Новости за 13.04.2021

AMMAN — The Jordan Engineers Association (JEA) launched a programme titled “Mubadirun Muhandisun”, with the aim to support engineering entrepreneurship in the Kingdom.

AMMAN — The Amman Court of First Instance on Tuesday released five of the 13 defendants standing trial in the case of the oxygen outage at the New Salt Public Hospital, which resulted in the death of seven patients last month, one of the lawyers said.

AMMAN — Members of the Lower House's Foreign Affairs Committee and Chinese Ambassador Chen Chuandong on Tuesday discussed political and economic relations between the two countries and regional issues.

CAIRO — A megaship which blocked Egypt's Suez Canal and crippled world trade for nearly a week has been 'seized' on court orders until the vessel's owners pay $900 million, canal authorities said Tuesday.

PARIS — On the evening of April 15 2019, France and the world watched transfixed in horror as flames ravaged Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, fearful that the heritage landmark could be lost to humanity forever.

SAN FRANCISCO — The US company behind video game sensation Fortnite said on Tuesday that it was valued at $28.7 billion in a round of funding from investors including PlayStation maker Sony.

WASHINGTON — Modern brains are younger than originally thought, possibly developing as recently as 1.5 million years ago, according to a recently published study— after the earliest humans had already begun walking on two feet and had even started fanning out from Africa.

MADRID — When Toni Kroos arrived for his first training session with Real Madrid in 2014, he went the wrong way. 

AMMAN — Wihdat kick off their participation in the continents’ leading competition — the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League — when they play Saudi Arabia’s Nassr on Wednesday in their first Group D match in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

KIEV — Two Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in clashes with pro-Russia separatists in Ukraine's war-torn east, its military said on Monday, as Kiev again accused Moscow of massing tens of thousands of soldiers on its border.

TEHRAN — Iran charged Monday that its arch-enemy Israel was behind an attack on its Natanz uranium enrichment plant and vowed it would take "revenge" and ramp up its nuclear activities.

DUBAI/BERLIN — Yemen's Houthis claimed Monday to have launched drone strikes against Saudi energy giant Aramco's facilities, amid an upsurge in fighting between the insurgents and the Riyadh-backed government in northern Yemen.

AMMAN —  Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), on Monday extended greetings to Jordan on the state’s centennial anniversary.

AMMAN — The value of exports of the Amman Chamber of Commerce (ACC) went down by 19.7 per cent during the first quarter of 2021 compared with the same period of 2020, ACC figures showed on Monday.

AMMAN — Eighty-two COVID-19 deaths and 3,565 virus cases were recorded in the Kingdom on Monday, increasing the caseload to 669,300, the government announced.