BUSINESS | Page 1 SPORT | Page 12 History beckons Lawrie, INDEX DOW JONES QE NYMEX QATAR 2, 3, 20 COMMENT 18, 19 Grace REGION 4 BUSINESS 1 – 6, 8 – 12 16,466.30 9,272.01 33.56 ARAB WORLD 5 CLASSIFIED 7, 8 Ooredoo investing more +396.66 +292.51 +0.34 INTERNATIONAL 6 – 17 SPORTS 1 – 12 +2.47% +3.26% +1.02% in Myanmar this year Latest Figures published in QATAR since 1978 SATURDAY Vol. XXXVI No. 9983 January 30, 2016 Rabia II 20, 1437 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Qatar and Bosnia seek to strengthen relations Hundreds In brief QATAR | Weather undergo Cold spell set to continue One of the lowest maximum and minimum temperatures recorded in Qatar this winter, 14C and 9C, respectively, are forecast today training at Abu Samra. The maximum and minimum yesterday were 16C and 10C, respectively. Strong wind and poor visibility due to blowing dust are expected across the country today. The highest temperature for today, 17C, is forecast at Mesaieed, Wakrah and in CPR Doha, followed by 16C at Al Khor and 15C at Ruwais and Dukhan. A minimum The campaign concludes today temperature of 10C is expected at HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani meeting with Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidential Council chairman Dr with indoor training at the malls Mesaieed, Wakrah, Doha and Al Khor, Dragan Covic and Presidential Council members Bakir Izetbegovic and Mladen Ivanic at the presidential palace in Sarajevo followed by 11C at Dukhan and 12C at yesterday. The meeting reviewed bilateral relations and ways to develop them on all fronts, particularly the economic one, in By Joseph Varghese Ruwais. addition to opening prospects for joint investment and expanding trade and industrial exchange between the two countries. Staff Reporter Views were also exchanged on a number of regional and international issues of mutual interest. The Emir left Sarajevo SPORT | Football yesterday evening after concluding his one-day off icial visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Emir had arrived in Sarajevo after concluding a three-day off icial visit to Italy. undreds of people underwent Qatar team loses out on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation fi nal place to Olympics H(CPR) training yesterday across Qatar failed to qualify for their first Qatar when Hamad Medical Corpora- Olympics since 1992 after losing 2-1 tion launched a two-day awareness to Iraq in Doha yesterday in a sudden campaign. death AFC Under-23 football match to The demonstration was held mainly A child undergoing CPR training. decide which team would go to Rio. at the Doha Corniche where 50 stations Iraq won in extra time after only forcing with two trainers each and mannequins “We might make this campaign an the additional 30 minutes thanks to an and mattress had been set up. There annual feature. We have plans to reach 86th minute headed equaliser from were also demonstration and training out to more people in the coming days. Mohannad Abdulraheem. Substitute sessions at the Wakrah Corniche, Katara We intend to take the campaign to stu- Aymen Hussein secured the victory with - Cultural Village, City Center Doha, dents by visiting the schools and giving another header in the 109th minute. Landmark Mall, The Gate Mall and Gulf them training on CPR. This will help in Hosts Qatar had taken the lead in the Mall. equipping the younger generation with 27th minute through Ahmed Alaa. Sport The campaign concludes today with this important skill,” he added. Page 1 indoor training at the malls. One of the trainers at Doha Corniche, Dr Khalid Abdulnoor Saifeldeen, di- Jilson who works for Qatar Petroleum WORLD | Study rector of Hamad International Training Air Ambulance, said that the present Centre, (HITC), said he was encour- norm in administering CPR is to give Breastfeeding best for aged by the turnout to witness the 120 chest compressions in a minute by a babies and economy demonstration as well as to undergo trained person. Breastfeeding more babies for longer the training at various stations of the “If a person, without proper CPR could save the global economy some campaign. training fi nds an individual suff ering $300bn in a single year, simply by “This is a great occasion to spread the from cardiac arrest, check his breathing yielding smarter and higher-earning importance of this training to save lives. and inform 999 immediately. Then start off spring, researchers said yesterday. It We expect a large number of people to administering CPR by giving compres- would also prevent more than 800,000 benefi t from this training and make use sions by holding both the hands together child deaths, and about 20,000 breast of it in case an emergency occurs,” he and pressing on the chest. An untrained cancer deaths every year. “Breastfeeding said. person may give 70-100 compressions saves lives and money in all countries, The offi cial pointed out that the rst fi per minute. However, it must be con- rich and poor alike,” said Cesar Victora 10 minutes after a cardiac