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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Tuesday 22 October 2013 17 Dhul-Hijja 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5860 Price: QR2 Doha Bank nets AC Milan take impressive on Barca at QR1.07bn profit home soil today Business | 17 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Met forecasts Learn to live windy weather DOHA: Weather will be windy today with slightly dusty and cloudy at places. The wind speed will be 15 to 22 knots an hour reaching up to 30 knots at places. with traffic The wind will be northwesterly blowing from the cold northern regions. Visibility in the morning could be as low as just 3km, the weather bureau said in its forecast. jams: Official Humidity will range between 15 percent and 50 percent. Minimum temperature fore- cast is 24 degrees Celsius, while the maximum could soar up to ‘Situation will improve soon’ 34. Doha will be relatively hotter with the minimum temperature DOHA: Motorists should spots, he said his department forecast being 27 degrees C. A learn to live with traffic jams was hiring more staff to tackle forecaster said wind speed was until infrastructure develop- the problem. expected to come down tomorrow ment projects are over, says the “They will be available in dif- and visibility will also improve. Traffic Department. ferent areas, so there won’t be Meanwhile, the MoI yesterday “You need to be patient… Traffic delays.” The delays are mainly warned on its twitter account that snarls are basically due to the caused by policemen taking time people should take extreme pre- closure of roads and diversions to reach accident spots due to caution while venturing into the caused by development projects,” road closures and diversions. sea as waves could go up to 14 feet said Brigadier Mohamed Saad Al He said his department was in some places. Kharji. Traffic jams need long- set to launch a fresh campaign The Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah and US Secretary of State John Kerry prior to the Arab term solutions. Once the mega against dangerous driving. League meeting in Paris, yesterday. public transport projects are By the end of the year, the Plan for speedy completed, the situation would department plans to hold an auc- improve. tion of easy-to-remember vehicle cargo clearance About current restrictions on number plates, he said. issuing driving licences to certain “We are learning from the Qatar offers $150m debt relief to PA DOHA: The Prime Minister categories of foreign workers, Al experience of Ooredoo in this and Interior Minister H E Kharji said that was a temporary regard.” PARIS: Qatar has agreed to led efforts to resume long-dormant Welcoming Qatar’s move, Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser solution. The traffic chief said the mon- provide $150m in debt relief to peace talks, but many Israelis and Kerry said he expected other bin Khalifa Al Thani issued a Once the development projects itoring of traffic using the heli- the Palestinian Authority, US Palestinians — as well as independ- Arab countries would follow in decision yesterday setting up a are over, the restrictions would be copters had proved quite useful. Secretary of State John Kerry ent experts — are sceptical about its steps although no economic committee to address problems lifted, he told local Arabic daily “Based on aerial monitoring, we said in Paris after talks with the chances of reaching a peace package could be a substitute for related to shipment delays at Al Raya in an interview published have noticed that we need to pro- Qatari Foreign Minister H E Dr deal in their decades-old conflict. political efforts to seek peace. the Doha International Airport yesterday. vide an easy access to Frig Nasser Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah. The US is seeking to broker an “I’m confident that other Arab and the Doha Port. Talking of complaints from area bypassing the Ramada traffic The donor-dependent agreement in which Israel would governments are currently eval- The committee will be chaired motorists about delays in traffic signals intersection.” Palestinian Authority, which exist peacefully alongside a new uating and making their deci- by the Minister of Transport H E policemen arriving on accident THE PENINSULA exercises limited self rule in the Palestinian state created in the sions and there will be others Jassim Saif Al Sulaiti. It will seek Israeli-occupied West Bank, faces West Bank and the Gaza Strip, that join in this initiative as we and implement solutions to speed mounting debt as Western and lands captured by the Israelis in go forward,” Kerry said. up cargo operations at the ports Two die in US school shooting Gulf aid has dwindled. Kerry has a 1967 war. REUTERS of entry. THE PENINSULA Kuwait plans to review