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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Qatar woos Asian Swimming investors to Youth Camp in logistics sector Doha from today Business | 21 Sport | 28 Wednesday 18 June 2014 • 20 Sha’baan 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6100 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Ochoa holds Brazil to draw UK to reopen Qatari family embassy in Iran LONDON: Britain said yester- day it would reopen its embassy earns QR72,700 in Iran “within months,” after a hiatus of more than two and a half years, a diplomatic break- through that underscores the West’s desire to secure Tehran’s a month: Survey help in Iraq and elsewhere. The move came after the United States said it may launch air strikes and act jointly with Average three times higher than expats’ arch-enemy Iran to shore up the Iraqi government, after a ram- DOHA: The average monthly household spent QR8,033 on food page by Sunni Islamist insurgents income of a Qatari family is a (QR2,700 in the case of expatri- that has scrambled alliances in whopping QR72,700 ($19,964), ate), QR5,700 on overseas travel the Middle East. which is nearly three times (QR1,648 in an expatriate family’s The announcement, by British the earnings of an expatriate case) and QR2,031 on recreation Foreign Secretary William Hague, household, shows a survey. and entertainment. These were is likely to raise hopes of a break- An expatriate family, on the monthly averages. through in talks with world pow- other hand, earned approximately An expatriate family spent ers about Iran’s disputed nuclear QR24,400 ($6,700), on average a barely QR444.78 a month on programme. It coincided with month, according to a household entertainment, while gave away negotiations aimed at securing income and expenditure survey. QR6,177 as monthly rent on Mexico’s goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa dives to stop the ball during their 2014 World Cup Group A soccer such a agreement. The survey is conducted by average. match against Brazil at the Castelao arena in Fortaleza yesterday. The match ended in a goal-less draw. the Ministry of Development On transport and communica- See also page 32 Planning and Statistics reflects tions, a Qatari household’s expend- Egypt releases whose findings were released iture was QR9,500 (QR3,161 in yesterday. the case of expatriates). Jazeera scribe It seems the survey covered On overseas trips, the expenses only high-income expatriate of a Qatari household worked out CAIRO: Egypt yesterday families, for the average income to QR5,700 a month on average Iraq repels Isis rebels as US waits released Aljazeera journal- reported is on an incredibly (mere QR1,648 in the case of ist Abdullah Elshamy, who has higher end. expatriates). LONDON: Iraqi government volatile situation under control. amid reports of the clashes in been on hunger strike for nearly As for expenses, a Qatari fam- The survey was conducted forces fought off rebel forces north As the fighting continued, there Baquba, less than 40 miles north five months in protest over his ily’s monthly outgoings were from September 2012 to of Baghdad yesterday amid signs was no sign of imminent military of Baghdad, and the closest the detention. QR49,600 ($13,620), while those September 2013 and covered from the US that the Obama moves by the US, with the White fighting has come to the Iraqi Elshamy, who works for the of an expatriate household were 3,723 households, of which a lit- administration is hesitating before House warning of several days of capital since Isis took over most main Arabic channel of the net- QR18,000 ($4,943). tle less than half (1,826) were being drawn into a new war. further consultation before any of the northern part of the coun- work, was arrested on August 14 A Qatari family spent over a Qatari, the remaining (1,897) Heavy clashes were reported intervention. Senior Democrats try last week. Insurgents had when police dispersed supporters third (about 35 percent) of its expatriate. from Baquba after it was taken have expressed growing caution taken control of parts of Baquba of ousted president Mohamed monthly expenses on transport, The average size of a Qatari over by fighters of the Islamic about the risks of being sucked overnight, but were pushed back. Morsi in Cairo. communications, overseas trips family covered was 8.7 individuals, State in Iraq and the Levant back in to any conflict. There were reports, too, that The journalist has been on and entertainment. while that of an expatriate house- (Isis), and in Baghdad eight people In London, Prime Minister Sunni insurgents have attempted hunger strike since January 21, Much of an expatriate house- hold, 4.3. The average of both the were killed by a suicide bomber. David Cameron