MONDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 MUHARRAM 3, 1441 VOL.12 NO. 4728 QR 2 FINE Fajr: 3:56 am Dhuhr: 11:34 am HIGH : 39°C Asr: 3:03 pm Maghrib: 5:53 pm LOW : 32°C Isha: 7:23 pm MAIN BRANCH LULU HYPER SANAYYA ALKHOR Americas 9 Sports 13 Doha D-Ring Road Street-17 M & J Building MATAR QADEEM MANSOURA ABU HAMOUR BIN OMRAN Hurricane Dorian makes Attiyah breaks the jinx to win Near Ahli Bank Al Meera Petrol Station Al Meera landfall in Bahamas Rally of Lebanon alzamanexchange www.alzamanexchange.com 44441448 Upgrade your home internet to 150 Mbps and watch the best football leagues with Ooredoo ONE! AMIR RECEIVES INVITATION TO Amir, Jordan ATTEND KUALA LUMPUR SUMMIT king review US, Taliban close bilateral ties to striking deal at THE Amir HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani on Sunday held a telephone conversation with HM King Abdullah II bin al Hussein of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Dur- Doha talks: Envoy ing the call, they reviewed the strong relations between the two countries and the ways of boosting them for It will open door for Afghans to sit together to negotiate the benefit of the two countries. They also discussed a number of topics an honourable and sustainable peace deal: Khalilzad of common interest. The Jordan King invited the Amir to visit Jordan, and AFP a 2015 takeover. HH welcomed the invitation. (QNA) KABUL Suhail Shaheen, the Taliban’s spokes- man in Doha, said a deal was “near to fi- THE US and the Taliban are on the brink of nalised” but did not specify what obstacles striking a deal after 18 years of war, Wash- remain. ington’s top negotiator said on Sunday. Afghan-born Khalilzad, who previously The Amir HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani received a written message from Prime Minister of Iran grants Qataris The apparent pro- served as the US ambassador Malaysia Dr Mahathir Mohamad, inviting HH the Amir to attend the Kuala Lumpur Summit, which will gress at the latest round to Kabul, has spent the last be held in Malaysia from December 18-21. The message was delivered by Foreign Minister of Malaysia visa on arrival of talks to conclude in year or so criss-crossing the Saifuddin Bin Abdullah, when the Amir met him at the Amiri Diwan office on Sunday. (QNA) THE authorities in Iran have decided to Doha came even as the globe in a bid to build sup- grant holders of Qatari passports tourist Taliban launched a broad port for a historic deal with visas upon arrival at Iranian airports, an offensive on the city of the Taliban. official source at the Foreign Ministry’s Kunduz in northern Af- The agreement will cen- Department of Consular Affairs said. ghanistan, and violence tre on the US beginning to The source said Qatari nationals can flared in a neighbouring withdraw approximately Israel, Hezbollah exchange obtain a single or multiple-entry visa by province. 13,000 troops in exchange the Embassy of Iran in Doha, to avoid “We are at the thresh- for a Taliban guarantee that occasional delays at the arrival airport old of an agreement that Afghanistan will not be used in case of crowding of passengers at will reduce violence and as a safe haven for terrorists. fire along Lebanon border the visa office at the airport.(QNA) open the door for Afghans Negotiations between to sit together to negoti- the Taliban and the Afghan AFP killed and wounded those in- for “maximum restraint.” ate an honourable and government, and an eventual KIRYAT SHMONA side the military vehicle, say- Israeli military spokesman sustainable peace,” tweet- Zalmay Khalilzad. ceasefire, will also be key pil- ing there were no casualties. Jonathan Conricus told jour- ed Washington’s special lars of any deal. ISRAEL and Hezbollah ex- “We are consulting about nalists that the “tactical event” Qatar condemns envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, The deal would pave the way to “a uni- changed fire along the Leba- the next steps,” Israeli Prime near Avivim, an Israeli com- who was scheduled to arrive in Kabul on fied, sovereign Afghanistan that does not nese border on Sunday after Minister Benjamin Netanya- munity near the Lebanese bor- Texas shooting Sunday to discuss developments with Af- threaten the United States, its allies, or any a week of rising tensions, but hu said. “I have ordered that der, was most likely over. ghan officials. other country”, Khalilzad said. no casualties were reported we be prepared for any sce- But he said the “strate- QATAR has condemned the shooting His comment came just hours after Af- He did not say if he had a finalised text following the brief flare-up nario. We will decide on the gic situation is still ongoing”, incidents in the cities of Midland and ghan security forces said