Новости за 24.08.2021

KABUL — The Taliban on Tuesday said they would not agree to an extension of a looming deadline to evacuate Afghans from Kabul airport, even as Western countries said they were running out of time.

BERLIN — Germany's centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) edged ahead in the race towards September elections on Tuesday, beating Angela Merkel's conservatives in a poll for the first time since 2006.

WASHINGTON — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday fully approved the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid shot, triggering a new wave of vaccine mandates as the Delta variant batters the country.

AMMAN  —  The government’s decision to  reduce sales taxes from 16 to 8 per cent for restaurants and hotels in the tourism sector will help revive the sector from the pandemic-related setbacks, according to sector representatives.

AMMAN — In comparison with women of other nationalities, Jordanian women are “the least” likely to independently manage with their earnings, according a recent report by the local women’s organisation, Solidarity Is Global Institute (SIGI).

AMMAN — Rasheed for Integrity and Transparency (Transparency International – Jordan) kicked off the first summer school of 2021 as part of the “Integrity School” project with the participation of youth from various Jordanian governorates.

PARIS — A 1987 treaty to repair a thin layer of ozone in the atmosphere that shields life on Earth from cancer-causing ultraviolet rays probably had the unintended benefit of preventing runaway climate change, even if that danger persists for other reasons, researchers recently said.