Новости за 23.12.2021

AMMAN — The second session of the third legislative term of the Arab Parliament concluded in Amman on Thursday with renewing the parliament’s rejection of all attempts by the Israeli occupation to change the status quo and tamper with the Hashemite Custodianship of Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem. 

AMMAN — Jordan scored 33.7 points and ranked 155 out of 180 countries on the Natural Capital Index of the 2021 Global Sustainable Competitiveness Index issued by SolAbility, a Swiss-Korean sustainable intelligence think-tank.

MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Washington's willingness to discuss Russia's security proposals aimed at curbing NATO's eastward expansion was "positive", as fears mount in the West over a major military escalation in Ukraine.

AMMAN — The board of directors of the Jordanian-Palestinian Agricultural Marketing Company on Thursday, in the presence of both countries’ agriculture ministers, decided to appoint a new director general for the company.

MILAN — Italy has ticked all the necessary boxes to receive the next installment of EU recovery funds from Brussels, said Mario Draghi, Italy’s prime minister.



MANAMA — The US Navy has seized 1,400 AK-47 rifles and ammunition from a fishing boat it claimed was smuggling weapons from Iran to Houthi rebels in war-torn Yemen.



BEIRUT — The Lebanese judge leading investigations into last year's Beirut Port blast was forced to stop work on Thursday over a lawsuit filed by ex-ministers he had summoned for interrogation, an official said.

AMMAN — Abdullah Hammad has clinched a third gold medal for Jordan at the Asian Senior & Cadet, Junior and U21 Karate Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan, according to the Jordan Olympic Committee News Service.

LONDON — Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp and Tottenham boss Antonio Conte have called for January's League Cup semifinals to be switched to one-legged ties to ease fixture congestion.

NAIROBI — Ethiopia's government said on Wednesday its soldiers had recaptured a city in southern Tigray from Tigrayan fighters, marking its first major advance inside the war-torn region in many months and dashing hopes for peace following a rebel retreat. 

WASHINGTON — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday authorised Pfizer's COVID pill for high-risk people aged 12 and over, calling it an important milestone in the pandemic that will allow millions to access the treatment.

AMMAN — The short film “Tala’Vision”, written and directed by Jordanian filmmaker Murad Abu Eisheh, has been shortlisted to the Live Action Short Film category for the 94th Academy Awards being the only Arab movie in all categories to be shortlisted. 

AMMAN — For the third year in a row, the German Cultural Institute (Goethe) continues its activities within the framework of its project “Entrepreneurship in School Practices in Jordan” funded by the German Foreign Ministry.

KAFR AROUK , Syria, — Umm Raghad’s children don’t have proper clothes or a furnace at home to stay warm during Syria’s bitter winter so they burn scraps of garbage to keep the biting cold at bay.

MILAN — Juventus took advantage of Atalanta's goalless draw at Genoa with a 2-0 win over Cagliari which inched them closer to Serie A's Champions League places, as Salernitana's trip to Udinese became the season's first coronavirus-related casualty.