Новости за 20.02.2020

AMMAN — Jordan on Thursday condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's announcement to build 2,200 housing units in the occupied east Jerusalem.

HANAU, Germany — Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned the "poison" of racism Thursday after a shooter with suspected far-right beliefs killed nine people at a shisha bar and a cafe in the German city of Hanau.

AMMAN — The Ministry of Agriculture on Thursday called on international organisations and countries in the region to exterminate the current generation of the desert locust in Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Yemen. 

BORDJ BOU ARRERIDJ, Algeria — When a group of young people took to the streets of an Algerian industrial city a year ago, they had no idea their protest would be part of a thousands-strong movement that would topple their veteran president.

GENEVA — Libya's warring sides have resumed talks in Geneva aimed at brokering a lasting ceasefire in the war-torn country, the UN said on Thursday.

BRUSSELS — EU leaders gathered on Thursday for a stormy summit to decide the bloc’s seven-year budget, with bitter divisions between parsimonious rich nations, poorer ones wanting to preserve spending and others wanting to fund grand global ambitions.

WASHINGTON — At their national convention in 2012, Republicans mounted a clock counting the growing US national debt on the wall, a warning of the looming financial catastrophe they said imperiled Americans.

AMMAN — Two calls for scholarships to study in France are currently open for Jordanian applications, with more set to be published in the coming weeks, according to the French embassy.

FRANKFURT AM MAIN — A man identified only as 43-year-old Tobias R. is believed to have killed nine strangers in shootings at a shisha bar and a cafe in the German city Hanau late Wednesday, before killing his mother and finally himself.

AMMAN — The Jordanian Hashemite Fund for Human Development (JOHUD) on Thursday launched the Queen Alia Competition for Social Responsibility for 2019-2020.