ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Monday 14 April 2014 14 Jumadal II 1435 - Volume 19 Number 6035 Price: QR2 March property Emotional transactions Liverpool hit QR4.2bn on top Business | 18 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Qatar, Albania sign agreements Special car Fine, jail for number auction next week selling expired, DOHA: The Traffic Department is planning to organise an auc- tion for special car numbers for the public next week. The auction, which is expected damaged food to attract large number of people, will be conducted in an open and transparent way under the super- vision of a special committee, Al Food law made stricter Sharq reports. The committee was set up with DOHA: Anyone found dealing insects, or germs or if it is pre- participation of the department in expired food will face impris- pared or stored in an improper of legal affairs at the Ministry of onment for six months to one manner. Interior, and other concerned sec- year or fines worth QR7,000 to The food is considered harmful tions of the ministry. QR15,000 or both, the Ministry to health if it contained radiat- THE PENINSULA of Municipality and Urban ing material, insects, insecticides, Planning has warned. or poisoning material and if it is Recent amendments in the handled by a person(s)who suffer Shooting in country’s food monitoring law also from communicable diseases or stipulate that those selling food produced from dead animals or Kansas City that can harm human health face animals which had been suffering jail for one year to two years and from communicable diseases. The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani and Albanian leaves 3 dead fines worth QR15,000 to QR30,000 The rules will also apply if the Prime Minister Edi Rama witnessing the signing of a memorandum of understanding on health cooperation or both, Al Sharq reported, quot- food is mixed with soil, or con- between Qatar and Albania, and an agreement on regulating the use of Albanian labourers in Qatar. OVERLAND PARK: Three ing a Ministry statement. tained banned colours or preserv- people were shot and killed Anyone dealing in expired food atives that harms human health yesterday afternoon in subur- or that which is not fit for human According to the amend- ban Kansas City, and a spokes- consumption will face two years ment, the Qatar Authority for woman for a local hospital said to four years in jail and fines Standards and Specifications at a 15-year-old boy is in critical worth QR15,000 to QR30,000 or the Ministry of Environment War at turning point: Assad condition. both, if the sold food had a harm- has also been given the power Overland Park city spokesman ful effect on someone’s health or if to decide on closure of err- Sean Reilly says two people died it led to chronic diseases. ing outlets. Earlier, this power BEIRUT: President Bashar ... by the army and armed forces which international powers that at the Jewish Community Center The offender will face four was limited to departments at Al Assad said yesterday that in the war against terror and in ... back the rebels have described as of Greater Kansas City campus years to eight years in jail and the Ministry of Municipality Syria’s three-year conflict was terms of national reconciliation”, a “parody of democracy”. and one was killed at Village fines of QR30,000 to QR60,000 or and Urban Planning and the at a “turning point” due to his state news agency SANA reported. Opposition activists said yester- Shalom, which is a retirement both if the expired or spoilt food Supreme Council of Health. forces’ military gains against In recent months, govern- day that at least 20 people were community that is several blocks resulted in someone’s death, the A sticker will be placed at the rebels, state media said. ment forces, backed by Lebanon’s killed when warplanes attacked away from the center. Overland daily said. outlet saying that it (or the spe- Assad’s allies have portrayed Hezbollah fighters, recaptured Douma, a town near Damascus. Park Fire Department spokesman The Law (No. 4 of 2014) amend- cific area of the outlet) has been him as confident and in control several rebel-held areas and bor- A day earlier, rebels and the gov- Jason Rhodes said that one person ing some provisions of Law No. 8 closed for violating the food moni- and they expect him to run for der towns, closing off rebel supply ernment blamed each other for of interest is in custody. of 1990 on monitoring of food for toring law, and the decision will and win a presidential election routes from Lebanon and secur- an alleged poison gas attack on The Jewish Community Center human consumption has speci- be published on the website of in July — a turnaround from ing the main highway leading Kfar Zeita village in the central posted on its Facebook page that fied violations of the law as well the department that has taken last year when he looked on the north from Damascus towards province of Hama that they said a “shooting incident” happened as punishments. the decision. verge of defeat as rebels advanced central Syria, Homs and the wounded scores of people. near its White Theater entrance It can be confirmed through The amendments allow the towards Damascus, struck in the Mediterranean. US ambassador to the United and the building is on lockdown. laboratory tests whether the food authorities to close down an heart of the capital and took con- The government has also Nations Samantha Power told Overland Park Medical Centre is fit for human consumption, it erring out for “not more than trol of key areas. struck localised truces in dis- ABC’s “This Week” that the said a 15-year-old boy who was can harm human health, it is 60 days” straightway. Earlier, Addressing graduate students tricts in and around Damascus, attack was so far “unsubstanti- brought from the scene of the spoilt or genuine. outlets were closed initially for and staff of the political sci- ending sieges on rebel-held ated”. “But we’ve shown, I think, Jewish Community Center is Punishments will be imposed if one month, and the closure was ence department in Damascus areas, many of which lasted for in the past, that we will do eve- in critical condition. There is a it is confirmed that the contents, extended to two months and University: “(Assad) pointed out more than a year, causing severe rything in our power to establish heavy police presence at the cam- taste, colour, smell or expiry date then three months if the viola- that there is a turning point in hunger and death. Assad is pre- what has happened and then con- pus. The entrance to the campus of the food have been changed tion was repeated. the crisis in Syria in terms of the paring to run for a third term sider possible steps in response.” is blocked off. or if the food contained worms, THE PENINSULA continuous military achievements in an election expected in July REUTERS AGENCIES Forest fire in Chilean port city kills 11 Foreigner dies Israel confiscates of MERS virus in Saudi, eight land in West Bank JERUSALEM: Israel has car- It was not immediately clear more infected ried out a new land appropria- whether the reported appropria- tion in the occupied West Bank, tion was part of sanctions that JEDDAH: A foreigner has died the Haaretz daily said yesterday, Israel has begun to impose in from MERS while eight people in a move that could complicate response to the April 1 signing including five health workers efforts to extend troubled peace by Palestinians of 15 international have been infected in the Saudi talks with the Palestinians. conventions and agreements city of Jeddah, where the spread Haaretz said the Defence during the current crisis in of the coronavirus among med- Ministry declared nearly 250 US-brokered peace negotiations. ics has sparked panic. acres of territory in the Gush Mohammed Shtayyeh, a senior The death of the 45-year- Etzion settlement bloc just south official in the Palestinian negoti- old man, whose nationality has of Jerusalem “state land”. ating team, said the move showed not been disclosed, brings the Asked by Reuters about the Israel was more concerned with nationwide toll in the world’s report, the ministry declined to expanding its control of West most-affected country to 68. The comment but said it might have Bank land than in peace talks. health ministry late on Saturday A forest fire burns in Valparaiso city, northwest of Santiago, Chile, yesterday. At least 11 people were killed and something to say in the coming “(The Israeli government) will announced the death of the man 500 houses destroyed by the fire, which rampaged over 1,700 acres of forest and hilly residential neighbour- days. The land appropriation, the do everything possible in order to and said five health workers — hoods including, La Cruz and Las Canas. See also page 11 left-leaning newspaper said, was turn its occupation into annexa- two women and three men — the largest in years and could tion of our land. The decision ... is and three other people had been eventually lead to the expan- simply a reflection of (Israeli Prime infected by the virus in Jeddah. sion of several settlements and Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu’s The announcement came days authorisation of a settler outpost will to strengthen settlements and after panic over the spread of the Kiev gives rebels deadline Libyan premier resigns built without Israeli government bury the two-state solution,” he said.