ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 4 Business | 17 Sport | 28 QRC begins 2014 distinctive Arsenal seek anti-blindness for QFMA, says title proof in campaign for Qatar Central today’s Chelsea kids in Dhaka. Bank chief. encounter. SUNDAY 2 AUGUST 2015 • 17 Shawwal 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6510 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Lavrov, Kerry Qatar Stewards’ Cup to meet in Doha over Iran Kerry not visiting Israel during tour DOHA: Russia’s foreign min- Officials reportedly said the ister has scheduled a trilat- trip was primarily designed to fol- eral meeting in Qatar with his low-up on a May meeting that US United States and Saudi Arabia President Barack Obama hosted counterparts. for Arab leaders at Camp David, Sergei Lavrov will confer with at which the US tried to ease the US Secretary of State John Kerry worries of its Middle East allies and Saudi Foreign Minister Adel over Iran. Al Jubeir during his two-day trip The officials, who spoke on to Doha starting today, Russia’s condition of anonymity because Foreign Ministry said yesterday. they were not authorised to dis- The ministry said Lavrov would cuss Kerry’s trip publicly, said the also hold meetings with Emir talks in Qatar would take stock H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad of progress made on those goals, Al Thani and Foreign Minister particularly since the Iran deal H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al was signed. Attiyah, Reuters reported. One US official said that Kerry Frankie Dettori on Magical Memory (left) winning the 3:45 Qatar Stewards’ Cup (Heritage Handicap) at the Goodwood Racecourse in the United Kerry had said earlier he plans would use the meeting with the Kingdom yesterday. to meet separately in Doha with foreign ministers of the Gulf Lavrov to discuss Syria, Iran and Cooperation Council (GCC) to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. “try to respond to any remaining During his visit to Qatar, Lavrov questions they might have, hope- will discuss the crises in Syria, fully satisfy them and ensure that QFMA probes Libya and Yemen. they are supporting our effort Population hits 2.34m in June Aljazeera reported John Kerry going forward”. 20 companies is heading to Egypt and Qatar to Iranian Foreign Minister DOHA: Qatar’s population on number of persons of all ages compared to last May, when meet the foreign ministers of both Mohammad Javad Zarif visited June 30, 2015 reached about (Qataris and expatriates) within the number of beneficiaries was DOHA: The Qatar Markets countries, with a nuclear deal Kuwait, Qatar and Iraq in a 2.34 million, witnessing a 9 the country as on June 30, 2015. 11,629. Authority (QFMA) has con- with Iran topping the agenda of similar tour earlier this week to percent rise compared to June It does not include Qataris and Visitors to Qatar increased by ducted investigations into 20 the talks. talk to his counterparts about the 2014, when it was 2.15 million, non-Qataris (with residency per- 7.3 percent in June 2015 com- financial services companies, Kerry, who arrived in Cairo nuclear deal. according to data released by mits) who were outside the state’s pared to the same period last including brokerage firms, over yesterday, will not be visiting Kerry’s first stop was Cairo the Ministry of Development boundaries on the given date. year. Visitors from GCC countries suspected violations of market Israel, Washington’s main ally in where he will participate today in Planning and Statistics. The Ministry has released the made up the highest proportion regulations last year. the region and the major oppo- a strategic dialogue with Egyptian However, on a month-on- 18th edition of (Qatar Monthly (40.7 percent) of visitors. The regulatory body also made nent of the Iran agreement. officials that has been on hia- month basis, the population in Statistics) bulletin which includes The bulletin also shows that inspections, including surprise US officials rejected sugges- tus because of political unrest June saw a marginal decline of figures on a number of year-on- vehicles registered in June num- visits, at 30 financial firms in 2014. tions that Kerry’s omission of since 2009. 