FRIDAY AUGUST 2, 2019 DHU AL-HIJJAH 1, 1440 VOL.12 NO. 4702 QR 2 PARTLY CLOUDY Fajr: 3:37 am Dhuhr: 11:40 am HIGH : 46°C Asr: 3:07 pm Maghrib: 6:21 pm LOW : 34°C Isha: 7:51 pm MAIN BRANCH LULU HYPER SANAYYA ALKHOR Business 7 Sports 11 Doha D-Ring Road Street-17 M & J Building MATAR QADEEM MANSOURA ABU HAMOUR BIN OMRAN Amazon founder Bezos cashes Sponsoring Qatar Goodwood Festival realises Near Ahli Bank Al Meera Petrol Station Al Meera in $1.8bn of share pile Qatar’s equestrian sports’ goals: Mohannadi alzamanexchange www.alzamanexchange.com 44441448 Eid Al Adha: Sale of subsidised sheep to begin from August 4 Amir greets Swiss president P9,000 sheep to be provided to citizens at subsidised prices P Widam Food Company starts receiving sheep QNA TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK QR950 (6,500 heads). DOHA DOHA The sheep will be sold AL SHEEHANIYA MUNICIPALITY READIES through Widam Food Com- PARKS TO RECEIVE VISITORS THE Amir HH Sheikh Tamim THE Ministry of Commerce pany at a number of locations bin Hamad al Thani on and Industry (MoCI), in co- such as the central market Thursday sent a cable of operation with the Ministry and other Widam slaughter- S part of efforts to provide best services to people at congratulations to Presi- of Municipality and Environ- houses in Al Shamal, Al Khor, Apublic gardeners during Eid Al Adha festivities, Al Shee- dent of the Swiss Confed- ment (MME) and Widam Food Al Mazrouah, Umm Salal, Al haniya Municipality has equipped all its gardens to receive eration Ueli Maurer on the Company, has announced the Sheehaniya and Al Wakra. visitors. Necessary maintenance works were carried out and occasion of his country’s subsidised sheep price initia- Home delivery services will the gardens were monitored to ensure safety of visitors. The National Day. tive ahead of Eid Al Adha. also be available. gardens of Al Sheehaniya Municipality open from 6 am to 11 The move is part of the According to the terms pm during the Eid Al Adha holidays. An emergency task force joint national initiative to pro- of the initiative, sheep will was also assigned to manage the services to work during the mote subsidised prices of sheep be sold to each Qatari citizen Eid holiday. Meanwhile, the Doha Municipality has intensified Twin missile meat. The sale of sheep will who shall present a valid ID it inspection campaign at Al Dafna, Al Markhiya and Al Duhail begin on Sunday (3rd of Dhu card. ahead of Eid Al Adha. (TNN) attacks kill Al-Hijjah 1440 Hijri, corre- The buyer should be at sponding to August 4), and will least 20 -year old (born in over 60 in continue until Tuesday (12th of 1999 or later) and shall have Sheep that do not conform to and Industry stressed that it Dhu Al-Hijjah 1440 Hijri, cor- the right to purchase only one specifications and slaughter will intensify its inspection Yemen’s Aden responding to August 13). sheep. This will ensure the conditions, or have incom- campaigns from the first day An agreement was availability of sheep for the patible weights and sizes as of sale, on August 4, 2019 that T least 60 people were killed reached with Widam Food targeted segment. agreed upon with the ministry will last until Tuesday, August Aon Thursday in two attacks Company to ensure supply of The Ministry of Com- will not be sold. 13 August 2019 ( third day of targeting security facilities in 9,000 sheep of Arab origin The livestock at a Widam Food Company facility. merce and Industry, in coor- The ministry is also ensur- Eid Al Adha) to ensure com- Yemen’s southern city of Aden, (local and Syrian). dination with Widam Food ing the availability of suitable pliance with the subsidised a government minister said. The ministry has set the Awassi) weighing 35 kg and heads) and Syrian sheep Company, is prohibiting the barns. prices and the implementa- The attacks hit a camp price of local sheep (Arab above at QR1,000 (2,500 weighing 40 kg and above at sale of underweight sheep. The Ministry of Commerce tion of safety procedures. during a military parade and a police station in the govern- ment-controlled port city. TEEN JOCKEY MAKES HISTORY AT “The tally of both attacks has surged to more than 60 QATAR GOODWOOD FESTIVAL Dutch ban on fatalities and dozens of injured Qatar adapts to siege as people,” Minister of Human burqas in Rights Mohammed Askar wrote on Twitter. The missile attack on economy grows: OBG public places the camp in the western section of Aden was claimed by Yemen’s SATYENDRA PATHAK corresponding period of 2018. takes effect Houthi rebels.So far, there has DOHA Meanwhile, trade with been no claim of responsibility Asian countries like Japan, for the car bombing that took QATAR has successfully South Korea and China in ad- place near the police station, adapted to the ongoing block- dition to Turkey increased from located in central Aden. ade as the broader economy 