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BUSINESS | Page 1 SPORT | Page 1 N-KOM safely Hopeful completes Messi keen repair of to end 200th LNG Argentina vessel ‘Al Khor’ title drought published in QATAR since 1978 WEDNESDAY Vol. XXXX No. 11212 June 12, 2019 Shawwal 9, 1440 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals In brief FM meets Omani minister Sudan protesters to end UN | Approval Kuwait resolution to protect civilians The United Nations Security Council strike, resume talks with has unanimously approved a draft resolution put forward by Kuwait to protect civilians in the midst of armed conflicts. Kuwait sees the generals: mediator resolution, which is the first UN decision on the matter of missing persons in war, as a comprehensive AFP bers for a new ruling body – the key hard by a nationwide internet blackout framework on how to deal with the Khartoum point of dispute between the two sides. on Monday. tragedy of people missing as armed Public buses were operating in some “We are not doing any international conflicts break out. The resolution parts of Khartoum and some neigh- fl ight bookings. I hope it does not con- explicitly states that all parties HE the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Aff airs Sheikh Mohamed bin rotest leaders have agreed to end bourhood vegetable markets were tinue like this.” involved in armed conflicts have the Abdulrahman al-Thani met in Doha yesterday with Oman’s Minister Responsible their civil disobedience campaign open. In the northern district of Bahari, a primary responsibility to safeguard for Foreign Aff airs, Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah. During the meeting, they reviewed Plaunched after a crackdown on But the capital’s main business and hotbed of unrest where protesters had civilians, urging them to allow the bilateral relations and means of supporting and developing them, besides issues of demonstrators and resume talks with commercial districts were shut with put roadblocks in the past few weeks, safe and unimpeded access of joint interest. Sudan’s ruling generals, an Ethiopian some companies extending to the end most shops were closed but there were humanitarian aid. mediator said yesterday. of the week the Eid al-Fitr holidays no barricades to be seen. “The Alliance for Freedom and marking the end of Ramadan. Demonstrators declared their na- INDIA | Weather Change agreed to end the civil disobe- The paramilitary Rapid Support tionwide shutdown a success. dience (campaign) from today,” Mah- Forces accused of having played the “This shows clearly what we can do, 300,000 to be evacuated moud Drir, who has been mediating lead role in the June 3 crackdown pa- and also in a peaceful way,” said Ishraga as cyclone nears Gujarat since a visit by Ethiopian Prime Minis- trolled districts in their trademark Mohamed. Almost 300,000 people are set to Autism prevalence ter Abiy Ahmed last week, told report- pickup trucks fi tted with heavy ma- “Such a campaign does not lead to be evacuated in the western Indian ers. chine guns. killing people and at the same time puts state of Gujarat out of the path of “Both sides have also agreed to “We are now getting used to live with pressure on the military council. We a severe cyclonic storm due in two resume talks soon” on a handover of guns as we are seeing so many of these will continue with it until our goal is days, authorities said yesterday. rates higher in power to a civilian administration, he men walking into restaurants with their achieved.” “The weather department’s latest said. weapons,” one resident said as a group Protest leaders vowed to name a new bulletin forecasts that cyclone The protest movement itself said in a of RSF members entered an eatery. ruling body to replace the generals. Vayu will make landfall early in the statement that it was calling on people Fewer people were on the streets “The Alliance for Freedom and morning on June 13,” senior state Qatar: QBRI study “to resume work from Wednesday”. than usual. Change (AFC) will reveal its sovereign off icial JN Singh told reporters. “The TMC (Transitional Military “In the last three days, we have lost council and a prime minister in an an- Page 13 Council” as a goodwill gesture has a lot of money,” said Ibrahim Omar, an nouncement to be made at a suitable two-phase study on the preva- Dr al-Shaban said: “The study is the agreed to release all political detain- employee at one of many tour fi rms hit time,” the Sudanese Professionals As- WORLD | Climate lence of Autism Spectrum Dis- fi rst of its kind that set about to deter- ees,” Drir added, without giving details. sociation, a key member of the um- A order (ASD) in the country by mine the prevalence of autism in Qatar Protest leaders launched a nation- brella protest movement, said late on Emissions rose by Qatar Biomedical Research Institute and the region. It is our hope that the wide civil disobedience campaign from Monday. 