• Abstract and Figures
• Public Full-text

Home | 2 Business | 13 Sport | 18 Gulf and Arabian Opec ministers retain Basketball: Stage Peninsula Studies production estimates set for Qatar Girls Forum from today as oil drops Championship The Peninsula Newspaper @PeninsulaQatar @peninsula_qatar SATURDAY 5 DECEMBER 2015 • 23 Safar 1437 • Volume 20 Number 6635 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 QSL: Al Sailiya win 2-1 Molotov cocktail Industrial plots kills 16 at Cairo restaurant CAIRO: A Molotov cocktail to be auctioned hurled at a Cairo restaurant killed 16 people and wounded two yesterday, Egyptian security offi- cials said. One of the officials said the off tomorrow attacker was an employee who had been fired from the restau- rant in the Agouza area in the Public auction at Economy Ministry centre of the Egyptian capital. The victims were burned to DOHA: The much-awaited allot- for cars, assembly units and cold death or died from smoke inha- ment of plots of land in one of the storages, and to build shops and lation. The restaurant was located country’s biggest industrial and showrooms, commercial offices, in a basement, offering no escape logistics areas is being held at the labour camps, workshops, service route, the officials said. The Ministry of Economy and Com- centres and depots. interior ministry said an initial merce tomorrow. Priority in allotment is to be investigation indicated that the This will be the first phase of given to 100 percent Qatari com- Molotov was hurled after a dis- such allotment, which will be panies and the idea is to encour- pute erupted between restaurant decided through lottery since age small and medium-sized workers and others. the eligible applicants are much enterprises (SMEs) which hold REUTERS more than the number of plots the key to Qatar’s economic diver- Al Sadd’s Khalfan Ibrahim Khalfan (right) in action with Al Sailiya’s Magdi Abdalla Musa and Abdulrahman available. sification effort. Mohammed Al Harazi during the QSL match at Al Sadd Stadium yesterday. Al Sailiya won 2-1. 4 Palestinians The lottery will be held at 10am One of the main eligibility cri- Full report on page 18 KAMMUTTY VP by the Economy Ministry’s Logis- teria was that the applicant must tics Committee at the Ministry provide a clear-cut business plan killed in premises and the plots to be allot- and bank guarantee depending on ted are in three industrial and the size of the land applied for. West Bank logistics zones in the south of the The Ministry said that it had country. These areas are, namely, received from the eligible appli- RAMALLAH: Four Palestinians South of Al Wakrah, Birkat Al cants cheques as bank guarantee German lawmakers okay military were killed by Israeli troops yes- Awamir and Aba Salil, according for a total amount of QR1.87bn. terday as they attempted to carry to a press statement issued by the The minimum plot areas are out attacks against Israelis near Ministry yesterday. 1,000 to 2,000sqm for smaller action against IS in Syria settlements on the West Bank. The total number of eligible companies, whereas bigger play- Israeli troops shot dead two applicants who will be partici- ers can apply up to 67,000sqm, BERLIN: Lawmakers approved 130 people in a series of attacks August 2014, although involve- Palestinian teenagers who pating in the lottery to be held according to earlier reports. yesterday plans for Germany to in Paris. The atrocities prompted ment in Syria has been more lim- allegedly carried out a stabbing publicly and with transparency As is the usual practice, aside take on a direct role in the battle France to invoke a clause requir- ited with some Western nations attack near Hebron. One Israeli is 2,994. This is a little over dou- from the lottery winner, nominees against the Islamic State group in ing EU states to provide military wary of how military action could soldier was injured in the stab- ble (202 percent) the number of might also be chosen for each plot Syria, answering France’s appeal assistance to wipe out the IS actually end up serving President bing incident. plots of land that are to be offered to cover up for the possibility of for help after the deadly Paris group in Iraq and Syria. Bashar Al Assad’s regime. Later, a Palestinian was shot for allotment, the Ministry state- failure of the winner to pay up the attacks. Britain joined the US-led In the Netherlands, the govern- dead after stabbing an Israeli set- ment added. full amount and take possession Parliament agreed to the man- bombing campaign over Syria on ment too is coming under pres- tler near Ramallah. Shortly after- The Ministry has invited all of the plot. date for the deployment of Tor- Thursday, striking