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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Friday 5 July 2013 26 Shaaban 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5751 Price: QR2 BA takes Lisicki and delivery of Bartoli to first A380 clash in final Business | 14 Sport | 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Qatar to continue US Independence Day supporting Egypt Emir sends greetings to interim president Mansour DOHA: Qatar will remain sup- against the Islamist movement he had been trying to flee the portive of Egypt as a leader and after the army ousted the first country. Prosecutors also ordered pioneer in the Arab and Islamic democratically elected president the arrest of his influential dep- world, a Foreign Ministry Mohammed Mursi. uty Khairat El Shater after both source said yesterday. An Islamist coalition led by were charged with inciting vio- The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim the Brotherhood called on people lence against protesters outside bin Hamad Al Thani sent a cable across the nation to protest in a the Brotherhood’s headquarters of congratulations to the head “Friday of Rejection” after prayers. in Cairo that was attacked on of the Supreme Constitutional Mansour used his inaugura- Sunday night. Court, Adly Mansour, who took tion to hold out an olive branch to At least 23 people have been oath as interim president. the Brotherhood, Mursi’s power killed in street clashes since Qatar’s policy has always been base. “The Muslim Brotherhood Mursi’s overthrow. TV stations to support the will of the Egyptian are part of this people and are sympathetic to Mursi were taken people, Qatar News Agency said, invited to participate in build- off air, and a newspaper affiliated citing the source. The source ing the nation as nobody will be with the Brotherhood said the praised the role of the Egyptian excluded, and if they respond to state-owned printing press had Volunteers arrive on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC yesterday. President Barack armed forces in defending the the invitation, they will be wel- refused to produce its Thursday Obama and the family will host members of the US armed services and their families to celebrate the 237th country and its security, stress- comed,” he said. But a senior edition. anniversary of the US Independence Day. See also page 8 ing the need to enhance cohesion Brotherhood official, however, Mursi was in military custody among all Egyptians to further said it would not work with “the and authorities opened an inves- their interests in accordance with usurper authorities”. Another tigation into accusations that he the gains of the revolution so that member said Mursi’s overthrow and 15 other Islamists insulted its objectives are achieved. would push other groups, though the judiciary. Ramadan likely to start on Tuesday The source said Qatar will not his own, to violent resistance. A technocratic interim govern- maintain its excellent fraternal ment will be formed, with a panel DOHA: A Jeddah-based association of astrono- new moon wouldn’t be sighted here as well. relations with Egypt and work BADIE ARRESTED for national reconciliation, and mers has said the first day of Ramadan would Meanwhile, the Deputy Prime Minister and to strengthen them to serve the The Muslim Brotherhood’s the constitution will be reviewed. most likely be on Tuesday, but added that it could Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs, H E Ahmed interests of both countries and supreme guide, Mohamed Badie, Mansour said fresh parliamentary be difficult to sight the new moon on Monday bin Abdullah Al Mahmoud, announced that govern- their peoples. was arrested in the northern and presidential elections would evening. ment offices, including ministries, authorities and In Cairo, the leader of the city of Marsa Matrouh, near the be held, but did not specify when. The new moon will be visible only for two minutes other state agencies, will work from 9am until 2pm Muslim Brotherhood was arrested Libyan border, although security QNA & AGENCIES after the sunset on Monday so it may be difficult on weekdays during Ramadan. by security forces in a crackdown sources said they did not believe See also page 4 to sight it with the naked eye or with the help of Qatar News Agency reported that the Deputy binoculars, Dr Sharaf Al Safiani, said. The Deputy Premier had issued a circular announcing work- Khalfan stops tweets Chairman of Association of Astronomers told Saudi ing hours of the government sector during the holy daily Okaz: “Our calculation suggests that Tuesday month. The offices will remain open for five hours. about Brotherhood should be the first day of the fasting month.” The Ministry of Labour said on its website that The newspaper’s website reported yesterday that the job contract endorsement office of the Labour DOHA: Dubai police chief Dahi in the