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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS | 15 SPORT | 23 GGreece accepts IMF AFC U23: Hosts participation in Qatar face Iran bailout plan test today FRIDAY 15 JANUARY 2016 • 5 Rabia II 1437 • Volume 20 • Number 6676 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Deputy Emir meets UN human rights chief Emir appoints UN praises Vice-Chairman of State Audit Qatar’s human Bureau QNA DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin rights success Hamad Al Thani yesterday issued Decree No. 6 of 2016, appointing Abdulaziz Mohamed Ahmed Qassem Al Emadi as Vice-Chairman of the are big achievements and tangible State Audit Bureau. changes in the situation of expatriate The decree abolished any pro- There are big workers by developing the legislation vision that contradicts with its achievements and and cancelling the Kafala (sponsor- provisions and is effective from ship) system.” the date of issue and will be pub- tangible changes He said he held talks with Dep- lished in the Official Gazette. in the situation of uty Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani, Prime Minister and expatriate workers, Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdul- Obama: Michelle says UN High lah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani and Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid not running Commissioner for bin Mohamed Al Attiyah. Human Rights “ During these meetings, we felt for president that advances have been made in the Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani met United Nations High Commissioner for area of human rights,” Bin Ra’ad said. Human Rights Prince Zeid bin Ra’ad Al Hussein and his delegation at the Emiri Diwan yesterday. Talks Mohammed Osman “This does not mean that there dealt with topics of mutual interest. AFP The Peninsula are no violations which happen in all countries in the world. We are convinced that there is a real and strong will on the government side BATON ROUGE: US President DOHA: United Nations High Commis- to end violations of human rights and Barack Obama yesterday scotched sioner for Human Rights Prince Zeid exploitation of expatriate workers. QU tops global varsity rankings the notion that his more popular bin Ra’ad Al Hussein yesterday praised We welcome these steps and we are wife Michelle would launch a White Qatar’s achievements in protecting going to work with Qatari authori- House bid. the human rights of the burgeoning ties to further enhance the process.” “There are three things that expatriate workforce in the country. Bin Ra’ad noted that Qatar has The Peninsula proportion of an institution’s interna- one-third of all internationally-col- are certain in life: Death, taxes and His comments came at a joint news implemented many of the recom- tional staff, international students, and laborated papers from Qatar. Michelle is not running for presi- conference with Ali bin Simaikh Al mendations put forward by the UN research papers co-published with at In September 2015 SciVal Analy- dent,” Obama joked as he held a Merri, Chairman, National Human Special Rapporteur for Human Rights least one author from another country. sis of Scopus Data, QU was shown to discussion with voters in Louisiana. Rights Committee (NHRC) at the end in a report on the country. “There is a DOHA: Qatar University (QU) has been QU topped the list with 99.9 points, top the chart of international institu- A Harvard-trained lawyer, of the ‘Regional conference on the role strong desire from the authorities to ranked first among 200 institutions followed by University of Luxembourg tions in international collaboration. Michelle had struggled to find her of the High Commissioner for Human meet all these recommendations and worldwide in the International Out- (99.8) and University of Hong Kong “International collaboration stands political voice early in Obama’s Rights in promoting and protecting proposals.” On the Qataris kidnapped look indicator in the overall Times (99.5) in the second and third positions. at the core of our research strategy in political career, and often seemed human rights in the Arab region’ at in Iraq, the UN official said, “We have Higher Education World University On international collaboration, QU which we encourage our researchers to abhor the crassness of day-to- the Ritz-Carlton Doha. contacted the Iraqi government and Rankings list (THE-WUR) 2015-16. holds 32.9 percent of the overall per- towards a culture of knowledge-shar- day politics. But she has become an Referring to his visit to the Labour will continue our communications The announcement was made centage (70%) of institutions in Qatar, ing to seek solutions to problems within effective campaigner for Obama City in Mesaimeer on Wednesday, until we secure their release.” on the THE’s online forum yesterday. which