they had cleared to show Afghan authorities, but several of- and UN officials immediately next steps pending develop- meaning tensions with Hez- Odessa, in the state of Texas, the US. Kunduz of Taliban fighters, who on Satur- ficials have hinted in recent days that mov- urged restraint. ments.” bollah remained. In a statement on Sunday, the Ministry day launched a broad assault on the pro- ing talks to Kabul could signal a positive Israel said it responded After the exchange of fire Conricus said the Israeli re- of Foreign Affairs reiterated Qatar’s firm vincial capital in a bid to score a repeat of outcome. with around 100 artillery began, Lebanon’s Prime Min- sponse had targeted the squad stance rejecting violence, terrorism and shells after Hezbollah fired ister Saad Hariri contacted that fired the missiles. criminal acts, regardless of motives and two or three anti-tank mis- senior US and French officials Hezbollah said in a state- reasons. The statement offered Qatar’s siles at a battalion headquar- to urge their countries and the ment its fighters had “de- condolences to the families of the ters and military ambulance, international community to stroyed a military vehicle on victims and the government and people hitting both. intervene. the road to the Avivim bar- of the US and wished the wounded a Israeli officials refuted The head of the UN peace- racks, killing and wounding Over 100 killed as Saudi-led PAGE 7 speedy recovery. (QNA) coalition bombs Yemen prison Hezbollah claims that it had keeping force in Lebanon called those inside.” MORE than 100 people are believed Qatar’s population to have been killed in an air strike by the Saudi-led military coalition on a Qatari Diar to develop US embassy touches 2.66 mn detention centre in Yemen, the Inter- THE population of Qatar has reached national Committee of the Red Cross 2.66 million at the end of August. The said on Sunday. The coalition said it staff residential units in Dushanbe figure is an increase of 7.8 percent from targeted a facility run by the Houthi ATARI Diar has signed a preliminary transfer ownership to them. CEO of Qatari last July and an increase of 4.1 percent rebels that “stores drones and mis- Qagreement to develop the residence of US Diar Eng Abdullah bin Hamad al Attiyah said over August 2018. (TNN) siles”, but the rebels said the attack embassy staff in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, the signing of the agreement is an extension had levelled a building they used as a covering 42 residential units. Under the agree- of the success of the Dushanbe project in the prison. The ICRC rushed to the scene ment, Qatari Diar Company is to prepare plans Tajik capital. He expressed gratitude for the in the city of Dhamar with medical and engineering designs for residential units US to select Qatar Diar and Diar Dushanbe to QRCS supports Gaza’s teams and hundreds of body bags. provided that the development and construc- develop the embassy staff residence, which healthcare sector with “The location that was hit has been visited by ICRC before,’ Franz Rauchenstein, its tion agreement will be concluded later on a confirms the comparative advantage of the head of delegation for Yemen, told AFP from Dhamar. “It’s a college building that has lease to own basis, where the US embassy project and the status of the company as a US projects worth $1 mn (PG 3 ) been empty and has been used as a detention facility for a while.” (AFP) PAGE 7 will lease these units for five years and then accredited partner. (QNA) PAGE 10 HIA’s ‘Summer in Qatar’ programme engages over 7 mn passengers TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK liver the biggest ‘Summer in Qatar Duty Free, and the live- are able to process passengers der the umbrella of the big- DOHA Qatar’ programme yet. ly entertainment that resulted smoothly and enable an en- gest ‘Summer in Qatar’ festi- HIA’s ‘Summer in Qatar’ from our collaboration, truly tertaining airport experience val at HIA featured a heritage HAMAD International Air- programme ran from July highlights our shared com- like no other. Thousands of zone, which engaged passen- port (HIA) continues to make to August and engaged more mitment to promoting Qatar passengers enjoyed and en- gers from all over the world its mark on redefining the than seven million passengers as a destination of choice and, gaged in our activities, partic- through more than 260 hours airport experience for its mil- in the award-winning termi- making its hospitable culture ipating enthusiastically and of cultural and traditional lions of travellers. During nal. shine.” documenting their experienc- performances. The perfor- the summer peak season, the Engr Badr Mohammed He said, “For many, air- es on social media.