Новости за 17.11.2016

AMMAN — Their Majesties King Abdullah and Queen Rania are scheduled to pay a state visit to Australia on November 23 upon an invitation from its Governor General Peter Cosgrove, according to a Royal Court statement released Wednesday. 

AMMAN — Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Nasser Judeh on Wednesday met with Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Lazar Comanescu.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — The Israeli parliament gave initial approval on Wednesday to a bill to legalise thousands of West Bank settler units, a measure drawing international anger and posing the government's biggest test since 2015 polls.

AMMAN—The US embassy in Amman said on Wednesday the investigation into the killing of three US instructors in a shootout at an airbase is ongoing and has not yet reached any conclusions.

ALEPPO, Syria — Syrian government and Russian warplanes pounded rebel-held parts of northern Syria on Wednesday, including battered second city Aleppo, where food aid rations were all-but-exhausted after months of regime siege.

BAGHDAD — An Iraqi Shiite militia said on Wednesday it was on the verge of driving Daesh militants from an air base west of Mosul, a victory which would threaten the extremists' supply route from Syria to its last major stronghold in Iraq.

AMMAN — Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs and Minister of State for Investment Affairs Jawad Anani stressed on Wednesday the importance of strengthening the Jordanian-Romanian ties, especially in economic and commercial fields.

KUWAIT CITY — Kuwait must enact further subsidy reforms to trim its budget deficit resulting from low oil prices despite political sensitivity, the International Monetary Fund has said.

TOKYO/WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is expected to use his first meeting with a foreign leader as US president-elect this week to try to reassure Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other Asian allies rattled by his campaign rhetoric, advisers to Trump said.