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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Wednesday 21 August 2013 14 Shawwal 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5798 Price: QR2 Greece will Lekhwiya set need third aid for Guangzhou deal: Germany test Business | 18 Sport | 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Council reports Medical panel third case of MERS; Qatari’s to offer online condition stable DOHA: The Supreme Council of Health (SCH) yesterday con- firmed a third case of corona- appointments virus in Qatar. The SARS-like disease is also called Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). Families, domestic helps to benefit A 59-year-old Qatari who DOHA: People under personal tests prefer private hospitals and recently arrived in Doha from sponsorship, including those on instead come to the commission. another country tested positive family visa and domestic work- “This is because we give away for the virus, the SCH said yes- ers, will soon be able to seek the results of the tests within two terday. He experienced symptoms prior appointments online for days and also that private hospi- while he was out of the country the mandatory health check- tals charge more fee,” Al Shaar and underwent check-up at the ups at the Medical Commission. told local Arabic daily Al Arab. specialised laboratory at the The panel conducts tests for He said that studies have been Hamad General Hospital after Aids, tuberculosis and hepatitis done to set up separate check-up his arrival. on newly arrived foreign workers, facilities for ‘food handlers’ within “The patient is undergoing their families and long-staying the commission premises. treatment and his condition is visitors and only if they test nega- Once operational, the unit will Soldiers stop cars at a checkpoint during curfew hours in Cairo yesterday. stable,” SCH said in a statement. tive, they are allowed to stay on. be able to handle about 400 such Two Qataris were infected by The online appointment system workers daily. “They are one of the virus earlier, one of them was introduced for those coming the largest groups of visitors to died in a London hospital in June, here to work in private companies the commission, and that was why about nine months after he was and the government sector and is the need to have a separate unit Brotherhood leader detained reported ill. not available for others. was felt,” said Dr Al Shaar. Food “This was the only death in The panel said it would make handlers are required to undergo CAIRO: Egypt’s army-backed authorities Qatar due to the virus until now. the system available for families annual check-ups. detained the Muslim Brotherhood’s leader yester- Qatar slams killing of troops The second victim fully recovered and domestic workers within He said that a unit of the com- day, signalling their determination to crush the DOHA: Qatar condemned the killing of 25 from the illness and the condi- six months. Once the facility is mission was set to be to be opened group and silence protests against the ousting of troops in Sinai yesterday. An official source at tion of the third patient is sta- made available, people would not up in the Industrial Area in coor- Islamist president Mohamed Mursi. the Foreign Ministry said Qatar also denounced ble,” Dr Mohammed Al Hajri, be required to queue up for long dination with Red Crescent in a Badie was charged in July with incitement to criminal acts targeting elements of armed forces Director of Health Protection and hours at the panel and would month. It will handle about 400 to murder in connection with protests before Mursi’s and renewed its call on all parties to adopt dia- Communicable Disease Control at instead come at the appointed 500 workers daily, thus augment- ouster and is due to stand trial on August 25 along logue to resolve the crisis to restore security SCH told this daily last evening. hours, thus saving their time and ing the capacity of the commis- with his two deputies. and stability, preserve gains of the January 25 Asked if any special precau- avoiding crowding at the panel. sion which currently is 1,800. Media footage showed the bearded leader sitting revolution and achieve the aspirations of the tions had been taken in view of The Director of the commis- Dr Al Shaar said that on a grim-faced in a grey robe near a man with a rifle Egyptian people. QNA an increase in the number of peo- sion, Dr Ibrahim Al Shaar, said normal day the panel handles following his detention in the early hours. ple returning from vacation, Dr those on family sponsorships about 2,700 people on average, The US condemned the detention of Badie, whose examine a bail petition for him, 85, today. Al Hajri said: “The World Health could also go to the designated