61 percent to 69.5 percent of Askar blamed the bomb- has continued to grow in the the total over the same period. ing on Al Qaeda militants, who last two years, Oxford Busi- This realignment has been are active in the impoverished ness Group (OBG) has said in supported by the opening of the country. The victims includ- its latest report. $7.4 billion Hamad Port in Sep- ed Brigadier Munir al Yafi, the “It has been more than two tember 2017, it said. The block- HE Netherlands banned commander of the so-called years since three Gulf countries the Middle East. ade has also fuelled greater self- Tthe wearing of a face-cov- Security Belt’s First Support and Egypt placed an economic Given that prior to the sufficiency in sectors such as ering veil, such as a burqa Brigade, who was killed in the blockade on Qatar, to which Qa- blockade some 60 percent of agriculture. or niqab, in public build- attack on the parade. The tar responded by implementing Qatari trade moved through “Since 2017 Qatar has im- ings and on transport from Security Belt is a force trained a series of reforms, seeking out blockading countries, the coun- ported thousands of cows and Thursday as a contentious and supported by the UAE, a new trade partners and ampli- try focused on re-orientation of chickens, rapidly expanding law on the garment worn key partner in a Saudi-led mili- fying economic diversification Qatar’s trade away from its Gulf domestic agricultural capacity. by some Muslim women tary alliance fighting in Yemen efforts,” the report said. neighbours. The trend has con- The country now produces all came into force. Between against Iran-linked Houthi Despite facing significant tinued over the past two years of its own dairy and fresh poul- 200 and 400 women are rebels. (AGENCIES) PAGE 4 challenges, the report said, with Qatar shifting its trade re- try, whereas in 2017 domestic estimated to wear a burqa Qatar’s GDP expanded by 1.6 lationships towards new part- production of each stood at or niqab in the country of percent in 2017 and 2.2 percent ners, the report said. only 20 percent and 10 per- 17 million people. The last year. Citing data government cent respectively. In 2019 the Dutch legislation was IQ posts net profit Teenager Khadijah Mellah created history on Thursday, becoming Citing an IMF report, OBG data, the report said that country even began exporting passed in June 2018 the first Muslim woman to ride as a jockey for a ‘fairytale’ win at said that Qatar’s economy is Qatar’s business with GCC milk to Afghanistan, Oman and after more than a decade of QR1.5 bn in the Qatar Goodwood Festival in Sussex, England. The 18-year-old forecast to expand by 2.6 per- dropped from 11.1 percent of Yemen,” the report said. of political debate on the 2019 H1 (PG 7 ) steered Haverland to victory in the Magnolia Cup. PAGE 11 cent in 2019, well above the 0.3 overall trade in the first half of subject. (AFP) PAGE 5 percent average predicted for 2017 to just 3.9 percent in the Continued on page 2 Ô Facebook dismantles covert influence campaign tied to Saudi govt AGENCIES book and the first such activ- murder of dissident journal- fore and shortly after the “Any time we have a link designed to look like local LONDON ity it has linked to the Saudi ist Jamal Khashoggi. start of the blockade. between an information op- news outlets. government. Saudi Arabia has repeat- Facebook announces eration and a government, More than $100,000 was FACEBOOK has suspended Countries in the Middle edly denied any involvement takedowns of “inauthentic that’s significant and people spent on advertisements, Fa- more than 350 accounts and East have increasingly turned in Khashoggi’s death and has behaviour” multiple times a should be aware.” cebook said. pages with about 1.4 million to Facebook, Twitter and not responded to previous al- month, but statements that Gleicher said the Saudi “They would typically followers after it said people Google’s YouTube to peddle legations about its activity on directly link such behaviour campaign operated on Fa- post in Arabic about regional connected to the government covert political influence on- social media. to a government are rare. cebook and its Instagram news and political issues. of Saudi Arabia have run a line. Last month, in a series “For this operation, our photo-sharing platform, pri- They would talk about things network of fake accounts and Reuters news agency of articles, Al Jazeera exam- investigators were able to marily targeting countries in like Crown Prince Moham- pages to promote state prop- detailed an expansive Iran- ined the role of Twitter in the confirm that the individu- the Middle East and North med bin Salman (MBS) — his aganda and attack regional backed campaign last year Middle East since the Arab als behind this are associ- Africa, including Qatar, the internal and economic social rivals.