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Home | 2 Business | 17 Sport | 28 Academic Bridge Qatar stocks crash Umm Salal, Al Arabi Programme on MSCI concerns, feel the heat in Qatar marks 15 years oil worries Stars League The Peninsula Newspaper @PeninsulaQatar @peninsula_qatar TUESDAY 1 DECEMBER 2015 • 19 Safar 1437 • Volume 20 Number 6631 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Erdogan Emir attends Paris climate summit arrives in Heads of more than 150 countries come together to discuss future of the planet Doha today DOHA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives in Doha today on a two-day official visit. Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and the Turkish president will hold tomorrow the first meeting of the Qatar-Turk- ish Supreme Strategic Commit- tee to discuss ways of enhancing bilateral relations. They will also review developments in the region. The meeting will be followed by the signing of agreements and memorandums of understanding (MoUs) in the economic, com- mercial and educational spheres. More than 6m pilgrims likely to perform Umrah JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia is expected to receive more than 6 million Umrah pilgrims dur- ing the current season and the number is likely to exceed past figures, Haj Minister Bandar Haj- Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with world leaders at the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) jar said. at Le Bourget in the French capital Paris. “All arrangements are in place and the ministry is ready to welcome visitors to the PARIS: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim in the city which appeared to have conference to pay homage to the ing down in Paris early yesterday sibility for tackling the problem Grand Mosque and the Proph- bin Hamad Al Thani attended galvanised commitment for a cli- victims of the November 13 Paris was to visit the scene of the worst because they have burnt the most et’s Mosque,” the Minister was yesterday morning the open- mate breakthrough. attacks, said time was pressing. carnage of the terror attacks at fossil fuels since the Industrial quoted as saying by Saudi daily ing session of the 21st Session It was the largest single-day “I believe in the words of Mar- the Bataclan concert venue. Revolution on their way to pros- Arab News. of the Conference of the Parties gathering of heads of state or tin Luther King Junior that there He then met with Chinese perity. He added that the ministry has (COP21) to the UN Framework government in history, the United is such a thing as being too late,” President Xi Jinping before the “Justice demands that, with deployed all its staff to serve the Convention on Climate Change Nations said. he told fellow leaders. summit started, with his focus what little carbon we can still pilgrims, facilitate their arrival (UNFCCC) at Le Bourget in the “Never have the stakes of an “When it comes to climate turned to deepening cooperation safely burn, developing coun- to perform the religious rituals French capital Paris. international meeting been so change, that hour is almost upon between the world’s two biggest tries are allowed to grow,” Indian smoothly and leave the country in World leaders opened a historic high because it concerns the us.” emitters of the greenhouse gases Prime Minister Narendra Modi the coming months without any summit in the French capital future of the planet, the future The US leader said many poorer that cause global warming. wrote in a column published in surge in their numbers. with “the hope of all of human- of life,” French President Fran- nations that had contributed little “As the two largest carbon the Financial Times yesterday The Haj Ministry has held ity” laid on their shoulders as they cois Hollande said in an opening to climate change would be the emitters, we have both deter- before the summit opened. meetings and organised work- sought a deal to avert a climate speech. “The hope of all of human- first to feel its effects. mined that it is our responsibility “The lifestyles of a few must shops as part of preparations catastrophe. ity rests on all of your shoulders.” But he stressed that there was to take action,” Obama said as he not crowd out opportunities for for the Umrah season 1437, with The heads of more than 150 Scientists warn that, unless no contradiction between strong sat alongside Xi. the many still on the first steps Umrah firms and service provid- nations kicked off 12 days of action to curb greenhouse gases is economic growth and protection Stumbling blocks of the development ladder.” ers participating. talks in search of an elusive pact taken soon, mankind will endure of the environment. The United Nations has hosted But the United States and It has put in place new meas- that would indirectly restructure ever-worsening droughts, floods, World leaders repeatedly vowed annual conferences