Новости за 16.06.2021

LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has full confidence in his under-fire health secretary, his spokesman said on Wednesday, despite private WhatsApp exchanges emerging in which he appears to slam the minister’s “hopeless” handling of the pandemic.

TEHRAN — The field of candidates in Iran’s presidential election thinned out Wednesday, two days before the vote in which a victory by ultraconservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi is widely seen as a foregone conclusion.

AMMAN — The Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN) organised in Jordan an 18-day-long intensive training workshop for the staff of the Socotra Archipelago Reserve in Yemen with a view to equip participants with “a solid understanding and capacity to achieve integrated management and conservation” of nature.

AMMAN — Eighty-two per cent of students who participated in a survey by the Jordanian National Commission for Women (JNCW) said they receive better education in classrooms compared with remote learning.

AMMAN — Under the patronage of HRH Princess Sumaya, vice president of the Jordan Museum’s board of trustees, who is also chairperson of the International Council of Museums’  Jordan national committee, the Department of Antiquities on Tuesday celebrated the centenary of the foundation of the Jordanian state and International Museum Day under the theme “The future and sustainability of Jordanian museums in the second centenary”.

BENGHAZI, Libya — Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi is hosting a rare “week of culture” featuring art, music and theatre, as the country attempts to turn the page on a decade of violence.

By Qassim Khidir
Agence France-Presse

ERBIL, Iraq — Rewaz Faiq is just one of two women serving as parliament speaker in the Middle East, where politics is a man’s world, but the Iraqi Kurdish mother of two is unfazed.

Known for her straight talk, Faiq knew she would face challenges when she was elected in 2019 to the post in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq.

“In Kurdistan, entering politics is not easy for women,” Faiq, 43, told AFP, citing “male domination... Читать дальше...

TEHRAN — Promising greater openness at home and outreach abroad when he was elected in 2013, Iran’s outgoing moderate President Hassan Rouhani comfortably won a second term but leaves office as a deeply unpopular figure.

WASHINGTON — The US government on Tuesday unveiled a "national strategy" to fight domestic terrorism, an effort ordered by President Joe Biden after the January 6 assault on Congress and attacks by white supremacists.

GENEVA — The pandemic has taken a harsh toll on domestic workers who have lost far more jobs than others despite a decade-old international pact guaranteeing their rights, the UN said Tuesday.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israeli forces blocked roads in Jerusalem on Tuesday as Jewish ultranationalists prepared to march through the city's occupied east, inflaming tensions amid a fragile Gaza ceasefire and just two days after a new Israeli government took office.