Новости за 26.04.2016

BAGHDAD — A dozen lawmakers disrupted the Iraqi parliament's session on Tuesday, clapping, slamming their hands on desks and chanting slogans, forcing nearly two hundred other deputies to leave the main chamber to vote on a Cabinet reshuffle.

KUWAIT — Yemen's warring factions agreed on an agenda on Tuesday for UN-backed peace negotiations, delegates said, following heavy pressure from world powers.

AMMAN – Border Guards on Monday foiled an infiltration attempt by 12 persons from foreign countries who sought to cross from Jordan into a neighbouring country, an official source at the Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army said on Tuesday.  

AMMAN — Jordan and The Netherlands are of the same opinion that the Syrian crisis can only be resolved through a comprehensive political solution, Dutch Ambassador to Amman Paul van den IJssel said on Tuesday.

AMMAN — An online petition seeks to revoke the Cabinet’s recent decision to appoint relatives of lawmakers at the Lower House due to its violation of social justice principles.

AMMAN — Industry, Trade and Supply Minister Maha Ali on Tuesday inaugurated the Jordanian-Czech business forum, organised by the Jordan Chamber of Commerce (JCC) in cooperation with the Czech embassy in Amman. 

AMMAN — The Jordan Exporters Association (JEA) recently arranged the participation of local food companies in SIAL Canada food exhibition hosted in Montreal last week, JEA President Halim Abu Rahmeh said Tuesday.

ABU DHABI/HASAKA, Syria — Syria's war has destroyed agricultural infrastructure and fractured the state system that provides farmers with seeds and buys their crops, deepening a humanitarian crisis in a country struggling to produce enough grain to feed its people.

ISTANBUL — The United States will deploy a rocket launcher system in Turkey near the border with a part of Syria held by the Daesh terror group, Turkey's foreign minister was quoted as saying on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON — When the clock ticks down on Barack Obama's presidency, five years will have passed since he officially pulled US combat forces from Iraq.