to tackle the other developed nations insist ures that licencees have been told the world economy, weaning it storms and rising seas, threat- to forge an ambitious deal in hon- vexed global warming issue since more must be done by China, to follow while providing services off fossil fuels that stoke global ening millions with hunger, dis- our of the 130 people killed in the 1995, but all previous efforts have India and other emerging coun- to pilgrims in and outside the warming. ease and migration and low-lying attacks in Paris, claimed by the foundered, primarily due to deep tries, which are voraciously burn- country. They met at a conference cen- island nations with oblivion. Islamic State group. The leaders divisions between rich and poor ing coal. The measures include a surveil- tre in Le Bourget on the north- Remembering terror began their talks with a minute of nations. See also pages 2 & 13 lance system. ern outskirts of Paris under heavy US President Barack Obama, silence to remember the victims. Many poor nations insist rich security following terror attacks who flew to Paris on the eve of the Obama’s first act after touch- countries bear the most respon- AGENCIES QNA New status for Yuan US to tighten Three Saudi Most Independent school visa-free rules WASHINGTON: The White House announced changes to the soldiers US visa waiver programme yes- ‘students like to read’ terday so that security officials martyred can more closely screen travel- DOHA: A majority of Independ- ies, 28 per cent borrowed books ers from 38 countries allowed to RIYADH: Three Saudi soldiers ent school students are inter- and other material while 10 per enter the US without obtaining were martyred yesterday when ested in reading and borrowing cent came to use computers, five visas before they travel. they thwarted an attempt by stories and novels, a study by per cent for research and four per Under the new measures, the armed insurgents to infiltrate the Supreme Education Coun- cent for reference material. Department of Homeland Secu- the southern borders of Saudi cil (SEC) on education resource Based on the finding, the study rity would immediately start to Arabia, a security spokesman of centres (libraries) at the schools recommended that the reading collect more information from the Saudi Interior Ministry said has found. programme be revised to include travellers about past visits to here yesterday. The study by the Information different types of books and that “countries constituting a terror- Saudi Press Agency (SPA) and Libraries section at SEC was the resources be diversified. The A file picture of a clerk counting Renminbi banknotes in a bank outlet ist safe haven,” the White House quoted the spokesman as say- intended to assess attitudes and focus should not only be on stories in Huaibei, Anhui province, China. The International Monetary Fund said. ing that a border guard patrol at interests of students using school and novels. Students need to be REUTERS (IMF) yesterday announced it is adding China’s renminbi, or Yuan, to Al-Harth Sector in Jazan Region libraries and improve the stand- guided to use support materials the currencies that it uses as a measure of value. See also page 19 on Sunday evening thwarted an ards of such facilities, SEC said for subjects. attempt by armed insurgents to in a statement yesterday. The “The study aimed at measur- infiltrate the southern border student resource centres have a ing the effectiveness of education using machine guns and shells. collection of books and education resource centres at Independent The border guard security resources including study and schools, assess the attitudes and Turkey refuses to apologise to Russia patrol rendered unsuccessful research material, suiting the interests of the beneficiaries to their attempt to attack two bor- level and grades of students. The identify strengths, weaknesses der control posts, exchanged fire centres hold weekly reading les- and major challenges and make BRUSSELS: Turkey will not duty for my government and no Russian President Vladimir Putin and forced them to flee. The battle sons and academic and cultural plans for improvement,” said the apologise for downing a Russian Turkish premier or president and US President Barack Obama led to the martyrdom of Private activities. statement. fighter jet on the Syrian border ... will apologise (for) doing our held talks for around 30 minutes First Class Maree As’oos Ibra- The study found that major- The study that covered all but Moscow should reconsider duty,” Davutoglu told a joint press on the sidelines of the climate him Darraj, Private First Class ity of the students — 53 per cent levels of Independent schools retaliatory sanctions, Turkish conference with NATO head Jens summit in Paris yesterday at Mohsen Mohammed Ahmed — who visited school libraries in assessed different events and Premier Ahmet Davutoglu said Stoltenberg.