Home | 4 Business | 17 Sport | 27 Cabinet slams IMF chief hails Stenson targets terrorist attacks Qatar’s strategic hat-trick of title wins in Paris investments in Dubai this week The Peninsula Newspaper @PeninsulaQatar @peninsula_qatar THURSDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2015 • 7 Safar 1437 • Volume 20 Number 6619 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Syrian refugees in Europe Emir to perform Qatar Charity to rain prayer today DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani will perform Istisqa (rain-seeking) collect QR54m for prayer this morning at Al Wajba prayer area with citizens, in line with the Sunnah (tradition) of Prophet Muhammad (peace be Syrian refugees upon him) . ‘Syria: Endless Winter’ drive to benefit 735,000 Emir congratulates Sultan Qaboos By Fazeena Saleem in Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon,” Rashid bin Fatis Al Marri, Director Operations at DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim DOHA: Qatar Charity (QC) has launched Qatar Charity, told this newspaper. bin Hamad Al Thani sent a cable a campaign to collect donations to provide “We cannot forget the Syrian children A woman carries a child as migrants and refugees walk near Gevgelija, after crossing the of congratulations to H M Sultan cold-weather aid to Syrian refugees and who died due to cold weather conditions Greece-Macedonia border, yesterday. More than 800,000 refugees and migrants have landed Qaboos bin Said of the Sultanate those displaced within Syria due to the during the last winter. This winter is going in Europe so far this year and more than 3,000 have died while crossing the Mediterranean. of Oman on the occasion of his ongoing crisis in the country. to be harsher and colder according to fore- country’s National Day. QC hopes to collect QR54m ($14.83m) in casts. Therefore, we request philanthropists its donation mobilisation drive it has titled to donate in this campaign so the Syrians ‘Syria: Endless Winter’ with which some in need would receive winter supplies,” he Emir greets King 735,000 people, including women, children added. New tenders law issued and the elderly, will be provided succor. A beneficiary family comprising four of Morocco The cold weather has already arrived in members will receive aid, from the QC as DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin including chairman and his deputy. the region, making things harder for the part of the above campaign, worth QR1,000. Hamad Al Thani yesterday issued Law One tenders and auctions committee can DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees Called ‘Winter Banquet for Family of Number 24 of 2015 regulating tenders and be set up for several government minis- Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and internally displaced people in Syria, Four’ the package worth QR1,000 will auctions, reports Qatar News Agency (QNA). tries or departments and each of these sent a cable of congratulations to said QC. include a blanket, a heater, jackets, hats, The law will come into effect six months departments must send a representative King Mohammed VI of Morocco “We are urging people to donate for our gloves, socks, and scarves. after being published in the official gazette. to the committee. All members of the above on the occasion of his country’s ‘Syria: Endless Winter’ drive to help those Also a blanket at a cost of QR 100, heater The legislation has 43 articles and will committee or committees must be public Independence Day. in need,” said senior QC officials address- for QR250, a winter bag for two at a cost of apply to all government ministries, agen- servants. The chairman of a committee or ing a news conference here yesterday. The QR400 which includes hats, gloves, socks, cies, authorities and institutions except the premier can nominate a member to a briefing was held during the launch of the and scarves; a ‘Food Basket’ that is suf- Qatar Investment Authority, Qatar Petro- committee. A highlight of the new law is Emir congratulates campaign at QC headquarters. ficient for a family for one month (it has leum, the police and defence forces and that it makes it mandatory for a tenders As part of cold-weather aid disbursal, the basic supplies) at a cost of QR200, a institutions where contracts could be of and auctions committee or several commit- President of Latvia QC will provide winter supplies needed for ‘School Bag’ for QR100 and bread sufficient confidential nature. tees to have a member of the State Audit internally displaced people in Syria and the for a family for a month for QR50 could be The law can be applied to entities that Bureau as a monitoring authority. DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Syrian refugees in the neighboring coun- donated via different methods. “We urge are