www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS | 13 SPORT | 23 EEzdanz website offers Al Kharaitiyat direct e-services seek vital to customers points SATURDAY 9 APRIL 2016 • 2 Rajab 1437 • Volume 21 • Number 6761 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar IS agrees to free Team to monitor abducted Syrian cement workers global food AFP BEIRUT: Syrian mediators reached warnings an agreement yesterday for the release of some 300 cement work- ers kidnapped by the Islamic State jihadist group, a monitor said, but for tests. An official at the Al Rayyan it was unclear exactly how many Municipality said: “The new serv- were freed. A team at the health ice makes work easier, as through IS abducted the employees control section of Al one message we control the market, on Monday from Al Badia cement Rayyan Municipality will instead of informing every super- factory outside the town of Dmeir, market individually.” around 50km east of Damascus. contact supermarkets if “We have the contact numbers Local figures from Dmeir any warning has been of all supermarkets in Al Rayyan mediated a deal with IS on Friday issued against food items area. We communicate with them to let the workers go free, accord- and ask them to remove and they too coordinate with us. ing to the Syrian Observatory for The messages are sent only in Eng- Human Rights. the product temporarily lish because most of them speak the The Britain-based monitor from shelves. language. We introduced this serv- said that in effect, some 170 work- ice to ensure the safety of people,” Smoke rises as US-led coalition reinforces opposition forces with airstrikes as they seize the control of Turkmen ers would be freed as others had the official said. populated Cobanbey town in Aleppo, yesterday. already managed to escape. He also disclosed that the By Sidi Mohamed Health Control Section has set up a The Peninsula plan to hold some free workshops and lectures to people working at supermarkets about how to store food stuff, check validity period for Saudi to build bridge to Egypt over Red Sea DOHA: The Health Control Sec- meat and milk, how to display food tion at Al Rayyan Municipality has in a safer way and food packaging. introduced a new system to moni- “In addition to supermarkets, we tor global warnings issued against are going to hold lectures at selected AFP whose Muslim Brotherhood move- naming the structure the “King Sal- the deals agreed with Saudi Ara- food items and inform local outlets schools to teach students about how ment was viewed with suspicion by man bin Abdulaziz Bridge”. bia throughout Salman’s visit would simultaneously. soft drinks and some other food Riyadh. The idea of a causeway between amount to about $1.7bn (¤1.5bn). A team at the health control items can harm health. This will King Salman, who touched down the two countries had been floated They included an agreement to set section is assigned to monitor all increase their awareness and help CAIRO: The Custodian of the Two in Cairo on Thursday, made the before, especially by ousted Egyptian up a university and homes in South international and local websites to to be healthy,” official said. Holy Mosques King Salman bin announcement after meeting Sisi at strongman Hosni Mubarak, but never Sinai, as well a power plant. find if any warning has been issued “We also conduct such work- Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia the president’s Ittahidiya Palace. made it past the planning stage. The Saudis are expected to make against food items. If warnings are shops and lectures for workers to yesterday announced plans to build a “I agreed with my brother his Thousands of Saudi tourists visit another major announcement on Sat- issued the team will inform health increase awareness about health bridge over the Red Sea to Egypt, in a excellency President Abdel Fattah Al Egypt annually, and thousands of urday, according to the kingdom’s control section to take the necessary related issues and how to handle lavish show of support for the govern- Sisi to build a bridge connecting the Muslim Egyptians visit Saudi Arabia ambassador to Egypt. procedures. food in a safe way,” he added. ment of President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi. two countries,” Salman said. each year for pilgrimage. “The investment deals that will be Subsequently, another team Health Control Section at Al The 80-year-old King is on a rare “This historic step to connect the Hundreds of thousands of Egyp- signed on Saturday evening will be called Zaheeb (ready) services Rayyan Municipality has also con- five-day trip to Egypt, a country that two continents, Africa and Asia, is a tians work in the kingdom and send a surprising amount that will please will contact supermarkets through ducted many complementary Riyadh