14 New Cars Make Their Debut As Qatar Motor Show Opens
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
BUSINESS | Page 1 SPORT | Page 1 Qatar face UAE in AFC U-19 Championship QIB’s 9-month net opener today profi t tops QR2bn published in QATAR since 1978 THURSDAY Vol. XXXIX No. 10975 October 18, 2018 Safar 9, 1440 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Amir chairs meeting of Supreme Council for Economic Aff airs and Investment In brief QATAR | Motoring Woqod opens new petrol stations at Lusail, HIA Qatar Fuel (Woqod) yesterday opened the Lusail-Fox Hills and Woqod Hamad International Airport (HIA) petrol stations, taking its network of petrol stations to 69. The opening of the two new petrol stations comes as part of Woqod’s ongoing expansion plans aimed at His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, Chairman of the Supreme Council for Economic Aff airs and Investment (SCEAI), chaired the council’s fourth meeting of 2018 yesterday at the Amiri Diwan. serving every area in Qatar. Woqod His Highness the Deputy Amir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al-Thani, Deputy Chairman of the council; and HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani, the Executive CEO Saad Rashid al-Muhannadi Member of the council; attended the meeting along with their excellencies members of the council. The council discussed the topics on the meeting’s agenda, took the appropriate decisions on them, and reviewed said: “Woqod aspires to expand its the developments of the Hamad Port expansion, in addition to the latest developments in the fields of energy and investment. The council also briefed on the progress of the Second National Development petrol station network in the country Strategy (2018-2022). to meet the rising demand for petroleum products.” Page 4 QATAR | Businesswomen Investments in local market reach QR30bn Turkish daily: audio The volume of Qatari businesswomen’s investments in the 14 new cars make recordings indicate local market reached about QR30bn in various fields such as banking, trade, tourism, manufacturing, handicrafts, productive families Khashoggi tortured and the stock market, according to their debut as Qatar statistics from the Qatari Business Reuters to surveil the premises. The consul- Women Association. The statistics, Ankara/Washington general had left Turkey for Riyadh on presented by the delegation of the Tuesday. Association at the German-Arab Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Women Business Leaders Summit in Turkish newspaper yesterday Mike Pompeo met Turkey’s president Munich, which concluded yesterday Motor Show opens published what it said were de- and foreign minister yesterday to dis- showed that the Qatari women A tails from audio recordings that cuss the Khashoggi case, a day after occupy 20% of the companies O purported to document Saudi jour- he held talks with leaders in Saudi operating in the country. QMS hosts 37 exhibitors, 20 top brands and companies nalist and government critic Jamal Arabia. Khashoggi’s torture and interrogation. Seven US and European security of- QATAR | Tourism By Joey Aguilar ised by Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA) the use of electric cars are in line with Khashoggi was killed within minutes fi cials also told Reuters that Turkey was Staff Reporter in co-operation with Fira Qatar on a our commitment to promote clean and and his torturers severed his fi ngers yet to share with the US government 42 ships to call on Doha 17,896sq m space at the Doha Exhibi- sustainable energy,” HE al-Sulaiti said during the interrogation, Yeni Safak or key European allies graphic audio or this cruise season: Mwani tion and Convention Centre (DECC). in a press statement. said. His killers later beheaded and dis- video evidence it allegedly collected on A total of 42 cruise ships will call on s many as 14 new cars, includ- HE the Minister of Transport and “The roads, rail, port, and airport membered him, it said. Khashoggi’s visit to the Saudi consu- Doha Port, Qatar’s “gateway to marine ing the Genesis fuel cell concept Communication Jassim Seif Ahmed al- projects that the Ministry of Trans- The New York Times cited a senior late in Istanbul. tourism” in the 2018-19 cruise season, ASports Utility Vehicle, were un- Sulaiti inaugurated the show, themed port and Communications is now Turkish offi cial confi rming the details Two weeks after Khashoggi’s disap- Qatar Ports Management Company veiled for the “fi rst time” in Qatar and ‘Drive to Innovation,’ which demon- completing, will make Qatar’s trans- published by Yeni Safak. Two Turkish pearance on October 2, the US and al- (Mwani Qatar) has said. “The new the region at the opening of Qatar Mo- strates Qatar’s commitment to introduc- portation sector one of the most ad- government offi cials contacted by Reu- lies have collected some intelligence season is set to be the busiest the tor Show (QMS) 