Новости за 21.03.2021

PARIS/LONDON — France, Poland and Ukraine introduced new lockdown measures Saturday to fight a surge in coronavirus infections, as the European Union threatened to block exports of AstraZeneca jabs in an escalating row over vaccines.

THE HAGUE — The International Criminal Court has given Israel and the Palestinians one month to ask the tribunal to postpone its war crimes investigation, provided they can prove they are carrying out their own probes.

AMMAN — The General Secretariat of the Higher Council for Science and Technology on Saturday announced the winners of the 2021 El Hassan Award for Scientific Excellence. 

AMMAN — The Criminal Court prosecutor has charged a 65-year-old woman with the premeditated murder of her married daughter for reasons related to “family honour” earlier in the month in Mafraq.

AMMAN — The 29th session of the joint Jordanian-Egyptian Higher Committee is scheduled to take place in Amman on Tuesday, Minister of State for Media Affairs Sakher Dudin announced on Saturday.

By Alice Hackman
Agence France-Presse

BEIRUT — US-trained emergency doctor Nour Al Jalbout wanted desperately to serve her fellow Lebanese, but less than two years after returning home she says the country’s catastrophes are forcing her to leave.

“I gave everything I had to Lebanon for these two years, but Lebanon is not giving back,” she says, her eyes welling up above three face masks, inside a top Beirut hospital.

“So I applied for immigration to the US,” she said, to take up a job offer at Harvard. Читать дальше...

KASSEL, Germany — German police clashed with protesters at a mass demonstration against coronavirus restrictions in the city of Kassel on Saturday, using water cannon, batons and pepper spray to disperse crowds.