ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 2 Business | 14 Sport | 22 High prices The dollar New Zealand due to rising continued to complete shop rents, say power higher unbeaten group retailers yesterday run at World Cup SATURDAY 14 MARCH 2015 • 23 Jumada I 1436 • Volume 19 Number 6369 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 PM visits Darb Al Saie MERS kills 10 Third batch more in Saudi RIYADH: Ten more people have died in Saudi Arabia from the MERS virus since last week, starts army health ministry data showed yesterday, adding to a surge in cases over the past month. The latest deaths occurred between March 6 and 12, mostly in the capital Riyadh, bringing to service today 17 the number of MERS deaths so far this month, according to the ministry. Trainees to get no break for 50 days Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS- DOHA: The third batch of CoV) killed 30 people last month Qatari recruits will report for in the kingdom. mandatory National Service in Last week, the health ministry Al Shamal early this afternoon, started the latest phase of a public and they will undergo training education campaign aimed at pre- for over 15 hours a day with not venting the virus from spreading. a day off for 50 days. The World Health Organisation The batch consists of university has cited the preliminary results students. They will be reporting of studies indicating that peo- at the National Service Centre ple working with camels are at at Al Shamal Camp (Hamad increased risk of infection. A file photo of the second batch of Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani yesterday visited the Mechanised Battalion) at 2pm AFP Qatari National Service trainees at GCC Traffic Week event at Darb Al Saie. He went to the stalls of various departments and organisations and today. spoke to the participants about their experience. Their training will start early the Al Shamal training camp. tomorrow morning after the pre- dawn prayers and will continue like volleyball and basketball. until the cadets have dinner and A large swimming pool will ena- go to bed at 10 pm. ble those interested in taking a dip “That will be their everyday to do so. Those not interested in Gulf allies pledge $12bn to Egypt at summit routine throughout the train- sports can attend lectures. ing period,” said Staff Brigadier Mandatory lecture classes will SHARM EL-SHEIKH: Gulf gas turbines to Egypt as part of a Mohamed Misfir Al Ayyadi, com- begin after the evening prayers. Arab allies pledged a further $1.9bn power project. mander of the training centre. The cadets can retire only at $12bn of investments and cen- Egypt plans $45bn new capital Egypt also expected to sign sev- The training for batches nor- around 10pm after dinner. tral bank deposits for Egypt at SHARM EL-SHEIKH: Egypt plans to build a new administra- eral memoranda of understanding mally lasts three to four months. Qatar’s Red Crescent has been an international summit yes- tive capital east of Cairo within five to seven years at a cost of at the conference. The cadets will be entitled to their roped in to give lectures. National terday, a big boost to President $45bn, housing minister Mostafa Madbouli said yesterday. The conference shaped up as an first weekend off only after 50 days Service is compulsory for all Abdel Fattah Al Sisi as he tries Announcing the project at an international investment conference, important test of Egypt’s reform of continuous training and they Qatari men aged between 18 and to reform the economy after Madbouli said the goal included creating 1.1 million housing units. agenda under Sisi, a former army will be allowed the break individu- 35 years. years of political upheaval. The new capital, planned to be the size of Singapore, will house chief who wants to remove invest- ally from Thursdays to Saturdays. They must train at Al Shamal Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and government buildings, diplomatic missions and residential units in ment barriers to help turn around “For 50 days they will not be Camp for three to four months United Arab Emirates each the area between Cairo, Suez City and Ain Sokhna. the ailing economy of the Arab allowed to leave the camp,” Al as part of the state’s initiative to offered $4bn to Egypt, which is The project will include an airport and 90 square kilometres of world’s most populous country. Ayyadi told Al Sharq. The cadets build an emergency reserve force. grappling with Islamist insurgents solar power fields. REUTERS Sisi’s crackdown on Islamists will then be eligible to request a The young men also acquire physi- as it seeks to improve the invest- and secular opponents has drawn weekend off. cal discipline. ment climate four years after