BUSINESS | Page 1 SPORT | Page 1 Double-digit growth QNB Stars League: in used vehicles, Edmilson and heavy equipment Dudu on fi re as sustains Qatar Al Duhail defeat automobile sector Al Wakrah published in QATAR since 1978 SATURDAY Vol. XXXXI No. 11788 January 9, 2021 Jumada I 25, 1442 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals 2020 ties with 2016 as Amir meets US secretary of treasury hottest year on record 2020 has tied with 2016 as the hottest year on record, the European Qatar Airways to Union’s climate monitoring service said yesterday. The six years since 2015 are the warmest ever registered, as are 20 of the last 21, evidence of a persistent and deepening trend, resume Riyadh the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) reported. Last year’s record high - a soaring 1.25C above pre-industrial levels - was all the more alarming because it came without fl ights on Monday the help of a periodic natural weather event known as an El Nino, which added up to two-tenths of a degree O UAE updates its Notices to Airmen on lifting airspace ban on Qatar to the 2016 average, according Nasa His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani yesterday met at his off ice in Al Bahr Palace and Britain’s Met Off ice. Page 8 By Peter Alagos Similarly, Macheras also tweeted that with US Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin and his accompanying delegation. During the meeting, Business Reporter the UAE has updated its Notices to Airmen they reviewed the friendship relations and strategic co-operation between the two countries, especially WHO in call to stop (NOTAMs) on the lifting of airspace ban on in the financial and economic fields, in addition to discussing regional and international developments. Qatar. Page 2 jumping vaccine queue ational carrier Qatar Airways will fl y “Breaking: United Arab Emirates offi cially The World Health Organisation for the fi rst time since June 2017 to updates its NOTAMs to remove its airspace ban Amir meets acting US homeland security secretary yesterday urged rich countries to NSaudi Arabian capital Riyadh on Mon- on Qatar, which lasted 3.5 years — (following stop jumping the queue and making day. Saudi Arabia, who removed the ban yesterday). bilateral deals for the first wave In a tweet yesterday, aviation analyst Alex #Qatar,” the tweet announced. of Covid-19 vaccines. WHO chief Macheras said: “Breaking: Qatar’s fi rst com- According to the US Federal Aviation Ad- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said mercial airline fl ight to Saudi Arabia - fol- ministration website, a NOTAM “is a notice that right from the outset, wealthier lowing the end of the three-and-a-half-year containing information (not known suffi - nations had snapped up the majority blockade - is set for ciently in advance to publicise by other means) of the supply of multiple vaccines next week, on Mon- concerning the establishment, condition, or - potentially bumping up the price day afternoon.” change in any component (facility, service, or for everyone else battling the Macheras also procedure of, or hazard in the National Air- coronavirus pandemic. He called tweeted that the space System) the timely knowledge of which on states that have booked excess airline will utilise is essential to personnel concerned with fl ight vaccine doses to release them and its “Boeing 787-8 operations.” donate them to the globally-shared Dreamliner” for the The resumption of Qatar Airways direct Covax programme, which aims to fl ight, and that the fl ights to Saudi Arabia is seen as one of the im- distribute vaccines equitably around “Usual #COVID19 mediate results of the “solidarity and stability” the world. Page 8 entry policies & re- agreement signed by Gulf leaders during the strictions will ap- 41st GCC Council held last Tuesday in the city ply.” Aviation analyst Alex of Al-Ula in Saudi Arabia. His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani met at his off ice in the Amiri Diwan with the COMMUNITY According to the Macheras. On the eve of the summit, it was announced visiting Acting US Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security Chad Wolf and his accompanying tweet, fl ight QR 1164 that the Abu Samra border, Qatar’s only land delegation. The meeting reviewed friendship ties and strategic co-operation between Qatar and the US, will depart from Hamad International Airport border to the Kingdom, will be opened, includ- as well as the latest regional and international developments. Page 2 See Pages (HIA) on January 11 at 2.05pm and will arrive ing Saudi Arabia’s sea border and airspace. after almost one and a half hours later at the 4,5 & 6 King Khaled International Airport in Riyadh. IATA welcomes reopening A radiant blue sky of airspace by Saudi, allies Congressional Democrats plan The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has