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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 2 Business | 15 Sport | 21 Over 17,000 Qatar’s port PSG overcome expatriates sector has poor start to attend MoI Eid witnessed stroll past activities. healthy growth. Nantes. SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2015 • 13 Dhul-Hijja 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6566 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 FM meets Indonesian Minister First batch of Ministry plans Qatar pilgrims returns today DOHA: The first batch of Haj ambitious pilgrims from Qatar are sched- uled to arrive at the Hamad International Airport today. A team from the Qatari Haj mission and the Community Policing depart- dairy project ment of the Ministry of Interior will be at the airport to receive the pilgrims, Al Sharq reported. The first batch of expatriate 20,000 tonnes of milk annual target pilgrims travelling by road are expected to arrive on September DOHA: In a major initiative to the food security programme of 29, after visiting Madinah. reduce Qatar’s heavy depend- the ministry being implemented Meanwhile, the Qatari Haj mission ence on imported dairy prod- with support and participation of will be conducting a survey among ucts, the Ministry of Economy the private sector. returning pilgrims seeking their and Commerce is working on Recently, the ministry awarded feedback on the services provided an ambitious project to produce the first contract to a Dar Al by the Qatari Haj contractors and milk and associated products Rayyan for Investment to set suggestions to improve the services. locally. up a QR1.3bn poultry project in The full-fledged dairy project Qatar. Charities distribute will be awarded to the private This project seeks to promote sector and has been developed in self sufficiency in poultry prod- sacrificial meat collaboration with the Ministry of ucts by producing 40,000 tonnes Environment. of chicken and 7,500 tonnes of DOHA: Charitable organisa- The Ministry is currently pre- eggs annually. This alone will Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Mohammed Al Attiyah met with Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs tions in Qatar distributed meat paring to invite bids from compe- be enough to meet 38 percent Retno L P Marsudi on the sidelines of the 70th UN General Assembly in New York yesterday. They reviewed of 3,200 sacrificial animals to tent private companies to execute of the local demand for chicken bilateral relations and ways of developing them. See also page 2 needy people yesterday. Qatar the project, which is expected to and 26 per cent of the demand Charity, Thani bin Abdullah be launched next month. for eggs. Foundation for Humanitarian The government has allotted As for the proposed dairy Services (RAF) and Sheikh Eid 62,000sqm of land for the project, project, the ministry is cur- Charitable Association partici- besides another 500 hectares for rently conducting a survey among Haj stampede toll hits 769 pated in the initiative. production of fodder to support potential private investors to get the livestock, Al Sharq reported. their views and suggestions. The MINA: Saudi Arabia deployed level of Jamarat Bridge, a five-sto- people. Most pilgrims began leav- Green fodder will be cultivated tender will be invited after com- large numbers of special forces rey structure in Mina where pil- ing yesterday, returning to Makkah HMC reports 22 using treated water. pletion of this survey, said the yesterday as pilgrims performed grims ritually stone the devil, and where they circumambulate the The project aims to produce daily. the final rituals of Haj, with the on which hundreds of thousands holy Kaaba before going home. minor accidents 20,000 tonnes of milk annually, The ministry conducted a death toll from a stampede ris- were converging when Thursday’s Traffic was hardly moving as DOHA: The ambulance unit of which is sufficient to meet a major similar interaction with 23 pri- ing to 769. stampede occurred nearby. crowded cars and buses jammed the Hamad Medical Corporation portion of the local demand. vate companies last year, before Health Minister Khaled Al Many more patrolled the net- the route, with some pilgrims on (HMC) reported 22 minor road Currently, products of Saudi- announcing the bid for the poul- Falih announced the new figure, work of roads leading to the struc- the roofs of their buses. accidents yesterday in different based dairy companies are domi- try project, which has now been an increase from the previous toll ture. The interior ministry has “We are thankful to our broth- places in the country. nating the Qatari market causing awarded. of 717. said it assigned 100,000 police to ers in Saudi Arabia for this effort,” Average one to three people