Новости за 31.12.2020

DUBAI — The newly-formed Yemeni government, which was targeted in a deadly attack just two weeks after its formation, faces towering political, security and economic challenges.

MISRATA, Libya — For Radwan Jibril, wounded in a bastion of Libya's 2011 revolution, losing his leg became "inevitable" and he had a prosthetic replacement, but thousands of other amputees are still waiting.

TEHRAN — Iran this week honours military commander Qassem Soleimani who was assassinated a year ago by arch-enemy the United States and is revered as a heroic warrior across the Islamic republic.

AMMAN — A new report by the Phenix Centre for Economic Studies shed light on the hard work and very low income of people who collect dry bread, junk and empty water bottles to help their families make some money.

AMMAN — The Court of Cassation has upheld a December 2019 State Security Court (SSC) ruling, sentencing two men to prison terms ranging from seven to 15 years in prison after convicting them of possessing illegal narcotics in Mafraq in October 2018.

AMMAN — The total foreign aid pledged to Jordan in 2020 by donor countries and financing institutions stood at $3.73 billion by the end of November.

London — EU leaders signed their post-Brexit trade deal with Britain and dispatched it to London on an RAF jet Wednesday, setting their seal on a drawn-out divorce just hours before the UK brings its half-century European experiment to an end.

BEIRUT — Israeli air strikes in Syria targeting the pro-Damascus Lebanese Hezbollah group and Syrian air defence forces killed one Syrian soldier and wounded five others, a war monitor said Wednesday.

BERLIN — Germany's daily coronavirus death toll crossed 1,000 for the first time on Wednesday, with politicians predicting an extension of the county's partial lockdown beyond the current January 10 deadline.