ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 5 Business | 17 Sport | 26 QRC begins Italian firm AIBA officials relief to develop visit venues programme for Shamal urban before Boxing Yemen refugees. infrastructure. Championships. MONDAY 13 JULY 2015 • 26 Ramadan 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6490 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Deputy Emir, PM perform Umrah Plans for online Qatar issues interlinking of departments DOHA: The Ministry of Economy and Commerce is to advisory for launch a new system of online interlinking of ministries and departments to save applicants’ time and efforts. The ministry held a meet- Greece travel ing with officials of government departments and organisations to highlight the service. Eurozone sets tough terms for Athens Applicants will not be required to visit multiple department to DOHA: Amid the deepening summit in Brussels yesterday as get their documents. After inter- debt crisis in Greece, Qatar’s an exit from the single currency linking, a department will be able Foreign Ministry has advised loomed ever larger. to access required information citizens visiting the country to Hawkish Germany pushed for related applicants online. carry with them enough cash a Greek “time out” from the euro A senior official of the ministry to cover their expenses during if leftist Prime Minister Alexis said citizens availing social secu- their stay due to lack of cash in Tsipras fails to agree terms for a rity services are required to bring ATMs with closure of several three-year rescue plan worth up a certificate from the ministry banks. to €86bn. saying that they do not have any A source at the Department of “There will be no agreement commercial registration in their Consulate Affairs at the ministry at any price,” Merkel said as she name. said yesterday that citizens plan- arrived for the summit of 19 euro- Now citizens will not be ning to visit Greece must contact zone leaders, complaining of a loss required to go to the ministry the hotels before travel to check of trust in Athens and warning of because the Labour and Social whether they accept credit card “tough negotiations” ahead. Affairs Ministry can verify infor- or not, Al Sharq reported. The tensions were underscored mation online. It is necessary to take neces- when EU President Donald Tusk Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani and Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh THE PENINSULA sary precautions since it is not halted the summit midway for Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifah Al Thani performing Umrah rituals in Makkah yesterday. See also page 2 possible at present to receive three-way talks between Tsipras, financial transfer from outside Merkel and French President Greece, said the daily. Francois Hollande. Greece has been one of the The summit came after the favourite destinations in Europe Eurogroup of eurozone finance where many citizens used to ministers finished two days of spend their summer holidays. intense talks on Greece’s reform Iran nuclear deal likely today The Ministry at the same time proposals. has advised Qatari tourists not Greece would now have to push VIENNA: Iran and world pow- has swollen in days to about 100 to have solved an issue with the other nations isn’t being contem- to take large amounts of money through new laws by Wednesday ers seem to be on the cusp of pages from 80, according to two United Nations arms embargo plated, even as negotiators still with them while touring inside under the conditions agreed by achieving a nuclear deal, that of the officials, who asked not to that had been a hurdle, and had work to do. the country apparently due to the eurozone ministers and to be may be announced as soon be named in line with diplomatic were attempting to resolve other US Secretary of State John security reasons. considered by the leaders of the as today, bringing to an end rules. matters that have rendered an Kerry said yesterday he and In case of emergency, citizens bloc, Finnish Finance Minister a 12-year dispute that led to Although for the past few agreement elusive. They’ve given Zarif had a “very good” meeting may seek help from the Qatari Alex Stubb said afterwards. strict economic sanctions on the weeks, during marathon talks at themselves through today to and once again voiced optimism embassy in Athens by calling over Athens would also have to Persian Gulf nation. Vienna’s Palais Coburg, the dip- clinch a deal. that an accord was within reach. phone no 00306940030007. introduce tough conditions on Last-minute technical and lomats had regularly claimed to Speaking from his balcony “We’re getting to some real deci- Meanwhile, eurozone leaders labour reform and pensions, VAT legal complexities meant that be very close to a deal, this time, at the hotel yesterday, Iranian sions,” Kerry said. “So I will say set Greece brutal take-it-or- and taxes, and measures on pri- the accord was impossible to con- after three missed deadlines, it Foreign Minister Mohammad — because we have a few tough leave-it conditions for a desper- vatisation, he said. clude yesterday, according to four could be the real thing. Javad Zarif told reporters another things to do — I remain hopeful. ately needed bailout deal at a THE PENINSULA/AFP officials at the talks. The draft Diplomats yesterday were said extension in the talks with six Hopeful.” BLOOMBERG Djokovic beats Federer to win third Wimbledon title Eid holidays announced DOHA: The Emiri Diwan has announced Eid al-Fitr holidays for ministries, government institutions and public entities. The holiday will begin on Wednesday (July 15) and will end on Thursday July 23, with work resuming on Sunday July 26. For Qatar Central Bank, banks, QCB-supervised financial institutions and Qatar Financial Markets Authority, QCB governor will determine the holidays. QNA RAMADAN 45 killed in Yemen strikes TIMING SANAA: Fighting near the southern Yemeni city of Aden killed 35 Today’s Iftar: people yesterday, the exiled government said, in breach of a tempo- 06:30pm rary humanitarian truce brokered by the United Nations. A week-long pause in the fighting was meant to have started on Saturday to allow Tomorrow’s Imsak: aid deliveries to the country’s 21 million people, who have endured 03:14am more than three months of bombing and civil war, but there was no sign of any abatement. At least 10 people were also killed in air strikes overnight across Yemen, relatives and medical sources said. AFP Confederate flag supporters Novak Djokovic (left) of Serbia poses with the winner’s trophy while Roger Federer of Switzerland holds the runner-up’s shield at the All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, London, yesterday. Djokovic ended take out huge rally in US Federer’s hopes of a record eighth Wimbledon title with a 7-6(1), 6-7(10), 6-4, 6-3 victory. Report on page 28 OCALA: An eight-mile convoy of pickups, motorcycles and cars wound through a central Florida town yesterday in a show of sup- port for the Confederate flag, as a backlash against its banishment from public landmarks across the South picks up steam. Horns Court fines firm for lack of safety blared and hundreds of the rebel flags fluttered as more than 1,500 Ramadan vehicles and some 4,500 people turned out for the “Florida Southern QUIZ DOHA: A Criminal Court has the daily said the police acted on a investigators that he got fractures Pride Ride” in Ocala, according to police estimates. Vehicles from Answer a Simple Question imposed a fine of QR100,000 on phone call from another Egyptian in his hand and right leg. The states across the South and as far away as California participated. Win a Gold Coin everyday a contracting company for caus- who informed that some people company offered him QR10,000 “That flag has a lot of different meanings to a lot of different people,” See page 15 ing injuries to two Egyptian had been injured in a worksite to settle the matter amicably but said David Stone, 38, who organized the event. expatriate workers due to lack accident in Bani Hajar. he refused, said the daily. “It doesn’t symbolise hate unless you think it’s hate — and that’s of adequate safety measures at The caller said that on that par- The victims were not present your problem, not mine.” the worksite. ticular day he went to the site for in the court at the final session. Organisers announced the event as the South embarked on an emo- The Public Prosecution filed some work and saw a wall falling. Only a representative of the com- tional debate over the flag’s symbolism in the aftermath of the mas- charges against the company in He heard the cries of people. He pany attended the trial. The court sacre of nine blacks by a white gunman in a Charleston church last the court for not taking necessary rushed to the spot and removed found the company guilty for not month. The suspect in the church shootings had posed with the flag safety and security measures at cement blocks piled up on the vic- complying with provisions of the in photos posted on a website. In South Carolina, lawmakers moved the work site based on a medical tims with the help of another per- labour law that requires to provide quickly to take the flag down from the statehouse grounds in Columbia, report on the injuries, local Arabic son at the site.