supply shortages with any disrup- In the meantime, the techni- The number hurt rose to 934 secure the Haj and manage crowds. Abdullah Ali, a 38-year-old sustained minor injuries in each tion in imports. cal committee at the ministry will from 863 recorded just after the Undeterred yesterday, pilgrims Emirati said in Mina. He blamed accident. The ambulance unit The project is expected to reach open online registration for inter- deadliest incident in a quarter- in Mina still flooded the area to per- other pilgrims for the stampede received 315 emergency calls its full production capacity in ested companies from October 20, century to strike the pilgrimage. form the stoning for a third time, and urged more awareness. yesterday, majority of which three years after start up. said the daily. Dozens of special emergency on the last day of the Haj which AFP was related to road accidents, The project comes as part of THE PENINSULA force personnel were seen on one this year drew about two million See also page 5 reported Al Sharq. THE PENINSULA El Jaish, Al Khor in goalless draw Total lunar Saudi colonel, guard eclipse to be visible in Qatar killed on Yemen border DOHA: Qatar will witness a RIYADH: A senior Saudi coalition killed at least 20 Iran- total lunar eclipse in the early officer and another border backed insurgents yesterday, the hours of Monday; the moon will guard were killed in a gunbattle military said, as they pressed be covered completely for 72 after a landmine blast along the their offensive on the rebel-held minutes, said a senior official at frontier with Yemen, the inte- capital Sana’a. Qatar Scientific Club (QSC). rior ministry said yesterday. Twelve other rebels were cap- “The eclipse will begin at 3.11am Colonel Hassan Ghasoum tured in the operation launched local time. By 5.12am, the moon Ageeli and a deputy sergeant died on the northwestern edge of will be covered completely. Total late on Friday in the Jazan dis- Marib province, a key battle- eclipse will last for 72 minutes,” trict, and four other guards were ground in the fight for control of an astronomer Sheikh Salman lightly wounded, the ministry said the capital, said a military official bin Jabor Al Thani of QSC told Al in a statement. “Loyalist forces, supported by Sharq. “The moon will start com- Ageeli is one of the most senior coalition aircraft, have made a ing out from the shadow of the Saudi officers killed since March slight advance” in the northwest earth from 6.24am. The eclipse when the kingdom formed an of Marib, Abda Al Subei, of the will end by 7.28am,” he added. Arab coalition to fight Houthi provincial security forces, said. A lunar eclipse occurs when the rebels in Yemen. The landmine Subei said yesterday’s opera- earth comes in between the sun blast damaged vehicles patrolling tion came a day after coalition and the moon, casting a shadow the border district, the ministry air strikes on rebel positions. He on the moon. Earth’s shadow will said. did not elaborate on the overall blanket the full moon as the planet After backup arrived, “they progress of the offensive. passes between the sun and the were subject to heavy shooting But another Yemeni officer, moon. The brilliant white glow of from several locations inside the Murad Turiq, said ground forces the moon will slowly transform into Yemeni border,” sparking a fire- came across land mines planted a dim red. The coloring is caused fight, it said. by rebels. by Earth’s atmosphere scattering Meanwhile, loyalist forces in AGENCIES sunlight into the shadow. Action during a match between El Jaish and Al Khor at the Qatar Stars League, yesterday at the Lekhwiya Yemen backed by a Saudi-led See also page 4 The “supermoon”, also known as Stadium. The match ended in a goalless draw. See also page 18 a “blood moon” is one that appears bigger and brighter than usual as it reaches the point in its orbit that is closest to Earth. It has been more than 30 years since a West fumbles for new plan as Syria strategy stumbles supermoon combined with a lunar eclipse, according to Nasa. The next total lunar eclipse will not be until NEW YORK: US and Western on the sidelines of the UN General Pentagon admitted the latest only four or five guerrillas active. Zarif to make the case. “I view 2018. The next supermoon-lunar diplomats scrambled to cobble Assembly in New York. Unwilling US-trained fighters to cross into Kerry and his allies came to this week as a major opportunity eclipse combination will not hap- together a diplomatic strategy to countenance a peace process Syria had given a quarter of their New York hoping to persuade for any number of countries to pen until 2033. If skies are clear, to end the war in Syria yester- that would leave Assad in power gear to Al Qaeda.

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