Amman: The Civil Defense Directorate in eastern Irbid saved a barely two-month-old infant in the Bani Kenana district who suffocated while breastfeeding.
A security source informed the Jordan News Agency (Petra) on Sunday that paramedics promptly cleared the baby’s respiratory tract, adding that the child’s condition is moderate. The infant was transferred to the emergency department at Yarmouk Governmental Hospital for further monitoring and care.
Source: Jordan News Agency
Zarqa: Jordan Food and Drug Administration (JFDA)’s Zarqa offices closed 33 food establishments, discontinued activities of 212 others and destroyed 332. 438 tonnes of food items that were unfit for human consumption, during inspection tours by the administration’s staff since the beginning of 2024.
In remarks to “Petra” Sunday, the JFDA said its monitoring teams in central Zarqa governorate carried out 3,896 inspection tours, during which 1,720 warnings were issued to violating food establishments for failing to abide by the necessary health requirements and instructions, since the beginning of the current year 2024 until May 23.
The JFDA added that its “continuous” inspection tours and efforts in Zarqa also destroyed 5,243 liters of juices for failing to comply with the necessary health requirements.
The JFDA confirmed that its field oversight tours continue round the clock across the Kingdom to preserve health and safety of citizens’ food.
Source: Jordan News Agency
Amman: A Cabinet session held Sunday, headed by Prime Minister Dr. Bishr Khasawneh, on Sunday approved a bylaw for licensing mediation companies to recruit Jordanians inside and outside of the Kingdom for the year 2024.
The system aims to regulate matters related to Jordanians’ recruitment inside and outside the Kingdom, by regulating provisions for licensing mediation companies to recruit job seekers in private sector inside the Kingdom, and in the public and private sectors outside it.
Under the bylaw, the procedures and fees are set to grant and renew these licenses, identify the ministry’s related supervision, determine revocation cases, as well as establishing these companies’ services fees and procedures for violating the regulation’s provisions.
Additionally, Council of Ministers also approved the Juvenile Protection Bylaw for the year 2024, which aims to provide protection and care for working minors, regulate role of the Ministry of Social Development and its relations with the institutions concer
ned with the working minors’ cases,
launch controls and plans in this regard and set protection measures.
On another level, the Council decided to approve the mandating reasons for a draft amended bylaw for licensing and establishing private Jordanian universities for the year 2024 and referred it to the Bureau of Legislation and Opinion to complete procedures for issuing it in accordance with the rules in force.
This regulation also aims to amend some procedural issues for licensing medical universities, primarily the rate set to attract foreign students and allow the establishment of health colleges.
Source: Jordan News Agency
Hebron – Ma’an – This evening, a child was killed by occupation bullets at the Beit Ainun junction, northeast of Hebron.
The General Authority for Civil Affairs informed the Ministry of Health that the child, Majd Shaher Aramin (14 years old), was killed by occupation bullets.
Ma’an’s correspondent reported that the occupation soldiers closed the intersection to traffic in all directions and prevented the young man from approaching, who fell to the ground after being hit by bullets.
The occupation army, in its first comment, said that its soldiers opened fire on a Palestinian who attempted to carry out a stabbing attack, but none of its soldiers were injured, and the Palestinian was neutralized.
Source: Maan News Agency
Marjayoun – National News Agency correspondent reported renewed hostile phosphorous bombing of the town of Adeisseh this afternoon.
The enemy also targeted for the third time today a motorcycle in Houla with a missile from an Israeli drone, resulting in one martyr and 3 wounded.
Intense enemy artillery shelling targeted al-Baraka neighborhood inside the town of Houla.
Source: National News Agency – Lebanon
Amman: Sunday will see warm weather across most regions, with relatively hot to hot conditions in the Jordan Valley, the Dead Sea, and Aqaba.
High-altitude clouds will be present, accompanied by moderate northwesterly winds, occasionally becoming active in desert areas.
The Jordan Meteorological Department reports a significant temperature increase on Monday, bringing warm weather in the highlands and relatively hot to hot conditions in other regions, with medium-altitude clouds and moderate southeasterly to southwesterly winds, occasionally active.
Tuesday will experience a temperature drop, resulting in warm conditions in most areas until Wednesday, while it will be relatively hot to hot in the Jordan Valley, the Dead Sea, and Aqaba, with clouds at various altitudes and southwesterly to northwesterly moderate to activate winds.
Today’s maximum and minimum temperatures in eastern Amman range between 20-28 degrees Celsius, in western Amman 18-26C, in the northern highlands 15-22C, in the Sharah highlands
14-24C, and in the Gulf of Aqaba 25-38 degrees Celsius.
Source: Jordan News Agency
