Новости за 08.05.2016

AMMAN — The Lower House on Sunday referred the draft investment fund law for 2016 to its Economy and Investment Committee for review amid reservations over the proposed fund. 

AMMAN — Estonia’s Eesti Energia signed an agreement to sell the majority of its stake in Jordan’s first $2.2 billion power plant to be fuelled by oil shale.

AMMAN — Exports of the Kingdom’s agricultural produce dropped by 24 per cent during the first third of this year compared to the same period of last year, a government official said on Sunday.

ANKARA — Turkish shelling killed 55 Daesh insurgents in northern Syria on Saturday, military sources said, in retaliation for weeks of rocket attacks on a Turkish border town.

MADRID — Three Spanish journalists who had been held hostage in Syria by an Al Qaeda-linked group returned on Sunday to Madrid where they were welcomed by overjoyed family members after nearly a year in captivity.

GREGOIRE LAKE, Alberta — A wildfire ripping through Canada's oil sands region was set to grow rapidly on Sunday but move further away from heavily populated areas, a fire official said.

GHAZNI Afghanistan — At least 73 people were killed Sunday when two passenger buses and an oil tanker burst into flames in a head-on collision in eastern Afghanistan, health officials said, in one of the worst road accidents in the war-battered nation.

LONDON –– British finance minister George Osborne said on Sunday that homeowners would face a "significant hit" from lower house prices and higher mortgage costs if voters decided to leave the European Union in a referendum in June.

ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday came up with a novel scheme to rein in the country's high unemployment levels, saying that every company should take on one unemployed person.

RIYADH – The new energy minister of Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, on Sunday pledged continuity in the kingdom's oil policy, after being named in a major government overhaul.