welcomed the signing of the “soli- second impeachment of Trump darity and stability” agreement that will see Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE and Egypt open Reuters Mike Pence and Trump’s Cabinet to invoke the their air, land and sea borders with Qatar. Washington US Constitution’s 25th Amendment, which allows The agreement paves the way for commer- them to remove the president if he is unable to dis- cial airlines to resume regional connectivity— charge his offi cial duties. which will shorten flight times and provide emocrats in the House of Representatives But Pence is opposed to the idea, an adviser said. essential air links to families and businesses plan to introduce misconduct charges on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Trump “un- across the region, IATA said. DMonday that could lead to a second im- hinged” yesterday and said Congress must do “The reopening of airspace with Qatar by peachment of President Donald Trump, two everything possible to protect Americans, even Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE and Egypt is sources familiar with the matter said, after a vio- though Trump’s term in offi ce will end on Jan 20 welcome news for the region, passengers lent crowd of Trump supporters stormed the US when Biden is sworn in. and the aviation industry during these very Capitol in an assault on American democracy. She also said she had spoken with the nation’s top diff icult times,” it said. With a majority in the House, Democrats appear general, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley, It will permit the resumption of direct poised for a historic fi rst: No president has ever about preventing Trump from initiating military flights between these countries and Qatar, been impeached twice. hostilities or launching a nuclear weapon. eliminating complex transit travel itinerar- But it is unclear if lawmakers would be able to Meanwhile, Trump announced yesterday that Fluff y clouds and a radiant blue sky embellished the fine weather yesterday across Doha ies that saw typical journey times increase remove Trump from offi ce, as any impeachment he will not attend Biden’s inauguration on January when the maximum and minimum temperatures were 24C and 11C, respectively. The from under an hour to over five hours in would prompt a trial in the Senate, where his fel- 20. Trump is the fi rst incumbent president in more same forecast is applicable today also, with the exception of off shore thundery rain, some cases. To Page 2 low Republicans hold sway. than 150 years to skip his successor’s swearing-in. strong wind and high waves at places, the Met Off ice said. PICTURE: Shaji Kayamkulam Top Democrats have called on Vice President Page 7 QCRI introduces innovative solutions to fi ght cyberattacks By Joseph Varghese degree, cybersecurity is becoming (System for Integrated Health Ana- real threats, as diff erent entities access sharing and analytics. Federated Staff Reporter more of a data analytics problem.” lytics), in collaboration with Hamad electronic medical records, often with learning, searching encrypted data, The new tools include QCRI’s ‘guilt- Medical Corporation, Sidra Medicine, confl icting interests. and content-agnostic detection of by-association’ tool used to identify and others, QCRI is confronting many He supports the zero-trust model indicators of compromise, combined atar Computer Research Insti- suspicious domains or predict mali- of the challenges facing the next gener- adopted by Qatar, a holistic approach with big data curation and advanced tute (QCRI), a part of Hamad cious attacks by analysing the previous ation of health solutions. SIHA (health to cybersecurity involving several machine learning algorithms, can en- QBin Khalifa University, has in- movements of the domain address. in Arabic) combines data from weara- technologies and processes through able real-time monitoring, logging, troduced a number of innovative so- QCRI has built another tool to uti- bles, smart health IoT devices, and which access to all resources can be and correlation of logs across diff erent lutions to combat cyberattacks, espe- lise enterprise data logs to identify medical devices with other sources to authenticated and verifi ed. The ap- vantage points. Such a combined ef- cially on the healthcare systems, Gulf dormant attackers and amplify low deliver predictive analytics using ma- proach combines a “least privilege fort could help in connecting the dots Times has learnt. attack signals within the enterprise chine learning. model” and access control, with log- and tracing attack actions to the infra- “Cyberattacks on healthcare sys- network. Dr Faisal Farooq, principal scien- ging and inspecting all activities structure exploited an important step tems are on the rise globally and amid A third invention off ers actionable