Новости за 04.03.2016

AMMAN ­­— Security and civil defence apparatuses on Thursday carried out operations in Irbid to "cleanse" the area in which Tuesday's anti-terror raid took place, according to an official. 

WASHINGTON — US commandos have captured a major Daesh operative in Iraq and his detention will likely lead to the apprehension of other Daesh targets, a US defence official told AFP Wednesday.

ARISH, Egypt — An Egyptian military effort to recruit and arm tribal fighters to take on Daesh militants in the Sinai is failing, according to security sources, Sinai residents and tribal figures.

TUNIS — Government neglect in central Tunisia, where poverty and unemployment rates are several times the national average, risks undermining the gains of its revolution and creating a breeding ground for extremism, experts say.

AMMAN — In the devastated Syrian city of Aleppo, children are outside playing and many people are going to the shops safely for the first time in months thanks to a partial halt to the war that is providing relief even if most doubt that peace will take hold.

PANAMA CITY — Emirates Airline, which was scheduled to launch what it called the world's longest non-stop flight this month between Dubai and Panama City, said Wednesday it was postponing those plans for around a year.

SEOUL — North Korea fired six short-range projectiles into the sea off its east coast Thursday, South Korean officials said, just hours after the UN Security Council approved the toughest sanctions on the North in two decades for its recent nuclear test and long-range rocket launch.

DOHA — Credit cards on the limit, huge bank borrowings and a struggle to repay loans: these are the personal debt problems of some Qataris despite the Gulf state's reputation for fabulous wealth.

BRASILIA — Brazil's economy contracted sharply in 2015 as businesses slashed investment plans and laid off more than 1.5 million workers, official data showed on Thursday, setting the stage for what could be the country's deepest recession on record.

DUBAI/DOHA — Low oil prices are forcing Gulf Arab states to borrow to prop up their economies and are now taking their toll on the region's banks too, complicating their efforts to raise capital required by regulators.