Новости за 16.07.2016

NICE, France — The rogue driver who turned a night of fireworks and fun into the worst carnage the French resort city of Nice has seen in decades appeared aloof and menacing to his neighbours and family, while authorities said Saturday that he had recently turned to religious extremism.

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, rose to power riding on brash populism. A former professional soccer player and ex-mayor of Istanbul, he engineered electoral landslides for a party whose pious Muslim base flouted the old secular establishment. In office for more than a decade, he has been increasingly accused of autocratic tendencies.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama urged parties on all sides of the crisis in Turkey on Saturday to avoid destabilising behaviour and follow the rule of law, a day after a coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan rocked US efforts to combat Daesh.

ISTANBUL — A failed coup attempt in Turkey and a series of bombings that hit the country this year have weighed on international travel to the country.

CAIRO — The word "fire" is heard on the cockpit voice recorder of EgyptAir 804 before the plane crashed into the Mediterranean in May, an Egyptian-led investigative committee said Saturday.

AMMAN – Investors have shown strong interest in starting up new projects in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector, the Jordan Investment Commission (JIC) said on Saturday.

AMMAN — Masood Ahmed, the director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), is going to retire from the fund, following the IMF-World Bank annual meetings in October 2016, according to an IMF statement e-mailed to The Jordan Times.