World Children’s Day, UNICEF’s annual day of action for children by children, will be celebrated online across Jordan today as the event goes virtual during the COVID-19 pandemic.Highlights will include a day of fun, live events for children and their …
The United Nations’s agencies are planning for the possible arrival of 200,000 refugees in Sudan fleeing violence in Ethiopia over a six-month period, a UN refugee agency official said.”Together with all the agencies, we have built a response plan for …
Germany will make it compulsory for most listed and cooperative companies to have at least one woman on their boards after representatives of the ruling conservative and Social Democrat (SPD) parties reached agreement on the long-sought measure.Under t…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday that Canada’s hospital system could be overwhelmed as modelling showed new COVID-19 cases were set to more than quadruple by year end from current levels, and he implored Canadians to stay home as m…
G20 nations vowed to continue doing everything possible to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, warning in excerpts of a draft communique that the global economic recovery remains “uneven, highly uncertain, and subject to elevated downside risks.”A final sta…
Jordan has recorded 63 deaths and 4,940 new coronavirus cases Friday, bringing the total number of cases since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis to 174,335.The new infections include 1,688 in Amman, 456 in Zarqa, 337 in Mafraq, 244 in Jerash, 182…
Pfizer and its partner BioNTech are on Friday filing for emergency authorisation in the US of their COVID-19 vaccine.It will be the job of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to decide if the vaccine is safe to roll out.It is not clear how long t…
In the United States, California’s governor imposed a curfew on social gatherings and other non-essential activities in one of the most intrusive of the restrictions being ordered across the country to curb an alarming surge in novel coronavirus infect…
The Kingdom is expected to witness unstable weather conditions on Friday, the Jordan Meteorological Department (JMD) said.The weather department said that unstable weather conditions are expected to bring rainfall during the evening and at night in the…
