Новости за 09.09.2020

AMMAN — The 12-month national military service programme will be compulsory for all Jordanian men, under Article 3 of the 1986 national service law and its amendments, Labour Minister Nidal Bataineh said during a joint press conference with Assistant Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for Administration and Manpower Brig. Gen. Abdullah Shdeifat.

AMMAN — HRH Prince Hassan, chairman of the Higher Council for Science and Technology (HCST), on Tuesday stressed the importance of developing a modern industrial base with high added value in the Mashreq region (eastern Arab countries) to address challenges, highlighting that Jordan is a “pivotal” country in Middle East.

PARIS — The halting of clinical trials for one of the most advanced experimental COVID-19 vaccines shows the importance of safety in developing new medicines despite overwhelming international pressure, experts said Wednesday.

LESBOS ISLAND, Greece — Thousands of asylum seekers were left homeless on Wednesday after a fire gutted Greece's largest migrant camp on Lesbos, plunging the island into crisis and sparking pledges of help from around Europe.

AMMAN — The Palestinian cause, Arabs’ “first and foremost” issue, is the core of the conflict and resolving it according to criteria that guarantee the rights of the Palestinian people is “the only means” to realise a just and comprehensive peace, Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said on Wednesday. 

PARIS — The alleged poisoning of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny with the Novichok nerve agent has dealt a blow to French President Emmanuel Macron’s strategy of rapprochement with Russia, which troubled some EU allies, analysts say.

LONDON — US and European markets rose on Wednesday, brushing aside falls in Asia and an overnight rout on Wall Street — but US jeweller Tiffany slumped on news its buyout by France's LVMH was off.

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QAMISHLI, Syria — Syrian Kurds have started to transfer the "least radical" foreign women and their children linked to the Daesh group out of an overcrowded camp in northeast Syria to begin rehabilitation, an official said on Tuesday.

NICOSIA — Moscow is prepared to help ease tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean where Cyprus and Greece are embroiled in a standoff with Turkey over maritime and energy rights, visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday.

AMMAN — Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi and his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita on Tuesday discussed regional developments, namely the Palestinian cause and efforts exerted to reach a political solution to the Libyan crisis, over the phone. 

AMMAN — The government announced a by-law that offers incentives to manufacturers, paying them 3 per cent of their total exports for 2019, increasing each year thereafter, but industrialists said that the conditions to receive the incentives are “very difficult” to meet.

AMMAN — The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) celebrated its first “International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies” on September 7 to shed light on air pollution which claims lives of more than seven million people each year. Jordan joined the world in marking this day with its theme for this year being “Clean Air for All”.