Новости за 23.05.2016

AMMAN — Jordan is in talks with several international companies to be partners in the country’s first nuclear plant by providing necessary turbines and systems for the plant, according to Khaled Toukan, the chairman of the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC).

BAGHDAD — Iraqi government forces fought Daesh militants near Fallujah on Monday and bombarded central districts at the outset of an offensive to retake the long-time extremist stronghold on the western approaches to the capital Baghdad.

AMMAN — Pumping of drinking water to Muadi Village in the Central Jordan Valley resumed on Monday afternoon, after fixing a rupture to the main carrier supplying the community with water caused by construction works, a government official said on Monday.

AMMAN — The King Hussein Bin Talal University in Maan, 220km south Amman, suspended 11 students for involvement in a brawl that took place in April this year, a university official said on Monday.

SANAA — Anxiety reigns in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, where ordinary people await the outcome of almost a month of peace talks they hope can end a devastating war.

CAIRO — The French navy said Monday that one of its ships has joined the search for the wreckage of EgyptAir Flight 804, focusing especially on the hunt for its flight recorders, as questions remain over what caused the Airbus 320 to crash over the Mediterranean, killing all 66 on board.

TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisia’s Islamist Ennahda Party voted Monday to separate its political and religious work, part of its effort to cast itself in line with the North African country’s secular political heritage.

HANOI, Vietnam — US President Barack Obama on Monday lifted a half-century-old ban on selling arms to Vietnam, looking to bolster a government seen as a crucial, though flawed partner in a region that he has tried to place at the centre of his foreign policy legacy.

AMMAN — Private cement deliveries to the Gaza Strip resumed on Monday after Israel lifted a six-week ban it imposed over an alleged diversion of materials by an official in the Palestinian territory.

DUBAI, UAE — General Electric Co.  clinched a series of deals with Saudi Arabia, which are worth more than $1.4 billion, the company said on Monday.

AMMAN — Jordan ranked among the top 10 refugee welcoming countries, according to a global index issued this week.

AMMAN — Arab countries were encouraged on Sunday to engage in infrastructure and construction projects worth approximately $22 billion designed to rebuild Iraq.

NORTHERN SYRIA — On a secret trip to Syria, the new commander of US forces in the Middle East said Saturday he felt a moral obligation to enter a war zone to check on his troops and make his own assessment of progress in organising local Arab and Kurd fighters for what has been a slow campaign to push the Daesh terror group out of Syria.

AMMAN – The Lower House on Sunday endorsed the Jordan investment fund draft law for 2016, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.