Новости за 11.02.2024

AMMAN — The Jordanian national football team (The Nashama) clinched the runner-up spot in the AFC Asian Cup follwing a 1-3 defeat to Qatar in the final match held at the Lusail Stadium in Doha, Qatar, on Saturday.

NEW YORK — As his red, white and blue mainstay prepares to turn 40, Tommy Hilfiger paid tribute to New York as a leading character in his journey to the design big-time as the city’s fashion week got under way.

TURIN, Italy — A funeral mass for the head of the House of Savoy drew royals from across Europe on Saturday, who paid their respects to Prince Vittorio Emanuele, son of Italy’s last king.

LONDON — British consumer goods giant Unilever last week said its profit after tax dropped 15 per cent last year to 6.5 billion euros ($7 billion) as sales flattened. 

AMMAN — The Foreign Ministry condemned on Saturday the explosions in the province of Balochistan in Pakistan, which resulted in several casualties and injuries.

AMMAN — Northeastern Jordan was a significant area for inscriptions dating from different historical periods. Petroglyphs are typical of the Neolithic period in the Black Desert, but the northeast of Jordan also holds inscriptions from the early Islamic Period. A Finish scholar, Ilkka Lindstedt, from The University of Helsinki, found 15 previously unpublished Arabic inscriptions from the north-eastern Jordan.

AMMAN — HRH Princess Sumaya Bint Al Hassan, chairwoman of the Princess Sumaya University’s (PSUT) Board of Trustees, inaugurated the 12th educational forum of the “Tamam” project in collaboration with the American University of Beirut and the Tamam Schools Association in Jordan.

BEIRUT — Israeli air strikes that targeted a building in an upscale area near the Syrian capital killed three people early Saturday, a war monitor said.

BEIRUT — A senior Hamas official survived on Saturday an Israeli assassination attempt in Lebanon, a Palestinian security source told AFP, with rescuers reporting two civilians killed in the strike south of Beirut.