Новости за 23.02.2021

AMMAN — Jordan is preparing to host the ninth Global Land Forum, being the first host-country in the region, with the aim to highlight land-related issues nationally, regionally and globally. 

PARIS — Several coronavirus variants with the potential to be more transmissible have caused global concern over whether existing vaccines will still protect the world from a virus that is constantly mutating. 

LOS ANGELES — Donovan Mitchell had 23 points and eight assists as the NBA-leading Utah Jazz rained a franchise-record 28 three-pointers in a 132-110 rout of the Charlotte Hornets on Monday.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Leading Bedouin scholar Clinton Bailey has amassed hundreds of hours of recordings about the nomadic society’s poetry, history and legal system, in a career that began while jogging through Negev Desert.

TUNIS — Lotfi Jlassi stood facing Mecca beside the ambulance carrying the body of his brother, who died of COVID-19, and said a prayer — one of the few rites still allowed in Tunisia’s pared back funerals.

GAZA, Palestinian Territories — A coronavirus vaccination campaign was launched in Gaza on  Monday using doses provided by the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the United Arab Emirates, with health workers set to be inoculated first.

AMMAN — Methods for Irrigation and Agriculture (MIRRA) conducted a capacity building programme for 15 female engineers seeking employment in the fields of agricultural and environmental engineering. 

AMMAN — Interior Minister Samir Mubaideen on Monday directed governors to shut down shops that still serve shisha despite a ban.

By Gokan Gunes

Agence France-Presse

ISTANBUL — More than a dozen French professors at a top Turkish university face the threat of expulsion after being denied work permits while a diplomatic feud rages between Paris and Ankara.

Six of the instructors at Istanbul's prestigious Galatasaray University told AFP they feel like they have been caught in the crosshairs of an occasionally personal war of words between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and France's Emmanuel Macron. Читать дальше...

TEHRAN — Iran on Monday hailed a visit by the UN nuclear watchdog chief and a temporary agreement on site inspections as a "significant achievement", amid international efforts to salvage its troubled nuclear deal.

AMMAN  — The government decision to continue with remote learning for school children have drawn ire from parents, teachers and students.