2018 yesterday. ing the latest automotive technology. vanced in the world,” he noted. “This ters declined to confi rm the report. through their own sources and meth- cruise port has ever seen since the The fi ve-day event, under the pa- “This (8th) edition comes as Qa- will support the development plans Turkish investigators entered the ods, which partly confi rms news re- development of the cruise tourism tronage of HE the Prime Minister and tar intensifi es its eff orts to enhance of all national institutions as they Saudi consul’s residence yesterday af- ports based on leaks of audio record- sector in Qatar,” it tweeted yesterday. Interior Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin innovation and safety in the fi eld of work to achieve Qatar National Vision ter delays. Their search included the ings, four of the sources said. The season began on October 2 with Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani, is organ- transportation. New innovations in 2030.” To Page 28, Pages 11, 12, 13 roof and garage, and employed a drone Page 19, Business Page 4 the arrival of cruise ship Boudicca at Doha Port, and will continue until May 10, 2019. Seabourn Encore will be the last vessel to call on the port this season, according to a list issued by Mwani Qatar. Israeli air raids hit Gaza, EUROPE | Crime 18 dead in Crimea killing a Palestinian college rampage AFP But Israel, which holds Hamas re- Eighteen people died and dozens Gaza City sponsible for all rocket fi re from the more were wounded, mostly territory regardless of who launches it, teenagers, yesterday when a struck 20 targets in Gaza, killing one student opened fire at a college in sraeli warplanes struck the Gaza Strip Palestinian, according to the Hamas- Russian-annexed Crimea. Speaking yesterday after a rocket fi re from the run health ministry. to journalists and parents of missing IPalestinian territory hit an Israeli city, Israel also closed both its border students in the city of Kerch, where in a blow to eff orts to avert a new war. crossings with Gaza in reprisal, further the shooting took place, Crimean Hamas disavowed the rocket fi re, isolating the blockaded enclave where leader Sergei Aksyonov said the saying they rejected “all irresponsible deteriorating living conditions have death toll stood at 18 plus the killer. HE the Minister of Transport and Communications Jassim Seif Ahmed al-Sulaiti (centre) inaugurates the 8th edition of Qatar attempts” to undermine Egyptian ef- stoked violent protests along the bor- Page 20 Motor Show yesterday at DECC. PICTURE: Jayan Orma forts to broker a new long-term truce. der. To Page 14 UAE hired American mercenaries to kill targets in Yemen: report merican mercenaries were hired The veterans were paid to take part estinian Authority, as well as other key assassinations. The group allegedly re- months in war-torn Yemen, some of The assassination attempt against by the UAE to assassinate politi- in mercenary missions to assassinate a advisers to Emirati Crown Prince Mo- ceived 23 targets from the UAE, but Go- America’s most highly trained soldiers Mayo, which included a bomb laced Acal leaders and clerics in Yemen number of Yemeni individuals deemed hamed bin Zayed. lan did not identify any victims. worked on a mercenary mission to kill with shrapnel attached to the Al-Is- in 2015, according to a new report. “terrorists” by the UAE, the leader of The deal was discussed over a lunch The CIA reportedly told Buzz- prominent clerics and Islamist political lah headquarters in Aden, ultimately The mercenaries were former Amer- the group said. in Abu Dhabi, at an Italian restaurant in Feed that it had no information about fi gures. failed, despite two explosions going ican elite special operations fi ghters “There was a targeted assassination the offi cers’ club of a UAE military base. Spear’s missions in Yemen and the The UAE considers Al-Islah to be off . who had years of specialised training in programme in Yemen,” Spear founder Golan and a former US Navy SEAL Navy Special Warfare Command de- the Yemeni branch of the Muslim According to BuzzFeed, the group’s the US military. They were recruited by Abraham Golan told BuzzFeed. “I was named Isaac Gilmore had fl own in from clined to comment. Brotherhood, which the UAE calls plan went haywire when the mercenar- the Delaware-incorporated Spear Op- running it. We did it. It was sanctioned the US to make their pitch. On the night of December 29, 2015, a terrorist outfit. However, many ies were caught in a shootout outside erations Group, which was hired by the by the UAE within the (Saudi-led) coa- Golan told BuzzFeed that his team the team’s job was to assassinate Anssaf experts insist that Al-Islah, one of the building before they could plant the UAE to conduct a series of targeted kill- lition.” – which reportedly included a former Ali Mayo, the local leader of the Islam- whose members has won the Nobel bomb.