ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 3 Business | 17 Sport | 28 Expert warns US sanctions Marquez claims against use of move puts his third plastic food Gazprom-Shell Indianapolis containers. plans in jeopardy. win in a row. TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015 • 26 Shawwal 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6519 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Humidity to Fancy vehicle be high at night; hotter number plates day forecast DOHA: Qatar is expected to witness a hotter and more getting pricier humid day today with humid- ity levels reaching up to 90 percent at night, a weather Many people wasting money: Survey forecaster said. The maximum temperatures DOHA: There is so much craze today is to buy fancy car regis- forecast for today range between in the cash-rich Qatari com- tration numbers, luxury watches, 40 and 43 degrees C (40 degrees in munity, particularly among the sunglasses and cars even if they Al Ruwais, 42 degrees C in Doha, youth, to own fancy car regis- must take huge bank loans and and 43 degrees C in Al Wakra and tration numbers that many of get into a vicious debt trap.” Messaieed). them take bank loans and some Al Sharq said that there is Nightly temperatures will even sell their properties. much demand for such numbers hover at between 29 and 33 A Qatari, Abdulaziz Azzam, and that explains why there are degrees C (29 degrees C in Al estimates that annual turno- even websites which people access Wakra and Messaieed, 33 degrees ver involving pricy car number to trade in fancy car registration Turkish medics and police with a wounded female attacker after shots were fired at the US consulate in in Doha, 30 degrees in Al Khor). plates in Qatar could be equiv- numbers. Istanbul yesterday. However, high humidity lev- alent to the budget of a small The daily spoke with an els at night would likely make country. imam, Mohamed bin Hassan Al the weather uncomfortable. “It is simply a piece of iron but Miraikhi, and he said that buy- Humidity levels are expected to some people are crazy enough to ing such numbers was a criminal US consulate in Turkey attacked be between 80 and 90 percent take bank loans to buy fancy car waste of money. at night. numbers. Some even sell their He advised youngsters to ISTANBUL/DIYABAKIR: security at US diplomatic mis- member of the DHKP-C. No US Humidity varied between 70 land and property to own such desist from indulging in such Two women shot at the US con- sions was being tightened. Police personnel were injured and the and 80 percent yesterday and numbers,” he said. wasteful activities. “Why spend sulate in Istanbul yesterday and with automatic rifles cordoned consulate will be open for busi- at 9.32pm when the weather The hobby is catching up par- so much money only to own a car at least nine people were killed off streets around the US con- ness today, State Department bureau was contacted for ticularly among Qatari youth. number plate?” in a wave of separate attacks on sulate in the Sariyer district on spokesman John Kirby said in inputs, the humidity level was Ali Yusuf, another Qatari, told “There are people who are hun- Turkish security forces, weeks the European side of Istanbul. Washington. 74 percent. Al Sharq that he bought an easy- gry. There are people who are in after Ankara launched a crack- Ahmet Akcay, a resident who On the other side of Istanbul, a It was slightly less humid to-remember car registration genuine need of money,” he said down on Islamic State, Kurdish witnessed the attack, said that vehicle laden with explosives was because the wind was north- number for QR800 some 15 years hinting that the moneyed must and far-left militants. one of the women fired four or five used to attack a police station, westerly. Easterly winds cause ago and its price today was a mil- help them instead of wasting their A far-left group that killed rounds, aiming at security officials injuring three police officers and more humidity. lion riyals. wealth. a Turkish security guard in a and consulate officers. “Police seven civilians, police said. Asked why it is rather unbear- “But that is nothing. There Al Sharq, on its website, con- 2013 suicide bombing of the US were shouting ‘drop your bag, Violence between the security ably hot this summer, the weather are such pricy car number plates ducted a survey with 50 people embassy in Ankara claimed it was drop your bag’. And the woman forces and suspected militants forecaster said that it is because which are even worth QR15m and participating in it. They were involved in yesterday’s attack. The was saying: ‘I will not surrender’,” intensified in the mainly Kurdish temperatures are higher as com- more,” said