www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS | 21 SPORT | 34 QBIC supports Thakur, Fazal getet 52 startups in India tickets for two years Windies tour TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 • 17 SHA’BAAN 1437 • Volume 21 • Number 6806 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Emir’s mediation helps resume Defeat attacks Yemen govt’s on schools: talks with rebels AFP Sheikha Moza KUWAIT CITY: Yemen’s warring parties held their first face-to-face meeting in nearly a week yesterday after the government delegation schools and bring the perpetrators ended a boycott, the UN envoy to book. said. “Our schools are the “The destruction of schools are Yemen’s President Abdrabuh battlefield. It is time to not just ‘accidents’ of war. Educa- Mansur Hadi had agreed to end fight back,” H H Sheikha tion is under attack. Our schools the boycott after mediation by are the battlefield. It is time to fight the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Moza told the World back,” Sheikha Moza told the World Hamad Al Thani and UN chief Ban Humanitarian Summit Humanitarian Summit which opened Ki-moon, the UN special envoy in Istanbul yesterday. in Istanbul yesterday. said. “What is missing are the mecha- “A joint meeting between the nisms and the political will to enforce two delegations to the Yemen (existing international laws). We must peace talks has started in the hold the perpetrators of these crimes H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser at the special session “Education in Emergencies and Protracted Crises,” at morning,” Ismail Ould Cheikh The Peninsula responsible and accountable. Only Ahmed said on Twitter. the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, yesterday. Pic: A R Al Baker when the perpetrators are shamed The troubled negotiations and punished will we deter oth- which began on April 21 broke off ers from attacking education. Only bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani led Representatives of 175 countries, to better tackle the current situation on Tuesday when the government DOHA/ISTANBUL: H H Sheikha then, can we break this vicious cycle the Qatari delegation at the opening including 57 heads of states or govern- in the world, what the United Nations delegation suspended its participa- Moza bint Nasser, Chairperson of of building and destroying, building session of the summit at Istanbul Con- ments and more than 6,000 officials describes as the worst humanitarian tion accusing Iran-backed rebels Education Above All, yesterday called and destroying,” Sheikha Moza added. gress Center. and representatives of international crisis since World War II. who control the capital of failing on the international community to The Prime Minister and Inte- Turkish President Recep Tayyip bodies and civil society organisa- to keep their word. “fight back” to deter attacks against rior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah Erdogan opened the two-day summit. tions and media are discussing ways → Continued on page 2 The government demanded a written pledge from the Huthi Shiite rebels and their allies rec- ognising an April 2015 UN Security Council resolution calling for their withdrawal from the capital and Qatar gives US schools $115,000 to promote Arabic other territories they have over- ran since 2014, as well as the legitimacy of President Abdrabuh The Peninsula that is so often misunderstood in the International/Eastside Memorial High program in the fall. CFHS teacher relaunch of the Arabic language Mansur Hadi. US However, in-school programmes School. Anita Boumitri is both a French and program at the Chagrin Falls School Foreign Minister Abdulmalek have struggled to keep pace, QFI said The programme will start by Arabic teacher, and this grant will District and to provide opportunities Al Mikhlafi said on Twitter on yesterday. QFI has awarded a grant of offering level 1 Arabic at all three provide partial salary and teach- and access to critical language educa- Sunday that the government had DOHA: Qatar Foundation Interna- $100,000 to the Austin Independent schools, and increase the number of ing materials, as well as training for tion for young adults across the US,” agreed to give the peace talks a tional (QFI) has awarded two separate School District (AISD) to support their levels offered each year at the high Ms Boumitri, who will be attending the said Maggie Mitchell Salem, QFI’s “last chance.” grants – worth a total of $115,000 – to Arabic programming during 2016-2017 schools in response to student enroll- American Council on the Teaching of Executive Director. “We have fixed all the refer- schools in Austin, Texas and Chagrin and a grant worth $15,000 to Chagrin ments. The grant includes funding for Foreign Languages (ACTFL) convention “For the past seven years, QFI has ences. This is a first step on the Falls, Ohio as part of efforts to bridge Falls High School (CFHS) aimed at teacher salary, curriculum develop- through QFI’s support. “With this gen- partnered with a number