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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Sunday 21 July 2013 12 Ramadan 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5766 Price: QR2 Two new Qualifier members in Delbonis stuns QBA board Federer in semis Business | 17 Sport | 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Power outage Emir meets envoys near Doha hits thousands Overload caused blackout DOHA: A sudden power out- engine and switch on the air- age left thousands of peo- conditioner to escape the stifling ple, including the elderly and heat. children in a bustling town Utility distributor Kahramaa near here, braving sizzling dispatched a team of techni- heat and humidity for hours cians to identify the problem and yesterday. fix it after its emergency con- The power failure was caused trol room was informed of the around noon due to overload on outage. transmission cables in Umm Al Some 30 engineers and tech- Amad, which is some 26 kilome- nicians comprising the team tres north of Doha off the arterial rushed to the spot and accord- North Road. ing to a press statement issued Electricity was restored in by Kahramaa, electricity sup- the area at 1.37pm yesterday, plies were restored in the area at according to utility distributor 1.37pm. Kahramaa. Kahramaa sources said that it But a resident of the area said has cancelled the weekly day-offs The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani hosted last evening an Iftar banquet at Al Wajbah Palace for the heads of diplomatic missions, electricity was restored around of all technicians as complaints Qatar’s ambassadors abroad and high-ranking officials of the Foreign Ministry. More pictures on page 2 4.30 to 4.45pm. of power failures might pour in The temperature in the area from different areas since this is at the time was much above 35 the peak summer season when degrees Celsius but what made the consumption of electricity people suffer more was the high is the highest due to the use of humidity. air-conditioners. Israel adamant on border ahead of talks Humidity yesterday was Local social networking sites quite high at 73 percent , while were yesterday abuzz with com- JERUSALEM: Israel will groundwork to resume talks after The Palestinians say the talks Israel, nor a construction freeze,” it was a record high at 83 per- plaints about power failures in not bow to the Palestinians’ an almost three-year stalemate, must be about establishing a he said. A senior Palestinian offi- cent on Friday night, according different areas. demand on the borders of but that the deal was not final and future state in the West Bank, the cial with knowledge of the talks to sources in the weather Some posts said there were their future state before peace required more diplomacy. Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, suggested the Palestinians would office. outages in the areas for four talks begin but will meet their Remarks made yesterday by with borders approximating the not back down. “Our position Thousands of families live in hours, while others said they request for the release of some Israeli Defence Minister Moshe boundaries that existed before remains clear: resumption of the area (Umm Al Amad), it were without electricity for 10 prisoners, Israeli officials said Yaalon and Strategic Affairs Israel captured those territories negotiations should be based on being quite close to Doha. minutes. yesterday. Minister Yuval Steintiz suggest in a 1967 war. the two-state solution and on the Naturally, air-conditioners Kahramaa has called on con- The six-nation Gulf the sides still face major stum- Steinitz said there had been no 1967 borders.” were on full-blast in all homes sumers to call 991 in the event of Cooperation Council welcomed bling blocks before negotiations Israeli concession on that point Kerry said on Friday that in the area when power suddenly problems in electricity or water yesterday EU plans to ban its can resume, however. nor on the Palestinian demand the deal between Israel and the tripped. supply. 28 members from dealing with Yaalon said in a statement that Israel halt all construction of Palestinians to resume negotia- People were fasting and came The main reason for the out- Jewish settlements, hoping the that Israel “had insisted it would settlements in the occupied West tions was still being “formal- out after waiting for a few min- ages is overload on transmission move would push forward peace enter negotiations with no pre- Bank and East Jerusalem. ised” but that negotiators for utes for electricity supplies to be cables as the population has been efforts. conditions which included the “There is no chance that we both sides could begin talks in restored. increasing resulting in more US Secretary of State John Palestinian demand on the 1967 will agree to enter any negotia- Washington “within the next Later, many of them were seen appliances being used. Kerry said on Friday that Israel borders ... and that is exactly what tions that begin with defining ter- week or so”. rushing