Новости за 19.08.2020

BEIRUT — Lebanon's economic crisis doubled poverty rates to more than half the population even before this month's cataclysmic explosion at Beirut's port, a United Nations agency said on Wednesday.

LONDON — Global stock markets marked time on Wednesday against a backdrop of recent massive gains, growing China-US tensions, fresh virus flare-ups and signs of a possible breakthrough in deadlocked US stimulus talks, dealers said.

AMMAN — Jordan on Tuesday reiterated that the Israeli announcement to halt annexation of Palestinian land and the abidance with the two-state solution, which guarantees the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the June 4, 1967 lines with East Jerusalem as its capital, are the key prerequisites for “opening a political horizon” to resolve the conflict and proceed towards a comprehensive and just peace. 

AMMAN — The Amman International Film Festival-Awal Film (AIFF) will take place between August 23 and August 31, the organisers announced during a press conference on Tuesday

AMMAN — The Higher Education Council announced that it added 15 new majors to be taught in public universities, bringing the total number of specialties offered in the Kingdom’s nine public universities to 540.

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands — Lebanon's Saad Hariri said Tuesday he accepted a special tribunal's verdict over the 2005 murder of his father, former prime minister Rafik Hariri.

BAGHDAD — As Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al Kadhemi prepares for his first meeting with US President Donald Trump this week, attacks on American targets by pro-Iranian fighters have been on the rise.