warned that Isis to target convoys of Shia volun- according to his family. Yesterday, hold’s monthly outgoings, on the family sizes was 5.5 individuals, Iranian-backed militiamen were militants in Iraq and Syria were teers being bussed to the front he walked out of a police station contrary, went towards paying said the Ministry. out in force in Shia areas of the the “biggest threat to national lines north of the capital. in Nasr City, according to a cor- rent and buying food. THE PENINSULA capital in an attempt to assure security that exists today”. THE GUARDIAN respondent at the scene. Exact breakups were: a Qatari Continued on page 10 residents that they have a highly Cameron’s warning came See also page10 AGENCIES Britain, Australia tried to bribe top FIFA executive, says report DOHA: Giving a new twist to the former Caribbean football jefe England sought to secure Warner’s the FIFA World Cup corrup- and voting member of FIFA, the support by footing the bill for the tion row, the Trinidad Express world governing body for football, Warner-arranged CFU dinner has reported that Britain and according to documents seen by at the Joao Havelange Centre of Australia also tried to bribe a this reporter,” Camini Marajh Excellence, Macoya, and provide top FIFA executive to secure Head, Investigative Desk, said in financial and technical support for the World Cup bid. the report. other Warner-identified develop- Former high-flying FIFA exec- The FA’s Director of Campaign ment projects in Trinidad. utive and Member of Parliament Operations for England’s 2018 bid, Prince William, the Duke of for Chaguanas West Jack Warner Jane Bateman, was the point per- Cambridge and former English accepted gifts from nations bidding son in contact with Warner, the star footballer David Beckham also to secure World Cup hosting rights powerful and influential former flew to Trinidad in the frantic bid in the run-up to the 2010 vote in Executive Committee (ExCo) to woo the very influential Jack violation of the Integrity in Public member of FIFA who was forced Warner, who was not shy about Life Act (IPLA) and FIFA’s own bid out of world administrative foot- asking for favours, said the daily. rules, the Sunday Express (Sunday ball in 2011 by a cash-for-votes “The bid committees were edition of the daily published in affair at the Hyatt Regency bound by FIFA rules which state Trinidad and Tobago) reported. (Trinidad) hotel in Port of Spain. that gifts given during the World The daily claimed that its “Documents obtained by the Cup bidding process should be no investigations have found Warner Sunday Express reveal The FA more than “occasional gifts that accepted gifts valued in the mil- agreed to sponsor a dinner hosted are generally regarded as having lions of dollars from bidding by the Carib¬bean Football Union symbolic or incidental value”. nations, including the English (CFU), of which Warner was The value of Russia’s lar- football association, The FA and founder and president, to the tune gesse was reported to be over Australia. of £35,608 or TT$382,900,” said US$100,000—hardly the inciden- “In the months leading up to the report. tal value described in the FIFA- the December 2010 vote for the In the run-up to FIFA’s contro- issued bid rules. 2018 and 2022 World Cups, The versial bid to select host nations THE PENINSULA FA sought to curry favour with for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, Continued on page 10 Israel aims to break Hamas JERUSALEM: Israel stepped around 200 people, most of them Today’s up efforts to crush Hamas in the Hamas members, as it presses a West Bank yesterday as the hunt vast search operation for the stu- matches for three Israeli teenagers believed dents, two of them minors. GROUP B: kidnapped by the Islamist move- Yesterday, members of all the AUSTRALIA VS NETHERLANDS ment entered its fifth day. armed factions in the Gaza Strip (7PM) Thousands of troops search- expressed support for “any effort GROUP B: ing for the youths turned their of Palestinian resistance” and SPAIN VS CHILE (10PM) attention overnight to Nablus vowed revenge for Israel’s “crimi- and surrounding area, arresting nal” West Bank actions. GROUP A: 41 Palestinians, the army said. AFP CAMEROON VS CROATIA 1AM So far, Israel has arrested See also page 10 (THURSDAY) WEDNESDAY 18 JUNE 2014 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Demand for One Thousand and One Nights ballet opens real estate People from various cultures praise the two-act anthology of Arabic folk tales drops in DOHA: People from various until he meets Scheherazade. cultures have applauded “One Scheherazade, knowing second week Thousand and One Nights” what awaits her next morn- ballet which recently opened ing, devises a plan to avoid DOHA: Demand for real at the Katara Opera House.