Новости за 16.04.2016

AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Saturday sent a cable to Japanese Emperor Akihito, expressing his condolences over the loss of life in the earthquake that hit the southwestern island of Kyushu, a Royal Court statement said. 

AMMAN — Jordan and Russia on Saturday signed a cooperation agreement in the field of regulating nuclear and radiation safety for peaceful use of nuclear energy, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

AMMAN— The rules of the game in the establishment-Muslim Brotherhood relations have changed after authorities closed the group’s offices 70 years after its establishment in the political landscape, observers have agreed.

TRIPOLI — The foreign ministers of France and Germany made an unannounced visit on Saturday to Tripoli in a show of support for the new unity government striving to bridge Libya's deep political divisions.

BEIRUT — The Daesh group has captured more than a dozen villages and hills during a fresh offensive in northern Syria, opposition activists said Saturday. The Daesh territorial gains bring the extremist group close to the main highway that links the capital, Damascus, with the country's largest city of Aleppo.

TOKYO — Japanese rescuers were digging through the rubble of buildings and mud on Saturday to reach dozens believed trapped after a powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck a southern island, killing at least 32 people and injuring about a thousand.

AMMAN — Jordan Phosphate Mines Company (JPMC) will be raising capital by 10 per cent to JD82.5 million as authorised by shareholders during an extraordinary general assembly meeting last week.

OXFORD, England — Growing global wealth inequality is becoming a fundamental risk to democracy and to economies around the world as more people feel government rules "rigged" in favour of the rich leave them with few options, investors and governance experts said Friday.

Scientists have devised a wearable sweat monitor that keeps tabs on your health by monitoring the chemical composition of your perspiration.

Computers may trounce humans at games like chess and Go, but there’s one game we’ve still got a lock on: quantum physics. Scientists who had people play an online video game that mimicked a troublesome quantum mechanical problem found that the gamers were far better than the computers at working out viable solutions.