Новости за 11.08.2020

AMMAN — Industrialists on Tuesday urged the government to refrain from issuing a new nationwide lockdown order as it would harm the economy.

MOSCOW — Russia claimed on Tuesday that it had developed the world's first vaccine offering "sustainable immunity" against the coronavirus, as the pandemic marked another bleak milestone with 20 million infections globally.

AMMAN — The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) Operational Hub in Amman and the Japanese embassy on Thursday marked the completion of the first phase of the project “Improvement of Health Services through Operational Capacity Support to the Royal Medical Services (RMS) of Jordanian Armed Forces” implemented by UNOPS. 

AMMAN — The European Commission has announced the list of capacity-building projects in the field of higher education that have been selected for funding under the Erasmus+ programme, Call 2020-EAC/A02/2019. 

BAGHDAD — Two high-ranking Iraqi officers were killed on Tuesday in what the army said was a "blatant Turkish drone attack" in the autonomous Kurdish region, where Ankara has for weeks been raiding militant positions.

BEIRUT — The resignation of Lebanon's government deepened political uncertainty as Beirut on Tuesday marked one week since the deadly port explosion rocked the capital and shook the nation to its core.

KHARTOUM — Sudan has been a top producer of peanuts for so long that the nutritious variety is called the "Sudani" — but a government export ban has left traders reeling.