subsidies KUWAIT: Kuwait may review its subsidies policy, the finance minister said in a televised interview yesterday, adding that financial support should only go to those who need it in the wealthy oil producer. The IMF has repeatedly urged reforms to Kuwait’s subsidies system, which along with wage hikes has contributed to a steep rise in government spending. All residents benefit from subsidised petrol and cheap electricity, while Kuwaiti nationals get extra sup- port for housing and food. “There is the possibility of reconsidering the subsidies,” Finance Minister Sheikh Salem Abdulaziz Al Sabah told news channel Al Arabiya, when asked Law enforcement officers gather in the parking lot after a shooting at whether Kuwait would review Sparks Middle School in Sparks, Nevada yesterday. A staff member subsidies, including those for pet- was killed and two students were injured after a student opened fire rol and electricity. REUTERS at the school. The suspected gunman was also killed. Qatari struggles to prove himself alive DOHA: After a Qatari man’s “You need to go to the state Prosecution. However, after mak- ATM cards were suddenly inac- authorities to prove that you are ing several rounds of the prosecu- tivated, he went to his bank to alive. Our records show you are tion’s office when he continued to enquire what was wrong and dead so we can’t help you. You still walk as a dead man, he felt got the shock of his life when he can’t withdraw any cash,” said frustrated. was told that in their records he the employee. He hired a lawyer to complete was dead. Another shock awaited the the necessary formalities so The man laughed it out, think- Qatari. he could be a living man again, ing it was some joke and asked He discovered to his horror reports Al Sharq. the bank employee to activate his later that he needed to first col- The lawyer told the daily this cards. “I am not dead. I am alive. I lect his death certificate and then was the first case of its kind he am in front of you,” said the man, approach public health authori- had heard of. smiling. ties to get his official records cor- He said there could have been a But his smile disappeared when rected that would show him alive. wrong data entry. “I don’t suspect the employee insisted with all He went to the Supreme any foul play. Some error might seriousness that he was dead as Council of Health and was instead have occurred in data entry,” said far as the bank was concerned. asked to approach the Public the lawyer. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 22 OCTOBER 2013 HOME 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com French president QIBS to display honours Qatar’s ambassador PARIS: French President Francois Hollande yesterday world’s fastest, awarded the rank of “Commander of the Legion of Honor” to Qatar’s Ambassador to France Mohamed Jaham Al Kuwari on the occasion largest yachts of the expiry of his tour of duty in France. The award ceremony was held at Hollande’s office in the presence of International boat show from Nov 12 Jack Lang and Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, former ministers of DOHA: The first Qatar culture; Christophe de Margerie, International Boat Show, to Total CEO; Khater Mohamed Al be held at Lusail Marina from Khater, Second Secretary at the November 12 to 16, has already Qatari Embassy; Paul Jean-Ortiz, secured the presence of numer- French President’s Diplomatic ous international shipyards and Sunseeker Advisor, and Emmanuel Bonne, maritime companies. International had its Hollande’s Advisor for North One of the participating com- Africa, the Middle East and the panies is the Ferretti Group rep- boats featured in United Nations. resented in the region by Gulf James Bond films Hollande hailed Ambassador Yachts and Art Marine, whose including The World Al Kuwari’s effortse, which paved most notable customers have the way for a better understanding included Richard Burton, Brigitte Is Not Enough, between France and Qatar, point- Bardot and Sophia Loren. Die Another Day, ing to his contribution to the devel- Sunseeker International, a UK opment of a number of projects of luxury motor yacht manufacturer, Casino Royale and significance to both countries. had its boats featured in James Quantum of Solace. Al Kuwari underlined the growth Bond films including The World Is of ties between the two countries in Not Enough, Die Another Day, Casino A view of the Miami museum. political, economic, cultural and sci- Royale and Quantum of Solace. yachts; Istanbul-based Bilgin entific spheres. He also highlighted Overmarine will be exhibit- Shipyard and Cranchi shipyard, the joint industrial and investment ing the largest boat at this year’s which exports to 68 countries. Qatar Airways to launch Miami flights projects between the two countries, QIBS exhibition.