fully or partially funded by the govern- The law is liberal and allows heads of Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani tries. people to support the campaign in which ment. Bye-laws to help implement this law state agencies to bypass the tendering sent a cable of greetings to Pres- “The campaign will run throughout the the needed winter supplies prices vary from are to be issued by the Minister of Finance. process and opt for direct agreements for ident of Latvia Raymond Vejonis winter season. More than 60 percent of the QR50 to QR1000,” said Al Marri. The law authorises the prime minister purchase or procurement of supplies or on the occasion of his country’s fund collected as part of the campaign will Continued on page 7 to set up one or more tenders and auc- provision of some service subject to con- National Day. benefit internally displaced people in Syria tions committee, each with a minimum ditions. , while we will also support Syrian refugees THE PENINSULA of five and a maximum of seven members, THE PENINSULA QNA Two Saudi army officers martyred Woman bomber among two killed in Paris police raid RIYADH: Two Saudi army SAINT DENIS, FRANCE: A ing three people who were pulled 4.30 am (0330 GMT). officers patrolling in Al Qatif woman suicide bomber blew her- from the apartment, officials “We could see bullets flying and province were martyred yes- self up and another militant died said. “It is impossible to tell you laser beams out of the window. terday. yesterday when police raided an who was arrested. We are in the There were explosions. You could Security spokesman for the apartment in the Paris suburb process of verifying that. Every- feel the whole building shake,” Interior Ministry said in a state- of St Denis seeking suspects in thing will be done to determine said Sabrine, a downstairs neigh- ment to the Saudi Press Agency last week’s attacks in the French who is who,” Paris prosecutor bour from the apartment that (SPA) that one of the security capital. Francois Molins said at the end was raided. patrols in Qatif came under fire Three sources said the raid of the operation. She told Europe 1 radio that she from an unknown source when stopped a militant cell that had Molins said the assault was heard the people above her talk- they were performing their tasks been planning an attack on Par- ordered after phone taps and sur- ing to each other, running around near a farm in Saihat. is’s business district, La Defense, veillance operations led police to and reloading their guns. Saudi Arabia has been hit by a after coordinated bombings and believe that Abaaoud might have Another local, Sanoko Abdulai, spate of deadly shooting and bomb shootings killed 129 across the been in St Denis, near to the soc- said that as the operation gath- attacks in recent months, many city. cer stadium which was site of one ered pace, a young woman deto- claimed by the Islamic State of Officials said police had been of the attacks that hit Paris last nated an explosion. Iraq and the Levant. hunting Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a week. Investigators believe the “She had a bomb, that’s for QNA Belgian Islamist militant accused attacks—the worst atrocity in sure. The police didn’t kill her, she of masterminding the Nov 13 car- France since World War Two— blew herself up...,” he said, without nage, but more than nine hours was set in motion from Syria, giving details. Three police offic- Rugby legend after the launch of the pre-dawn with Islamist cells in neighbour- ers and a passerby were injured raid it was still unclear if they had Forensic team of the French police search for evidences outside a building ing Belgium organising the may- in the assault. A police dog was Jonah Lomu dead found him. in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis yesterday, where special forces hem. also killed. Seven people were arrested raided an appartment, hunting those behind the attacks that claimed 129 Local residents spoke of their See also page 16 WELLINGTON: Rugby leg- in the operation, which started fear and panic as the shooting lives in the French capital five days ago. end Jonah Lomu (pictured), with a barrage of gunfire, includ- started in St Denis just before REUTERS regarded as the game’s first glo- bal superstar before kid- ney disease ended his career, died 12 dead as heavy rains unexpect- 20 robot-assisted heart surgeries this year edly yester- and wind lash Saudi day aged 40, DOHA: Heart Hospital (HH) of mally-invasive cardiothoracic surgery, gery has been successfully introduced at the player’s Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) as well as recent developments in this the hospital as an advanced management JEDDAH: Heavy rains and wind lashed Jeddah family and has conducted 20 robot-assisted heart field in Qatar.