Новости за 27.06.2020

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israeli air force jets have struck Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip after rockets were fired on Friday from the territory towards Israel, the occupation forces said.

DUBAI — Millions of children in war-torn Yemen could be pushed to "the brink of starvation" due to a lack of funding amid the coronavirus pandemic, the UN children's agency said on Friday.

AMMAN — The journal “Dirasat: Human and Social Sciences”, published by the University of Jordan (UJ), has risen in rank to the third quartile (Q3) of the global journal database Scopus.

AMMAN — The State Security Court (SSC) prosecutor is expected to start questioning two men who allegedly robbed a bank in Irbid in August 2018 at gun point while wearing women’s clothing, official sources announced over the weekend.

AMMAN — The Court of Cassation has upheld an October 2019 Criminal Court ruling sentencing an Iraqi car dealer to seven-and-a-half years in prison for the murder of an Egyptian man in Amman in August 2015. 

NEW YORK — Wall Street stocks suffered their second rout in three sessions on Friday as surging coronavirus cases prompted large US states to impose new public health restrictions, threatening the economy's recovery from widespread business shutdowns.

PARIS — Limpets — those coin-sized, suction-cup critters with conical caps — have had the experts fooled all along.

NEW YORK — Phil Mickelson, making his first US PGA Tour start since turning 50, fired a seven-under-par 63 on Friday to seize the lead in the Travellers Championship in Connecticut.

NICOSIA — Prize-winning Lebanese documentary filmmaker Carol Mansour fears the world has learnt nothing from the novel coronavirus shock and will go back to square one or worse when normal life returns.