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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 3 Business | 14 Sport | 21 Skateboarding Merkel wants Pakistan beat and BMXing more work on Zimbabwe as contest ends marathon Greek cricket comes today loan talks home. SATURDAY 23 MAY 2015 • 5 Shaaban Rajab 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6439 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 FM visits Somalia 73-year-old Suicide attack citizen tests positive kills 21 at for MERS DOHA: A 73-year-old Qatari citizen has tested positive Saudi mosque for the MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) virus, public health authorities announced yesterday. Islamic State claims targeting Shias Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) reference laboratories DUBAI: A suicide bomber killed important ally for Western coun- have confirmed that the man is 21 worshippers in a packed tries battling Islamic State. suffering from the respiratory Shia mosque in eastern Saudi In November, the Sunni group’s infection. Arabia yesterday, residents leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi This is the fourth case of and the health minister said, called for attacks against the MERS-CoV (coronavirus) to the first attack in the kingdom Sunni rulers of Saudi Arabia, be confirmed in the country to be claimed by Islamic State which has declared Islamic State this year, the Supreme Council militants. a terrorist organisation, joined of Health (SCH) said in a More than 150 people were international air strikes against statement. praying when the huge explosion it, and mobilised top clergy to The third case, which involved ripped through the Imam Ali denounce it. an expatriate camel farm worker, mosque in the village of Al Qadeeh, Last week Baghdadi issued was confirmed recently, taking witnesses said. another speech laden with derog- the total number of MERS cases A video posted online showed atory comments about the Saudi in Qatar to 14 so far. a hall filled with smoke and dust, leadership and the country’s Shia Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah met Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud in The last case in which a with bloodied people moaning in minority. Mogadishu yesterday. The two discussed relations between Qatar and Somalia and issues of common interest. Qatari national was involved pain as they lay on the floor lit- Yesterday’s bombing was the was reported in March. He was tered with concrete and glass. first attack targeting minority 69 years old. Eighty-one people were wounded, Shias since November, when gun- After the latest case was con- the Saudi health ministry said, men opened fire during a religious firmed, a rapid response team including 12 in critical condition. celebration in Al Ahsa, also in the from the Health Protection and “We were doing the first part east where most of the group live Iranian aid ship docks in Djibouti Communicable Diseases Control of the prayers when we heard the in predominantly Sunni Muslim Department at the SCH pre- blast,” worshipper Kamal Jaafar Saudi Arabia. LONDON: An Iranian aid ship allow an international inspection to WFP-chartered vessels for pared a list of all those who could Hassan said by phone from the The Saudi Interior Ministry docked yesterday in Djibouti, of the vessel, the Iran Shahed, shipment to the Yemeni ports of have come in contact with the scene. described the attack as an act of where its cargo will be inspected averting a potential showdown Hodaida and/or (the southern port patient, as per the World Health Islamic State said in a state- terrorism and said it was carried by the United Nations before with Saudi-led forces who are city of) Aden,” WFP spokeswoman Organization’s guidelines, the ment that one of its suicide bomb- out by “agents of sedition trying being moved to conflict-torn enforcing searches of ships enter- Abeer Etefa said. SCH said. ers, identified as Abu ‘Ammar Al to target the kingdom’s national Yemen, Iran’s semi-official Fars ing Yemeni ports to stop arms Etefa said the WFP had been All the traced contacts will Najdi, carried out the attack using fabric”, according to a statement news agency reported. reaching Houthi rebels. told the 2,500 tonne cargo included be monitored over the next two an explosives-laden belt that killed carried by state news agency SPA. In Yemen, meanwhile, war- Tehran has rejected Saudi supplies of rice, flour, canned weeks, and those who develop or wounded 250 people, US-based The agency quoted an Interior planes from the Saudi-led coalition accusations it is arming Houthi fish, medicine, water, tents and respiratory symptoms will be monitoring group SITE said on Ministry