Новости за 21.03.2024

AMMAN — The Court of Cassation has upheld a September Criminal Court ruling sentencing a man to 20 years in prison after convicting him of murdering his stepmother and dumping her body in a well in Irbid in April 2023. 

AMMAN — Khirbat at-Tannoris, located at the northern border of Edom, near Wadi Al Hasa, was excavated by the American archaeologist Nelson Glueck in 1937. Few decades later, Glueck published a book “Deities and Dolphins” in 1965 highlighting the artistic side of the sanctuary as well as the Nabataean belief system. Sculptures at Khirbat at-Tannoris were evaluated by different scholars and one of them has been a German historian Robert Wenning who studied the Nabataean astral belief.

AMMAN — Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh met on Wednesday with the UAE Minister of Investment Mohamed Hassan Suwaidi.

JAKARTA — Prabowo Subianto is Indonesia’s president after a convincing election win but he has also been accused of rights abuses while serving as a military chief during the dying days of the Suharto dictatorship a generation ago.

UNITED NATIONS, United States — After nearly a year of war, Sudan is suffering one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent history, the United Nations warned on Wednesday, slamming the international community for lack of action.

BEIJING — Chinese internet giant Tencent on Wednesday posted its lowest annual profit since 2019, despite slight improvements recently in China's economy and a more lenient attitude taken by regulators towards the tech sector.

MÁLAGA, Spain — The Picasso Museum in Malaga, the southern Spanish city where the artist was born, will open a new exhibition on Tuesday which groups his works according to theme instead of by period.

AMMAN   —  Jordan’s football team plays Pakistan on Thursday noon in an away Group G qualifier for the 2026 World Cup before hosting the return match March 26 in Amman.