ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 2 Business | 14 Sport | 22 Promising China cuts Jerome market for rates again as Champagne Philippine real growth engine confirms FIFA estate sector. stalls. presidency bid. SATURDAY 24 OCTOBER 2015 • 10 Muharram 1437 • Volume 20 Number 6593 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Al Sadd tackle Al Khor Emir holds telephone Q-Post plans talks with president of Mauritania big push in DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani held a telephone conversation with President of Mauritania Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz yesterday. They discussed bilateral relations and the means to enhance them and a number of issues of com- online shopping mon interest. QNA Ship 2-Q service to start next year UN plans Yemen peace By Sachin Kumar package to the local address given by the buyer in Qatar. talks soon, warns DOHA: Customers in Qatar will Once the package is delivered soon be able to buy goods from to the local address, Q-Post will of aid obstruction international portals. Q-Post collect the package and ship it (Qatar Postal Services Company) to the buyer’s local address in UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations envoy is planning to expand its pres- Qatar. to Yemen was arranging face-to-face negotiations ence in Europe, United States of “Customers in Qatar will be between the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels America and Asia. given local address in America, but warned that a “disastrous humanitarian situa- The move will allow residents Europe and Asia which will allow tion” has left most of the country in dire need. in Qatar to buy goods even from them (online retailers) to ship it Without naming specific parties to the conflict, those online retailers that do not to there and we will forward the Al Sadd’s Abdulkareem Hassan (right) gives chase as Lassina Diaby of Al Khor charges UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed told the UN offer shipping services to Qatar. package to the buyer,” said Al ahead with the ball during their round six clash of the Qatar Stars League at Jassim Bin Security Council yesterday that it had been char- The new service of Q-post, named Naemi. Hamad Stadium in Doha yesterday. See also page 19 acterized by “blatant disregard for the laws of war.” Ship 2-Q, is expected to start Q-Post will open storage facili- At least 5,400 people have been killed in the early next year. ties in America, Europe and Asia poorest country on the Arabian Peninsula and the “We plan to launch Ship 2-Q including China and Japan. This United Nations says the humanitarian situation service from first quarter of next new initiative by Q-Post is part of grows worse by the day. year,” Faleh Mohamed Al Naemi, its strategy to encourage growth Al Rayyan Municipality issues Ould Cheikh Ahmed told the Security Council Chairman and Managing Direc- of e-commerce in Qatar. that Hadi has agreed to send a delegation to peace tor, Q-Post told The Peninsula It also has plans to launch talks that will include the Iranian-backed Houthis. on the sidelines of a conference many other products that will “I will start working immediately with the gov- on e-commerce held recently in boost e-commerce in Qatar. It is 117 building licences ernment of Yemen, the Houthis and other stake- Doha. “The new service will pro- planning to introduce ‘e-Locker’ holders to agree on the agenda, date and format for vide customers in Qatar with service in Qatar in the first quar- DOHA: The satellite and sprawling city of licences, Al Shamal had the smallest tally these talks,” he said. “I hope that these first face-to- virtual addresses to shop from ter of next year. Al Rayan would likely witness increasing of barely three. face talks will chart a course towards a rapid end to America, Europe and Asia,” he This service intends to pro- construction activity as evidenced from the Nearly half the licenses issued were for the fighting, the resumption of political dialogue, and added. vide flexibility in delivery of number of building licences issued by the commercial buildings, whereas industrial Yemen’s return to an orderly and peaceful political Currently, residents in Qatar goods to residents. Q-Post will municipality there last July. plants and factories accounted for more transition,” he said. cannot order goods from many open ‘e-Lockers’ in convenient Al Rayyan Municipality issued more than 30 percent. Government buildings had Ould Cheikh Ahmed said he wanted the talks to online retailers because these locations such as malls, shopping building licences (117) in the month than a share of four percent in the total number focus on main elements of Security Council resolu- retailers do not offer shipping centres, residential areas and Doha