northern and central parts of the kingdom the Department at C Ring Road (Muntazah area) will Khalfan who became popular in new moon will disappear slightly before the sunset be open from 7.30pm until 11pm on weekdays dur- the Arab world by constantly on Monday so it will not be visible at all. ing Ramadan. taking a dig at the Muslim Dr Al Safiani didn’t talk about Qatar but since it The website didn’t mention morning work hours Brotherhood in Egypt on his is located north of Saudi Arabia it is most likely the of the department. THE PENINSULA Twitter account, said yester- day this was his last tweet as Mohammed Mursi and his regime had fallen. “Bye”, Khalfan tweeted crypti- cally and then wrote down that Qatari man dies of since the Brotherhood rule had GCC teams to keep ended he was closing his Twitter suspected MERS account. “I am stopping tweet- at British hospital ing now”. Khalfan who tweeted watch on Hezbollah in Arabic, had more than 466,000 followers and had tweeted over RIYADH: Senior Gulf Cooperation Council officials met in Riyadh DOHA: A Qatari man has died 28,000 messages, apparently yesterday to coordinate sanctions in the six member states against in a London hospital from sus- mostly about the Brotherhood. Lebanon’s Shia Hezbollah movement over its support to the Syria pected Middle East Respiratory He began pooh-poohing the regime. Syndrome (MERS), The Brotherhood on the Twitter during The meeting was “to develop mechanisms to monitor movements, Telegraph said yesterday. the Egyptian presidential election financial transactions and business operations of Hezbollah,” said The unnamed 49-year-old with in May and June 2012 and when Bahrain’s Deputy Interior Minister Khaled Al Absi. a history of visits to Saudi Arabia Mursi was elected, Khalfan said The GCC decided on June 10 to impose sanctions on Hezbollah, was admitted to the intensive care his victory was a clear indication targeting residency permits and its financial and business activities unit of Hamad General Hospital of the failure of the Egyptian revo- in reprisal for the group’s armed intervention in Syria. with serious illness on September lution. He said the Brotherhood Absi told reporters that two teams will be formed: One to “coordinate 3 last year and was transferred posed a danger to the GCC states with central banks” and the second to review “legal, administrative to the UK by air ambulance five politically and accused Mursi of and financial matters” linked to the sanctions. Last month’s measure days later. He was diagnosed as being close to Iran. was taken “after the discovery in GCC states of several terrorist cells suffering from the MERS virus Khalfan’s criticisms of the linked to the group,” he added. and treated in a specialist centre Brotherhood prompted the The sanctions would be implemented “in coordination... with min- at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital. Egyptian government to summon isters of commerce and the central banks of the GCC,” the council’s However, his death could not the UAE ambassador to clarify his Secretary General Abdullatif Al Zayani has said. An estimated 360,000 be confirmed with officials here country’s stand vis-à-vis Egypt. Egyptian soldiers and policemen stand guard near the Cairo University Lebanese work in the Gulf, remitting some $4bn annually. AGENCIES yesterday. THE PENINSULA yesterday. Picture on page 3 “Guy’s and St Thomas’ can con- firm that the patient with severe respiratory illness due to novel coronavirus (MERS-nCV) sadly died on Friday, June 28, after his condition deteriorated, despite every effort and full supportive Snowden gets proposal from Russian spy treatment,” a hospital spokesman said. However, experts at the hos- MOSCOW: A tabloid says Vladimir Putin “Snowden, will you marry me?!” a posting Former NSA contractor Snowden is pital also have raised a doubt if is Russia’s most eligible bachelor, but the on a Twitter account bearing Chapman’s believed to have been living in a transit area the man would have died because president may have competition from an name and photograph said late on in the Moscow airport since arriving on June of a different infection. American half his age: Edward Snowden, Wednesday. 23. He has appealed to various countries for “The doctors treating him still the former US spy agency contrac- After a few hours with no reply, a second asylum. don’t know exactly what killed tor believed to be holed up at a Moscow tweet appeared. “@nsa, will you look after our Putin, 60, who praised Chapman and the him,” said a clinical scientist at airport. children?” it said, a wry reference, perhaps, other Russian agents deported from the the hospital, Dr Jon Bible. “In the Snowden, 30, has received a marriage pro- to the surveillance powers of the US National United States, has separated from his wife, end his lungs were basically worn posal of sorts in a tweet from Anna Chapman Security Agency.