ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Thursday 15 August 2013 8 Shawwal 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5792 Price: QR2 Fonterra official Murray brushes resigns after Youzhny aside in milk scare Cincinnati opener Business | 18 Sport | 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Israelis, Palestinians resume peace talks 235 killed JERUSALEM: Israeli and Palestinian negotiators recon- vened US-brokered peace talks in Jerusalem yesterday amid little fanfare and low expecta- tions, dogged by plans for more Jewish settler homes on occu- in Egypt pied land. The resumption of negotiations followed Palestinian celebrations overnight as Israel released 26 of their jailed brethren. Israel has published plans for 3,100 new settler homes in recent days. bloodbath See also page 5 Vice-president El Baradei quits Manning says sorry FORT MEADE: US soldier CAIRO: Egyptian security Bradley Manning apologised forces crushed the protest Qatar condemns yesterday for handing state camps of thousands of sup- secrets over to the WikiLeaks porters of deposed Islamist use of force website in the biggest breach president Mohammed Mursi DOHA: Qatar strongly con- of classified data in US his- yesterday, shooting almost 200 demned yesterday’s bloody tory. “I’m sorry I hurt people. of them dead in the bloodiest crackdown in Cairo against I’m sorry that I hurt the United day in decades and polarising supporters of Mohammed States,” the 25-year-old Army the Arab world’s most populous Mursi. “Qatar strongly private first class told the sen- nation. denounces the means by tencing phase of his court- At least 235 people were killed which peaceful protesters martial. “I’m apologising for in all, including at least 43 police, in Rabaa Al Adawiya camp Egyptian security forces move in to clear one of the two sit-in sites of supporters of ousted president Mursi, near the unexpected results of my and 2,000 wounded, a health offi- and Al Nahda Square have Rabaa Adawiya Mosque in Cairo, yesterday. actions. The last three years cial said, in fierce clashes that been dealt with and which have been a learning experience spread beyond Cairo to towns led to the killing of several self-respecting state could had been camped at two major emergency to be lifted as soon as for me,” he said. and cities around Egypt. Deposed unarmed innocent people accept,” he said in a televised sites in Cairo since before he was possible. A US official told Reuters See also page 9 president Mohammed Mursi’s among them,” a foreign min- address. toppled on July 3, and had vowed that Washington was considering Muslim Brotherhood said the istry spokesman said. The authorities imposed a not to leave the streets until he cancelling the biennial “Bright TODAY’S EDITION OF death toll of what it called a “mas- AFP dusk-to-dawn curfew in Cairo was returned to power. Star” joint military exercise with THE PENINSULA sacre” was far higher. and several other cities including The assault, ending a six-week Egypt, due this year, after the INCLUDES A 24-PAGE While bodies wrapped in car- had completely cleared two pro- Alexandria, Egypt’s second city on standoff, defied international latest violence, in what would SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT ON pets were carried to a make- test camps in the capital and the Mediterranean coast. pleas for restraint and a negoti- be a direct snub to the Egyptian shift morgue near the Rabaa would not tolerate any further The use of force prompted ated political solution. Straddling armed forces. Violence rippled out Al Adawiya mosque, the army- sit-ins, he said, vowing to restore Mohamed El Baradei, a former the Suez Canal, a vital global from Cairo, with Mursi support- backed rulers declared a one- Mubarak-era security. UN diplomat and the most promi- trade route, Egypt is a key US ers and security forces clashing in month state of emergency, Prime Minister Hazem nent liberal supporter of Mursi’s ally at the heart of the Middle the cities of Alexandria, Minya, restoring to the military the El Beblawi defended the use of overthrow, to resign as vice presi- East and was the first Arab state Assiut, Fayoum and Suez and in AUGUST 15, 2013 unfettered power it wielded for force, condemned by the United dent, saying the conflict could to make peace with Israel. Buhayra and Beni Suef provinces. decades before a pro-democracy States and European govern- have been resolved by peaceful US Secretary of State John Since Mursi was toppled, the uprising toppled autocrat Hosni ments, saying the authorities had means. “The beneficiaries of what Kerry, European Union foreign security forces had twice before Mubarak in 