Новости за 21.11.2016

TUNIS — The Libyan dinar has dipped to new lows on the parallel exchange market, despite a pledge from the UN -backed government and the central bank to protect its value and tackle urgent economic challenges.

LONDON — Facebook on Monday became the latest US tech giant to announce new investment in Britain with hundreds of extra jobs but hinted its success depended on skilled migration after Britain leaves the European Union.

ANKARA — Turkey called on the United States and other nations on Monday to rethink its proposal for a no-fly zone in northern Syria hours after a rebel commander allied with Syria’s Kurds said Turkish air strikes killed one fighter and wounded others.

MOSUL — Iraqi troops on Sunday fortified their positions in Mosul neighbourhoods retaken from the Daesh terror group as their advance towards the city centre was slowed by sniper fire and suicide bombings, as well as concern over the safety of civilians.

AMMAN — The Crown Prince Foundation (CPF) on Sunday announced the completion of 15 cochlear implant surgeries for critical cases.

ISTANBUL — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quoted on Sunday as saying that Turkey did not need to join the European Union "at all costs" and could instead become part of a security bloc dominated by China, Russia and Central Asian nations.

AMMAN — Jordan’s stability has entitled it to host the eighth Pan Arab Osteoporosis Society Congress, which will start on Wednesday, said the society’s president, Said Abdul Majeed.

AMMAN — The Jordan Agricultural Engineers Association (JAEA) on Thursday picketed the Foreign Ministry in solidarity with Shaheen Merie, who has been on hunger strike near the ministry for 12 consecutive days, an activist said on Sunday.

AMMAN — Women’s involvement in elections and voting “truly began” in the elections of the 11th Lower House in 1989, Sisterhood Is Global Institute (SIGI) said in a statement released on Sunday, citing a national report. 

AMMAN — Jordan will draw on the World Food Programme’s (WFP) experience in issuing cards for impoverished Jordanian families who receive assistance from different entities, a government official said on Sunday.

LIMA — US President Barack Obama on Sunday urged greater efforts to end violence in war-torn Syria in brief talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as concern mounts over a ferocious regime bombing campaign in rebel-held parts of Aleppo.

Qabr al Abd — Iraqi civilians who escaped from the Daesh stronghold of Mosul said militants forced them from their villages and drove them "like sheep" to use as human shields.