1.28 percent when compared year social and economic changes, bered 9,933 compared to 9,853 last QFMA received 27 complaints of Israel from the itinerary signalled After leaving the Middle East, to May this year when it was in addition to statistical data May, a decline of 0.8 percent. alleged market violations, it dis- that the Obama administration Kerry will travel to Southeast 2,374,860. This is because a large recorded in June 2015. Traffic violations numbered closed in its annual report with- had given up trying to convince Asia, stopping in Singapore, number of people travel outside The bulletin also indicates 126,503 in June 2015, with a out giving details. Israeli leaders of the merits of Malaysia and Vietnam before the country during the summer that June’s social security benefi- month-on-month decrease of 12.9 During the year, the Appeals the deal, the Associated Press returning to Washington. break. ciaries accounted for 12,069 citi- percent from last May. Committee held hearing to eleven reported. THE PENINSULA This data represents the zens, an increase of 3.8 percent THE PENINSULA cases. THE PENINSULA Skydiving world record Israeli troops Exiled Yemeni PM shoot dead Bahah visits Aden Palestinian ADEN: Yemeni Prime Minister March when the rebels entered RAMALLAH, WEST Khaled Bahah made a symbolic Aden. Impoverished Yemen has BANK: A Palestinian youth visit to the devastated port of been rocked by fighting between died yesterday at a West Aden from Saudi exile yester- the Houthi rebels and Hadi loy- Bank hospital following a day, two weeks after loyalist alists, who have received air clash with Israeli troops near forces ousted Shia rebels from support from a Saudi-led Arab Ramallah, Palestinian hospital the city. coalition for the past four months. officials said. Bahah became the highest The United Nations says the The confrontation was one of ranking official to return to the war has killed nearly 4,000 peo- three in a matter of hours on southern city since the govern- ple, half of them civilians, while Friday in which Palestinians died ment announced its liberation in 80 percent of the 21-million in Israeli-Palestinian violence, mid-July. population is in need of aid and making it one of the tensest days He was followed by officials protection. in the occupied West Bank and whose task will be to restore On Monday, a humanitarian the Gaza Strip in recent months. normality and public services to pause declared by the coalition Israeli soldiers fired at the a city battered by four months of went into effect but collapsed Palestinian after he threw a fire- ferocious combat. the next day. An airport source bomb at them, the military said. Bahah, who is also vice presi- said Bahah flew in on a Saudi Earlier on Friday, an 18-month- dent in Yemen’s internationally military plane and promised old Palestinian boy was killed in recognised government, fled into in an arrival statement that a house fire in the West Bank exile with President Abdrabuh “normal life” would return to a village of Duma near Nablus A total of 164 skydivers joining in formation to set a world record while flying heads-down over Ottawa, Illinois, Mansur Hadi and his team in “liberated Aden”. AFP that was set by suspected Jewish in the United States. The record easily surpassed the previous mark of 138 skydivers. assailants. His parents and a sib- ling are in critical condition in Israeli hospitals, officials said. In the Gaza Strip the same day, Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian teenager near the bor- Bin Laden’s stepmother, sister killed in UK plane crash der fence. Israeli troops yesterday used YATELEY, UNITED identify the dead, a source close it tried to land at Blackbushe The Saudi ambassador “offered The embassy also said it would riot dispersal means to break KINGDOM: Members of to the family speaking to AFP Airport, a small airfield in his condolences to the sons of the work with British authorities up a stone-throwing clash in the Osama bin Laden’s family were and Saudi media indicated that Hampshire, southern England. late Mohammed bin Laden and to investigate the incident and West Bank between Israeli set- among four people killed when they were Bin Laden’s stepmother Police confirmed that three their relations for the grave inci- repatriate the bodies for burial tlers and Palestinians and there a private jet crashed into a car Raja Hashim, his sister Sanaa, the passengers and the pilot had dent of the crash of the plane car- in Saudi Arabia. were a number of other protests auction lot in Britain, Saudi sister’s husband Zuhair Hashem, died. Officers have launched an rying members of the family at Osama bin Laden, the man where Palestinians and Israeli Arabia’s embassy in London and a Jordanian pilot. investigation into what caused the Blackbushe airport,” a statement behind the 9/11 attacks, was Arabs demonstrated. REUTERS said yesterday. The Saudi-registered Phenom crash alongside the Air Accidents posted on the embassy’s Twitter killed by US special forces in See also page 5 While the embassy did not 300 jet came down on Friday as Investigation Branch (AAIB). account said. Pakistan in 2011. AFP SUNDAY 2 AUGUST 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Greetings sent Qatar sends relief to Swiss, Benin plane to Yemen DOHA: Following directives of presidents Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, a planeload of DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh assistance left for brethren in Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Yemen yesterday.