of schools path for a real peace that leads the cultural gap between the US and expanding their Arabic programme. ment, and materials/resources. erous grant funding from QFI, we will across the US to advance access to to implementing Resolution 2216 the Arab world through language edu- With the grant award, AISD will Since the CFHS high school Arabic be able to grow Ms. Boumitri’s existing Arabic, a critical language in the US, beginning with withdrawals, cation and cultural-exchange. establish the first and only Arabic teacher retired last year, the school’s part-time teaching position to a full-time to K-12 public and public charter surrender of weapons and the Arabic has seen an explosion of program in the school district. The Arabic program was put on hold, as position in the 2016-17 school year,” said school students and we welcome the restoration of state institutions,” interest among American students grant supports two teachers who will no one qualified was found to take Director of Curriculum, Becky Quinn. great addition of Chagrin and Aus- he said. over the past decade, as many young teach at three schools: Burnet Mid- the position. Thanks to QFI’s sup- “We are pleased to support the tin Schools to our growing network,” people yearn to appreciate a culture dle School, Austin High School, and port, CFHS will re-start their Arabic launch of Arabic in Austin and the Salem added. → See also page 7 Nearly 150 dead as IS bombs Syrian cities Five traffic investigation offices at insurance firms Reuters The Peninsula sections at Traffic Department’s serv- BEIRUT: Bomb blasts killed nearly 150 ice centres. people in Jableh and Tartous on Syria’s Med- Traffic investigators deployed at iterranean coast yesterday and wounded insurance companies will register the many others in the government-controlled DOHA: The Traffic Department has accident electronically using tablet PCs , territory that hosts Russian military bases, opened five traffic investigation offices take the picture of the vehicles and com- monitors and state media said. at insurance companies to simplify the municate directly with the insurance Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibil- procedures for motorists involved in companies. Meanwhile, the accident ity for the attacks in the cities that have up traffic accidents. victim will receive a text message with to now escaped the worst of the violence The new service is provided as part details of the case and he can approach in the five-year-old conflict, saying it was of the integrated link between Traffic the insurance company straight for targeting members of President Bashar Al Department and insurance companies repairing his vehicle. Assad’s Alawite minority. to help motorists complete all acci- Earlier, motorists involved in acci- The Britain-based Syrian Observatory dents-related procedures at one place, dents had to wait until the patrol police for Human Rights said 145 people were the Ministry of Interior said yesterday reaches the site or move to the traffic killed in attacks by at least five suicide on its Facebook account. investigation sections to register the inci- bombers and two devices planted in cars. Now the drivers involved in accidents dent and get a report to approach the State media said 78 people had been killed can directly go to the insurance company insurance companies. in what is Assad’s coastal heartland. of the party who caused the accident and Now, all phases of traffic inves- The attacks were the first of their kind approach the traffic investigation office tigation services are completed in Tartous, capital of Tartous province and there to register the incident. electronically, from registering the home to a Russian naval facility, and Jableh Once it is registered, the other party incident until issuing the report. The in Latakia province, near a Russian-oper- can approach the insurance company accident reports can also be printed from ated air base. The Kremlin said the bomb People inspecting the damage at the site of car bombing in a bus station in the Jableh city, staff to complete the procedures for MOI website or Metrash2 mobile app blasts underscored the need to press ahead Lattakia province in Syria, yesterday. repairing the vehicle. Motorists are no without approaching the traffic inves- with Geneva peace talks after a Feb. 27 more required to go to the investigation tigation sections as was the case before. ceasefire collapsed in April as violence process,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told station. The Tartous bombs also targeted a bus sta- intensified in a war that has killed at least a conference call with journalists. tion, the Observatory and state media reported. 250,000 people. Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated Younes Hassan, a doctor working at the Jableh “This demonstrates yet again just how his readiness to fight with the Syrian government hospital, said he heard an explosion at the bus sta- Today’s edition includes a 12-page fragile the situation in Syria is.