ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 3 Business | 17 Sport | 28 More than 30 Qatarisation key QSL champs percent of Qatari to sustaining Lekhwiya take population is prosperity, says on Al Sadd obese. Al Sada. today. TUESDAY 19 MAY 2015 • 1 Shaaban 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6435 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Sheikha Moza in Seoul Obama gets Arrested BBC own account on Twitter WASHINGTON: President reporter broke Barack Obama sent his first tweet from his very own account on Twitter yesterday, quickly amassing tens of thousands of followers in the latest of many law: Official White House efforts to amplify his message with social media. “Hello, Twitter! It’s Barack. Really! Six years in, they’re finally Crew took photos without approval giving me my own account,” Obama tweeted from his verified DOHA: A senior government custody because they had violated @POTUS account, which had official has said that the prob- Qatari laws, and for trespassing on more than 217,000 followers in lems a BBC reporter and his private property. its first 45 minutes. crew experienced here could The daily quoted human rights His Twitter page featured have been avoided if they had sources as saying that any foreign an image of Obama, his family chosen to join other journalists journalist or human rights organi- and civil rights leaders crossing on a press tour. sation or international rapporteur Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, The head of the Government was welcome in Qatar. Alabama, on the 50th anniversary Communications Office, Sheikh According to the daily, when of the Bloody Sunday march ear- Saif Al Thani, reacting to inter- German broadcast journalist lier this year. national media reports yesterday Florian Bauer was arrested by It’s not the first time Obama about the arrest of BBC reporter Qatari police late last March, the has tweeted. He has occasion- Mark Lobel and his crew mem- Supreme Committee for Delivery ally signed tweets from the @ bers earlier this month in Qatar, and Legacy, the supervisory panel WhiteHouse account with his accused Lobel of breaking Qatari for holding FIFA 2022 World Cup, H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser with students of Seoul Namsung Elementary School, a public school that initials, “-bo” and also has used laws and making “himself the had said that he didn’t have the emphasises ‘self-directed learning.’ AISHA AL MUSALLAM @BarackObama, which is an story”. necessary permission to take account run by Organising for Lobel, who is based in Dubai, photographs. Action, Obama’s former campaign was one of roughly a dozen inter- “All journalists entering Qatar team. national reporters and photog- should know this rule and must When his time in office is done, raphers who were invited by the not violate Qatari law,” the daily @POTUS will be passed on to Ministry of Labour and Social said. They must all have the neces- Blame game as Yemen truce ends future presidents. REUTERS Affairs to visit some worker sary permission before they take accommodation sites in Qatar photographs of places in Qatar. ADEN/RIYADH: Saudi-led according to Houthi media, which more than seven weeks, saying the earlier this month. The daily quoted an earlier forces resumed military opera- said Saudi forces had fired 70 rebels are backed by Shia Muslim Lobel and his crew members statement of the Minister of tions in Yemen after a five-day rockets and artillery shells into power Iran. were arrested because they were Labour and Social Affairs, H E Dr ceasefire ended late on Sunday, north Yemen. US Secretary of State John INSIDE taking photographs of places with- Abdullah bin Saleh Mubarak Al and Yemen’s exiled government Saudi-owned Al Arabiya tele- Kerry said Washington supported out permission. Khulaifi, that Qatar’s doors were in Riyadh and the Iranian-allied vision reported heavy shelling by extending the truce, but that Page 9 Al Sharq reported that Lobel open and it had nothing to hide. Houthis blamed each other for a Saudi forces at Houthi outposts manoeuvres by the Houthis made and his colleagues were taken into THE PENINSULA failure to renew the truce. across the border after the fight- that difficult. Gulf: Far away The ceasefire ended despite ers fired mortars at an army post “It was always understood that myths and nearby appeals by the United Nations in Saudi Arabia’s southern Najran if there were proactive moves by reassurances and rights groups for extra time province. one side or another, then that to allow badly needed humanitar- Earlier in the day, residents said would be in violation of the cease- By Dr Mohamed Al ian supplies into the country. that warplanes struck the Houthi- fire arrangement,” he said. Rumaihi Shia forces move