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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 2 Business | 14 Sport | 21 300,000 travel Banks reopen, Zach Johnson through HIA, Abu taxes rise as wins British Samra during Eid Greece pays to Open in thrilling holidays. creditors. play-off. TUESDAY 21 JULY 2015 • 5 Shawwal 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6498 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 UAE outlaws Gold rush as racial, religious discrimination DUBAI: The UAE has outlawed religious or racial discrimina- prices plunge tion, the state news agency WAM said yesterday, citing a decree by President H H Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The law aims in part to coun- to 5-year low ter Islamist militancy, particu- larly the practice known as takfir, whereby hardline Muslims label followers of other schools of Islam Demand for jewellery on the rise unbelievers, but it also outlaws insults against religions. BY SACHIN KUMAR back to jewellery shops,” said “The Law No. 02 of 2015 crimi- Biju Ramachandran, Regional nalises any acts that stoke reli- DOHA: Gold prices in Qatar Manager, Atlas, a gold jewellery gious hatred and/or which insult yesterday fell to five-year low, chain with three retail outlets in religion through any form of triggering huge rush by cus- Qatar and 60 in the Middle East expression, be it speech or writ- tomers for the yellow metal. and India. ten word, books, pamphlets or via Prices of one gramme of “Demand for gold is highly online media,” WAM said. 24-carat gold plunged to QR137, price-sensitive in Qatar. Offenders risk up to 10 years down 35 percent compared with Whenever prices fall, demand in prison or the death penalty if the peak days in October 2011 for jewellery goes up sharply. convicted of “takfirism” or Sunni when prices were around QR210. Similarly, demand goes down People try to help the injured after an explosion at a cultural centre in Suruc, Sanliurfa province, Turkey, yesterday. extremism, according to the text For the past one month when prices rise,” he added. of the decree distributed by WAM. 24-carat gold had been trading at After touching peak in the sec- It has declared Muslim QR143-QR145 and yesterday one ond half of 2011, prices of 24-carat Brotherhood a terrorist organi- gramme was trading at QR128 in gold in Qatar showed some sign Suicide bomb kills 31 in Turkey sation — the Brotherhood denies the local market. of moderation and oscillated any involvement in militant vio- “There is a huge rush for gold between QR180 and QR200 until ANKARA: A suspected TV footage showed several peo- toys for children and paint school lence — and taken part in US-led because of falling prices. We have September 2012. But prices rose Islamic State (IS) suicide ple lying on the ground covered walls.” Davutoglu said the blast air strikes on Islamic State insur- not seen 24-carat gold trading at to QR210 in October 2012, then bomber killed at least 31 peo- in blood and ambulances rush- aimed to undermine Turkish gents in Syria. The UAE is con- this level (QR137) in the past started declining and the trend ple yesterday in an attack on a ing to the scene. Prime Minister democracy. “This attack targets cerned about efforts by Sunni five years,” Joseph M P, Sales continues. Last year, prices were Turkish cultural centre where Ahmet Davutoglu pointed the us all,” he said, dispatching three jihadists to stoke sectarian ten- Manager, Sky Jewellery, told The around QR160-QR150. activists had gathered to pre- finger of blame at IS for what ministers to the southeastern sions in the Gulf with recent Peninsula. “The decline in gold prices pare for an aid mission in the was “clearly a terrorist attack”. region. “Daesh threatens not only blasts at Shia mosques in Saudi “Most customers are expatri- provides good opportunity for nearby Syrian town of Kobane. “Preliminary findings point to Syrian people but also Turkey,” Arabia and Kuwait. ates, with Indian and Egyptian customers like me. I am buying The blast ripped through the it being a suicide attack carried he added. buyers dominating the scene. gold jewellery for my daughter. centre in Suruc, a town across out by Daesh,” he said, using the The attack was followed by a Oil prices dip Demand is high for jewellery,” he It is better to buy jewellery now the border from Kobane, which Arabic acronym for IS. “But we suicide car bombing at a check- added. because I know gold prices will was later hit by a suicide car are not at a point to make a final point in Kobane, which killed two below $50 Gold prices in Qatar are falling, move up in the coming years. bombing — blowing out the win- judgement.” members of the Kurdish secu- taking cues from international “For me, gold is a long-term dows and starting a fire, wit- If confirmed, it would be the rity forces, according to Rami NEW YORK: Oil futures