www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS | 12 SPORT | 21 Low oil prices could Qatar’s Al Attiyah be an impetus for extends lead in GCC reforms Kuwait SATURDAY 26 MARCH 2016 • 17 Jumada II 1437 • Volume 21 • Number 6747 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Flying restaurant Emir sends Bye-laws greetings to Greek President DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh on residency Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yester- day sent a cable of congratulations to President of the Hellenic Repub- lic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos,on the occasion of his country’s Inde- pendence Day. likely soon The Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday sent a cable of congratu- late last year, amending a previous lations to President of the Hellenic legislation. Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, on The law regulating It is to be implemented from the occasion of his country’s Inde- the entry, exit December this year, reports Al pendence Day. Sharq. The law was published in Prime Minister and Interior and residency of the official gazette on December Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin foreign workers was 13, 2015. It is to be implemented Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani also exactly a year after its publication sent a similar cable to President issued late last year, in the official gazette. of Greece. amending a previous The daily said the executive legislation. It is to be regulations to help put the new law in force from December 2016 22 dead in implemented from is being readied and will be out December this year. soon. Aden suicide A campaign will be launched The flying restaurant at the Qatar International Food Festival at MIA Park yesterday. in the local media as well as Pic: Baher Amin/The Peninsula bombings through the social media to The Peninsula explain the new law and the executive regulations. ADEN: Three suicide bombings The new legislation will replace yesterday struck checkpoints of the sponsorship system and make Yemeni loyalist forces in Aden, DOHA: The executive regulations to the employment and stay of expa- Al Fazaa vehicles to be fitted with cameras killing 22 people, including 10 help implement the new law regu- tiates here entirely contract-based. civilians, a security official said. lating the entry, exit and residency Job contract will need to be Two bombs went off simulta- of foreign workers are expected to signed by a foreign worker before The Peninsula including fire and road mishaps. fitted atop the vehicles there would neously at separate checkpoints in be out soon. he lands here once the new law is The cameras are to be mounted be no need for Al Fazaa personnel to Shaab district, on Aden’s western Executive regulations are bye- in effect from later this year. atop the vehicle. give details as operation room staff- outskirts, before gunmen attacked laws that explain each article of a Also, employment contracts Currently, Al Fazaa personnel ers would be able to watch the details a nearby base of the Saudi-led mil- law and explain in detail how they of all expatriate workers who are DOHA: Al Fazaa patrol vehicles are manning the patrol vehicle need themselves, reports Al Sharq. itary coalition, the official said. are to be put in force. already here will be replaced with to be fitted with video cameras so to inform about the accidents to From these cameras footages of A third explosive device The law (Number 21 of 2015) new contracts. that people sitting in the central the operation room and provide an accident would be transmitted planted in an ambulance was deto- regulating the entry, exit and resi- operation room of the Ministry of details. directly to the operation room of the nated at checkpoint near Mansura, dency of foreign workers was issued → Continued on page 2 Interior are able to watch accidents, However, once the cameras are interior ministry. in central Aden, the official said. Syrian army takes Palmyra citadel; IS commander killed Reuters reported. The citadel overlooks Human Rights monitoring group some of the most extensive ruins said an Islamic State leader was of the Roman empire. killed when his car was targeted Many of Palmyra’s temples and in a strike on Raqqa on Thursday BEIRUT/WASHINGTON: Islamic tombs have been dynamited by IS night. State (IS) fighters were on the fighters in what the United Nations It did not identify the dead mil- retreat in the strategic Syrian city described as a war crime, although itant, but US Defence Secretary Ash of Palmyra yesterday, as the United television footage showed that at least Carter said the group’s top finance States said it probably killed sev- some colonnades and structures still officer and other senior leaders eral senior leaders of the militant standing. were likely killed this week in a