Новости за 29.11.2021

NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar — Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to hear the verdict in her incitement trial on Tuesday, the first in a catalogue of judgements to be handed down in a junta court that could jail her for decades.

THE HAGUE — A new, heavily mutated COVID-19 variant spread across the globe on Sunday, shutting borders, renewing curbs, and sparking fears for the fight against the nearly two-year-old coronavirus pandemic.

VILNIUS — EU and NATO leaders on Sunday vowed to step up cooperation against hybrid threats on a visit to Lithuania dominated by talks on the Belarus migrant crisis and Russia's military build-up near Ukraine.

QAMISHLI, Syria — Kurdish protesters in northeastern Syria demonstrated outside UN offices on Sunday against what they say is the continued recruitment of teenage girls for combat, an AFP correspondent reported.

AMMAN — Three ribbons were tied to the branches of an olive tree at a farm in the Eastern Madaba Desert on November 26  to celebrate World Olive Tree Day — a symbolic day that was added by UNESCO and the International Olive Council to the list of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2019. 

AMMAN — Nancy Izzo Jackson, US State Department Senior Bureau Official (SBO) for Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM), on Sunday inaugurated UNRWA Zuhour School in Amman. 

AMMAN — The Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) on Sunday signed an agreement to finance a soft loan worth 30 million euros meant to cover part of the total value of the construction of a new wastewater treatment plant in Al Ghabawi region.

AMMAN — The government is seeking to accelerate economic growth next year, Finance Minister Mohamad Al-Ississ said on Sunday, noting that capital expenditures in the 2022 general budget will be increased by 43.6 per cent compared with this year's budget.