BUSINESS | Page 1 SPORT | Page 1 Esperance bounce back with Qatar to showcase Tunisian economic strengths at Hannover Fair Super Cup published in QATAR since 1978 TUESDAY Vol. XXXX No. 11141 April 2, 2019 Rajab 26, 1440 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals In brief Sheikha Moza attends GU-Q event Algerian President QATAR | Offi cial Boutefl ika resigns Amir congratulates Turkish president DPA to the people’s demands.” Algiers Boutefl ika, who has faced mass pro- His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim tests against his rule for more than a bin Hamad al-Thani, His Highness the month, had maintained his position as Deputy Amir Sheikh Abdullah bin lgerian President Abdelaziz defence minister in the caretaker gov- Hamad al-Thani and HE the Prime Boutefl ika has resigned, bowing ernment that was revealed on Sunday. Minister and Minister of Interior Ato mass protests seeking an end The government, headed by Noured- Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin to his 20-year rule, Algeria’s state news dine Bedoui, is composed of 27 min- Khalifa al-Thani sent yesterday cables agency APS reported yesterday. isters, including six members of the of congratulations to President He will give up his offi ce before his former cabinet. Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the sisterly designated end-of-term date on April Boutefl ika kept as military chief of Republic of Turkey on the victory of 28. The decision came after hundreds staff the powerful General Gaid Saleh, the Justice and Development Party of people demonstrated on Monday in who earlier this week called for the (AKP) in local elections. Algiers against Boutefl ika’s new gov- president to be declared unfi t for offi ce ernment. on health grounds. ASIA | Trial APS said Boutefl ika, who is 82 and in Boutefl ika’s resignation means there poor health, would take important deci- will now be a transitional phase. Kim assassination sions to ensure “continuity of the state’s The opposition Labour Party had de- suspect to be freed Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Chairperson of Qatar Foundation (QF), attended the “GU-Q 100: A Celebration of institutions” before stepping down. It scribed the new cabinet as a new face for A Vietnamese woman accused of Knowledge Production” event yesterday, marking the publication of 100 books authored by Georgetown University in Qatar’s did not spell out a date for his departure an old government. assassinating the North Korean faculty, staff and research fellows, as well as celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the home campus’s Edmund A. Walsh or give more details immediately. “It is unclear on what basis these fi g- leader’s half-brother is to walk free School of Foreign Service. Also in attendance were HE Sheikha Hind bint Hamad al-Thani, Vice Chairperson and CEO of QF, Protesters carried slogans de- ures were chosen,” the party said in a after Malaysia dropped murder and HE Lulwa Alkhater, Ministry of Foreign Aff airs spokesperson. Page 24 scribing the new cabinet as “a blow statement. Page 10 charges against her yesterday, weeks after her Indonesian co-accused was also released. The 2017 killing of Kim Jong-nam with a toxic nerve agent at Kuala Lumpur’s international airport shocked the world, but Doan Thi Huong’s guilty plea to the lesser charge of “causing injury” makes Msheireb Downtown Doha 90% complete her the only person convicted in the case. Page 13 By Pratap John EUROPE | Vote Business Editor Comedian Zelensky set for Ukraine presidency sheireb Downtown Doha Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky (MDD), which is the ‘Smartest” is favourite to become Ukraine’s Mand ‘Most sustainable fully- president after results yesterday built City District in the world’, is more showed him dominating a first-round than 90% complete and is now open for vote despite many initially dismissing the public through most of its quarters. his candidacy as a joke. The 41-year- The “world’s fi rst sustainable old’s political experience had been downtown regeneration” project, the limited to playing the president QR20bn Msheireb Downtown Doha, in a TV show but he leapfrogged revives the old commercial heart of establishment candidates amid the city through a “new architectural public frustration over corruption language” that is based on community and a stalling economy. Page 16 living, across a 76-acre site. Central to Msheireb Downtown ASIA | Weather Doha are its “green features”, from rainwater harvesting to shady over- Nepal whirlwind storms hangs that make walking outside cool- kill 27, injure hundreds er, points out Clark Williams, Direc- A freak storm tore down houses tor – Marketing, Msheireb Properties, and overturned cars and trucks which is developing the City District. as it swept across southern Nepal “We are the fi rst to introduce the killing at least 27 people and leaving cool pool system in Qatar and have the more than 600 injured, off icials largest number of PV solar panels in said yesterday as a major rescue the