Новости за 12.05.2016

AMMAN — Jordan’s Interpol office in Amman in April dealt with 19 cases that resulted in receiving two "wanted Jordanians" from the Emirati authorities, the Public Security Department’s (PSD) media centre announced on Thursday.

AMMAN — The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) said Thursday it was looking into news circulating on several media outlets that local telcos have plans for new procedures that require users to subscribe to use Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services such as Skype and Viber.

WASHINGTON — The United States appears reluctant to support a French plan to relaunch the Israeli-Palestinian peace process with a major conference this month.

Gaza City — Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei said Thursday he felt compelled to visit Gaza to understand its part in the global refugee crisis for a documentary he is filming.

DAMASCUS — An aid convoy was refused entry to Syria's Daraya Thursday, the Red Cross said, dashing hopes for the first such delivery since regime forces began a siege of the rebel-held town in 2012.

ALGIERS — Former Algerian energy minister Chakib Khelil brushes off talk of presidential ambitions. But as he travels from town to town meeting officials and religious leaders, critics say the close ally of ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika looks very much as if he is on the campaign trail.

DEVESELU, Romania — The United States switched on an $800 million missile shield in Romania on Thursday that it sees as vital to defend itself and Europe from so-called rogue states but the Kremlin says is aimed at blunting its own nuclear arsenal.

ANKARA — A deal to grant Turks visa-free travel to most of the European Union was hanging by a thread Thursday after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan defiantly vowed Ankara would not fulfil a key condition set by Brussels.

PARIS –– A global oil glut that has sent prices tumbling is set to "shrink dramatically" later this year, as wildfires have disrupted Canada's output and demand in India soars, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Thursday.