views as a cornerstone to its qualitative transformation that will home much-needed remittances. everyone,” Ahmed Qattan wrote on WhatsApp or email and send mes- courses for supermarkets with a ambitions in the changing region. increase trade between the two con- Following Salman’s announce- Twitter. “This visit comes as a confir- sages in English advising to remove high number of staff and who can Saudi Arabia has been the key tinents to unprecedented levels,” he ment, representatives of both mation of the pledges of brotherhood the food product temporarily from speak English. The courses aimed backer of Sisi since 2013, when the added. A beaming Sisi, who minutes countries signed 17 investment deals and solidarity before the two broth- shelves. Afterwards food samples to educate them on how to handle then-army chief overthrew his Islam- earlier had presented the King with and memorandums of understanding. erly countries,” Sisi said in a televised will be sent to the central laboratory food items. ist predecessor Mohamed Mursi, the ceremonial Nile Collar, suggested A government official had said speech. Clashes kill Palestinian resistance 12 ahead of Oil prices jump 6% Yemen truce Agencies $2.45, or 6.2 percent, at $41.88 by 11520 GMT. US crude futures gained AFP $2.53, or 6.8 percent, to $39.79 a bar- rel. “We are starting to draw crude NEW YORK: Oil prices jumped 6 inventories in the US” said Scott percent yesterday, heading for the Shelton, energy broker with ICAP MARIB, YEMEN: At least 12 largest weekly gain in a month, as in Durham, North Carolina. “Run fighters died yesterday in clashes drawdowns in US crude stockpiles rates are rising and US production between loyalists and rebels in fed hopes that a punishing global is falling. Yemen’s Marib province east of oversupply that has lasted nearly two “This is very different I think Sana’a, two days ahead of a UN- years may be nearing tipping point. than what was expected. The mar- announced ceasefire, military US petrol and diesel prices ral- ket perceives that these draws may sources said. lied along with crude, rising more continue as the Keystone outage will They said the clashes, which than 5 percent each. Gasoline has increase the likelihood,” Shelton. according to a preliminary toll killed been one of the strongest pillars Speculation has returned that seven pro-government fighters and of support for US crude this year. Russia and Opec members can reach five rebels, broke out around the Ultra low sulfur diesel, also known a deal on freezing oil output when town of Sarwah which loyalists have as heating oil, has rebounded this they meet in Doha on April 17. Saudi A protester hurls stones towards Israeli security forces during clashes following a protest against been trying for months to recapture week on seasonally cold weather Arabia has said it will only agree if the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel in the village of Kafr Qaddum, near Nablus, yesterday. from Houthi rebels. Saudi-led Arab forecasts through late April. it’s joined by other suppliers includ- coalition warplanes circled over- Brent crude futures were up ing Iran. head but did not drop any bombs or fire missiles. The rebels said on their website, sabanews.net, that a three-pronged government offen- sive was repelled with the loss of Turkey and Israel move towards renewing ties 35 loyalists. A ceasefire is due to come into effect in Yemen at mid- night tomorrow, with the United Nations hoping it can be the cor- AFP regional ally of Israel until the two another round taking place in Feb- London brought together powerful adding that the two sides were hop- nerstone of a peace deal at talks countries cut ties in 2010 over the ruary in Geneva. “The teams made Turkish foreign ministry official Feri- ing to reach “a final stage” in the talks due to start on April 18 in Kuwait. deadly storming by Israeli comman- progress towards finalising the agree- dun Sinirlioglu, Joseph Ciechanover, soon. Turkey had already said in Feb- The UN says the Yemen con- dos of a Turkish aid ship bound for ment and closing the gaps, and agreed an adviser to Israeli Prime Minis- ruary that the former allies were flict has cost the lives of about ANKARA: Turkey and Israel are on Gaza, which left 10 Turkish activists that the deal will be finalised in the ter Benjamin Netanyahu, and Israeli “close to concluding a deal”. 6,300 people since the Arab coa- the brink of restoring their ties after dead. next meeting which will be convened National Security Adviser Jacob Nagel. But they had yet to agree on all lition intervened on the side of the a bitter falling-out five years ago, the After years of bitter accusations very soon,” the Turkish ministry said In an interview with Turkish of Turkey’s conditions, with the main government in March 2015.