Новости за 17.01.2021

AMMAN — Jordan on Sunday condemned Israeli authorities’ approval of constructing 780 new settlement units in the occupied Palestinian territories, according to a Foreign Ministry statement. 

KHARTOUM, Sudan — Over 80 people have been killed in two days of ongoing clashes in Sudan's restive Darfur, doctors said Sunday, just over two weeks since a long-running peacekeeping mission ended operations.

AMMAN — Jordan has ranked 40th worldwide in terms of the number of infections of COVID-19 out of 221 countries mentioned on the infection list prepared by  the global statistical monitoring site, Worldometers.

AMMAN — Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday reaffirmed its continuous follow up on the conditions of Jordanian prisoners in Israel.

NEW YORK — Stock markets struggled on Friday as investors weighed a coronavirus vaccine delay against US President-elect Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus plan, which had already been largely priced in.

AMMAN — Every election cycle, hundreds of thousands of square metres of non-biodegradable flex material and an equal amount of wood slats used for posters and banners are discarded, left to pollute even more the atmosphere.

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AMMAN — The cancellation of the Friday curfew has reflected positively on the clothing and footwear sector, representative of the clothing, garment and jewellery sector at the Jordan Chamber of Commerce Asaad Qawasmi said on Saturday. 

AMMAN — Jordan witnesses “enormous growth” in e-commerce especially nowadays during the coronavirus pandemic, experts said.

AMMAN — The year 2021 will see the creation of an academy that aims to train the opera talents of the future, encouraging intercultural exchange between different countries by promoting the Arabic tradition in the region, and throughout the rest of the world, according to Opera statement. 

WASHINGTON — US authorities carried out the 13th and final federal execution of Donald Trump's presidency on Saturday, media reports said, less than a week before the White House is taken over by Democrat Joe Biden, who opposes the death penalty.

TEHRAN — Iran's Revolutionary Guards test-fired ballistic missiles against targets in the Indian Ocean as they wrapped up a two-day exercise, their official website reported on Saturday.