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Page 01 Dec 26.Indd Home | 2 Business | 15 Sport | 24 Real estate deals Argentina’s Macri Milan eye win may cross tries to fix ailing over PSG in QR60bn mark economy Doha friendly The Peninsula Newspaper @PeninsulaQatar @peninsula_qatar SATURDAY 26 DECEMBER 2015 • 15 Rabia I 1437 • Volume 20 Number 6656 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Moderate to heavy rain lashes parts of Qatar Al Ruwais gets heaviest rainfall of the year DOHA: Some areas in the coun- emergency rain water draining 15 to 28 knots. Strong winds are try may continue to witness teams with tankers fitted with likely offshore and the sea is fore- intermittent rains accompanied water draining equipment. cast to be rough with waves, at by thunder until 11 this morn- All the seven municipalities in times, rising at places from five ing, a weather forecaster told this the country had already been on to nine feet today. newspaper. alert. They were prepared for the Visibility will be affected early Until 5.30pm yesterday, heavy emergency arising from the rain in the morning, and could be as to moderate rains lashed sev- because the weather bureau had low as two kilometre or even less eral parts of the country, includ- forecast unstable weather earlier at places. Later in the day, the ing Doha. Some areas in Doha last week. visibility will improve to four to received heavy showers. The bureau had said that rains eight kilometre, said the weather By early last evening, Al Ruwais may lash the country on Thursday bureau. in the north had witnessed the and yesterday and the situation Day temperatures are forecast heaviest downpour of the year, may last until Monday evening. to drop today, particularly in with a forecaster saying records It began raining in several Doha, which usually experiences showed 25mm rainfall. areas of the country including relatively high mercury levels. In Laqwairiya area, the rain- Doha a little past midnight on The maximum temperature fall was heavy (upto 23mm) until Thursday. The weather bureau forecast this morning in Doha Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a early last evening. had said that the weather may is 19 degrees Celsius (until 6am) meeting in Moscow yesterday. The average rainfall in Doha stabilise by Monday. while at night (last night) the was 6mm until 5.30pm, accord- A forecaster, meanwhile, said temperature was 16 degrees C. ing to the forecaster. that rains may stop after 11am The minimum temperature In some areas such as the Old today. The routine weather fore- forecast today is between 14 Airport locality, rains started cast released by the bureau for degrees C (in Messaieed, Al Discussions with Russia’s Lavrov since 10am and continued inter- until 6 this morning warned that Wakra and Dukhan) and 17 mittently until late in the night. rains accompanied by thunder degrees C in Abu Samra. The Many parts of the country, espe- may continue in some places. It maximum temperature forecast is constructive: Foreign Minister cially the low-lying ones, including forecast high northwesterly winds between 25 degrees Celsius (Abu several places in Doha, witnessed moving at speeds of 12 to 22 knots Samra) and 19 degrees C (Doha). waterlogging. This prompted and later to even 30 knots inland, Continued on page 4 MOSCOW: Qatar’s Foreign community has a responsibility must seek a solution to the Syrian municipality workers to rush while offshore northwesterly Minister H E Dr Khalid bin to shoulder in face of the terror crisis based on the Geneva agree- to the main roads particularly, winds may move at speeds from THE PENINSULA Mohamed Al Attiyah said yes- threat that faces the Middle East. ment rather than starting from terday that discussions held with He said the threat required that scratch, warning that failure to his Russian counterpart Sergei Arab countries work with friendly do so will not benefit any party. Lavrov were constructive. nations to establish security The Foreign Minister stressed The Foreign Minister said that and stability, hence yesterday’s that Qatar’s stance on Syria was bilateral relations with Russia visit. The Minister added that to establish a ruling author- were based on respect. He also talks with Lavrov were meant ity with full powers during the highlighted bilateral trade and to exchange views on develop- transition. cooperation in the field of energy, ments in the region and stress the The second aspect of Qatar’s expressing hope of further coop- importance of maintaining peace. position was to establish security eration. Developments in Syria were and stability in Syria in order to While speaking at a joint press the top priority of today’s talks, complete the transition of power. conference with Lavrov, Al Atti- the Minister said. He