Новости за 03.02.2020

SANAA — Yemeni children in critical need of medical care were evacuated Monday from the rebel-held capital Sanaa, in what the United Nations hopes will be the first of more mercy flights.

BEIRUT — Syrian and Turkish troops traded deadly fire in Syria's northwest on Monday, further raising tension between Ankara and regime backer Moscow over the war-torn Idlib rebel enclave.

AMMAN — Jordan rejects and condemns any Israeli measures that aim to impose new facts on the ground, including settlement-building and expansion, annexing the occupied Palestinian lands and changing the legal and historical status quo of Jerusalem's holy sites, as well as its Arab-Islamic and Christian identity, Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said on Monday. 

AMMAN — Under the “Usharek +” initiative, a group of Yarmouk University students launched a campaign titled “LitaskunoElayha”, aimed at building family solidarity and decreasing divorce rates in Jordan.

AMMAN — The government performance monitor Rased on Monday launched a report on the performance of Prime Minister Omar Razzaz’s government since its formation.

AMMAN — A Jordanian ministerial delegation on Monday held a number of meetings with officials from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Amman to discuss measures aimed at promoting economic growth.

TEHRAN — Top EU diplomat Josep Borrell on Monday held talks in the Iranian capital on a mission aimed at lowering tensions over the Islamic republic’s nuclear programme.

LONDON — British police were searching two homes on Monday after shooting dead an extremist who knifed two people in London in an attack claimed by the Daesh group, as the government vowed a review of the system for the early release of convicted terrorists.

LJUBLJANA —Slovenia's first mosque opened in the capital Ljubljana on Monday after surmounting financial hurdles and right-wing opposition, 50 years after the initial request to build was made.

AMMAN — Women activists on Sunday called for the implementation of recommendations “to achieve real women’s empowerment” in Jordan.

AMMAN — The Ministry of Education is scheduled to begin receiving Tawjihi (general secondary education certificate examination) applications starting February 16, Ministry Spokesperson Waleed Jallad told The Jordan Times on Sunday.

AMMAN — The Lower House on Sunday endorsed the public-private sectors partnership law, which aims to secure funds for public projects and implement them in a way that garners added value, either by establishing infrastructure and public facilities or by rehabilitating, operating and maintaining them, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.