Новости за 01.12.2020

Umm Raquba, Sudan — Bulldozers are tearing down trees by the dozen to make way for shelters and provide firewood for refugees from Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict at Sudan’s Umm Raquba reception camp.

UNITED NATIONS, United States — A UN committee of experts monitoring sanctions on South Sudan recommends maintaining the arms embargo imposed in 2018 in a report to the Security Council released on Tuesday.

BEIRUT — Lebanon's economy is sinking into a "deliberate depression", the World Bank said on Tuesday in a damning report stressing the authorities' failure to tackle the crisis.

PARIS — Snatching moments of clarity through the brain fog that was among the lingering symptoms of her coronavirus infection, Hannah Davis joined a team of similarly ill researchers and launched a study of what is now called “long Covid”.

PARIS — Paris Saint-Germain will be playing for their Champions League lives against Manchester United on Wednesday, with last season’s runners-up knowing the costs of group-stage elimination could be enormous on and off the field.

AMMAN — The unemployment rate in the third quarter of 2020 stood at 23.9 per cent, up by 4.8 per cent compared with the same period of 2019, the Department of Statistics (DoS) said on Monday.

ALGIERS — Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune is to return home within days after a month of hospitalisation in Germany with coronavirus, his office said on Monday.

ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Monday Tigray region's dissident leaders had fled west of the regional capital after weeks of fighting, but said federal forces were monitoring them closely and would "attack" them soon.

WASHINGTON — Hopes for a first wave of vaccinations before the end of 2020 received a boost with US firm Moderna saying it was filing on Monday for emergency authorisation of its COVID-19 vaccine in the United States and Europe.

AMMAN — The Jordanian embassy in Tokyo, in cooperation with UNHCR and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), on Sunday launched the screening of the premiere of the documentary “Tiny Souls” by Jordanian director Dina Naser.

AMMAN — The West Asia-North Africa (WANA) Institute in partnership with Konrad- Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) hosted an interactive roundtable on “Jordan-EU Dialogue on Human Security Issues” on Monday in Amman. 

AMMAN — A group of young Jordanian entrepreneurs have received support for their startup Tajjir.