Новости за 25.02.2016

CAPE TOWN — South Africa's finance minister on Wednesday hiked taxes and targeted what he called wasteful and corrupt government spending in a "crisis" budget, aimed at staving off a ratings downgrade to junk status.

BRUSSELS — Greece recalled its ambassador from Austria on Thursday and warned it would not be treated as "Europe's Lebanon" as the migrant crisis strained relations between EU states to breaking point.

WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned Wednesday that the world economy is "highly vulnerable" and called for new mechanisms to protect the most vulnerable countries.

AMMAN — Political analysts on Wednesday cautiously welcomed the new parliamentary elections law as a step in the right direction.

AMMAN – Domestic revenues, tax and non-tax, are expected to fall short of government projections in 2015 and to be slightly lower than revenues generated in 2014, an official source told The Jordan Times Wednesday. 

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel's Shin Bet domestic security agency abuses Palestinians under interrogation in a manner so systematic it points to official endorsement, two Israeli NGOs said in a report published on Wednesday.

AMMAN — A 16-year-old girl has been found begging on streets in one of the capital’s areas to collect money to buy drugs for her father, Social Development Ministry spokesperson, Fawaz Ratrout, said on Wednesday. 

WADI BEY, Libya — An hour's drive from the Libyan city of Sirte, a few dozen troops man outposts along a desert road. They are hoping the West will soon be giving them more help to fight a common enemy: Daesh.