Future World No.1 prospects Farag bright for retains natural gas: Qatar GECF Classic title Business | 01 Sport | 08 SUNDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2020 22 RABIA I - 1442 VOLUME 25 NUMBER 8435 www.thepeninsula.qa 2 RIYALS Get a smart Wi-Fi device as a gift and enjoy the fastest internet With Ooredoo ONE Terms and Conditions Apply Biden elected 46th US President I am humbled by the victory and it was time for the battered nation to set aside its differences. It’s time for AGENCIES — WASHINGTON Michigan and Wisconsin as well America to unite. as Pennsylvania, onetime Dem- And to heal. Democrat Joe Biden defeated ocratic bastions that had flipped President Donald Trump to to Trump in 2016. become the 46th president of the Biden, in a statement, said he With the campaign United States yesterday, posi- was humbled by the victory and over, it’s time to put tioning himself to lead a nation it was time for the battered nation gripped by a historic pandemic to set aside its differences. the anger and the and a confluence of economic “It’s time for America to harsh rhetoric and social turmoil. unite. And to heal,” he said. behind us and come It was Biden’s native Penn- “With the campaign over, it’s sylvania that put him over the time to put the anger and the together as a nation. top, the state he invoked harsh rhetoric behind us and throughout the campaign to come together as a nation,” connect with working class Biden said. “There’s nothing we voters. He also won Nevada on can’t do if we do it together.” Sunday pushing his total to 290 Trump was not giving up. Electoral College votes. Departing from longstanding Biden’s to tame, including nations governed by His victory came after more democratic tradition and sig- and he campaigned leaders who got along with than three days of uncertainty as nalling a potentially turbulent pledging a big gov- Trump. election officials sorted through transfer of power, he issued a ernment response, The leaders who sent con- a surge of mail-in votes that combative statement while he 290 214 akin to what gratulations included British delayed the processing of some was on his Virginia golf course. Franklin D. Roo- Prime Minister Boris Johnson, EU ballots. It said his campaign would take president trying to sow doubt to serve in government, four sevelt oversaw with Commission President, Ursula Trump refused to concede, unspecified legal actions and he about a bedrock democratic years after Trump defeated the New Deal during the von der Leyen; President of the threatening further legal action would “not rest until the process. Hillary Clinton. Depression of the 1930s. European Council, Charles on ballot counting. American People have the Kamala Harris also made Trump is the first incumbent Biden, born in Scranton, Michel; Canada Prime Minister Biden, 77, staked his can- honest vote count they deserve history as the first Black woman president to lose reelection since Pennsylvania, and raised in Del- Justin Trudeau, Irish Prime Min- didacy less on any distinctive and that Democracy demands.” to become vice-president, an Republican George H W Bush in aware, was one of the youngest ister Micheal Martin, Greece political ideology than on galva- Trump has pointed to delays achievement that comes as the 1992. candidates ever elected to the Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitso- nising a broad coalition of voters in processing the vote in some US faces a reckoning on racial More than 236,000 Amer- Senate. Before he took office, his takis, Italian Prime Minister around the notion that Trump states to allege with no evidence justice. The California senator, icans have died during the coro- wife and daughter were killed, Giuseppe Conte, Spanish Prime posed an existential threat to that there was voter fraud and who is also the first person of navirus pandemic, nearly 10 and his two sons badly injured Minister Pedro Sanchez, French American democracy. The to argue that his rival was trying South Asian descent elected to million have been infected and in a 1972 car crash. President Emmanuel Macron and strategy proved effective, to seize power — an extraor- the vice-presidency, will become millions of jobs have been lost. Congratulations poured in for German Chancellor Angela resulting in pivotal victories in dinary charge by a sitting the highest-ranking woman ever The pandemic will soon be Biden from world capitals, Merkel. ILO praises Qatar’s labour achievements Top UNRWA official lauds QNA — DOHA balanced and Qatar for strong support attractive work The State of Qatar participated environment. yesterday via videoconference H E Yousuf bin SANAULLAH ATAULLAH mandated to provide educa- in the work of the 340th session Mohamed Al THE PENINSULA tional, health and social of the International Labour Othman Fakhroo services to 5.8 million Pales- Organisation (ILO) Governing stressed the con- Commissioner-General