Новости за 29.08.2021

AMMAN — Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Bisher Al Khasawneh on Sunday met Prime Minister of the Libyan Government of National Unity Abdulhamid Aldabaiba and his accompanying delegation. 

DUBAI — Strikes on Yemen's largest airbase on Sunday killed at least 30 pro-government troops and wounded scores more, said medical and loyalist sources who blamed Iran-backed Houthi rebels for the attack.

AMMAN — The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations completed the first day of the Farmer Field School (FFS) training on Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for fall armyworm (FAW), according to a FAO statement sent to The Jordan Times.

AMMAN — Parting ways with playing covers, the Jordan-based Dead Sea Sirens, a self-described “rock band from all corners of the globe” have started to produce originals.

AMMAN — The United States, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), on Sunday announced $4.7 million in urgent COVID-19 assistance for Jordan. 

DOVER, United States — President Joe Biden was preparing Sunday at a US military base to receive the remains of the 13 American service members killed in an attack in Kabul, a solemn ritual that comes amid fierce criticism of his handling of the Afghanistan crisis.

NEW YORK — Stock markets jumped on Friday after Federal Reserve (Fed) Chair Jerome Powell took a cautious stance on a potential withdrawal of the central bank's huge economic stimulus measures later this year.

ALGIERS — Algeria said on Thursday it was ready to divert all its Spain-bound natural gas exports via an undersea pipeline that bypasses Morocco, state media said, two days after Algiers cut ties with its North African rival.

Food is a lot like friends. The unhealthy junk is the toxic friendships we need to ditch. The nutritious selections are the healthy friendships each of us needs to foster. As I rediscover how much I love tomatoes, eggplants, broccoli and other produce, I realise that forgotten healthy foods are like the childhood friends we used to have.

KABUL — The United States conducted a drone strike against a Daesh terror group target in Afghanistan on Saturday, as the airlift of those desperate to flee moved into its fraught final stages with fresh terror attack warnings and encroaching Taliban forces primed to take over Kabul airport.

MOSCOW — Russia's Federal Statistics Agency Rosstat said on Friday that the country saw 50,421 coronavirus deaths in July, more than double the official government figure.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — A 12-year-old Palestinian boy shot last week by Israeli soldiers during confrontations along the border with Gaza has died of his injuries, the territory's health ministry said Saturday.

AMMAN — The Jordan Customs at the Jaber Customs Centre, in cooperation with the Anti-Narcotics Department (AND), on Saturday thwarted an attempt to smuggle about 2.31 million Captagon pills, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. 

AMMAN — Ten COVID-19 deaths and 381 virus cases were recorded in the Kingdom on Saturday, increasing the caseload to 794,350, the government announced.

AMMAN — Minister of Education Mohammad Abu Qudais on Saturday said that preparations for the resumption of in-class education in public and private schools began early this year.