a project an image of stability and $15-$20bn in agreements signed,” fire from human rights groups. Their training will normally On February 15, the sec- popular uprising that touched off improve investor confidence hit by Investment Minister Ashraf But he has won praise from for- start at 5 am, after the morning ond batch of recruits began protracted turmoil. the political upheaval touched off Salman said earlier, adding that eign investors by implementing prayers, and will comprise les- their National Service and they The UAE said it would deposit by the fall of veteran ruler Hosni the deals would cover power reforms. sons in civil defence and physical consisted of secondary school $2bn of its pledge in the Egyptian Mubarak. plants, real estate and agricultural He told the conference that his education. students. central bank, while Saudi Arabia Cairo wants to double foreign projects. vision for Egypt’s economy centred Military training will follow. There are plans to draft Qatari said $1bn of its pledge would go investment in this fiscal year to General Electric said it would on improving state finances and There will be a break for the women as well into the manda- to the bank. Oman said it would $8bn, despite an Islamist insur- invest $200mn in a manufacturing encouraging private sector invest- noon prayers and one for lunch, tory National Service but the give Egypt $500mn in grants and gency in northern Sinai and fre- and training facility which it sees ment through legislative reforms and evenings will be reserved for time frame for that has not been investment over the next five quent militant attacks across the as part of an economic hub being and respecting contracts in order sports activities. The cadets can announced. years. country. built near the Suez Canal. to achieve growth rates of six per- play football or indoor games THE PENINSULA Egypt hopes the conference will “I’m expecting here to see It also said it had delivered 34 cent over five years. REUTERS Bahrain anniversary UAE to expel Pedestrian crossings on C Ring 70 mostly Shia Road being signalised Lebanese DOHA: The expanded C Ring Road, expected to be fully ready by May-end, will have several signalised pedestrian crossings. BEIRUT: The United Arab Along with the expansion work under way, the existing traffic inter- Emirates will expel 70 Lebanese sections on the road are being renovated. nationals, mostly Shia Muslims, All the signs on the road are being changed and the street lights are within the next 24 hours, being replaced as well. Lebanese officials said yeterday. After the road expansion work is complete the capacity of this major “The ministry of foreign affairs thoroughfare will increase by at least 25 percent. was informed by the Lebanese The road had three lanes on each side, which will be increased to four, embassy in the Emirates that 70 and the roundabouts are being changed into signalised intersections. Lebanese will be deported by the Al Sharq reported quoting unnamed sources that the development authorities in the next 24 hours,” work on the road will not be delayed and will be finished on time, by Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil May-end. said. Service roads are also being improved and smaller roads joining the He was unable to give a reason C Ring Road are being expanded to reduce pressure on the ring road. for the expulsions. THE PENINSULA Sixty-three of those to be deported are Shia, according to another senior Lebanese official who did not want to be named. An official in the UAE, which Bahraini protestors hold a banner which reads in Arabic, “For the liberation of Bahrain, we are all resistance”, hosts more than 100,000 Lebanese during a demonstration yesterday in Daih village, on the outskirts of the capital Manama, to mark the fourth Merkel’s office denies ‘private workers, declined to comment. anniversary of the Saudi-led Gulf intervention that helped government crush an Arab Spring-inspired uprising. In 2009, dozens of Lebanese feud’ between Greece, Germany Shias who had lived in the UAE for years were expelled on suspi- BERLIN: The spokesman of the German chancellor, Angela cion of links with Hezbollah, the Merkel, has denied a “private feud” has broken out between Berlin Lebanese Shia movement sup- Iraqi forces pound beseiged IS in Tikrit and Athens, as the radical Syriza government battles to avoid leav- ported by Iran and opposed by ing the single currency. Sunni-ruled Gulf monarchies. BAGHDAD: Iraqi forces yes- holdouts, pounding their posi- around 50 percent of the city was As Athens rushes to implement economic reforms and convince its In 2013, Qatar deported 18 terday battled Islamic State tions with helicopter and artillery now back in government hands.