Новости за 11.07.2020

GENEVA — Nearly 10 million people are facing acute food shortages in Yemen and urgent action is needed to avert a famine, the UN's World Food Programme said on Friday.

TUNIS — Hundreds of Tunisians demonstrated in the south of the country on Saturday against unemployment and the death of a young man they say was killed by soldiers earlier this week.

GENEVA — The World Health Organization has urged countries grappling with coronavirus to step up control measures, saying it is still possible to rein it in, as some nations clamp fresh restrictions on citizens.

WASHINGTON —As governments rushed out funding to prevent an economic collapse amid the coronavirus pandemic, global public debt swelled to the highest in history, but the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned on Friday that cutting back too soon could undermine the recovery.

AMMAN — The Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army, in coordination with security entities and Queen Alia International Airport authorities, on Saturday received another group of Jordanian students and citizens stranded abroad amid the coronavirus pandemic as part of a phased repatriation process.

AMMAN — The Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) has managed to preserve the exchange rate of the dinar and a "comfortable" level of foreign currency reserves during the COVID-19 pandemic, CBJ data showed on Saturday. 

AMMAN — Hundreds of residency doctors are complaining about being “forced by hospitals in the public and private sectors to work free of charge in order to have a shot at being hired”, as put by former president of the Jordanian Medical Doctors Association Ahmad Armouti.

AMMAN — A cross-border framework agreement was signed on July 3 between the partners of the CROSSDEV project and two Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe — Iter Vitis Les Chemins de la Vigne en Europe and Phoenician Route _ to promote less-known tourist destinations.