www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS | 21 SPORT | 35 Global expansion Djokovic thrashes part of risk aversion Murray for sixth strategy: QNB Aussie Open title MONDAY 1 FEBRUARY 2016 • 22 Rabia II 1437 • Volume 20 • Number 6693 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Qatar to host 2023 FINA world aquatics Emir receives Vehicle owners phone call from Morocco King free to choose DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani received yesterday a telephone call from King Mohammed VI of Morocco, reports QNA. They reviewed bilat- workshops eral relations and discussed issues of common interest. The Ministry has urged consum- Ethiopia appeals Car dealers lose right ers to examine warranty booklets to ensure that car dealers are comply- for drought aid to designate garages ing with the amended terms. Violations can be reported to the Ministry on the hotline 16001 or OGOLCHO: Ethiopia urged inter- email: [email protected] or the Min- national donors yesterday to offer The Peninsula istry’s application on mobile phones: aid promptly for relief operations MEC_Qatar. to support 10.2 million people crit- The Ministry said custom- ically short of food, and said it was ers must, though, carefully choose committed to allocating as much of DOHA: Owners of new vehicles that where to carry out maintenance or Qatar Olympic Committee Secretary General Dr Thani Abdulrahman Al Kuwari (centre) and President its own funds as necessary. are within the warranty period can repair of a car within the warranty of the Qatar Swimming Federation Khaleel Al Jabir (fourth left) celebrate after Doha was chosen to The drought is as severe in now get them serviced or repaired period and retain all receipts with host the 2023 FINA World Aquatics Championships during a meeting of FINA leaders at a hotel in some areas as the one in 1984, at workshops of their choice. them. Repair records and date of Budapest, Hungary, yesterday. → See also page 29 when famine killed a million The dealer now has no right to maintenance, as instructed by the people. dictate terms and designate work- manufacturer, should be carefully shops for the service or repair of a preserved if maintenance is carried new vehicle. out at a third-party workshop. The new terms apply not only to Some 22 car dealers in the coun- showroom-fresh vehicles but also try, all of them reputed distributors 10,000 migrant children disappeared in Europe to those that are old but with unex- of showroom-fresh cars, have given pired warranties. a written undertaking of compliance. In other words, the fresh terms They have pledged to comply allow customers to freely choose the with the provisions of Law No 19 of AFP last 18-24 months. The agency’s chief of a “criminal infrastructure” estab- and refugees, many fleeing the con- garage to carry out maintenance or 2006 which aims to promote com- of staff Brian Donald said the vulner- lished over the last 18 months to flict in Syria, crossed into Europe repair of a vehicle within the war- petition and prevent monopolistic able children had disappeared from exploit the migrant flow. last year. Europol estimates that 27 ranty period. practices. the system after registering with state The Observer reported that percent of them are children, the The Ministry of Economy and The dealers were asked by the THE HAGUE: Over 10,000 unac- authorities following their arrival in Europol found evidence of links Observer said. Commerce conducted an exten- Ministry to follow a Nine-Clause Ini- companied migrant children have Europe. “It’s not unreasonable to say between smuggling rings bringing “Whether they are registered or sive study of warranty booklets of tiative to ease warranty terms for the disappeared in Europe, the EU police that we’re looking at 10,000-plus people into the EU and human traf- not, we’re talking about 270,000 chil- car dealers that showed the use of benefit of customers. agency Europol said yesterday, fear- children,” Donald said, adding that ficking gangs exploiting migrants for dren,” Donald told the paper. restrictive clauses and ambiguous All the above dealers must fur- ing many have been whisked away 5,000 had disappeared in Italy alone. sex and slavery. “Not all of those are unaccompa- terms. nish details of amended warranty into sex trafficking rings or the slave “Not all of them will be crim- “There are prisons in Germany nied, but we also have evidence that The Ministry then asked them to terms to the Ministry which has a trade. inally exploited; some might have and Hungary where the vast majority a large proportion might be,” he said, remove expressions that might deny Competition Protection Department, Europol’s press office confirmed been passed on to family members. of people arrested and placed there adding that the 10,000 is likely to be warranty coverage to owners who for approval. to AFP the figures that were published We just don’t know where they are, are in relation to criminal activity a conservative estimate. choose third-party workshops for in British newspaper The Observer, what they’re doing or whom they are surrounding the migrant crisis,” Don- car repair or service. → Continued on page 2 adding that the numbers were for the with.” Donald said there is evidence ald said. Over one million migrants → See also page 16 White House hopefuls in last At least 60 dead in IS attacks push for Iowa close to major Syria shrine caucus today Reuters suicide attacks in Sayeda Zeinaba, a detonated a car bomb near a public district of southern Damascus where transport garage in the neighbour- AFP the Lebanese militant group Hez- hood’s Koua Sudan area. bollah and other Iraqi and Iranian Two suicide bombers then blew BEIRUT/AMMAN: At least 60 people militias have a strong presence. themselves up nearby as people were DES MOINES: US presidential were killed, including 25 Shia fight- Rami Abdulrahman, head of the being rescued. The authorities put the candidates made a frenzied, final ers, and dozens wounded yesterday Britain-based Observatory, said the dead at 45 people. “Bodies were still push yesterday to lock in Iowa by a car bomb and two suicide bomb- suicide bombers had targeted a mil- being pulled from the wreckage,” a voters on the eve of the first nom- ers in a district of Damascus where itary bus carrying Shia militias who witness told state news channel Ikh- inating contest of the 2016 election Syria’s holiest Shia shrine is located, were changing guard there. bariyah. The heavily populated area season. a monitor said. The explosions occurred as rep- in the south of the city is a site of pil- Republican Donald Trump Sunni fundamentalist Islamic resentatives of Syria’s government grimage for Shias from Iran, Lebanon and Democrat Hillary Clinton State claimed responsibility for the and its divided opposition began and other parts of the Muslim world. both were leading in the polls, attacks, according to Amaq, a news convening in Geneva for the first UN- Syrian Prime Minister Wael Al but not by enough to assure vic- agency that supports the group. It mediated peace talks in two years. Halaki was quoted as saying the tory for either candidate in today’s said two operations “hit the most State television showed footage of attacks were prompted by “terror caucuses. important stronghold of Shia mili- burning buildings and wrecked cars groups” who sought to “raise their Armies of volunteers fanned tias in Damascus”. in the neighbourhood. morale after a string of defeats” by out through the snow-swept Mid- The Syrian Observatory for Syrian state news agency the army. Syrian forces and residents gather at the site of the suicide bombings western state, knocking on doors Human Rights said the casual- SANA, quoting an Interior Ministry or manning phone banks to get out near a Shia shrine on the outskirts of Damascus yesterday. ties were expected to rise from the source, said a group of militants had → See also page 8 the vote, while candidates domi- nated the air waves. 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