group this week including its top The recapture of Palmyra, which major offensive targeting its finan- finance officer. the IS militants seized in May 2015, cial operation. The double blow to the hardline would mark the biggest reversal for Carter said the United States group in its self-declared caliphate, Islamic State in Syria since Russia’s believes it killed Haji Iman — an which covers huge areas of Syria intervention turned the tide of the alias for Abdurahman Mustafa Al and Iraq, came three days after IS five-year conflict in President Bashar Qaduli, a senior Islamic State leader suicide bombers killed 31 people in Al Assad’s favour. in charge of the group’s finances Brussels, the worst such attack in Bel- The city controls routes east into as well as some plots and exter- gian history. the heartland of territory held by the nal affairs. “We are systematically Syrian soldiers fighting to militants, including province of Deir eliminating ISIL’s cabinet,” Carter told retake the desert city of Palmyra Al Zor and the IS’s de facto capital reporters at a briefing at the Penta- Children carry Islamist flags as they pose for photos during an anti-government protest in the rebel-controlled from IS forces recaptured its old in Raqqa. gon, using an acronym to refer to the city of Idlib in Syria, yesterday. citadel yesterday, various media The Syrian Observatory for group. UN slams gruesome killing of wounded Palestinian AFP the occupied West Bank,” UN Special perpetrator. The Israeli army on violence that erupted in October. debate over Israeli forces’ response criticism of the soldier involved in Coordinator for the Middle East peace Thursday arrested a soldier caught The incident was immediately to the current wave of violence which Thursday’s killing was damaging to process Nickolay Mladenov said in a on video shooting a wounded Pal- condemned as an “execution” by has left 200 Palestinians and 28 Israe- the country. “The attacks on a sol- statement. estinian in the head as he lay on the Israeli rights group B’Tselem and as lis dead. Most of the Palestinians dier who protects all of us before the JERUSALEM: The United Nations “This was a gruesome, immoral ground after stabbing another soldier, a “war crime” by Palestinians. killed were carrying out knife, gun investigation has even started harms condemned yesterday the gruesome and unjust act that can only fuel more his knife lying beyond his reach. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin or car-ramming attacks, according the military, harms Israel’s standing killing of a wounded Palestinian violence and escalate an already vol- The clip, which was widely shared Netanyahu said the soldier’s behaviour to Israeli authorities. in the world, and is harmful towards assailant by an Israeli soldier in the atile situation.” online and shown by state-owned was not in keeping with the army’s val- But the Israelis have also been our attempts to thwart future attacks,” occupied West Bank, after a video of He welcomed, however, Israeli and commercial Israeli TV channels, ues and Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon accused of using excessive force he said in a statement. the death spread widely online. Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon’s shows what appears to be one of the vowed that the incident was being in some cases, charges which they Former foreign minister Avigdor “I strongly condemn yesterday’s condemnation of the incident and most flagrant cases of Israeli forces’ treated with “utmost severity”. have firmly denied. Education Min- Lieberman also defended the shoot- apparent extra-judicial execution of called on the Israeli authorities to alleged use of excessive force so far The incident also fired up Israeli ister Naftali Bennett, who leads the ing, saying it was “hypocritical and a Palestinian assailant in Hebron in “swiftly bring to justice” the alleged in the wave of Israeli-Palestinian politicians and added heat to the far-right Jewish Home party, said unfair to gang up against the soldier.” 02 SATURDAY 26 MARCH 2016 HOME Bollywood star mesmerises crowd as Kalyan enters Qatar brand ambassadors of Kalyan Jew- Rayyan, Asian Town and HBK Signal India’s regional film elleres, which is among India’s top along with the other ambassadors. jewellery brand. Earlier, the showrooms at Al Khor, mega stars made The superstar arrived on the Abu Hamour and Barwa Village were public appearance stage at 4pm amid huge cheers by the inaugurated by Nagarjuna, Prabhu crowd. During his five-minute brief and Manju Warrier. to open seven appearance on the stage, he waved “It was wonderful to see huge showrooms of Kalyan and welcomed the crowd. Bachchan crowds at our showrooms and vin- sang few lines of popular song Kabhi dicates Kalyan’s popularity as a Jewellers in Qatar Kabhi mere dil me khyaal aata hai... preferred jewellery brand in the yesterday.