2% last year: study (QBRI), part of Hamad Bin Khalifa outcomes will be used to inform future Sunday after a June 3 crackdown on a The crackdown by the military came Global carbon emissions grew by 2% University, has revealed that 1.14% or studies on autism. weeks-long sit-in had left dozens of after negotiations between protest last year, the highest rate since 2010- one in 87 children suff er from ASD. “Phase 1 of the study involved the people dead. leaders and the generals collapsed late 2011, a closely-watched review by The six-year study was the fi rst of screening of 9,074 primary school Thousands of protesters had camped last month over who should lead the energy giant BP said Tuesday, calling its kind in Qatar and the Gulf region, students aged 5 to 12 years from 93 for weeks outside the army headquar- new governing body – a civilian or a the trend “unsustainable”. “There is a it was announced yesterday. From the public and private schools by using ters in Khartoum demanding that the soldier. growing mismatch between societal results, and based on the 2016 census, the Social Communication Question- ruling generals step down and hand The AFC said the campaign of civil demands for action on climate the study estimates that about 4,791 naire screening tool after translation power to a civilian administration - the disobedience “clearly shows that the change and the actual pace of individuals in Qatar between the ages and validation to the Arabic language. key demand of demonstrators. Sudanese people are rejecting the mili- progress, with energy demand and of one and 20 have ASD with one in Phase 2 extended the study to include The generals seized power after the tary council and its militias and they carbon emissions growing at their 56 boys and one in 230 girls being af- hospitals and special needs centres army ousted longtime ruler Omar al- have lost their legitimacy”. fastest rate for years,” said BP chief fected. off ering services to individuals with Bashir on April 11 following months of Since toppling longtime president executive Bob Dudley. “The world is The results of the study were re- ASD, such as Rumailah Hospital and nationwide protests against his iron- Omar al-Bashir on April 11, the gener- on an unsustainable path,” he said. cently published in the Journal of Al Shafallah Centre for Persons with fi sted rule of three decades. als have resisted demonstrators’ de- Child Psychology and Psychiatry, the Disabilities, the two primary govern- Doctors close to the protest move- mands, backed by Western and most EUROPE | Media offi cial journal of the UK-based Asso- ment centres engaged in the study. ment say at least 118 people have been African governments, to make way for ciation for Child and Adolescent Men- Both phases refl ect similar prevalence killed since the June 3 crackdown. a civilian-led transition. Russian reporter walks tal Health. rates of approximately 1.146%.” The health ministry acknowledges The US assistant secretary of state free as charges dropped The study was carried out by QBRI’s “Although the consanguinity rate is that 61 people were killed on June 3 for African aff airs, Tibor Nagy, plans A Russian investigative journalist Neurological Disorders Research Cen- around 52% across the GCC and Mid- across Sudan, including 49 by “live Sudanese rebel chief and leader of the to meet both the generals and protest walked free late yesterday after tre (NDRC), which focuses on inves- dle East, our fi ndings don’t show a ammunition” in the capital. Sudan People’s Liberation Movement leaders in Khartoum, the State Depart- authorities in Moscow dropped tigating the increasing prevalence of signifi cant correlation between con- The protest strike kept most busi- - North (SPLM-N), Yasir Arman speaks ment said. He is to leave on the trip to- drug charges against him in a rare neurological disorders in Qatar and sanguinity and the prevalence rate of nesses shut and residents hunkered to the media after his deportation day and also visit Addis Ababa to dis- climbdown by law enforcement the region. ASD in Qatar; which is supported by indoors in the Sudanese capital on the from Khartoum, Sudan to South Sudan cuss the Sudan crisis with Ethiopian following a public outcry. Ivan Dr Fouad al-Shaban, a senior sci- the fact that ASD is a multi-genetic third day as a top US diplomat prepared yesterday, in Juba. Arman, who had leaders and the African Union. Golunov, a reporter with independent entist at NDRC, spearheaded the re- disorder with no direct causal link to a visit to press the ruling generals to arrived in Khartoum late last month to The United States has led calls for a media outlet Meduza, walked out of search, to estimate the prevalence of consanguinity.

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