ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 2 Business | 14 Sport | 21 UK committed Demand for Halal New Zealand to ensuring Gulf products rising: aim for place security, says International Trade among rugby Hammond. Centre report. greats. SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 2015 • 17 Muharram 1437 • Volume 20 Number 6600 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir receives Mauritanian President Severe cyclone heading towards Labour City in Yemen, Oman: UN GENEVA: The UN’s weather agency warned yesterday a “super cyclonic storm” was heading Mesaimeer to towards Oman and war-ravaged Yemen, where it could strike with hurricane force and dump torrential rain that may trigger landslides. Named Chapala, the storm is open tomorrow brewing in the Arabian Sea and is expected to make landfall in northern Yemen and the adjoin- Region’s most modern labour camp complex ing Oman coast around midnight on Monday, the World Meteoro- DOHA: The region’s most modern com- There are a total of 9,872 rooms in the logical Organisation (WMO) said. plex of labour camps, the Labour City in entire complex and it covers an area of a “Tropical cyclones are Mesaimeer, is all set to open its doors to its staggering 1.8 million square metres. It is extremely rare over the Arabian residents — foreign workers — tomorrow. literally a whole city and aptly named so. peninsula,” WMO spokeswoman The City is being inaugurated under the Known as Barwa Al Baraha project, in Clare Nullis told reporters, add- patronage of the Prime Minister and Min- its first phase a massive parking area was ing that the storm might well be ister of Interior, H E Sheikh Abdullah bin built for 4,200 trucks and other types of the first of its kind to hit Yemen. Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani. vehicles along with related facilities. “We hope the humanitarian The City has the capacity to accommo- And during its second phase, the Labour impact (of Chapala) on Yemen date 53,000 workers and has all kinds of City was developed. The project has been will be limited,” Nullis said. The amenities, including stadiums, mosques, developed by state-backed Barwa Real WMO described Chapala as “an playgrounds, shopping centres, a large Estate Company. extremely severe cyclonic storm.” clinic and a number of restaurants. It is the largest development project ever Chapala is poised to strengthen The clinic will be manned by experi- built not only in Qatar but in the entire to become a “super cyclonic enced and specialist doctors and more region, to house workers. Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani held talks with President Mohamed Ould storm” within the next 24 hours, significantly, it will boast an accident and The city has a police station to maintain Abdel Aziz of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania at Al Bahr Palace yesterday. They dis- packing wind speeds of between emergency unit. law and order and ensure workers’ safety cussed bilateral ties and ways of enhancing them as well as a number of issues of com- 220 and 230km per hour in the The playgrounds and stadiums also and security. mon concern, particularly the latest developments in the region. Later, the Emir hosted next 24 hours, it added. include facilities for outdoor games such The city also boasts green space spread a luncheon in honour of the visiting president. “Because of the dry air from the as volleyball, cricket and football. over an area of 32,500 square meters. Arabian desert and lower ocean The entire city complex has 64 residen- The supervisory authority for the city thermal energy, we do expect it tial buildings, with each building having sometime ago began asking companies that will weaken before it makes land- 130 rooms for workers. Each building, of are interested in taking premises on rent fall,” Nullis said. four floors which can accommodate up to to house their workers to come forward US to send troops to Syria, In both countries, WMO 780 workers, also has a large dining area. and apply. expects “the most serious impacts These buildings are grouped into four These are modern living quarters offer- to be from the very, very, very major sub-complexes, each with 16 build- ing a higher standard of living for workers heavy anticipated rainfall,” Nullis ings. in low-income categories. powers divided on Assad said, citing reports that the area Besides, there are 16 other residential The city is set to be a model accommo- might get the equivalent of more buildings meant to house executive single dation for workers in the entire region. It VIENNA: The United States announced refugees to Europe. Syrian regime allies than a year’s worth of rainfall in workers or senior staff members of compa- will also have some 49 