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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Qatar’s GDP to Pool: Reyes touch $220.6bn stunned at by 2015 World 9-ball Business | 21 Sport | 27 Sunday 22 June 2014 • 24 Sha’baan 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6104 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Al Khor Stadium design unveiled Another wave Don’t smoke of dust winds forecast from while ‘kids tomorrow DOHA: The Meteorology Department has forecast another wave of dust winds to hit the country from tomorrow are on board’ and continue until the end of this week. Qatar, like other countries in Traffic Dept launches campaign the northern hemisphere saw the longest day of the year yes- DOHA: Despite the recent (CMC) openly coming out terday, which extended to about public outcry in Qatar against against the proposal. 14 hours. a reported plan to ban smoking While rejecting a blanket ban Known as the summer sol- inside cars, the authorities are on smoking in cars, many sug- stice, this phenomenon occurs going ahead with preparations gested to limit the ban to situa- when the sun comes directly to end this practice or at least tions when women and children perpendicular to the Tropic of discourage it. are on board, to protect them Cancer. As a first step, the Traffic from the danger of passive The day heralded the beginning Department has launched a cam- smoking. of summer in the northern hemi- paign to raise public awareness on The Traffic Department sphere and the onset of winter in this issue. apparently is focusing on this A computer-generated image handout shows the amazing design of the new 60,000-seat Al Khor Stadium the southern hemisphere. The campaign focuses on the aspect, as part of efforts to pro- and precinct — a proposed venue for the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar. The stadium, to be known as Al Bayt, The strong northwesterly danger of smoking inside the cars, mote safe driving and protect Al Khor City, was unveiled by the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy and the Aspire Zone Foundation. winds are attributed to a further especially when children are on public health. deepening of low pressure asso- Report on page 3 board. Bu Hindi also disclosed that ciated with the Indian monsoon. Quoting an official at the road accidents in Qatar due to “It is expected that the coun- Department, Al Sharq reported drunk driving and use of drugs try will be affected by fresh to that a study is underway on ways is on the decline. strong northwesterly wind start- to stop this menace. There is a new device to detect ing on Monday until the end of “It is very difficult to catch the presence of drugs in the blood the week especially on the coast motorists smoking in the cars but that is mostly used in investiga- Qatar played by rules: QFA during day and reducing speed there is a study in this regard,” tions into road accidents happen- during night to be moderate to said First Lieutenant Fahad Hilal ing in the night, he added. DOHA: Qatar won the FIFA bids, but this was solely to catch ¬football history. We are a small fresh,” the department said in a bu Hindi. The comments came in con- 2022 World Cup bid because its up with our better known rivals. country. Temperatures are high statement yesterday. He said the Traffic Department nection with the International bid was seen the best and it gave We had to tell people about our in the summer. However unfairly, The winds might carry dust had started a new campaign urg- Day against Drug Abuse which is convincing answers to all the rel- country and what we could offer. our wealth alone fuels suspicions. and suspended sand which could ing motorists not to smoke inside observed on June 26. evant questions, Sheikh Hamad But from the day we launched But our bid succeeded not because reduce the horizontal visibility the car when the children are on The Ministry of Interior held bin Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Thani, our bid to the day our victory these big questions were ignored especially in open areas and high- board. He said this awareness an exhibition at Landmark Chairman of Qatar Football was announced in Zurich, we but because we provided ¬compel- ways, said the statement. drive will be followed by another mall on Thursday as part of the Association (QFA) has said. played strictly by the rules. It is ling answers. We won because our The temperature is expected campaign that aims to stop this International Day activities. This In an article published in the why we are happy to cooperate bid was seen as the best. to be at the normal range for practice. year’s theme is “our children are British daily Guardian on Friday, fully with the FIFA inquiry into