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BUSINESS | Page 1 SPORT | Page 5 Real two good for Espanyol, INDEX DOW JONES QE NYMEX QATAR 3-12, 30 COMMENT 28, 29 REGION 13 BUSINESS 1, 6, 21-24 Gameiro ’trick Al-Attiyah calls for 20,588.00 10,819.30 53.40 ARAB WORLD 14 CLASSIFIED 10-20 -6.00 +87.77 +0.04 INTERNATIONAL 15–27 SPORTS 1-12 careful future plans spurs Atletico -0.03% +0.82% _+0.07% Latest Figures published in QATAR since 1978 SUNDAY Vol. XXXVII No. 10369 February 19, 2017 Jumada I 22, 1438 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Emir attends WTA Qatar final New travel ban In brief to spare Green REGION | Stunt Card holders: Dubai police summon daredevil model Dubai police have summoned a Russian model who posed for a video Trump offi cial while dangling from a skyscraper to sign a pledge not to put her life Reuters immigrants in custody for deportation in danger again, a local newspaper Munich proceedings have the right to a hear- reported yesterday. A video of the ing to request their release when their model, identified by local media cases are not promptly adjudicated. as 23-year-old Viktoria Odintcova, new version of a Trump admin- The long-running class action liti- went viral after she posted it on her istration travel ban will not stop gation, brought by the American Civil Instagram account earlier in the HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani yesterday attended the final of the Qatar Total Open women’s tennis A Green Card residency holders or Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of week. It shows her stepping off a tournament held at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex. HH the Emir watched the match between the travellers already on planes from en- thousands of immigrants detained for girder at the top of Dubai’s 73-storey world’s No 3 Karolina Pliskova and No 18 Caroline Wozniacki. The match was won by Pliskova 6-3, 6-4. A number of sheikhs, tering the United States, US Secretary more than six months, includes both Cayan Tower and dangling in the ministers and ambassadors watched the match. Page 9, Sport 1 for Homeland Security John Kelly said immigrants apprehended at the bor- void, held only by a man gripping her yesterday. der when seeking illegal entry into the hand. Major-General Khalil Ibrahim US President Donald Trump’s ini- United States and legal permanent al-Mansouri, an assistant to the chief tial attempt to clamp down for secu- residents in deportation proceedings of police in Dubai, was quoted by the rity reasons on immigration from seven because they were convicted of crimes. Arabic-language al-Ittihad newspaper Muslim-majority countries and on ref- The case also could aff ect long-term as saying that Odintcova “had been ugees snarled to a halt amid a judicial US residents who entered the country summoned to sign an undertaking backlash and chaos at airports. illegally and have subsequently been not to repeat any dangerous moves “The president is contemplating re- detained. that could endanger her life in Dubai.” leasing a tighter, more streamlined ver- The Trump administration has said it Qatar shivers sion of the fi rst (order). And I will have wants to end the release of immigrants REGION | Accident opportunity to work (on) a rollout plan, facing deportation and speed up the proc- in particular to make sure that there’s ess for ejecting them from the country. Aramco contains oil no one in a sense caught in the system A decision in the case requiring ad- pipeline leak; one dies of moving from overseas to our air- ditional court hearings could have very State oil giant Saudi Aramco said ports,” Kelly said at the Munich Secu- direct implications for the administra- yesterday it had contained a rity Conference. tion’s plans, said ACLU lawyer Ahilan “limited” oil leak from one of its as temperature Asked whether Green Card resi- Arulananthan, especially since immi- pipelines near Abqaiq that had dency permit holders would be allowed gration courts currently have a backlog caused the death of a contractor and in, Kelly said: “It’s a good assumption of more than 500,000 cases. injured three other people, including and, as far as the visas go, if they’re in The ACLU estimates that up to an Aramco employee. Aramco gave motion from some distant land to the 8,000 immigrants nationwide at any no details on the cause of the leak United States, when they arrive they given time have been held for at least but said in a statement that it would will be allowed in.” six months. conduct a thorough investigation. drops sharply He promised “a short phase-in pe- A US Immigration and Customs En- It said two of the injured people riod to make sure that people on the forcement offi cial was