arrest are the tinuous until the ambulance service or from the Federal University of Pelotas in most important to save life. other medical aid arrives.” Brazil, one of the authors of a research “In most cases, during this time, Niranjan, an employee of Kahramaa series published by The Lancet medical HH the Emir attending the Open Day activities held for the Bosnian orphans by Qatar Charity (QC) at Hotel Bristol Sarajevo. there may not be any medical help avail- who had visited one of the CPR training journal. He watched a documentary about the activities of QC in Bosnia and Herzegovina and charitable eff orts being rendered in the able as most of the cardiac cases happen stations along with his family, said he Bosnian territory. The children expressed thanks and gratitude to HH the Emir for his support and patronage. They also voiced outside the medical environment. Every found the training very useful. QATAR | Diplomacy their gratitude to the State of Qatar, its leadership, government and people, wishing the Emir good health and happiness and the minute after a cardiac arrest, there is “It might be benefi cial to save the Qatari people further progress and prosperity. Page 3 10% reduction in survival possibility lives of a number of people as the cases FM receives call from if there is no instant medical help. Ad- of cardiac arrest are on the rise every- Turkish counterpart ministering CPR, probably, is the only where. I have been in this country for HE the Foreign Minister Sheikh option to support such patients until about two years and I fi nd the healthcare Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani medical help arrives,” he said. system here extremely good.” yesterday received a telephone call from Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. They reviewed relations Qatar condemns bomb attack between the two countries and ways to develop them in addition to a set of issues of common concern. on mosque in Saudi Arabia AMERICA | Release ‘Top secret’ e-mails QNA Foreign Ministry said “this criminal act The Saudi interior ministry said two Doha is contrary to all moral and humanitarian worshippers and two policemen were on Clinton server values and principles and the heavenly killed in the attack. The State Department said yesterday religions”, expressing confi dence “in the Ministry spokesman Mansur al-Turki that material that should have been atar expressed its strong con- ability of the Saudi security services to said a suicide bomber blew himself up marked “Top secret” has been found demnation and denunciation monitor and foil such criminal acts and outside the mosque when police stopped in seven e-mail chains from former Qof the bombing that targeted Al bring the criminals to justice”. him from entering the premises. secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s private Rida mosque in Al-Mahasen district The statement stressed Qatar’s Another would-be suicide bomber server. Spokesman John Kirby said of Al Ahsa governorate in Saudi Arabia backing for Saudi Arabia and full sup- was arrested after he was injured in a the e-mails, which he described as “22 yesterday. port for all actions taken to promote se- shootout with security forces outside documents covering 37 pages”, would Four people were killed and 18 curity and stability. the mosque. therefore not be released publicly along wounded in the suicide attack as wor- It expressed Qatar’s sincere condo- Al Jazeera reported that an attacker, with other e-mails from the Democratic shippers were leaving the mosque after lences to families of the victims, the wearing an explosives belt, shot at wor- White House candidate’s controversial Friday prayers Saudi government and people, wishing shippers inside the mosque before he Dr Khalid Abdulnoor Saifeldeen, third left, along with other HMC off icials at one of archive. In statement issued yesterday, Qatar’s speedy recovery to the injured. was arrested. Page 4 the CPR training stations on the Corniche yesterday. Main opposition group to attend Syria peace talks in Geneva DPA agreed to send a team to the talks. internal talks held in Saudi Arabia. mands, the opposition noted, saying could best discuss the humanitarian which started as peaceful anti-govern- Geneva The opposition’s absence at the The opposition team would come af- it was “testing the seriousness” of the concerns in Geneva. ment protests in 2011. scheduled start had cast doubt over the ter it received support from key inter- talks. Samir al-Nashar, a member of the op- It has since spiralled into a multi- potential of the talks to make progress national powers, including the US, that Syrian government representative position Syrian National Coalition, told sided civil war that has claimed more N-sponsored negotiations on toward ending the fi ve-year war that has it would be able to discuss humanitarian Bashar al-Jaafari met with special en- DPA there was “tremendous pressure” than 250,000 lives and driven more than the Syrian conflict began in claimed a quarter of a million lives.