Новости за 29.06.2020

AMMAN — UNFPA Jordan, in cooperation with the Ministry of Youth and in coordination with UNHCR, UNICEF, UNDP and Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), held an event on Monday to launch the Compact for Young People in Humanitarian Action in Jordan.

AMMAN — The government has concluded negotiations to obtain new foreign assistance worth $1.6 billion (JD1.16 billion), to be signed in July and August, Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Wissam Rabadi announced on Monday.

GENEVA — Israel's aim to annex parts of the occupied West Bank was clearly "illegal", the UN's human rights chief said on Monday, warning that the consequences could be "disastrous".

PARIS — More than half a million people have died in the coronavirus pandemic, an AFP tally showed on Sunday.

ADDIS ABABA — Last week, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's press secretary took a break from official statements to post something different to her Twitter feed: a 37-line poem defending her country's massive dam on the Blue Nile River.

BEIRUT — Lebanese banks sought on Monday to encourage depositors to withdraw trapped dollar savings in Lebanese pounds by increasing their exchange rate, as the national currency continued its tumble on the black market.

AMMAN  — When universities around the world began closing their campuses in February and March as the novel coronavirus began crossing borders and continents at an alarming rate, students found themselves launched into an unexpected and uncertain remainder of the academic year.

As it was inevitable that Britain’s ultra-luxury auto manufacturers would eventually branch out and enter the ever-burgeoning SUV market in the form of the Bentley Bentayga and Rolls Royce Cullinan, it was equally inevitable that a high performance variant would follow. 

ONBOARD THE OCEAN VIKING — Libya lies behind and Europe ahead though the mist — rescued migrants can dream a little onboard the Ocean Viking as it drifts somewhere between Italy and Malta.