Qatar’s football history may be this time of the year reach- An expert at the Supreme our responsibility”. Sheikh Hamad said: “And despite the bidding process. We have much younger than in Europe or ing 39 degrees Celsius to 43 Council of Health (SCH) recently The Permanent Committee for all you may have heard over the nothing to hide or fear.” South America but the passion degrees. Some scattered cloud disclosed that Qatar’s new anti- Drugs and Alcohol Affairs at the last few weeks, there are also “This has not stopped a barrage for the game here and across could be seen on Tuesday and tobacco law will ban smoking Ministry also organised a sym- good and legitimate reasons why of increasingly wild accusations. the Middle East is every bit as Wednesday. inside cars and impose a fine on posium on the “role of medical Qatar beat better known rivals Interpol this week, for instance, intense. FIFA members under- The department has forecast those violating this rule. staff in preventing and reducing to host the tournament in eight ‘completely’ dismissed the Sunday stood this and were keen to take a hot and relatively humid day, The announcement sparked the misuse of prescribed medica- years’ time. It is just that we have Times’s claim that it had called for the tournament to a new region,” with the temperature in Doha an outcry with several citi- tion,” in association with Hamad struggled to get a hearing.” a criminal investigation into the wrote Sheikh Hamad. expected to hover between 30 and zens, including members of Medical Corporation. “I accept that we spent more 2022 decision,” he added. THE PENINSULA 40 degrees Celsius today. the Central Municipal Council THE PENINSULA money campaigning than other “Qatar does not have a rich Continued on page 11 THE PENINSULA Germany, Ghana draw Court confirms mass death for Iraq rebels seize Egypt Islamists Syria border post MINYA: An Egyptian court yesterday confirmed death BAGHDAD: Shia fighters already hold parts of the western sentences for more than 180 paraded in Baghdad yesterday in province of Anbar, which abuts Islamists, including Muslim a dramatic show of force aimed the Syrian border, after taking all Brotherhood chief Mohamed at Sunni militants who seized a of one city and parts of another Badie, after a mass trial that Syrian border crossing, widening earlier in the year. The battle for sparked an international outcry. a western front in an offensive the strategic northern town of The court in the central city threatening to rip Iraq apart. Tal Afar was in its seventh day, of Minya initially sentenced 683 Meanwhile, Washington read- Maliki’s security spokesman said. people to death, but yesterday ied a new diplomatic bid to unite In Baghdad, thousands of armed commuted death sentences of four Iraq’s fractious leaders and repel fighters loyal to powerful Shia defendants to life in prison and insurgents whose lightning offen- cleric Muqtada Al Sadr paraded acquitted 496 others, prosecutor sive has displaced hundreds of in the Sadr City district, vowing to Abdel Rahim Abdel Malik said. thousands, alarmed the world fight the offensive which began on Since the army ousted Islamist and put Prime Minister Nouri Al June 9. Rank upon rank of fight- president Mohamed Mursi in July Maliki under growing pressure. ers, wearing mostly camouflage last year, hundreds of his sup- And in a sign the broad alliance but with some in black, carried porters and Badie himself have of jihadists and anti-government Kalashnikov assault rifles, shot- been sentenced to death in tri- Germany’s Miroslav Klose taps the ball in to score against Ghana during their 2014 World Cup Group G football elements behind the assault may guns, sniper rifles, light machine- als roundly criticised by human match at the Castelao Arena in Fortaleza yesterday. The game ended in 2-2 draw. See also pages 30, 31 & 32 be fracturing, internecine clashes guns and rocket launchers. rights watchdogs. killed 17 fighters in northern Iraq. REUTERS The 183 whose death sentences Security forces announced were confirmed yesterday were they were holding their own in convicted of involvement in the several areas north of Baghdad, murder of two policemen and the but officials said insurgents led by attempted murder of five others Israel arrests 10 Hamas Putin backs Kiev truce the Islamic State of Iraq and the Today’s in Minya province on August 14, MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Levant (Isis) jihadist group seized the day police killed hundreds of men in hunt for teens yesterday that he supported Ukraine’s ceasefire, one of three official border cross- matches JERUSALEM: Mursi supporters in Cairo clashes. Israeli security forces have but added that without “practical action” to start ings with Syria.