used car showrooms. yesterday its first sustained deployment Russia and Iran are resisting Western and a matter of days. nies that take premises here on rent. Each of ground troops to Syria to help the anti- Saudi pressure to force Assad from power. of these buildings have 97 rooms. THE PENINSULA jihadist fight, as major powers remained US Secretary of State John Kerry said he divided over President Bashar Al Assad’s had “agreed to disagree” with his Iranian 17 migrant kids fate. and Russian counterparts on the fate of the The decision to send a small special Syrian leader. Kerry said Washington still die off Greece forces team marks an escalation in Wash- believes Assad leaving office would smooth ington’s efforts to defeat the Islamic State the path to a deal to end Syria’s war and ATHENS: At least 17 children (IS) group, which has seized more Syrian help to defeat IS. drowned when three boats sank territory despite more than a year of US- Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov en route from Turkey to Greece, led air strikes. and Iran’s Mohammad Javad Zarif disa- officials said yesterday, the latest The White House rejected accusations greed, he admitted, but all three would con- tragedy to strike migrants brav- that President Barack Obama was tinue to work together to pursue a political ing wintry seas to seek asylum backtracking on a promise not to put boots settlement. He said the participants had in Europe. on the ground. “Our strategy in Syria hasn’t agreed to ask the United Nations to broker Nine adults also lost their lives changed,” spokesman Josh Earnest said. a ceasefire. Kerry and Lavrov also said they when the boats went down, with “These forces do not have a combat mission.” had agreed that Syria must emerge from the drownings once again high- Officials said an initial deployment of war as a unified secular state. lighting the human cost as Europe “fewer than 50” special forces would be Participants found common ground in struggles with its worst migrant sent to northern Syria—parts of which some areas although they remained divided crisis since the Second World are controlled by Syrian Kurdish forces over Assad’s future, French Foreign Min- Wa r. Although rescue officials fighting IS. ister Laurent Fabius said. in Greece and Turkey managed The announcement came as key backers “There are points of disagreement, but to pull another 157 people from of Syria’s rival sides meeting in Vienna we advanced enough for us to meet again, the water, such drownings have sought to narrow their divisions over a in the same configuration, in two weeks,” become an almost daily occurrence. A view of a section of the Labour City which is ready to host its residents. conflict that has claimed a quarter of a he told reporters. million lives and triggered an exodus of AFP AGENCIES Al Ahli tackle Al Khor Abbas meets war crimes prosecutor THE HAGUE: A Palestinian and nine Israelis died. war. Some 2,200 Palestinians, “Achieving justice is essential delegation led by President The almost daily clashes and mostly civilians, were killed for the Palestinian victims, dead Mahmoud Abbas met yesterday knife attacks have sparked fears in the 50-day war in July and and alive,” said Malki in June. with the International Criminal they may herald the start of a August 2014, as well as some 73 “Palestine has chosen to seek Court to hand over a file third Palestinian uprising, or Israelis, mostly soldiers. justice, not vengeance, this is documenting alleged Israeli intifada. Bensouda has officially why we are here today.” crimes such as “ethnic cleansing,” Top Palestinian official Saeb opened a preliminary inquiry to Malki was to address the Palestinian officials said. Erakat said a 52-page dossier see whether there is sufficient press after Friday’s talks, a Abbas arrived late yesterday was to be handed over to court evidence of crimes by either Palestinian official said. at the court for talks with officials yesterday. the Palestinians or the Israelis Israel, which has not signed Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda It includes details of alleged which would merit formal up to the ICC, has vehemently accompanied by Palestinian “summary executions, collective investigation. opposed the Palestinian attempt Foreign Minister Riad Al Malki, punishments, house demolitions To support its case, Malki to trigger a full investigation for a correspondent said. and ethnic cleansing,” Erakat handed over two files to the ICC war crimes. The talks at the world’s only said in a statement. in June. One dealt with alleged The move also angered permanent war crimes court The dossier “gathers all the Israeli crimes committed in Israel’s ally the United come amid an increase of Israeli- information on the Palestinian Gaza.