Новости за 30.04.2016

AMMAN – Royal Court Chief Fayez Tarawneh said that His Majesty King Abdullah’s main concern amid a new cold war and rising terrorism is to protect Jordan’s interests and maintain its influential role in the region.

AMMAN — Wihdat Club on Saturday won the 64th Jordan Professional League despite a 3-1 defeat against Jazira, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

BAGHDAD — Iraqi anti-government protesters tore down walls and poured into the capital's heavily-fortified Green Zone on Saturday, where they stormed parliament in a major escalation of a months-long political crisis.

AMMAN — The Cassation Court has upheld an October Criminal Court ruling sentencing a 30-year-old man to 10 years in prison after convicting him of murdering an Egyptian in Karak in February 2014.

AMMAN — As Jordan marks Labour Day on Sunday, the debate over raising the minimum wage continues.

ROME — Eighty-four migrants are still missing after an inflatable craft sank off the coast of Libya, according to survivors cited by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) on Saturday.

STUTTGART, Germany — German left-wing demonstrators clashed with police on Saturday as they tried to break up the first full conference of the anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany where Chancellor Angela Merkel's policies came under attack.

MOSCOW — Russia rejected on Saturday a new claim that one of its jets had intercepted a US reconnaissance plane over the Baltic in an "unsafe" manner and accused Washington of sending "spy-planes" into its airspace.

LONDON — It's been a long and tortuous journey, but the eurozone economy is finally back to the size it was before the global financial crisis.

NEW YORK — Plunging oil prices battered oil giants' profits in the first quarter, another blow following credit downgrades, lay-offs and drilling cutbacks in the wake of a long rout.