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AMMAN — The Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA) has issued an open message of reassurance, stating that the tourism sector will recover and that a strategy is in place to revive the sector once the coronavirus pandemic is eradicated, especially as Jordan’s preventive measures are gaining global attention.

The Circle

Dave Eggers

New York: Vintage Books, 2014

Pp. 497

“The Circle” is a novel bordering on science fiction of the type that could conceivably become true.

Mae is a very bright young woman from a small nondescript California town. After graduating from college, she had worked at the local utilities company for over a year, enduring boredom and non-recognition of her considerable computer skills but stayed on because she needed to pay off her student loans. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — A new study examining air samples from hospital wards with COVID-19 patients has found the virus can travel up to four metres — twice the distance current guidelines say people should leave between themselves in public.

MADRID — Ada Hegerberg's voice in football is a powerful one given she claimed the first ever women's Ballon d'Or, owns four Champions League titles with Lyon and has earned her place among the finest female players on the planet, all by the age of 24.

AMMAN — The Ministry of Labour on Sunday launched a number of electronic services through the "Hemayeh.jo" platform, where it will begin receiving requests from employers to implement the provisions of Defence Order No. 6 and the instructions and decisions issued under it, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

AMMAN — During a global pandemic, the simple task of grocery shopping changes into an exercise in caution for those on both sides of the counter, and precautionary measures and safety procedures become the key to successful transactions. Jordan is no exception to this phenomenon, as employees, shopkeepers and customers alike have observed.

TEHRAN — Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday the country had won a legal "victory" over $1.6 billion of its assets that had long been frozen on a US request in Luxembourg.

NEW YORK — Boeing has enlisted investment banks Lazard and Evercore to advise it on talks with Washington on potential federal aid in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, sources told AFP on Friday.