UN Chief Calls for End to War in Yemen, Lays out Next Steps
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QATAR | Page 16 SPORT | Page 8 Farag eases past Rosner to ‘Demand for bio-based win Qatar products to rise in Qatar’ Classic published in QATAR since 1978 SATURDAY Vol. XXXIX No. 10991 November 3, 2018 Safar 25, 1440 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals UN chief calls In brief for end to war QATAR | Reaction Qatar slams attack in central Egypt in Yemen, lays Qatar has strongly condemned the attack that targeted a bus in central Egypt and left a number of people killed and injured. In a statement yesterday, the Ministry of Foreign out next steps Aff airs reiterated Qatar’s firm position on rejecting violence and Agencies er rather than later, immediately in our terrorism regardless of motives and United Nations opinion, in order to allow for the politi- reasons. The statement expressed Qatar Olympic Committee President HE Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad al-Thani (centre), Olympic Council of Asia President Sheikh cal process to start,” he said. “Obviously Qatar’s condolences to families Ahmed al-Fahd al-Ahmed al-Sabah (right) and Qatar Olympic Committee Second Vice-President Dr Thani bin Abdulrahman we are not yet there. That is why we are of the victims and the people of al-Kuwari (left) watch the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships at Aspire Dome yesterday. N Secretary-General Antonio appealing for the kind of military action Egypt, wishing the injured a speedy Guterres yesterday appealed for that is taking place from both sides to recovery. Page 4 Uan end to the war in Yemen and end.” laid out steps the parties in the confl ict Fierce clashes fl ared between Houthi ARAB WORLD | Confl ict must take to move forward, warning rebels and pro-government forces near that continued fi ghting would result in a key port yesterday as a Saudi-led coa- Palestinians condemn the country’s worst famine in a decade. lition backing the loyalists said it had Brazil embassy move Biles wins record 13th world “Yemen today stands on a precipice. attacked an airbase in the rebel-held A senior Palestinian off icial On the humanitarian side, the situation capital Sanaa. yesterday condemned Brazilian far- is desperate. We must do all we can to A day after the government off ered to right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro’s prevent the already dire conditions from restart peace talks with the insurgents, announcement that he would move gold but denied clean sweep deteriorating,” Guterres told reporters a pro-government military source said his country’s Israel embassy to at the United Nations. that loyalist forces closing in on the Jerusalem. “These are provocative AFP the uneven bar competition. placed Shallon Olsen from Canada, He said recent political developments Houthi-held Red Sea port city of Ho- and illegal steps that will only Doha Biles was beaten into second place on who fi nished on 14.516. had created signs of hope for a settle- deidah had reached its university. destabilise security and stability that apparatus, but even in defeat she Bronze went to Mexico’s Alexa ment, and he urged the warring parties Yemeni children are dying from star- in the region,” Hanan Ashrawi, a set a record by claiming her fi rst indi- Moreno, with 43-year-old Oksana to halt the violence, especially around vation and disease as trucks with life- member of the Palestine Liberation uperstar Simone Biles became vidual bar medal and becoming the fi rst Chusovitina in fourth. cities and critical infrastructure. saving supplies are blocked in port, Organisation’s executive committee, the fi rst ever gymnast to win 13 US gymnast to win medals on all pieces Earlier in the week, Biles won gold in Guterres’ remarks come three days leaving medical staff and desperate said. The US moved its embassy Sworld championship gold med- of apparatus at major competitions. the team and all-around events. after US Secretary of State Mike Pom- mothers imploring aid workers to do from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in May, als with victory in the individual vault Yesterday’s two medals means she now However, a potential golden clean peo called for a cessation of hostilities more, a senior UN offi cial said. sparking fury among Palestinians. competition here yesterday. has 18 world championship medals over- sweep was always likely to face its and said UN-led negotiations to end the Geert Cappelaere, Middle East direc- Page 4 The 21-year-old American broke the all, just two shy of the all-time record of greatest challenge in the uneven bar war should begin in November. tor for the UN Children’s Fund (Unicef), all-time record set by Belarusian male 20, held by Russia’s Svetlana Khorkina. contest and so it proved. Derwael’s Several other countries have also described “heart-breaking” scenes of REGION | Diplomacy gymnast Vitaly