stressed yah said that the international that the international community QNA Indian PM Modi Iraqi cleric calls for in surprise visit release of Qataris to Pakistan LAHORE: Indian Prime Min- BAGHDAD: Iraq’s top Shia cleric on state TV. “We condemn the ister Narendra Modi made a People at the Doha Corniche during wet weather yesterday. KAMMUTTY VP Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani kidnappings for political goals, surprise “goodwill” visit to his called for the release of a group including the recent kidnap- country’s arch-rival Pakistan yes- of Qatari hunters kidnapped in ping of a number of hunters who terday to meet his counterpart the south of the country, his rep- entered the country legally,” he Nawaz Sharif, both reaffirming resentative said yesterday. said. to resume high-level peace talks. A large group of unidentified Iraq’s Foreign Minister Ibra- It was the first time an Indian Seven killed in Turkey clashes armed men abducted at least 26 him Al Jaafari denied on Tuesday premier had stepped foot on Paki- Qataris from their camp in the that his government had anything stani soil in more than 10 years DIYARBAKIR: Explosions and into a three-decade-old conflict across the region involving thou- desert near the Saudi border this to do with the kidnapping. Hunt- and was seen by analysts as a step gunfire resounded around the which has killed more than 40,000 sands of troops, backed by tanks. month. ers from Gulf states often make towards normalising ties between southeastern Turkish town of people. TV footage showed smoke The town, in Sirnak province, At least nine people who were trips to Iraq’s southern desert at the two neighbours which have Cizre yesterday after a clash over- billowing from buildings hit by is the focus of what the govern- part of the hunting group man- this time of the year in search of fought three wars. State TV foot- night that the army said left six blasts, while streets were empty ment has described as an opera- aged to escape and crossed into rare prey. age showed an Indian Air Force Kurdish militants and one soldier and shops shuttered. tion to “cleanse” the area of Kuwait. The Iraqi desert is said to be jumbo jet land in the late after- dead as a security operation there A helicopter clattered overhead militants. But locals dispute that “We demand that all kidnapped one of the best hunting grounds noon at Lahore’s Allama Iqbal entered its 11th day. and armoured vehicles sped along description and complain that the people be released no matter who for the Houbara bustard, a large, International Airport where Since a two-year ceasefire fell a hilltop road above Cizre, near attacks are indiscriminate. they are,” Ahmed Al Safi said in fast bird, which lives throughout Sharif — who celebrated his birth- apart in July, the mainly Kurdish the Syrian border, as security a sermon in the Shia city of Kar- the Middle East. day the same day — had flown in southeast has been plunged back forces pressed on with a campaign REUTERS bala, south of Baghdad, broadcast REUTERS by helicopter moments earlier. See also page 9 AFP Algeria army kills Jihadists ‘to quit south Damascus districts today’ two militants DAMASCUS: Some 4,000 people, half ment official close to the negotiations said. IS militants attacked the Yarmuk Pal- Qadam said that “every fighter will be of them jihadist fighters, will leave three They would then be transported to the estinian camp in April, fighting Al Nusra allowed to leave with his family and one ALGIERS: Algerian troops besieged southern districts of Syria’s capi- northern cities of Raqa, held by IS, and units there for control. suitcase and his personal weapon”. The killed two Islamists during an tal at the weekend as part of a landmark Marea which is controlled by Islamists and The jihadists then overran parts of areas are already in the process of being ambush east of Algiers yesterday, ceasefire, sources told AFP yesterday. Al Nusra, the official said. Qadam in August after launching an attack demilitarised. A Syrian army unit entered the defence ministry said. Two Militants from the Islamic State jihadist The second phase of the deal would see from their base in nearby Hajar Al Aswad. Qadam on Thursday to confiscate heavy Kalashnikov assault rifles and group and its rival, Al Qaeda’s Syrian affili- government institutions reopen in the Their advance into Qadam had brought weapons and military equipment used ammunition were seized in the ate Al Nusra Front, will reportedly quit the neighbourhoods and “the necessities of them closer than ever to central Damascus. by the jihadists, a security source on the operation in the Azeffoun area of districts of Qadam, Hajar Al Aswad and daily life would be secured”, the official said.
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