country,” Williams said in an inter- operation gathered pace. High winds view with Gulf Times. battered the rural district of Bara Most of the mixed-use develop- and adjoining areas late Sunday. ment, which comprises more than 100 Five children were among the dead, buildings, is fi tted with PV solar pan- the home ministry said, as rescuers els, solar water panels and overhangs battled to get relief supplies to the designed to shade the surrounding The QR20bn ‘Smartest” and ‘Most sustainable fully-built City District in the world’ is now open for public through most of its quarters; experts consider the project as ‘best region and evacuate injured. Page 13 sidewalks. To Page 8 example of urban regeneration’ in the world. (Supplied picture) Today is World Autism Awareness Day atar joins the world today UAE hacked Al Jazeera chairman’s phone Qto observe the World Autism Aware- Reuters ponents of the UAE monarchy. A Reu- with little oversight from Washington. tiny nation. It was an unprecedented ness Day. Washington ters investigation in January revealed The crisis erupted in the spring of confrontation among Arab countries World Autism Project Raven’s existence and inner 2017, when the UAE and allies - includ- that had historically prized consensus. Awareness Day was workings, including the fact that it sur- ing Saudi Arabia and Egypt - accused That week, Project Raven operatives fi rst proposed by Her group of American hackers who veilled a British activist and several un- Qatar of supporting extremism, charg- sprang into action, launching opera- Highness Sheikha once worked for US intelligence named US journalists. es that Doha has denied. tions to break into the Apple iPhones of Moza bint Nasser, A agencies helped the United Arab The Raven operatives - who included The UAE camp demanded Qatar take at least 10 journalists and media execu- Chairperson of Qa- Emirates spy on a BBC host, the chair- at least nine former employees of the a series of actions, including shutter- tives they believed had connections to tar Foundation, to the man of Al Jazeera and other prominent US National Security Agency and the ing the Qatar-based Al Jazeera satellite the Qatari government or the Muslim United Nations in 2007, Arab media fi gures after the UAE and US military - found themselves thrust television network and cracking down Brotherhood, according to programme and the proposal was its allies imposed a blockade on Qatar into the thick of a high-stakes dis- on the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic documents reviewed by Reuters. adopted without a vote in 2017. pute among America’s Gulf allies. The movement some Arab governments re- Raven targeted Arab media fi gures who by the UN General As- The American operatives worked Americans’ role in the UAE-Qatar im- gard as a threat. spanned a range of political thought - from sembly. The fi rst World Autism Aware- Plan (2017-2021) in 2017 with a view to for Project Raven, a secret Emirati in- broglio highlights how former US intel- In June 2017, the UAE camp severed a Beirut-based BBC host to the chairman ness Day was marked on April 2, 2008. improving the lives of those with au- telligence programme that spied on ligence offi cials have become key play- diplomatic ties with Qatar and imposed of Al Jazeera and a producer from a Lon- Qatar launched the National Autism tism. Page 22 dissidents, militants and political op- ers in the cyber wars of other nations, an air, land and sea blockade against the don satellite channel. To Page 10 Gulf Times 2 Tuesday, April 2, 2019 QATAR Advisory Council signs pact with Group of Latin America and Caribbean countries QNA Doha he Advisory Council and the Parliamentary Group Tof Latin American and Caribbean countries (GRULAC) signed yesterday a memoran- dum of co-operation (MoC) at the headquarters of the Advisory Council. The MoC was signed by HE the Speaker of the Advisory Council Ahmed bin Abdulla bin Zaid al-Mahmoud, and the President of GRULAC in IPU, Rodolfo Urtubey. Under the memorandum of co-operation, the two sides agreed to strengthen ties of friendship to sustain and con- tinue their relations, to find mechanisms for co-opera- HE the Speaker of the Advisory Council Ahmed bin Abdulla bin Zaid al-Mahmoud, and the President of HE the Speaker of the Advisory Council Ahmed bin Abdulla bin Zaid al-Mahmoud, and the President of tion, to share information and GRULAC in IPU, Rodolfo Urtubey, signing the memorandum of co-operation yesterday in Doha. GRULAC in IPU, Rodolfo Urtubey, holding talks in Doha yesterday. to exchange visits between the Advisory Council and strengthen communication in water resources, in addition to tween the two sides, at which Caribbean States and explored 140th Meeting of the General the ambassador of Argentina to Parliamentary Group of Lat- the field of political dialogue, other issues of common con- they discussed parliamentary ways to enhance and bolster Assembly of the IPU which will Qatar Carlos Hernandez, and in American and Caribbean international peace and secu- cern to both sides.