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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Microsoft to cut Kristoff too 18,000 jobs as strong for it chops Nokia Sagan on Tour Business | 13 Sport | 18 Friday 18 July 2014 • 20 Ramadan 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6130 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Bones and 295 die as Malaysia plane shot down HRABOVE, UKRAINE: A Malaysian airliner was brought down in eastern Ukraine yesterday, killing all 295 people aboard and raising the stakes in a conflict Joints Centre between Kiev and pro-Moscow rebels that has set Russia and the West at daggers drawn. As the US said the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was closed down “blown out of the sky”, probably by a ground- launched missile, Ukraine and Russia traded accusations of blame, cranking up global pres- Many staff hurt as fire breaks out sure for a way out of a bloody local conflict that risks fuelling a new Cold War. DOHA: Hamad Medical maintenance work going on. Ukraine accused pro-Moscow militants, Corporation’s (HMC) Bones There are plans to shift the centre aided by Russian military intelligence offic- and Joints Centre, also known to new premises, said the daily. ers, of firing a long-range, Soviet-era SA-11 as Orthopaedics Centre, in Old Al Sharq, quoting some employ- ground-to-air missile. Salata in Doha has been closed ees, said due to neglect, fires were Leaders of the rebel Donetsk People’s down until further notice after not uncommon at the premises. Republic denied involvement and said a a fire erupted in its parking lot It said as soon as fire broke out Ukrainian air force jet had brought down the yesterday morning. the alarm bell rang. A security intercontinental flight. But separatists have Several staff suffered minor guard tried to use a fire extin- said they took control of such a missile system The burning wreckage of the Malaysian airliner near the town of Shaktarsk, in rebel-held east Ukraine. injuries and were rushed to guisher by breaking a window last month and had used it to shoot down a the emergency unit of Hamad pane and sustained injuries. Ukrainian military transport plane that was The United Nations Security Council capital of Donetsk. More than half of the General Hospital (HGH), an There were a lot of people at the destroyed on Monday. plans an emergency meeting on Ukraine dead, 154 people, were Dutch. Another 27 HMC press statement said. The centre when the fire broke out. The scale of the disaster, which left scores of today, diplomats said. UN Secretary-General were Australian and 23 Malaysian. HMC’s Outpatient Department’s They were evacuated but some unsuspecting foreigners, adults and children, Ban Ki-moon urged a full international The Ukrainian government, condemning an Annex for bones and joints was employees suffered minor injuries, strewn lifeless across the muddy Ukrainian investigation. act of “terrorism”, released recordings it said earlier known as the health cen- HMC’s press statement said, add- steppe, could prove a turning point for inter- Journalists saw burning and charred were of Russian intelligence officers discuss- tre for school students. ing “we will inform the public as national pressure to resolve the crisis. It has wreckage bearing the red and blue Malaysia ing the shooting down of a civilian airliner HMC said it was a small fire soon as normal operations of the killed hundreds since protests toppled the insignia and dozens of bodies strewn in fields by rebels who may have mistaken it for a and was quickly contained by centre can be resumed”. Moscow-backed president in Kiev in February near the village of Hrabove, 40km from the Ukrainian military plane. AGENCIES firefighters, but according to Al The cause of the fire is being and Russia annexed the Crimea a month later. Russian border near the rebel-held regional See also page 9 Sharq, it was a major blaze and it investigated, it said. Some cars was not the first time such a fire parked near the site were also had erupted there. damaged by the fire. The building that houses the Another picture on page 3 centre is old and most of the THE PENINSULA Israel begins ground offensive in Gaza; toll 235 JERUSALEM/GAZA: Israel move into densely populated Gaza along the eastern border from foolish act,” Abu Zuhri said. announced the start of a Gaza City, where urban warfare could the southern town of Rafah to Gaza health officials said 235 ground campaign yesterday prove costly to both sides. the north of the Strip. But there Palestinians, mostly civilians, had after 10 days of aerial and naval Israel last mounted a large- was no immediate sign that tanks, been killed since Israel began the bombardments failed to stop scale invasion of the Gaza Strip deployed for days near the border, air and sea offensive on July 8 Palestinian rocket attacks, but during a three-week war in late were moving in. in what it called a response to it signalled the invasion would 2008 and early 2009 that claimed Explosions echoed and flashes mounting rocket salvoes into be limited in scope. 