Новости за 21.04.2016

AMMAN — The “old” Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group is willing to enter dialogue with authorities, “especially now”, amid a crackdown on the group that has seen its offices closed in different towns.

QAMISHLI, Syria — More than 21 pro-government militiamen have been killed in two days of battles with Syrian Kurdish forces in northeast Syria that has widened the Kurds' control over a city at the border with Turkey, a Syrian Kurdish official said.

AMMAN — Police on Thursday said they have launched a probe into two murders that occurred during brawls between members of the same family in Amman and Ramtha earlier in the day.

AMMAN — The Mujib water conveyance project has won an international award at the Global Water Summit being held in Abu Dhabi, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, on Wednesday quoted Water Minister Hazem Nasser as saying.

BRUSSELS — Turkey has met fewer than half the conditions for its citizens to be granted early visa-free travel to the European Union, just 10 days before a deadline for it to meet the requirements, an EU official told lawmakers on Thursday.

PEDERNALES, Ecuador — Ecuador announced drastic economic measures late Wednesday, including a hike in some taxes and mandatory wage contributions, to deal with the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that killed more than 500 people and injured over 5,000.

BHUBANESWAR, India/KARACHI, Pakistan — More than 100 people are feared dead in India in an early-summer heatwave which forced schools to close and halted outdoor work like construction, government officials said on Thursday.

CAIRO — Egypt's war on black market currency traders is not going to plan. One month after a devaluation that was supposed to ease an acute dollar shortage in the banking system, clandestine business is booming in cafés, shops and flats.

FRANKFURT — The European Central Bank (ECB) on Thursday dismissed German criticism of its monetary policy, insisting its benefits would take time to unfold, while bank chief Mario Draghi also said Britain's membership in the European Union [EU] was "mutually beneficial". 

WASHINGTON — Global warming could make the planet far hotter than currently projected because today’s scientific models do not correctly account for the influence of clouds, researchers recently said.