means that papers emerging their society and beyond. and has been engaged in campaigns Bin Ra’ad said, “During my visit to Last September, QU debuted in from QU that are co-authored with against childhood obesity and in the Labour City, I realised that there →Continued on page 2 the list. The indicator considers the international researchers make up →Continued on page 2 support of military families. Qatar condemns Jakarta blasts as seven die Guantanamo detainees QNA & Agencies below 100 as US sends 10 Yemenis to Oman DOHA: Qatar condemned blasts that targeted a commercial centre and the fire exchange in the Indonesian cap- Reuters Four other detainees were moved ital of Jakarta, that left seven people out already this month. dead and several injured. In Muscat, an Omani official In a statement yesterday, the For- was cited by the state news agency eign Ministry denounced the criminal MIAMI: Ten Yemeni men held at the as saying the Yemenis had arrived acts that in no way belong to humani- Guantanamo Bay US military prison and would remain there for human- tarian values, and represent an assault were sent to Oman yesterday, bring- itarian reasons until conditions in on innocents and civilians,. ing the detainee population below the Yemen, gripped by civil war, allow It reaffirmed Qatar’s condemna- symbolically important milestone of them to be sent home. Oman, a US tion of violence and terrorism in all its 100 as President Barack Obama steps ally, had accepted earlier groups of forms and manifestations, whatever up efforts to close the facility before prisoners. its source or motivation are. he leaves office. US Defence Secretary Ashton The ministry expressed Qatar’s The Yemenis transfer to Oman Carter said the transfer followed a condolences to the families of the marked the largest group of pris- “deliberate and careful review. “We victims and the Indonesian govern- oners shipped out of the detention completed the transfer of 10 Yemenis, ment and people, wishing the injured centre at the US naval base in Cuba roughly 10 percent, that is, of the total a speedy recovery. since Obama began his presidency remaining Gitmo population, to the Islamic State (IS) said it was behind in 2009, pledging to quickly shutter a government of Oman,” He said at the the attack by suicide bombers and gun- Janitors clean up the road near the bomb site after a blast in front of a shopping mall in Jakarta. prison that has drawn international US military’s Southern Command, men in the heart of Jakarta, the first condemnation. which oversees the facility. The 93 time the radical group has targeted the The Yemenis, held for over a dec- prisoners remaining at Guantanamo world’s most populous Muslim nation. Jakarta’s police chief Tito Karna- police traffic post nearby, using what the strategy. I have doubts about the ade without charge or trial, were part mark the lowest number since 2002, Seven people were killed in multi- vian said: “ISIS is behind this attack Karnavian described as hand grenade- capability of the local militants to carry of releases the Obama administra- shortly after then-president George ple blasts and a gunfight, five of them definitely,” using a common acronym like bombs. out attacks on a bigger scale. But it is tion signalled would take place early W Bush opened the facility to house attackers. It took security forces about for IS, and named an Indonesian mili- Speaking in London, US Secre- a possibility.” this year as it prepares to give Con- foreign terrorism detainees after the three hours to end the attack near a tant called Bahrun Naim as the plotter. tary of State John Kerry condemned The US embassy in Jakarta said it gress a plan for closing the facility. September 11, 2001, attacks on the US. Starbucks cafe and Sarinah’s, Jakar- Police believe he is in the Syrian city the attack. “There is nothing in any will remain closed today as a precau- ta’s oldest department store. of Raqqa. Police responded in force act of terror that offers anything but tion. The embassy will remain open for An Indonesian and a Canadian within minutes. Black armoured cars death and destruction. And so we stand emergency services, it said in a state- were killed and 20 people, including reached the cafe and sniper teams were together, all of us, united in our efforts ment on its website. “Further incidents Woqod raises fuel prices an Algerian, Austrian, German and deployed around the neighbourhood to eliminate those who choose ter- are possible. As the security situation Dutchman, were wounded. as helicopters buzzed overhead. ror,” he said. remains fluid, US citizens are advised DOHA: Fuel (gasoline) prices in Qatar have been increased by up to 35 per- “A group of soldiers of the caliphate Karnavian said one man entered Harits Abu Ulya, a expert on mil- to avoid Sari Pan Pacific Hotel and Sari- cent, Qatar Fuel (Woqod) said yesterday.