spokesman as saying the pounded Shia rebels across three fighters. blankets. screened. its Twitter account. It said it bomber detonated a suicide belt Yemeni cities, as Riyadh reported The ship had originally been Huge explosions rocked the In the meantime, a joint team would not rest until Shias, which hidden under his clothes inside the the death of a Saudi child from bound for the Yemen’s Red Sea outskirts of the Yemeni capi- from the SCH and the Animal the group views as heretics, were mosque. cross-border fire. port of Hodaida, which is con- tal, Sana’a, after yesterday’s air Resources Department at the driven from the Arabian peninsula. “Security authorities will spare “The ship docked a few minutes trolled by the Houthis, but its aid strikes. There were also raids on Ministry of Environment is car- Saudi officials have said the no effort in the pursuit of all those ago in Djibouti,” Fars said. “The cargo will now be delivered by the second city Aden in the south and rying out a field investigation. group is trying hard to attack the involved in this terrorist crime,” ship entered Djibouti waters yes- World Food Programme, the UN Marib province east of the capital. The SCH said that people kingdom, which as the world’s the official said in a statement car- terday and after inspection by the agency said yesterday. In all, 10 rebel and allied targets with any questions or symptoms top oil exporter, birthplace of ried by state news agency SPA. international organisation will “The cargo of the ship will were hit in and around Sana’a. related to MERS can contact Islam and champion of conserva- REUTERS head towards Yemen.” be handed over to WFP in AGENCIES hotlines 66740948 or 66740951. tive Sunni doctrine, represents an See also page 5 Tehran agreed this week to Djibouti and will be transferred See also page 5 THE PENINSULA High spirits Clinton emails Netherlands to ban released to public WASHINGTON: Hundreds of e m a i l s b y fo r m e r t o p US d i p l o m a t face veil in public Hillary Clinton were released by the State Department yester- AMSTERDAM: The Dutch right to dress how they choose, day, seeking to quell a lingering government yesterday agreed to no matter what others think. political row about a deadly 2012 introduce a partial ban on the That freedom is only limited in attack on a US mission in Libya. wearing of the full-face veil in situations when it is essential for Clinton has come under public places, the Home Affairs people to look at each other,” the fire from Republicans for the Ministry said in a statement. statement said. Department’s handling of a mili- The proposed ban, which must Anti-Islam opposition politician tant attack on the US mission be approved by parliament before Geert Wilders, whose far right in Benghazi in eastern Libya on it can become law, would apply to policies have won him widespread September 11, 2012 amid allega- all face-covering clothing, includ- support among Dutch voters, has tions of a cover-up of the facts. ing ski-masks and helmets, on long sought a ban on face veils “I’m glad the emails are start- public transport and in schools, and burqas. Wilders told Dutch ing to come out. This is something hospitals and government offices. television yesterday the proposed that I’ve asked to be done as you The measure “had nothing to measure was “weak”. know for a long time,” Clinton do with religion,” Prime Minister Only a few hundred women in said in New Hampshire. And she Mark Rutte told journalists in The the Netherlands veil themselves insisted she had released all emails Hague after the proposed meas- completely, but Rutte said such that had any “government rela- ure was passed by the cabinet. laws were needed to “enforce val- tionship.” AFP “In a free country like the ues” of Dutch society. See also page 9 Graduates toss their caps in the air at the conclusion of the commencement ceremony for the US Naval Netherlands, everyone has the REUTERS Academy Class of 2015 in Annapolis, Maryland, yesterday. New law forces big French supermarkets to donate unsold food PARIS: French supermarkets will be As MPs united in a rare cross-party or face penalties, including fines of up to night to feed themselves, able to sur- halve the amount of food waste in France banned from throwing away or destroy- consensus, the centre-right deputy Yves €75,000 or two years in jail. vive on edible products which had been by 2025. According to official estimates, ing unsold food and must instead donate Jégo told parliament: “There’s an absolute “It’s scandalous to see bleach being thrown out just as their best-before dates the average French person throws out it to charities or for animal feed, under urgency – charities are desperate for food.