Новости за 16.07.2020

PARIS — Motorcycling is often a family affair, and yet before Alex Marquez joined Marc at Honda for this season two brothers had never raced together for the same team in MotoGP.

PARIS — Doctors in France have described what they said was the first confirmed case of a newborn infected in the womb with COVID-19 by the mother.

BEIJING — China's economy returned to growth in the second quarter following a coronavirus contraction, with President Xi Jinping promising continued expansion ahead and urging foreign companies to be a part of it.

SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter is investigating a massive hack in which high-profile users from Elon Musk to Joe Biden had their accounts hijacked by scammers, who the social network believes targeted its employees to gain access to internal systems.

DUBAI — "Don't touch the screen!" warned an organiser as participants attempted to print their badges, via barcodes sent to their phones, at Dubai's first "real life" business conference since the coronavirus shutdown hit in March.

DAMASCUS — Syria prepared for parliamentary elections to be held on Sunday as President Bashar Assad marked a second decade in power mired by war, international sanctions and economic woes.

AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Wednesday stressed the importance of sustaining the services provided by UNRWA as key to the security and stability of the region.

AMMAN — Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi and his Portuguese counterpart Augusto Santos Silva on Wednesday reviewed efforts exerted towards reaching an international stance that can stop the implementation of the Israeli annexation decision and resume “serious” negotiations to achieve a just peace according to the two-state solution.

AMMAN — Three COVID-19 cases, among them no local infections, were recorded in the Kingdom on Wednesday, increasing the caseload to 1,201, according to the Health Ministry.

DOHA — Qatar will kick off the 2022 World Cup at Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, organisers announced on Wednesday, as they revealed the schedule for the finals.

RAMALLAH, Palestine — For Palestinians already hit financially by the coronavirus pandemic, a new round of restrictions has added to their woes as infections in the occupied West Bank spike again.