Новости за 30.01.2021

AMMAN — The Kingdom on Saturday celebrated His Majesty King Abdullah’s 59th birthday.

AMMAN — As complaints have been on the rise about the alleged price gouging of prepaid mobile cards, the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (TRC) said that it has been waiting for a response from telecom companies.

AMMAN — The Royal Scientific Society (RSS) and UN-Habitat on Saturday signed an agreement for a joint research project titled “COVID-19 in the Wastewater Cycle: Survival, Risk and Surveillance in Jordan” initiated by the UN agency’s Global Water Operators’ Partnerships Alliance Programme (GWOPA).

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook on Friday said it is working on a way to let advertisers avoid having marketing messages appear in feeds alongside content they'd rather not be associated with.

PARIS — Genetic differences between identical twins can begin very early in embryonic development, according to a recent study that researchers said has implications for how these siblings help scientists tease out the effects of nature versus nurture. 

LONDON — Manchester United may have surrendered top spot in the Premier League with a shock home defeat to bottom-of-the-table Sheffield United, but the fact the Red Devils are even involved in a title race is testament to Bruno Fernandes’s first 12 months at Old Trafford.

BEIRUT/ GENEVA — A car bomb in the Turkish-controlled region of Afrin in northern Syria on Saturday killed five people including a child, a British-based war monitor said.

BEIRUT — More than 400 people have been wounded in northern Lebanon this week in clashes between security forces and protesters angered by a coronavirus lockdown they say is starving them.