of the tinian refugees in West Bank, Body. tinuation of close United Nations Relief and East Jerusalem, Gaza, Syria, The State of Qatar was rep- cooperation with Works Agency for Palestine Jordan and Lebanon. resented in the session Minister the International Refugees in the Near East “We have half-a-million of Administrative Development, Labor Organi- (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, boys and girls attending Labour and Social Affairs H E zation and friendly has lauded State of Qatar for UNRWA schools, more than Yousuf bin Mohamed Al countries through extending strong support to the half of them are in Gaza others Othman Fakhroo. joint programs. agency especially at its tough are in West Bank, East Jeru- The Minister of Adminis- The members time. salem, Lebanon and Syria,” said trative Development, Labour of the Interna- “We have been receiving Lazzarini. and Social Affairs delivered a tional Labour very strong support from the He said that UNRWA speech before the Governing Organization’s Qatari government. They were focuses on how to overcome Body in which he talked about Governing Body first one to step in very strongly the problems of education such the legislation that the State of praised what has in 2018. I am here in Doha to as lack of connectivity and pro- Qatar had implemented in the been achieved in hold talks on future partnership visions of devices to ensure the field of labour, which moved the field of labour Minister of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs H E Yousuf and I am very confident that the proper e-learning of the the Qatari labour market to an in the State of bin Mohamed Al Othman Fakhroo during the meeting. partnership between Qatar and students. effective and competitive stage Qatar and joint UNRWA will be further During his visit, Lazzarini and contributed to enhancing cooperation, through the and workers’ team, the Asian Britain, the United States of strengthened,” Philippe Laz- signed a memorandum of the work and investment envi- speeches and interventions of group, the European Union, and America, Canada and zarini told The Peninsula understanding (MoU) with ronment, and creating a representatives of employers the governments of India, Switzerland. during his recent visit to Qatar. Qatar Red Crescent Society He said that Qatari people have (QRCS) on November 3, to work showed great support and sol- together to provide diverse idarity for Palestinian forms of humanitarian support Take precautions to avoid possible rise in virus cases refugees. for Palestinian refugees. Speaking about the chal- Giving details of the MoU, FAZEENA SALEEM Medical Microbiologist and especially the youth avoid people get mislead about mis- lenges of UNRWA, he said that Lazzarini said: “We - UNRWA THE PENINSULA Chairman of Infection Control masks, and they do not information and myth spread the Agency is facing financial and QRCS - signed partnership Committee, Al Wakra Hospital, maintain social distancing in over the Internet. For example, problem. “COVID-19 brought a agreement for three cam- With several countries around Dr. Naser Alansari. public places. “This can be some advocate against wearing number of challenges like con- paigning events for fund the world report an increase in He said that many countries because they are overwhelmed masks. ducting so many screenings of raising. `P2 the number of COVID-19 cases, in the Europe and North with COVID-19 restrictions, or “People shouldn’t get coronavirus. We are also forced people in Qatar have been America have started to have they are tired of the repeated mislead over such information to readdress the ways of pro- urged to follow precautionary surge in the number of guidelines but it is important and risk themselves. It’s very viding the services for example, measures to avoid a similar COVID-19 cases. “We want to that they follow precautionary important that people follow health services have been scenario in the country. prevent that happening in measures,” he said. information from reliable shifted into telemedicine, banking Nine tips to protect “Although Qatar has not Qatar,” Dr. Alansari told The “Unless we follow all pre- sources such as the WHO, CDC classroom education has been yourself online `P 04 showed signs of a second wave Peninsula. cautionary measures, we may and Ministry of Public Health,” converted into e-learning and of COVID-19, number of cases “We should be wise and see numbers increasing – there said Dr. Alansari. relief projects have been trans- Included with might increase or have small take the lesson from those are already signs of this hap- According to him, wearing formed into home deliveries of outbreaks if people do not countries and should prevent pening in other countries mask is one of the proven ways food assistance to the people,” today’s edition is a follow precautionary going back to the scenario,” Dr.