unable to imme- had been discharged from hospital. fter the rain comes the chill in Doha airport and Hamad International Qatar within an hour, causing visibility other end don’t get on airplanes. But diately confi rm data on length of de- Aramco’s facility in Abqaiq is the Qatar. Airport areas. to drop below 3km. if they’re on an airplane and inbound, tention but said that in fi scal year 2016, world’s largest oil processing facility A The temperature dropped The detailed forecast for inshore are- Meanwhile, the Ministry of Munici- they’ll be allowed to enter the country.” the average daily count of detainees and the largest crude oil stabilisation sharply across the country yesterday as says mild conditions are likely during pality and Environment (MME) said Trump’s original order, which he was just under 35,000. plant. and similar conditions are likely today, the day along with dust in some places rain emergency teams had drained out said was meant to head off attacks by “If Trump wants to put more people with the forecast saying it will be “very at times. It will be very cold by night. more than 105.8mn gallons of rainwater Islamist militants, barred people from in deportation but does not increase ARAB WORLD | Confl ict cold by night”. Dusty conditions are also expected in from diff erent parts of the country until Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria the number of immigration judges, The Qatar Met department has also off shore areas at times along with some yesterday noon. and Yemen from entering for 90 days then people are going to have to wait Iraq planes drop leafl ets said strong winds are expected today clouds, while the sea level may rise to This was done in 21,911 batches using and excluded all refugees for 120 days, longer and longer to get a hearing,” said on ‘imminent off ensive’ along with poor visibility in some ar- 13ft in some places. 45 pumps and 349 tankers. Some 542 except those from Syria, who were Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration The Iraqi air force has dropped eas due to dust. Strong winds and high The wind speed, meanwhile, will be workers and employees were involved banned indefi nitely. law professor at Cornell Law School. millions of leaflets on the western seas have also been forecast in off shore 10-20 knots (northwesterly) in inshore in the work. The abrupt implementation of the The Trump administration has side of Mosul telling the population areas. areas, going up to 25 knots in some Weather charts showed that Ghu- order last month plunged the immigra- pledged to sharply curtail illegal immi- that a ground off ensive to Recently, the weather offi ce had places at times. Off shore, it will be 18- wairiyah received the maximum rainfall tion system into chaos, sparking a wave gration, with initiatives such as build- dislodge Islamic State from their said a Siberian high-pressure system 25 knots (northwesterly), reaching a between Friday and yesterday morning of criticism from the countries aff ect- ing a wall along the US-Mexican border neighbourhoods is imminent, the was expected to aff ect the country, ac- high of 33 knots. at 33.8mm, followed by the Qatar Uni- ed, and from Western allies and some and hiring thousands of federal agents Defence Ministry said yesterday. companied by “northwesterly fresh to Visibility may drop to 3km or lower versity area at 26.2mm, Hamad Inter- of America’s leading corporations, es- to police the border and arrest and de- The militants are essentially under strong winds over all areas”. at times. national Airport area at 20.6mm and pecially technology fi rms. port immigrants who live in the United siege in western Mosul, along with “As a result, a noticeable drop in The Met department tweeted last Abu Hamour at 19.9mm. Meanwhile, the US Supreme Court States but entered the country illegally. an estimated 650,000 civilians, after temperatures is expected,” the report evening that “latest observations show The downpour, particularly late on will decide three cases in coming Trump has also threatened to withhold US-backed forces surrounding the said, stressing that the chilly winds low visibility in most areas due to dust Thursday and Friday, left a number months that could help or hinder federal funding from so-called “sanctu- city dislodged them from the east in would make it feel colder. with generally cold weather”. Earlier, it of places waterlogged even as the rain Trump’s eff orts to ramp up border se- ary cities” that off er protections to im- the first phase of an off ensive that The minimum temperature had gone said a dust band had reached Bahrain emergency teams intensifi ed their ef- curity and accelerate deportations of migrants who could face deportation.