fell market. Yesterday, an ounce of investment,” said an expatriate nesses said. first such attack by IS fighters Abdel Rahman, Director, Syrian yesterday and US crude slipped gold in international market woman waiting for her turn to Most of the dead were univer- against Turkey, a regional mili- Observatory for Human Rights. below $50 a barrel intraday as plunged to $1,080 — the lowest buy jewellery at Malabar Gold sity students planning to enter tary power and Nato member. White House spokesman Josh ample supply, the prospect of level since February 2010. and Diamond showroom at Lulu Syria to help rebuild Kobane, Alp Altinors from the pro- Earnest condemned the “hei- more Iranian crude for export “A few days after Ramadan Hypermarket on D-Ring Road. occupied by IS for months before Kurdish HDP party said the nous” attack, as did Russian and a strengthening dollar com- and Eid Al Fitr are usually dull The recent price fall is driven being recaptured by Kurdish group of some 300 activists President Vladimir Putin, who bined to pressure prices. in terms of gold buying because largely by the strengthening of forces in January. Some 100 were who gathered in Suruc from labelled it a “barbaric act” and US refined-products futures customers buy most of it during the US dollar on the expectation wounded. across the country were from called for greater international also oscillated. An increasing the holy month. of interest rate hike by US central President Recep Tayyip Federation of Socialist Youth cooperation in fighting terrorism. supply of refined products, espe- “The recent fall in gold bank in the coming months. Erdogan, on a visit to northern Associations and most were stu- French Foreign Minister cially diesel fuel offered by Saudi prices has changed the trend THE PENINSULA Cyprus, condemned the attack as dents. “They were planning to Laurent Fabius joined in the con- Arabia, helped push US ultra-low and again brought customers Continued on page 3 an “act of terror”. build parks in Kobane, hand out demnation. AGENCIES diesel futures. AGENCIES Libya planes Power outage forces 60 sink ship UN, EU endorse families to live outdoors near Benghazi Iran nuclear deal BENGHAZI: Libyan war DOHA: Over 100 members of planes sank one ship and UNITED NATIONS: The nearly 60 Asian families have attacked a second yester- UN Security Council yesterday Signals from Iran been forced to live outdoor day near the eastern city of unanimously adopted a resolu- since Sunday night following Benghazi, military spokesmen tion, endorsing the deal on Iran’s contradictory: GCC power disruption at their resi- for the country’s internation- nuclear programme and cleared RIYADH: The six-nation Gulf dential complex. ally recognised government said a path to lift sanctions crippling Cooperation Council (GCC) The hapless lot includes around yesterday. its economy. protested at what it termed 50 children and 30 women. There was no independent It marks formal UN approval of “contradictory” signals from The complex at Fareej Abdul confirmation of the strike near the agreement reached between Iran since its nuclear accord. Azees, near Jaida Flyover, expe- the town of Mareesa, the latest Tehran and the permanent mem- GCC chief Dr Abdullatif Al rienced an outage around 8pm. attack on ships in Libya where bers of the council, plus Germany. Zayani said Iranian President Initially, some residents tried two governments and parliaments The passing of the resolution Hassan Rowhani was offer- to fix the snag by themselves. are fighting for control after the sets in motion a gradual process — ing to turn a “new page” with When they failed, they informed toppling of Muammar Gaddafi. conditional on Iran abiding by the Arab neighbours while Supreme customer care centre at Qatar “The vessel was sunk because it deal — that can terminate seven Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei General Electricity and Water had loaded fighters, weapons and UN resolutions imposing sanc- had pledged to keep up support Authority (Kahramaa). ammunition to support terrorism tions on Iran since 2006. for Shia opposition groups. Such Kahramaa staff arrived and in the eastern region,” Air Force The European Union also messages sent out “contradictory” said residents were not supposed spokesman Nasser Al Hassi said. approved the deal, a first step signals,” Al Zayani said in a state- to repair any faulty power sys- Mohamed El Hejazi, spokes- towards lifting Europe’s economic ment, adding Khamenei’s com- tems. The staff refused to attend Some tenants gather outdoor in the residential complex to beat the heat. man for Khalifa Haftar, top army sanctions against Tehran the bloc ments amounted to “unacceptable to the fault unless landlords commander of the internationally hopes will send a signal that the interference” in the affairs of talked directly to Kahramaa, and relatives last night.