Yusuf. selected randomly using the social Revolutionary People’s Liberation Akcay said. “The police warned southeast yesterday. Four police pared with last year. A collector of fancy car media. A majority 82 percent of Army-Front (DHKP-C), consid- her again: ‘Drop your bag or we officers were killed when their “This is true not only of number plates himself, he said them said they thought it was a ered a terrorist organisation by will have to shoot you’, and the armoured vehicle was hit by Qatar but the entire region. it was his hobby. “In the days sheer waste of money to buy fancy the United States and Turkey, woman said: ‘Shoot.’” roadside explosives in the town The whole region is witnessing gone by our forefathers worked car registration numbers. said one of its members was One of the two women was later of Silopi, the governor’s office in higher mercury levels this sum- really hard to earn a riyal so they However, the remaining 18 per- involved, and called Washington captured wounded, the Istanbul the province of Sirnak said. mer and when you have high could buy food, but the new gen- cent said people had the right to the “arch enemy” of the people of governor’s office said. The Dogan A soldier was also killed when humidity levels, you feel hotter eration, with access to wealth, has spend their money the way they the Middle East and the world. news agency said the injured Kurdish militants opened fire on and more uncomfortable,” com- no value for money,” Yusuf said. wished to. Turkey’s foreign ministry woman was aged 51 and had served a military helicopter in a separate mented the forecaster. “The dream of most people THE PENINSULA condemned the attack and said prison time for being a suspected attack in Sirnak. REUTERS THE PENINSULA State of emergency in Ferguson Assad’s cousin Yemen loyalists make arrested over road rage killing more gains in south DAMASCUS: Syrian authori- ADEN: Saudi-backed forces Sunday as they pressed an advance ties have arrested Suleiman Al loyal to Yemen’s exiled govern- from second city Aden. A medical Assad, a cousin of the president ment announced yesterday the source in Aden said that 16 loyalist accused of killing a military recapture of Abyan province in militiamen were killed and dozens officer in a road rage incident, a southern offensive that has wounded in Abyan over the past 24 official news agency SANA said seen key gains against Shia hours, most when mines planted by yesterday. Houthi rebels. retreating rebels exploded. “Suleiman Hilal Al Assad has Military officials who back Clashes were also reported by been arrested and transferred President Abdrabuh Mansur residents in third city Taez, as to the appropriate authorities,” Hadi said that loyalist forces have well as in the central province of SANA reported, without adding retaken Loder, the last town in Ibb. However, the rebels still con- details. The Syrian Observatory Abyan to fall from Huthi hands. trol the capital Sana’a which they for Human Rights monitoring “Abyan is now completely free” of seized last year. group, citing local sources, said he the insurgents, one official said. The latest loyalist gain came was detained on the road between There was no immediate confir- as seven pro-government activ- Protesters run to take cover after shots were fired in a police officer-involved shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. Latakia and Qardaha, President mation from rebel sources that ists were handed over in Yemen’s Authorities declared a state of emergency. Prosecutors charged an 18-year-old man with assault on officers. Bashar Al Assad’s ancestral village. Loder had fallen. second city Aden as part of a Suleiman Al Assad, a first Loyalists had already taken prisoner swap overseen by the The man, Tyrone Harris, was critically wounded in an exchange of gunfire with police late on Sunday as people cousin once removed of the Abyan provincial capital Zinjibar International Committee of the marked the shooting death one year ago of unarmed black man Michael Brown by a white officer in Ferguson. president, is accused of shooting from the rebels and their allies on Red Cross (ICRC). AFP Report on page 10 dead air force Colonel Hassan Al Sheikh in an apparent road rage incident on Thursday evening. Both Sheikh and his alleged Woman drowns after father killer are Alawites, and the inci- IS car bomb attacks kill 58 in Iraq dent caused tensions in Latakia’s blocks rescue to save ‘honour’ provincial capital, where more than BAGHDAD: At least 58 peo- a crowded marketplace,” said militias fighting the radical jihad- 1,000 people on Saturday protested DUBAI: A young Asian woman drowned after her father ple were killed and more than Diyala police captain Mohammed ist group.