Новости за 24.03.2024

WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law a long-awaited funding bill passed by Congress, keeping federal agencies running through September and averting a damaging partial government shutdown.

RAFAH, Egypt  — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, on a visit to the doorstep of war-ravaged Gaza, on Saturday said the world has seen enough of its horrors and appealed for a ceasefire to allow in more aid.

DUBAI — A vessel was struck Saturday by "an unidentified projectile" off Yemen, where Huthi rebels have intensified attacks on Red Sea shipping, the British navy's United Kingdom Marine Trade Operations said.

MOGADISHU — Fighters from the group Al Shabaab stormed a military base outside Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Saturday, with casualties reported, military officers and witnesses said.

AMMAN — In order to have centralised information about inscriptions from Ancient North Arabia, a group of scholars created “The Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia” (OCIANA). The fully searchable online database of the texts and translations of the inscriptions of the North Arabia with metadata and photograph is made available online, with the exception of Thamudic that has to be included in the second phase of the project.

LONDON — After weeks of wild speculation, British people on Saturday digested the shock news that Catherine, Princess of Wales, has cancer, with many praising her courage while others criticised the conspiracies that spread over her absence.

WASHINGTON — Sales of existing homes made the biggest jump in a year last month on improved housing supply, according to industry data released recenetly, as mortgage rates held at slightly lower levels.

HAVANA — For ten years, the privately-funded Cuban Art Factory in Havana has provided a space for local talent to exhibit their creations in what was once a train station.

AMMAN — A total of 36 out of 61 Jordanians identified for evacuation from Gaza have been successfully transported to Egypt via the Rafah crossing over the past two days, the Foreign Ministry's Directorate of Operations and Consular Affairs announced on Saturday.