to their cars to start the THE PENINSULA and the Palestinians had laid the is happening now.” ritorial borders or concessions by REUTERS Martin ‘lives’ US court renews controversial Egypt forms panel for constitution CAIRO: Egypt’s interim presi- The larger panel will include Christian community denounced surveillance plan dent yesterday appointed a com- members of political parties and the Islamist-drafted text, which mittee of experts to amend the trade unions, religious officials was also criticised by UN rights WASHINGTON: A secret US constitution that was suspended and army officers, and will in turn chief Navi Pillay for curtailing court has renewed the govern- following the military’s over- have another two months to make certain rights, including those of ment’s authority to carry out throw of president Mohammed final changes to the draft before non-Muslims. a controversial phone surveil- Mursi, the presidency said. submitting it to the president. Egypt’s caretaker president lance programme exposed by Under a decree issued by Mansour will then have 30 issued a charter last Monday fugitive intelligence leaker the caretaker president, Adly days to call a referendum on the outlining the timetable for the Edward Snowden. Mansour, the committee, which charter. constitutional reforms, as well as The panel’s decision, made consists of four university profes- Ousted Islamist president fresh parliamentary and presi- public on Friday in an unprec- sors and six judges, will begin its Mursi’s government adopted the dential elections due to be held edented move, extends the pro- work today. controversial previous constitu- early next year. gramme, which affects millions of The committee members tion by referendum in December Shortly after it was announced, Americans, by three months, the will have 30 days to make their 2012 with a majority of 64 per- Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood Office of the Director of National amendments, which will then be cent, but a voter turnout of just rejected the temporary charter as Intelligence, or ODNI, said in a presented to a 50-person body 33 percent. a decree enforced by “putschists”. statement. “In light of the signifi- representing different groups in Opposition politicians and AFP cant and continuing public interest Egyptian society. members of Egypt’s Coptic See also page 7 in the telephony metadata collec- tion program, the DNI (Director of National Intelligence) has decided to declassify and disclose publicly that the government filed Explosion at Beijing airport Insecticide in food killed pupils an application with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court BEIJING: A man in a wheelchair detonated PATNA: Oil used to cook a school lunch that seeking renewal of the authority a home-made explosive in Beijing airport last killed 23 pupils in eastern India contained a to collect telephony metadata in evening, injuring himself and sending smoke bil- “highly toxic”, concentrated form of insecticide, a bulk, and that the court renewed lowing through the exit area of the international forensic report and police said yesterday. that authority,” it said. AFP arrivals section of Terminal 3. Individual Chinese The children died after eating lentils, potatoes unable to win redress for grievances have in the and rice cooked at the school last Tuesday with oil past resorted to extreme measures, including containing an agricultural insecticide that was five RAMADAN TIMING Hundreds of protesters participate in a “Justice for Trayvon” rally at bombings, but such incidents are rare amid the times the strength sold in the market, the report Todays Iftar the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles yesterday. The dem- tight security of airports, and the motive in this said. “The report has found organophosphorus in oil 6:27pm onstration was part of a 100-city effort to demand a federal investiga- case is not yet known. samples collected from the school where the midday There were no other injuries and operations were meal was prepared and consumed by the children,” tion into possible violations of Travyon Martin’s civil rights. A jury in Tomorrow’s Imsak normal after the blast, the airport said on its micro- Ravinder Kumar, a senior police officer, told report- Sanford, Florida last Saturday found George Zimmerman, a volunteer 03:19am blog, while official news agency Xinhua said the man ers in Bihar’s state capital Patna. He said he did not neighbuorhood watchman, not guilty of shooting Martin dead. detonated a loud explosive device. An airport spokes- have an explanation as to why the chemical was so Report on page 11 woman declined to speculate about the man’s motive. highly concentrated. AGENCIES REUTERS Full report on page 15 SUNDAY 21 JULY 2013 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Emir hosts iftar banquet for diplomats The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday hosted an iftar banquet at Al Wajbah Palace for heads of diplomatic missions, Qatar’s ambassadors and top Foreign Ministry officials.