Scherbo in 1996, a year She can equal that record today in high-energy, high-risk routine se- joined the call for an end to the confl ict. emaciated children in hospitals in the before Biles was born. the beam and fl oor exercise events. cured a score of 15.200. “We must do all we can to maximise main port city of Hodeidah and the cap- France, Germany, UK, EU That was Biles’ third gold medal of Her day started with expected vic- Biles was unable to respond and the chances for success,” Guterres said. ital Sanaa. slam new Iran sanctions the week in Doha but she was denied a tory in the vault event. posted a mark of 14.700. Germany’s He called for commercial and hu- “We have evidence that today in France, Germany, Britain and the potential clean sweep at these champi- Favourite to take gold, she received a Elisabeth Seitz won bronze with manitarian imports of food, fuel and Yemen every 10 minutes a child under European Union issued a joint onships by Belgium’s Nina Derwael in mark of 15.366, well ahead of second- 14.600. Sport Page 1 other essentials to be allowed without the age of 5 is dying from preventable condemnation yesterday of the restrictions, and urged the sides to allow diseases and severe acute malnutrition,” US move to place fresh sanctions roads to remain open so “life-saving he told Reuters from Hodeidah. on the Iranian economy, vowing to goods can reach communities across the The United Nations says about 14mn protect European companies doing country.” people, or half Yemen’s population, “legitimate” business with Tehran. He called on Yemeni parties to en- could soon be on the brink of famine in “We deeply regret the reimposition gage in good faith negotiations, without a man-made disaster. of sanctions by the United States Erdogan: ‘highest levels’ in preconditions, with UN special envoy Already 1.8mn Yemeni children are stemming from their withdrawal Martin Griffi ths to reach a negotiated malnourished, more than 400,000 of from the Joint Comprehensive Plan political settlement. “The international them suff ering from severe acute mal- of Action,” the statement said in community has a real opportunity to nutrition, a life-threatening condition reference to the hard-fought 2015 Saudi ordered Khashoggi hit halt the senseless cycle of violence and that leaves them skeletal with muscle nuclear deal with Iran. Business to prevent an imminent catastrophe,” wasting, Cappelaere said. Page 1 Guterres said. “The time to act is now.” Amnesty International called yester- O Khashoggi’s body kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul on October 2 as part of a planned hit, and Despite the appeals, fi ghting contin- day on United Nations member states to PAKISTAN | Religion ‘dissolved’ after murder October 2. his body was then dismembered and ued yesterday, with the Saudi-led coa- hold Saudi Arabia to account for human Meanwhile, a Turkish offi cial destroyed. lition saying it had attacked Sanaa In- rights abuses in Yemen and at home Islamist party to O Fiancee urges Trump to claimed that Khashoggi’s body was The Turkish offi cial quoted by the ternational Airport and an adjoining air amid pressure over the murder of critic call off protests back probe “dissolved” after he was murdered and Washington Post said that “biologi- base being used by Houthi insurgents. Jamal Khashoggi. A Pakistani Islamist party said dismembered in Saudi Arabia’s consu- cal evidence” found in the consulate’s Guterres said he was appealing to The UN Human Rights Council will yesterday it will call off protests over AFP late in Istanbul a month ago. garden indicated the body was likely both sides to halt the violence and to on Monday hold its fi rst universal re- the acquittal of a Christian woman Washington The claim echoed details a Turkish disposed of near where Khashoggi was preserve important infrastructure. view of Saudi Arabia since 2014 as Ri- who faced hanging on blasphemy offi cial had earlier given to the Wash- killed. “The appeal is to all of them (to) em- yadh grapples with the fallout from the charges, striking a deal with the ington Post — for which Khashoggi was Saudi authorities have denied bark in the cessation of hostilities soon- killing of journalist Khashoggi. Page 3 government to end three days of he order to murder Saudi jour- a contributor — that authorities were Turkish police permission to search protests in major cities. Under the nalist and regime critic Jamal investigating a theory the body was a well in the consulate’s garden, but deal, the government agreed to seek TKhashoggi came from “the destroyed in acid. did allow them to take water samples Girl, 7, who became symbol of Yemen famine dies to bar Asia Bibi, a mother of five who highest levels” of the Riyadh govern- “We now see that it wasn’t just cut for analysis, according to local media has been on death row since 2010, ment, Turkey’s President Recep Tayy- up, they got rid of the body by dis- reports.