Новости за 24.08.2016

AMMAN – The Jordan Strategy Forum (JSF) has released a position paper on alternatives to increasing the electricity tariffs in Jordan, recommending three scenarios that, it said, "if adopted would boost the economic growth and reduce the Kingdom's imports of energy.”

AMMAN — Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Jawad Anani said that Jordan would revisit all its free trade agreements (FTAs) to assess their benefits to the Kingdom. 

AMMAN – Finance Minister Omar Malhas on Wednesday said that the executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved Jordan's request for a 36-month Extended Fund Facility (EFF) to carry a package of economic correction. 

AMMAN — Local and international experts will convene in Amman in November to discuss the latest trends in the ICT industry.

AMMAN — Two US contractors and their Jordanian driver were killed on Monday when their minivan collided with a truck in the capital, officials said on Wednesday.

KIEV — Tanks rumbled across Kiev on Tuesday as Ukraine marked 25 years of independence with a show of force against an increasingly assertive Russia and a war simmering in the pro-Kremlin separatist east.

ANKARA — Their faces so burned by a rocket blast they cannot fully close their eyes, 13-year-old Gheis Mekansi and his sister Limar, both Syrian refugees, wait in limbo in Turkey for surgery they need to return to life and school.

WASHINGTON — The United States on Tuesday reiterated its recommendation that Americans in Gaza leave the territory controlled by Hamas, which Washington calls a terrorist group, "as soon as possible". The warning came after the Israeli army said it bombed dozens of targets in Gaza from Sunday to Monday, in response to rocket fire from the strip. Palestinian medical officials said four people were wounded.

ACCUMOLI, Italy — A powerful earthquake rattled a remote area of central Italy on Wednesday, leaving at least 120 people dead and scenes of carnage in mountain villages.

DUBAI — Saudi Arabia's Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman will discuss the kingdom's drive to cut its reliance on oil exports in visits to China and Japan that begin next week, Saudi media and sources said on Wednesday.

AMMAN — Prime Minister Hani Mulki on Tuesday met with Ahmad Al Khatib and Maj. Gen. Ahmed Asiri, advisers to Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, who is also the second deputy prime minister and the minister of defence.

AMMAN — Before digital technology was introduced to Jordan in the early 2000s, local calligraphists used to wait impatiently for the elections season to make extra cash by tailoring their talents to candidates’ banners.

KIRKUK, Iraq — Iraqi special forces led an operation on Tuesday aimed at retaking the extremist-held town of Qayyarah, a key staging base for operations to attack Mosul, military sources said.

AMMAN — Journalists in the Arab world need to be more courageous in exposing terrorism and radical groups as well as those who stand behind them, media experts said on Tuesday.