Municipality (102), the largest in of licenses issued last July. tion 2216 — withdrawing militias from key cities, services in Qatar. educational campuses. terms of population but smaller than Al It is interesting to note that some 11 releasing prisoners, returning heavy weapons seized Under the new service, Q-Post These lockers will be accessible Rayan in size. percent of building licenses issued by the from the army, improving the humanitarian situa- will provide a local address to its 24 hours and will give customers In Al Dayeen, building licenses issued seven municipalities in the country were tion and resuming inclusive political dialogue. customers in America, Europe flexibility to collect package any- in July totalled 53, third largest after Al for mosques. Ould Cheikh Ahmed said that in Yemen “civil- and Asia. time. In the first phase, Q-Post Rayyan and Doha municipalities. The building license tally for Al Rayyan ians continue to face a deteriorating humanitarian A local customer, after com- plans to open 10-20 such lockers The municipality of Umm Salal ranked Municipality includes those for Al Sha- situation and suffer the consequences of blatant pleting payment process with the and most of these will be opened fourth with 49 licenses issued, while Al haniya as well although Al Shahaniya disregard for the laws of war.” He said that the last online retailer, will give his local in Doha. Other areas in Qatar will Wakrah in the south of Doha, came in fifth Municipality is the eighth civic body to have UN humanitarian office report indicated there were address (provided by Q-Post) in be used in later stages. trailing closely with a building licence tally been recently carved out in the country. more than 21 million people in need of humanitar- that particular country. of 47 for the month. ian response. The retailer will deliver the THE PENINSULA While Al Khor Municipality issued 22 THE PENINSULA REUTERS Two Iranian Israel eases age limit for prayers Revolutionary Guard fighters at Al Aqsa; 90 Palestinians hurt JERUSALEM: Israel lifted age alds a third Palestinian intifada, ous checkpoints in the occupied killed in Syria limits for prayers at Jerusalem’s or uprising, and UN Secretary- West Bank, where 20 Palestinians Al Aqsa mosque compound yes- General Ban Ki-moon said it was received gunshot wounds. ANKARA: Two members of a terday in an apparent bid to ease time for Israeli and Palestinian According to emergency serv- unit of Iran’s elite Revolutionary tensions as nearly 90 people were leaders to meet face to face. ices, 65 people, including three Guards Corps (IRGC) have been injured in clashes in Gaza and the “There is no substitute to journalists, were hit by Israeli fire killed in Syria, including an ex- West Bank. direct talks,” he said after meet- in the blockaded Gaza Strip. bodyguard for Iran’s former pres- While thousands of Muslims ing Israeli Prime Minister Ben- The latest wave of violence ident, Iranian media reported prayed without incident at the jamin Netanyahu and Palestinian erupted over the status of the Al yesterday. ultra-sensitive site, young Pales- president Mahmoud Abbas. Aqsa mosque compound. “Today, two of IRGC’s Ansar tinians clashed with Israeli police Ban’s appeal came as tensions Sheikh Azzam Al Khatib, forces were martyred in Syria. in the occupied West Bank and showed little sign of easing, with head of the Islamic Waqf which Reports of the martyrdom of 15 Gaza strip, leaving scores injured Palestinian movements holding a administers Al Aqsa, said 25,000 people are wrong,” Iran’s Tas- by Israeli gunfire, according to “day of rage” yesterday against Muslims attended Friday prayers nim news agency quoted Ram- emergency services. Israel. after age restrictions were lifted ezan Sharif, a spokesman for the A Palestinian photographer is evacuated by protesters after being injured The international community Angry youths lobbed stones at for the first time since mid-Sep- IRGC, as saying. during clashes with Israeli security forces near the border fence with Israel has scrambled to defuse a wave Israeli police who responded with tember. “Abdollah Bagheri Niaraki and at the Erez crossing in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday. of violence that many fear her- tear gas and gunfire at numer- AFP Karimi were martyred in Syria while protecting a religious site near Aleppo.” The spokesman gave no first name for Karimi. Niaraki, who for a while was the bodyguard of former hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadine- Omanis to vote tomorrow for consultative council jad, was killed on Thursday, the semi-official Fars news agency DUBAI: Omanis go to the polls standing for election has almost as well as the sacking of minis- and has a four-year term. It has global prices down by roughly reported.