and most of them are eligible to 38-year-old son was killed on Friday, while the Mursi has been held in an undisclosed location Organisation (WHO) has until private hospitals for the manda- seek prior appointments online. Brotherhood denied reports that it had appointed a since the army toppled him following mass protests now not recommended any special tory check-ups. Two more units are planned and temporary leader. against him. The Brotherhood, which renounced precaution against the disease. He, however, admitted that the Supreme Council of Health The state news agency said Badie was in Cairo’s violence decades ago, has promised peaceful resist- THE PENINSULA not many professionals who are has already inked a deal with Red Tora prison, where other Brotherhood leaders are ance to the army takeover. AGENCIES Continued on page 4 currently permitted to undergo Crescent. THE PENINSULA held. Mubarak is also jailed there and a court will See also page 5 Qatar sends second LNG tanker to Egypt Palestine issues stamps ABU DHABI: Qatar has sent a DOHA: The Palestinian Ministry of Guardian: Britain made us second tanker of liquefied natu- Communications has issued, for the first ral gas (LNG) to Egypt. time, five revenue stamps in different Qatar News Agency (QNA) denominations, carrying the name State destroy Snowden materials said the tanker left Ras Laffan of Palestine and a picture of the Dome of terminal on August 9, a week the Rock. LONDON: The British authorities forced the Guardian newspa- after the first cargo The stamps were printed in Bahrain. per to destroy material leaked by Edward Snowden, its editor has Doha agreed in June to supply The new stamps, worth between $1 and revealed, calling it a “pointless” move that would not prevent fur- Egypt, which suffers frequent $20, will be used in Palestine embassies, con- ther reporting on US and UK surveillance programmes. power cuts, with five shipments sulates, and representative offices abroad, as In a column yesterday, Alan Rusbridger said he had received a call to cover some of its needs, which the Israeli government has refused to recog- from a government official a month ago who told him: “You’ve had your increase during the hot summer. nise any document that carries the name of fun. Now we want the stuff back.” The paper had been threatened with The quantity agreed has not State of Palestine. legal action if it did not comply. Later, two “security experts” from been revealed, but traders say the The first Palestine postal office was estab- the secretive Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) shipments will cover some of the lished in 1840, during the Ottoman era, visited the paper’s London offices and watched as computer hard drives gap in supply to Egypt, which has and the first postal exchange was between containing Snowden material were reduced to mangled bits of metal. borrowed billions of dollars from Palestine and Egypt in 1859. Asked by the BBC who he thought was behind those events, abroad and delayed payments to In 1918, the Palestinian postal system came Rusbridger said he had “got the sense there was an active conversa- oil companies and suppliers. under the control of the British, and in 1920 tion” involving government departments, intelligence agencies and the The five shipments will prob- new postal stamps carrying the name of prime minister’s Downing Street office. Downing Street and GCHQ ably be signed over to foreign Palestine were issued in three languages — declined to comment. partners at the Egyptian LNG Arabic, English and Hebrew. Meanwhile, the partner of the US journalist behind the leaks Idku export plant, GDF Suez and In 1995, the postal system was taken over launched legal action against the UK for holding him under anti- BG Group, after Egypt failed to by the Palestinian Authority, and now there terror laws. Brazilian David Miranda working with his boyfriend Glenn meet all their needs with domes- are 102 post offices in the Gaza Strip and Greenwald on the leaks, was questioned for nine hours at London tic gas. Western Bank. Heathrow Airport on Monday. AGENCIES REUTERS THE PENINSULA QA raises check-in baggage allowance Marital rows on rise, thanks to social media DOHA: Qatar Airways has increased the check-in baggage allow- ance for passengers from Doha and other destinations worldwide. DOHA: Increasing use of smartphones and service (SMS) available on the phone are the spouses said. Then, there are spouses who The increased allowance takes effect on September 1. Those travel- social media in the prosperous Qatari com- main culprits of the rising number of marital complain their partners spend more time ling in economy class will be able to carry 30kg instead of 23kg, and munity is to blame for a large number of discords.