2011. no choice but to act to end “the happened today are those call for policy chief Catherine Ashton killed scores of protesters in Interior Minister Mohamed spread of anarchy”. violence, terrorism and the most and UN Secretary-General Ban attempts to drive Mursi’s follow- Ibrahim said 43 police were “We found that matters extreme groups,” he said. Ki-moon all deplored the use of ers off the streets. REUTERS among the dead. Security forces had reached a point that no Thousands of Mursi’s supporters force and called for the state of See also page 8 Heavyweights push Qatar bourse index beyond 10,000 mark DOHA: Qatar’s main index Khaledy, who earlier predicted the breached 10,000 points yester- Total H1 net profits stock rally would continue, in fact, day but a prominent stock ana- said he expected the index to shoot lyst warned investors against up by 13.95pc up beyond the 15,000 points by the being overly excited, saying the DOHA: Some 41 of the first quarter of 2014. jump was mainly propelled by a 42 Qatari listed compa- “I don’t foresee a major few large-cap shares. nies (with the exception correction in the near and Stocks like those of mega play- of Vodafone Qatar) have medium-term,” Al Khaledy, ers such as Industries Qatar (IQ), reported combined net prof- CEO of Qatar-Oman Investment QNB, Woqod (Qatar Fuel) and Al its of QR20.99bn ($5.76bn) Company, told this newspaper. Rayan bank, among others, have for the first half of 2013, up But Al Kahlout didn’t agree been the major drivers of the 13.95 percent over the same and said a correction might be historic index gain. Other stocks period of 2012. The January coming. haven’t performed so well as a to June 2012 net profit fig- MSCI emerging markets sta- result of the companies not show- ures of the companies were tus becomes effective in respect ing better performance, said the QR18.48bn ($5.07bn), QE of Qatar Exchange (QE) in May analyst. “Personally I don’t appre- said on its website. 2014, but its impact is visible ciate such index jumps,” Bashir from now as foreign institutional Al Kahlout told The Peninsula. “A investors (FIIs) have begun gradual rise is always desirable.” happens in December,” said Al taking positions much ahead INS Sindhurakshak He said a lot of liquidity was Kahlout, hinting the index could of the timeframe, Al Khaledy Indian Navy submarine on fire in Mumbai in this still image taken from a video yesterday. flowing into the market but its breach 15,000 and even 20,000 lev- suggested. sources were not clear. “If this els if trading remains so buoyant. THE PENINSULA 18 feared dead in India submarine blast is happening now, imagine what A key corporate figure, Nasser Al Continued on page 4 MUMBAI: India’s navy chief of a locally built aircraft carrier be, of someone having grabbed held out little hope for survivors aimed at giving India the edge at a breathing set,” he told a news on a submarine after some of its sea as it competes with China in conference. weapons detonated accidentally the Indian Ocean. The INS Sindhurakshak, which Facebook undermines happiness: Study and fire swept through it. The Navy chief Admiral D K Joshi returned from an upgrade in likely deaths and damage are said divers had managed to pry Russia this year, had suffered WASHINGTON: People who use Facebook may The researchers recruited 82 young adults the worst blow to the navy since open the main hatch of the diesel- an accident in 2010 in which one feel more connected, but less happy. who had smartphones and Facebook accounts and a 1971 war with Pakistan. powered submarine, more than 12 sailor was killed while it was A study of young adults released yesterday con- assessed their subjective well-being by texting them Eighteen sailors were on board hours after the incident, and were docked in the southern port of cluded that the more people used Facebook, the at random times five times a day for two weeks. the 16-year-old Russian-built INS trying to find their way through Visakhapatnam. worse they subsequently felt. The researchers said the study, published in the Sindhurakshak, which was docked the vessel. Typically, such a submarine is “On the surface, Facebook provides an invaluable scientific journal PLOS, was believed to be the first at the main naval base in Mumbai “Whilst we hope for the best, fitted with torpedoes and missiles. resource for fulfilling the basic human need for social measuring Facebook’s impact on happiness and life when two blasts rocked the vessel we are prepared for the worst Torpedoes are launched under- connection,” said University of Michigan social psy- satisfaction. “This is a result of critical importance in the middle of Tuesday night.