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SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 15, 2018 MUHARRAM 5, 1440 VOL.11 NO. 4393 QR 2 FINE Fajr: 4:02 am Dhuhr: 11:31 am HIGH : 39°C Asr: 2:58 pm Maghrib: 5:40 pm LOW : 32°C Isha: 7:10 pm Gulf / Middle East 7 Business 10 Sports 13 Palestinian mission ceases Perry encourages OPEC, Russia Sjostrom, Pieroni sink records; operations in Washington to work against oil price spike Hosszu claims two more golds QNA hacking to be added to the case against UAE at ICJ: A-G Qatar will spare no effort to defend itself: Marri QNA NEW YORK THE Qatar News Agency Qatar, Spain share deep ties: FM (QNA) website hacking case will be added to the case filed MADRID Deputy Prime Minister highlighted Qatar’s regional The FM briefed the officials strengthening cultural, eco- against the United Arab Emir- and Minister of Foreign Affairs and international efforts to on the efforts of the Arab nomic and political relations ates (UAE) before the Interna- HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Ab- establish global peace. House in Spain to enhance with the countries of the tional Court of Justice (ICJ) in dulrahman al Thani underlined A group of officials, aca- communication between Spain Arab world. The FM also higli- The Hague after evidence une- the depth of the Qatari-Spanish demics and representatives of and the Arab world. ghted Qatar’s efforts to protect quivocally proved the involve- relations during a round table companies interested in the Sheikh Mohammed gave a human rights and preparations ment of the UAE and Saudi discussion at the Arab House Middle East took part in the briefing on his visit to Spain, for hosting the 2022 FIFA Arabia in the crime, Attorney- in Spain on Friday. The FM also discussion. stressing the importance of World Cup. (QNA) General HE Dr Ali bin Fetais al Marri has said. In press statements in New York on Friday, the Attorney- General said largest law firms Quick read in New York were contacted, which in turn contracted with Attorney-General HE Dr Ali bin Fetais al Marri addresses a press Ivory Coast Israeli troops kill three leading international compa- conference in New York on Friday. nies specialising in computer president to science and IT, which proved expertise in law firms were ap- part, which is a political one arrive today Palestinians in Gaza conclusively the involvement proached, which in turn con- is for politicians. We will con- of the siege countries — Saudi tracted with the largest compa- tinue to focus on the legal DOHA President of Ivory Coast Arabia and the UAE — in the nies specialising in computer aspect on the existence of evi- Alassane Ouattara will arrive in REUTERS hacking of the QNA’s website. science, and obtained solid evi- dence and how to deal with Doha on Saturday on an official GAZA He said the next step is to dence confirming Qatar’s past them in a way that serves our visit to the country. The Amir transfer the file of the QNA findings of the involvement of case which were the QNA’s HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Israeli soldiers on Friday killed three Pales- website hacking case with evi- the UAE and Saudi Arabia in website hacking and the lists Thani will meet the President of tinians, one of them a 12-year-old boy, and dence and add it to the case the hacking,” he added. of terrorism.” Ivory Coast at the Amiri Diwan wounded more than 250 others taking part in against the UAE at the ICJ. The Attorney-General The Attorney-General said, on Monday. They will hold talks the weekly protests at the fortified Gaza Strip Marri stressed that the stressed that Qatar will spare “The large law firm in New on bilateral relations and ways border, Palestinian medical officials said. siege countries’ involvement no effort to take necessary le- York, which was contracted to enhance them. (QNA) The Israeli military said it used force neces- in the QNA website hacking, gal steps to defend itself in all by Qatar, includes prominent sary to repel 13,000 Palestinians who massed at specifically Saudi Arabia and international legal forums. names globally, who would several points at the fence. the UAE, had been detected In response to a question not risk their credibility if they Super typhoon Friday’s dead brought to 177 the number of since the first week of the about the possibility of a set- did not have strong evidence Palestinians killed since the demonstrations hacking by the Department of tlement before new cases are on the involvement of Saudi blasts into were launched on March 30 to press demands Electronic Crimes at the Min- raised by Qatar, Marri said, Arabia and the UAE in the Philippines against Israel. The 12-year-old, Shadi Abdel- Israeli forces fire tear gas canisters at Palestinians istry