QATAR | Page 28 SPORT | Page 1 Nasser al-Attiyah comes INDEX DOW JONES QE NYMEX QATAR 2–10, 28 COMMENT 26, 27 REGION 10 BUSINESS 1-5, 17–20 second in QM expo off ers 15,912.00 9,185.12 29.42 ARAB WORLD 11, 12 CLASSIFIED 6–16 -369.00 -220.26 -1.78 INTERNATIONAL 13–25 SPORTS 1–12 talent expression Dakar rally -2.27% -2.34% -5.71% Latest Figures published in QATAR since 1978 SUNDAY Vol. XXXVI No. 9970 January 17, 2016 Rabia II 7, 1437 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals First phase of Hamad City in Gaza opens IAEA green In brief light for SAUDI ARABIA | Blaze Fire at oil waste storage tank A fire that broke out yesterday at ending Iran an industrial oil waste storage tank in the Saudi industrial city of Jubail was brought under control without any disruption to operations, Saudi petrochemical company Kayan said. The company said in sanctions a statement that there were no casualties. Kayan, the fifth-largest The Vienna agreement was petrochemical manufacturer by nailed down after two years market value in Saudi Arabia, gave of rollercoaster negotiations no details on what caused the fire. following the June 2013 election of Saudi civil defence earlier reported Iranian President Hassan Rouhani the fire having been brought under control and published photos on its AFP Twitter account of fire trucks trying Posters depicting HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and HH the Father Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Vienna to control the flames. are seen on a building as people attend the opening ceremony of the first phase of Qatari-funded construction project “Hamad City” in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday. Qatar provided more than 1,000 apartments to residents of the Gaza SYRIA | Confl ict Strip whose homes were destroyed in the 2014 war with Israel. The 50-day conflict killed 2,200 Palestinians and left 100,000 he UN atomic watchdog yester- IS attack ‘kills homeless, according to the UN. “Today, we are inaugurating the first phase of the Hamad residential city (project),” Qatari day gave the green light for last envoy Mohamed al-Amadi told reporters. A total of 1,060 apartments were completed and the title deeds were being handed TJuly’s landmark nuclear deal be- IAEA director general Yukiya Amano 75 regime forces’ out to their new owners, he said. Qatar has allocated a total of $407mn for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, including tween Iran and six major powers to en- giving a statement in Vienna yesterday. At least 75 Syrian soldiers and homes, infrastructure and a hospital. He said the project was delayed for a year due to “restrictions on the entry of construction ter into force. pro-regime militiamen were killed material” imposed by Israel since 2006, which maintains a blockade on the Palestinian enclave. Addressing the event, Hamas The International Atomic Energy toppled the US-backed shah, and at a yesterday in a multi-front attack by leader Ismail Haniya said that a rehabilitation and prosthetic hospital would be opened soon as part of the Qatari project in Agency (IAEA) said its “inspectors on particularly explosive time in the Mid- the Islamic State (IS) group on the Gaza. He extended thanks to the government and people of Qatar for the projects being carried out in Gaza. Page 2 the ground verifi ed that Iran has car- dle East. eastern city of Deir Ezzor, a monitor ried out all measures required under The four Iranian-American detain- said. The fighting came as regime the (July deal)... to enable Implementa- ees to be freed by Iran included Wash- forces battled IS in the northern tion Day to occur”. ington Post correspondent Jason Reza- province of Aleppo, repelling The announcement means that a raft ian and Saeed Abedini, a pastor from an assault and killing at least 16 of painful US, EU and UN sanctions Idaho, a senior US offi cial said yester- fighters from the group. The Syrian against Iran can be lifted, allowing oil day. Observatory for Human Rights said Hamad hospital begins exports to resume and opening up the The others are Amir Hekmati and IS had advanced into the northern 80mn-strong country to business. Nosratollah Khosravi-Roodsari, Wash- tip of Deir Ezzor city, in eastern Iranian Foreign Minister Mohamed ington said. A fi fth American, identifi ed Syria, and captured the suburb of Javad Zarif said earlier as he arrived for as Matthew Trevitick, was also to be re- Al-Baghaliyeh. Page 12 a fi nal round of talks in Vienna with US leased as part of a diff erent process. emergency dept expansion Secretary of State John Kerry that it In exchange Washington said it had TAIWAN | Politics was a “good day for the world”. granted clemency to seven Iranians, Pro-independence By Joseph Varghese has also been brought under the de- It also follows news of a prisoner six of whom are dual US-Iranian citi- Staff Reporter partment’s area.” swap between Iran and the US in an- zens, and dropped charges against 14 candidate wins polls He said: “We expect the primary other sign of thawing relations be- more. The leader of Taiwan’s opposition health centres to treat minor emer- tween the two foes since the July 14 The agreement, heralded as US Presi- Democratic Progressive Party, Tsai s part of expanding the Emer- gency conditions, so that it will de- agreement. dent Barack Obama’s biggest major for- Ing-wen, promised to uphold her gency Department at the Ha- crease the pressure on HGH emergen- The steps taken by Iran, com- eign policy triumph, has by no means country’s sovereignty after winning Amad General Hospital (HGH), cy department. Satellite emergency bined with ultra-close IAEA inspec- been universally cheered, however. the island nation’s presidential work has already started on a new sta- departments have been opened at the tions, extend to at least a year - from Obama’s Republican opponents election yesterday. Pro-independence tion which is expected to be completed health centres. Similarly, the hospi- a few months previously - how long charge that it fails to do enough to en- candidate Tsai had been leading with in 2018, a senior offi cial has said. tals meant for the single workers that Iran would need to make one nuclear sure Iran will never get the bomb, a more than 50% of the vote ahead Speaking to Gulf Times on the side- will be opened in diff erent parts of the bomb’s worth of fi ssile material. complaint shared by Israel, Iran’s arch of Chu Li-lun of the ruling Chinese lines of the International Conference country, will also help to reduce the They include slashing by two-thirds foe widely assumed to have nuclear Nationalist Party (KMT). Tsai, a law in Emergency Medicine and Public burden on the emergency department its uranium centrifuges, reducing its weapons itself. professor, is set to become the first Health, Sheikh Dr Hassan bin Ali al- at the HGH.” stockpile of uranium - enough before Iran’s imminent return to the oil mar- female president of Taiwan when she Thani, head of the Trauma and Vas- Dr Hassan noted that HGH was the deal for several bombs - and re- ket has contributed to the sharp slide in replaces the KMT’s incumbent Ma cular Surgery Section, Hamad Medi- built to cater to the medical needs of moving the core of the Arak reactor the price of crude to 12-year lows of un- Ying-jeou on May 20. Page 16 cal Corporation (HMC), said the new a population of half a million. “Now which could have given Iran weapons- der $30 per barrel this week. station that is in the developmental the population is fi ve times higher. In grade plutonium. The deal has more than a decade to TURKEY | Weather stages will add more capacity and fa- terms of capacity, we are coping with Iran has always denied wanting nu- run, which is likely to be a bumpy road, cilities to existing ones. the situation. But we expect that the clear weapons, saying its activities are experts say, not least if more hardline High winds hit Dr Hassan explained: “It is a Sheikh Dr Hassan bin Ali al-Thani: says new facilities and the satellite centres exclusively for peaceful purposes such governments take power in Tehran or Istanbul fl ights three-storey building with more the emergency department at the will be able to take care of the mi- as power generation. Washington. Turkish Airlines yesterday cancelled space and resuscitation units. It will Hamad General Hospital is one of the nor cases and thereby streamline the In what was hailed as a momentous The two countries are still far from be- 95 flights because of strong winds take a few years to complete. We ex- busiest in the world. whole situation.” diplomatic breakthrough, the Vienna ing best friends, as witnessed by Iran’s at its hub in Istanbul, according pect that it would be operational by Dr Hassan maintained that the agreement was nailed down after two recent capture of 10 US sailors in Iranian to a statement on its website. 2018 but a lot depends on several a steady increase in the number of pa- HGH emergency department was an years of rollercoaster negotiations fol- waters, although their improved rela- Flights in and out of Istanbul’s factors and we cannot give an exact tients. It also included around 45,000 essential part of Qatar’s healthcare lowing the June 2013 election of Iranian tions did help ensure their swift release.