1,400 Palestinian and 13 Israeli of orange lit the sky in the east- its cities. A statement from the A statement from Prime lives. ern Strip as Israeli gunboats fired Israeli military said the operation Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s No time frame was announced shells and tracer bullets. Israeli will include “infantry, armoured office said he had given orders to for the new operation, and the artillery pounded the area and corps, engineer corps, artillery destroy tunnels militants had dug length and intensity of assaults helicopters fired across the bor- and intelligence combined with to infiltrate Israel and carry out could depend on the scale of civil- der, witnesses said. aerial and naval support”. It said attacks. ian deaths, casualties likely to Hamas spokesman Sami Abu another 18,000 reserve soldiers An Israeli military spokesman boost international pressure for Zuhri responded with defiance would be mobilised to join more said Israel was not out to try to a ceasefire. to Israel’s invasion announce- than 30,000 already called up. Smoke coming out of the centre. topple the Hamas Islamist group. Gaza residents and medical ment. “We warn Netanyahu of the REUTERS time one can see repair and Such a goal would likely entail a officials reported heavy shelling dreadful consequences of such a See also page 5 Aleppo attacked Gold producer Mali Ministry slammed over erring outlets grants four permits DOHA: The Ministry of Economy and Commerce has come in for severe public criticism for its failure to name and shame on its web- to Qatar Mining site five outlets recently found violating health and safety rules. The law authorises the Consumer Protection Department to post the DOHA: Mali has awarded names of erring outlets on its website but the CPD has not done, four mining permits to Qatar local Arabic daily Al Raya said. People are critical of its failure to Mining, the mines minister name the outlets and provide details of violations. The CPD said on said, as the West African coun- Wednesday that a shop selling cakes and ice cream in Al Wakra, two try seeks to boost exploration to supermarkets in Umm Salal and two beauty parlours in Al Shamal offset ageing mines. were temporarily shut for selling and using expired items. The CPD “Qatar Mining has opened its recently said it is naming and shaming erring outlets, the daily said. Mali entity. We will be granting them four mining concessions — Drunken, unruly QA passenger fined greenfield projects — they will develop in the next few years,” DOHA: A criminal court here has fined a New Zealander QR3,000 Boubou Cisse said. ($824) for drinking and disturbing the peace of co-passengers while The deal follows a meet- flying to Doha from Bangkok by Qatar Airways. A local Arabic daily ing between President Ibrahim yesterday said the man was tried in absentia and fined. The convict Boubacar Keita and a Qatari skipped the court despite having been summoned. It seems the man investment team last month. was caught drinking and disturbing passengers and had confessed to “This company (Qatar Mining the crime during interrogation by Public Prosecution. Mali Greenfield) will represent THE PENINSULA Qatar’s interests in Mali and the Syrian residents and rescue workers search the rubble for survivors following an air strike by government region as they say they would like forces in the northern city of Aleppo yesterday. See also page 8 to make Mali their base for West Africa,” Lassana Guindo, a ministry official, said. A document outlining Qatar 52 endangered reptiles seized at airport Mining’s investments shows the permits cover four zones — DOHA: Customs officials at had been handed over to authorities. the ministry and immediately get Tabako, Mininko Nord, Netekoto Hamad International Airport The reptiles were being carried in touch with them the moment we and Linguekoto in the west and have caught a passenger carrying in half-a-dozen bags, he said. The come across any such cases,” said south. REUTERS 52 reptiles, including snakes, in passenger had made all efforts to Al Kabi. bags made of cloth. ensure the reptiles were hidden According to him, the ministry Ramadan Timing The endangered species were from authorities. had not cleared the import of the being smuggled into the country, Al Kabi said the Ministry of reptiles. Todays Iftar: Arabic daily Al Sharq reported Environment was informed immedi- The Convention on International 06:28pm yesterday.

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