Home | 2 Business | 13 Sport | 20 Ajyal projects to Sukuk demand FIFA World Cup address challenges remains high ‘could be expanded facing youth despite slowdown to 40 teams’ The Peninsula Newspaper @PeninsulaQatar @peninsula_qatar FRIDAY 4 DECEMBER 2015 • 22 Safar 1437 • Volume 20 Number 6634 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com
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[email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 US rejects Russian New labour housing deals claims against Turkey Contracts signed for first phase of project to house 179,000 workers WASHINGTON: The US yes- is buying oil (from IS)? Let me terday flatly rejected Russian say it. George Haswani, holder DOHA: Qatar yesterday signed contracts for claims that the Turkish govern- of a Russian passport and a Syr- the first phase of a massive labour accom- ment was in league with ISIS ian national, is one of the big- modation project that will eventually house group to smuggle oil from Syria. gest merchants in this business,” 179,000 workers. State Department spokesman Erdogan said. Prime Minister and Interior Minister Mark Toner told a news briefing He said, “a famous Russian H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa that US information was that chess player” was also involved in Al Thani attended the signing ceremony at ISIS was selling oil at the well- the oil business with IS, without Civil Defence Officers’ Club. heads to middlemen, Qatar News giving a name. “He’s also in this Contracts were signed with three private Agency reports. race,” he said. companies for the first phase of workers’ “We reject outright the premise Immediately after the speech, residential complexes in Umm Salal that the Turkish government is Russia’s Energy Minister Alex- Mohammed.