Новости за 01.06.2016

BERLIN — Nine months ago, after the Syrian army razed his neighbourhood, Mohammed was desperate to make his way to Germany.

BRUSSELS — Striking rail workers halted about half of French train services on Wednesday in a dispute over working time as a stand-off between the militant CGT union and the Socialist government over a proposed labour law reform dragged on.

DONETSK, Ukraine — Ukraine’s pro-Russian eastern insurgents on Wednesday accused Kiev’s soldiers of launching a new blitz near a prized but long-obliterated airport in the separatists’ de facto capital of Donetsk.

BEIJING — China hopes all parties on the Korean peninsula will remain calm and exercise restraint, President Xi Jinping told a senior visiting North Korean envoy on Wednesday, after the isolated state rattled nerves with a failed missile test.

LOS ANGELES — Suddenly, everyone from the US government, commercial satellite companies, universities and even high school students needs to have a small satellite.

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft is out to use Windows software to do for altered reality what it did for personal computers: make them commonplace.

AMMAN – The new government of prime minister-designate is expected to be sworn in on Wednesday with a “good number” of members of the former government of Abdullah Ensour expected to keep their portfolios, informed sources told The Jordan Times on Tuesday. 

AMMAN — Deputising for His Majesty King Abdullah, Royal Court Chief Fayez Tarawneh on Tuesday met with Deputy Prime Minister of Turkmenistan Rasit Meredow, who delivered an invitation from President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedow to His Majesty to visit the country, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. 

AMMAN — The Labour Ministry said on Tuesday it will "soon" release the results of a field survey identifying the causes of child labour.