikh Mohamed was left red-faced yesterday bin Abdulrahman al-Thani yesterday Dafter Moscow surprised them participated in the international by releasing pictures of a closed-door conference in support of Somalia held meeting between the US president and in London. The conference discussed Russia’s top diplomat. means of supporting stability in The images – issued by the Russian Somalia and ensuring the realisation state news agency TASS, and subse- of the security and prosperity plan quently published by much of the glo- 2020, through enhancing security bal media – showed a grinning Trump and confronting the phenomenon shaking hands with Sergei Lavrov and of terrorism and economic the Russian ambassador in Washing- challenges. Representatives of ton, Sergei Kislyak, during an Oval Of- Somali government, Norway, fi ce meeting. Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United That Wednesday meeting was al- Kingdom and the United States, ready being seen as a major diplomatic as well as representatives of a coup for the Kremlin, a red carpet wel- number of regional and international come just months after being hit with organisations, are participating in the US sanctions for meddling in the 2016 conference. presidential election. HE the Minister of State for Defence Aff airs Dr Khaled bin Mohamed al-Attiyah visits the International Defence Industry Exhibition (IDEF) in Istanbul yesterday. The minister Veteran diplomats questioned why QATAR | Weather was briefed on the latest innovations in military and defence technology showcased by specialised companies. Page 2 Trump agreed to host the diplomats – a rare honour for non-heads of state, Chance of light rain much less for those at the centre of today and tomorrow major US political scandal. There is a chance of light rain in the US administrations often treat Oval country today and tomorrow along Offi ce meetings as a type of currency, with the formation of thunderclouds dangling the prospect of a high-profi le in some places at times, the Qatar sit-down to gain leverage or conces- Met department has said. In a sions in negotiations. report yesterday, the department But the emergence of photos com- said hot weather would continue Three major road pounded the perception that Russia to prevail around the country with had won a diplomatic victory and that slight dust during the day. Winds the Trump White House was outma- during this period would mostly be noeuvred. northwesterly-northeasterly inshore, “Congrats Kollegi (colleagues) at blowing at a speed of 5-15 knots and getting these photos! Huge coup,” said reaching 18 knots occasionally by former US ambassador to Moscow midday. Meanwhile, today’s detailed projects underway Michael McFaul. forecast says it will be hazy in some Publicly, the White House put on a places in the early hours of the day, t least three major road projects brave face. followed by a hot day with slight on the western and south- Trump “should be meeting with the dust and scattered clouds. There is Awestern side of Qatar are in foreign minister,” said White House a possibility of light rain at times. advanced stages of development, Ash- spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sand- The maximum temperature today is ghal, the Public Works Authority, has ers, lambasting critics. expected to be 41C in Doha and Al said. “For them to try to attack him for Khor, followed by 40C in Wakrah and They are Rawdat Rashed road doing his job, maybe they should spend Mesaieed. Yesterday, a maximum of (Phase 3), the New Industrial Area a little more time doing their jobs and 43C was recorded in Al Rayyan, while interchange on the Orbital Highway we wouldn’t have all the problems that in Doha it was 42C. and roads and infrastructure develop- we do.” ments in Bani Hajer North, according Privately though White House offi - REGION | Construction to reports in Ashghal in-house maga- cials seethed at what they described as zine’s April issue. a breach of trust. World’s tallest building Rawdat Rashed road is regarded as Offi cials said that Vladimir Putin had delayed : Alwaleed an important step towards fulfi lling a requested the meeting, a quid-pro-quo The completion date for the world’s safe and eff ective road that links Salwa for his recent face-to-face with Secre- tallest tower has been pushed Road with Dukhan Expressway. tary of State Rex Tillerson in Moscow. back to 2019, Saudi billionaire The Phase 3 of the Rawdat Rashed The White House was told an of- Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said Road Development project consists of fi cial Russian photographer would be yesterday, almost six years after a 14km road with three lanes on either present, implying the images would be launching the record-breaking side. for the historical record and not neces- project. Jeddah Tower is to rise Ashghal offi cials hope the third The New Industrial Area interchange is one of the major links of the East West Corridor project. sarily made public. more than a kilometre, placing it phase of project would be completed “Our offi cial photographer and their above Dubai’s Burj Khalifa. “The by the last quarter of this year. rection to connect the new road with change is one of the major links of the tunnels is already over. Through the offi cial photographer were present, project was delayed... but it’ll open About 40% of the Phase 3 is com- Al Sheehaniya. East West Corridor project, the work works in Bani Hajer area the authori- that’s it,” said one aide shortly after the (in) 2019,” Prince Alwaleed told AFP pleted now. The road extends north The fi rst two phases of the Rawdat of which is progressing fast. ties aim to completely revamp the in- meeting. during a visit to the site beside the from end of Phase 2 (the work of Rashed project which were completed According to Ashghal authorities, frastructure and rehabilitate the entire But when the images were published Red Sea. Alwaleed chairs Kingdom which is already completed) at the new consisted of a little more than 20km nearly 70% of the interchange is com- area’s road networks. across the world via state media, the Holding Co whose aff iliated Jeddah roundabout north of Rawdat Rashed with three lanes on either side. plete. The traffi c movement through the Works are taking place in about 21km White House raged that Moscow had Economic Company is developing village to Lebsayyer interchange on The project, which is located per- interchange would be started on its ex- of the local roads, it is reported. The ex- misled them. the spire-topped landmark. the Dukhan highway. This is besides pendicular to Salwa road towards the pected completion by the end of this year. pected commissioning of the project is Two offi cials admitted they were not Alwaleed first announced plans for the construction of a 2.8km dual road north, is approximately 33km. More than 70% of the works in Bani in the last quarter of this year. The area told that the images would be made the tower in August 2011, saying it heading east with two lanes in each di- The New Industrial Area road inter- Hajer North, including bridges and has more than 550 residences. public. would take 36 months to build after the start of construction. AFRICA | Violence Ramadan market opens Fift h UN peacekeeper Southern Yemen leaders found dead in C Africa The UN said yesterday another peacekeeper has been found dead seek split from north in the Central African Republic, bringing to five the toll from an Reuters Yemen’s modest oil deposits, the back- attack this week, the deadliest Aden bone of its economy. so far against the mission in The announcement raises the pros- the unstable, violence-plagued pect of more division in an already nation. Suspected anti-Balaka enior tribal, military and po- complex confl ict in the impoverished Christian militias attacked the UN litical leaders have formed a new Arabian Peninsular country, where convoy of the MINUSCA force on Scouncil seeking the secession of Saudi Arabia is leading a coalition Monday in the southeast of the southern Yemen, the former governor against Houthi fi ghters. country near the border with the of the area’s main city Aden said yes- Thousands of Saudi-led air strikes have Democratic Republic of Congo. terday, threatening to bring more tur- backed both southern fi ghters and the “The Moroccan peacekeeper moil to a two-year-old civil war. forces of Yemen’s internationally-recog- who had been reported missing Aidaroos al-Zubaidi made his an- nised government against the Houthis. has now been found dead,” UN nouncement in a televised address in But the southerners and the government spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. front of the fl ag of the former nation of of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi A Cambodian soldier serving in South Yemen, whose forces were de- have been caught up in their own power the MINUSCA mission was killed feated by the north in 1994 and brought struggle – undermining Saudi eff orts to during an exchange of gunfire into a reunifi ed country.