in on Ramadi “That’s what we said before — held presidential palace in Yemen’s Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al BAGHDAD: Thousands of Shia militiamen yesterday prepared that if they start again, we will southern port of Aden as well as Jubeir expressed “regret that the Sect or tribe to fight Islamic State insurgents who seized the Iraqi provincial start again,” Yemeni Foreign groups of militiamen on the west- truce did not achieve its humani- shouldn’t matter for capital Ramadi at the weekend in the biggest defeat for government Minister Reyad Yassin Abdulla ern and eastern approaches to the tarian goals” and held the Houthis forces in nearly a year. said. city and the international airport responsible. states A column of 3,000 Shia militia fighters assembled at a military base He said the coalition was not where Houthis and local fighters The Houthis said Saudi forces By Dr Faisal Al near Ramadi, preparing to take on Islamic State militants advancing considering any new ceasefire but have been fighting. had conducted air strikes and Qassem in armoured vehicles from the captured city northwest of Baghdad, would not target air and sea ports Saudi Arabia and its Sunni artillery attacks across the bor- witnesses and a military officer said. needed for aid shipments. Muslim allies have been con- der throughout the truce, which The Storm blew away Washington played down the significance of the loss of Ramadi, the Saudi-led forces conducted ducting an offensive against the was denied by Brigadier General the Gulf cop’s uniform capital of the vast western Anbar province. three air strikes on Yemen’s north- Houthis and units loyal to former Ahmed Asseri, the coalition REUTERS ern Saada province yesterday, president Ali Abdullah Saleh for spokesman. REUTERS By Dr Abdulhadi Al Ajmi Reticulated Pakistan firm in New law to speed up giraffe gives fake degree scam birth at zoo ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani clearance at ports company that has pledged to DOHA: A reticulated giraffe build a media empire was fac- DOHA: A law on the anvil seeks losses, so the time frame for auc- (Giraffa camelopardalis reticu- ing tough criticism yesterday to drastically reduce the time tioning goods should ideally be two lata) at the Doha Zoo has after the New York Times said it period after which goods lying months, not one,” the Council said given birth to a baby, the was earning tens of millions of unclaimed or uncared for at the in its recommendations referred Ministry of Municipality and dollars by selling fake degrees ports are auctioned. to the Cabinet. Urban Planning has said. around the world. Operating out The current time period is six The rule would apply to both, The ministry has posted a of the city of Karachi with 2,000 months, and according to amend- goods that are imported and lying picture of the mother and the employes, the company Axact ments being made to the existing unclaimed in the precincts of the calf on its website along with ran a fake education empire that law, the duration will most likely ports or goods that are meant news about the birth. involved paid actors promoting be reduced to two months. for export/re-export but are not The reticulated giraffe is a fictitious universities and even In fact, a draft law that car- shipped within the specified time. subspecies most commonly seen fake State Department authen- ries the amendments sough to Precincts here mean ware- in zoos. Its coat consists of large, tication certifications bearing curtail the above duration to one houses or other storage facilities polygonal, liver-coloured spots the signature of John Kerry. month but the Advisory Council of the ports, or open areas where outlined by a network of bright- See also page 13 recommended that the period be containers are kept. white lines. Once pregnant, a extended to two. The draft legislation also sug- female giraffe has a gestation EU naval mission The present law (Number 29) gests that perishable goods that period of about 15 months and was passed 49 years ago, in 1966, so lie unclaimed or unshipped at the usually has one baby at a time, it needed to be amended to keep in ports for long periods and can but can have up to eight in her to fight traffickers step with the latest developments. become stale or can damage other lifetime. BRUSSELS: EU nations The Advisory Council, at its goods at the ports can also be auc- When born, baby giraffes approved plans yesterday for an routine weekly meeting yesterday, tioned after thorough inspections. fall seven feet to the ground, unprecedented naval mission discussed the draft legislation and The draft amends several other since mother giraffes give birth starting next month to fight approved it. articles of the existing law and standing up.