Новости за 02.06.2020

RIYADH — Saudi Arabia sought to raise $2.3 billion from an emergency donor conference on Tuesday to support Yemen — ravaged by a war in which the kingdom is a key actor, and a coronavirus outbreak — as the UN chief warned aid workers face a "race against time".

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Iyad Hallak, a 32-year-old Palestinian man with autism, passed Israeli occupation forces every day to reach his special needs school in Jerusalem's Old City.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump vowed to order a military crackdown on once-in-a-generation violent protests gripping the United States, saying he was sending thousands of troops onto the streets of the capital and threatening to deploy soldiers to states unable to regain control.

AMMAN — In celebration of a means of transport that has emerged as a tool of resilience and “acknowledging its uniqueness, longevity and versatility”, World Bicycle Day is being marked on June 3.

RIYADH — Yemen is wracked by a war which has killed tens of thousands of people and led to the world's worst humanitarian crisis, according to the United Nations.

AMMAN — The Jordan Hashemite Charity Organisation (JHCO) on Tuesday completed a project involving the distribution of 533 food parcels in Palestinian refugee camps, which was funded by the Indonesian organisations SPM and NPC through the Indonesian embassy in Amman.

ALGEIRS — Two main figures of Algeria's "Hirak" protest movement will soon be freed at the president's initiative, the leader of an opposition party said on Tuesday.

AMMAN — Minister of Labour Nidal Bataineh has directed the ministry’s inspection cadres and judicial police to carry out a “massive and intensive campaign" to verify private schools’ abidance by the various Defence Orders issued by the government as part of its coronavirus response.

AMMAN — The value of shares bought by non-Jordanian investors at the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) since the beginning of the year until the end of May 2020 was JD42.1 million, representing 12.9 per cent of the overall trading value, the ASE said.