an IS-held oil sure to widen the aerial campaign wards, a Palestinian rammed his eligible applicants to attend the The Ministry statement yes- nado reconnaissance jets, a frigate field. After repeatedly ruling out to Syria. Even in Germany, where car into Israeli soldiers, injuring lottery. terday said that more land was and up to 1,200 troops by an over- the use of “boots on the ground”, there has traditionally been reluc- two. The alleged attacker was The plots, according to earlier being developed in both, South of whelming majority of 445 votes in US President Barack Obama also tance to engage in military mis- killed. The two Palestinians in the media reports, are to be allot- Al Wakrah and Birkat Al Awa- favour and 146 against. agreed to send as many as 100 spe- sions abroad, the government’s stabbing attack near Hebron were ted on nominal annual rent on a mir zones. Total space in the three The green light for the mission cial forces to Iraq, with a mandate decision to take direct action in cousins, aged 19 and 15, accord- lease of 30 years. The plots are zones will be over 7.42 million sqm. that could become Germany’s big- to carry out raids inside Syria. Syria has been largely met with ing to the Palestinian Ma’an news meant to be used for develop- gest deployment abroad comes A broad coalition of 60 coun- support. agency. ing facilities such as warehouses THE PENINSULA three weeks after jihadists killed tries has been battling IS since AFP QNA Dragon Boat Festival 18 patients EU weighs extending border die in flood-hit Indian state; checks, passenger data deal BRUSSELS: EU ministers mulled yester- say on whether the scheme is adopted, are death toll 298 day whether to extend border checks within showing increasing support for the idea after the passport-free Schengen zone for up to years of blocking it over reservations about CHENNAI: Rains eased in the two years and pushed for the sharing of air personal privacy. “It’s very important that we flood-hit city of Chennai in south- passenger name information following the have the Passenger Name Records (PNR). ern India yesterday, raising hopes Paris attacks. Terrorists use intra-European flights and we that rescue efforts could pick up, Border security has come under scrutiny have to trace their movements in order to after the death of 18 patients at a after the massacre in the French capital be able to prevent terrorist risks,” French private hospital added to the offi- involving jihadists able to travel freely, and Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said. cial toll of 298 confirmed killed in the pressure from nearly 900,000 refugees Differences remain between EU states the disaster. and migrants arriving in Europe this year. and the European Parliament over whether The commercial airport of Led by France, interior ministers from the data should be used on flights within the Chennai will also be partly opened the 28-nation European Union pressed for 28-country bloc and over how long officials today after being shut for the past the adoption by the European Parliament can store information that has not been three days, which should help by the end of this year of a US-backed data- “masked” to hide the passenger’s identity. move workers and relief materi- sharing system for air travellers. als badly needed in the city of six Participants during the 2015 Qatar International Dragon Boat Festival at Grand Hyatt European lawmakers, who have the final AFP million. Doha yesterday. BAHER AMIN Flood waters that had started to recede began rising again around noon after a new cloud- burst that sent residents run- ning for shelter under trees and US Muslim, Arab communities fear backlash from shooting in shop fronts. Parts of the flat, coastal city remained under as much as eight feet of water for a SAN BERNARDINO, United that there could be a backlash and the fallout from that,” he said, denied that. “We never saw a gious beliefs. “You can’t believe he fourth day. Many residents have States: Members of the Arab and that’s the reality we live in,” referring to the terror attacks in sign of radicalisation,” Mahmood did that for the sake of Islam,” he spent days stranded on rooftops and Muslim communities in the said Abed Ayoub, Legal and Policy France that left 130 people dead Nadvi, 39, an imam at the Dar Al said. “He was calm, shy, reserved. since more than 345mm of rain United States said they feared a Director for the American-Arab and were claimed by the extrem- Uloom Al Islamiyah mosque in I’ve never seen him disrespect fell over 24 hours on December backlash, as details emerged of Anti-Discrimination Committee, ist Islamic State group.

Load more

  24

Copy Link