of the Interior of Qatar. “We as a legal team are con- QNA website hacking.” Al, is the youngest fatality from Israeli gunfire. during a demonstration along the Israeli fence, “Since Qatar is the victim cerned about the legal aspect TUGUEGARAO Super Typhoon (REUTERS) PAGE 7 east of Gaza City, on Friday. (AFP) in this case, largest specialised of this case. As for the other Continued on page 2 Ô Mangkhut slammed into the northern Philippines on Friday with violent winds and torren- tial rains as authorities warned millions in its path of heavy destruction. The massive DEATHS AND DESTRUCTION AS Manafort to cooperate storm, which forecasters have called the strongest typhoon in Russia probe this year, made landfall on the GIANT HURRICANE POUNDS US island of Luzon with gusts of US President Donald Trump’s former up to 255 km per hour. “The At least four people were killed as Hurricane Florence mauls the US campaign chairman Paul Manafort eye of the typhoon has made East Coast on Friday, knocking out power to 600,000 homes and agreed on Friday to cooperate landfall... as of 1:40am,” said causing buildings to crumble. A mother and child were killed when in the Russia collusion Gener Quitlong, a forecaster. Ahead of the storm’s arrival a tree fell on their house in Wilmington, North Carolina. Evacuation investigation in a plea deal that the weather service raised a warnings are in place for 1.7 million people. The third fatality was a left the White House looking “signal four” alert, the second- Pender County, North Carolina, woman who had a medical condition. increasingly under siege highest storm warning, for In Lenoir County, a person was killed while plugging in a generator, by Special Counsel Robert six provinces in Luzon’s north. PAGE 3 according to the governor’s office. PAGE 9 Mueller. (AFP) PAGE 9 World must revise stance on Saudi to end GCC crisis: Analysts TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK Europe and the international com- as it has unfolded. LSE Middle East Centre. LONDON munity must change [their] posi- The diplomatic crisis began in “I can’t see that any repair can tion. [They are] morally obliged to, June 2017, when Saudi Arabia, the be done, not even a shared enemy THE international community and I would argue, legally obliged UAE, Bahrain and Egypt severed would bring them together.” must revise its stance towards Sau- to,” said Carl Buckley, a barrister diplomatic relations with Qatar. Law suggested that a lack of di Arabia to end the current Gulf and Chambers Director at Guernica Bill Law, a journalist who has perspective from Gulf leaders was a crisis, experts of international law 37 International Justice Chambers. reported from the Middle East for major factor in the continuation of and Middle East politics told a con- “Saudi Arabia is emboldened to the BBC, reflected on the way the the crisis. ference in London on Thursday. continue to act as it sees fit, because current crisis has changed the dy- Calling for a more measured According to a report in Al silence is seen as tacit approval,” namics of the Gulf. approach, he said: “Sane and sen- Jazeera, the panelists agreed that Buckley said at the event, which was “The GCC has been ruptured sible heads should get together unless world leaders take stronger hosted by Diwan London and titled permanently.” and solve this pointless dispute. It action, the probability of the Gulf The Arab Gulf States in Transition: At the London conference, ana- seems that those are in short sup- crisis ending soon is low, and con- The Present Predicament and Fu- lysts warned that should the crisis ply, and so this crisis will go on stitutes a threat to the wider region. ture Prospects. continue, negative consequences and on and on.” “We are seeing a deepening and Fifteen months after the advent may be difficult to reverse. “Qataris have seen off the block- widening of the crisis. I don’t see of the latest Gulf crisis, the GCC has “There is a fragmentation of the ade, the economy is buzzing. It is it changing any time soon unless been unable to resolve the dispute, concept of the Gulf,” said Madawi al hard to see Qatar as the loser here,” other states change their position. which has grown increasingly bitter Rasheed, a visiting professor at the said Law. 02 Saturday, September 15, 2018 Contact US: Qatar Tribune I EDITORIAL I Phone: 40002222 I ADMINISTRATION & MARKETING I Phone: 40002155, 40002122, Fax: 40002235 P.O. Box: 23493, Doha. Qatar and Spain to establish ‘institutional framework for achieving common goals’ QNA host countries. MADRID The FM also attended a debate session at the Spanish THE State of Qatar and the Elcano Royal Institute, dur- Kingdom of Spain have agreed ing his official visit to Spain.

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