AMMAN: Jordan’s Ministry of Health launched the country’s 2023-2030 National Nutrition Strategy on Sunday in collaboration with the World Health Organization, Jordan News Agency reported.

The approach seeks to improve the nutritional status of all groups in Jordanian society to prevent malnutrition and obesity, as well as diet-related noncommunicable diseases.

It comes within the royal vision of achieving economic and social development objectives.

DUBAI: The UAE is helping young people improve food security through innovation and entrepreneurship, Minister of Climate Change and the Environment Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri told the World Food Forum.

“Through developing the capacities of our young people and equipping them with the skills to venture into entrepreneurship and innovation, we are empowering them to take charge of the future of our food systems,” Almheiri said, according to Emirates News Agency.

RAMALLAH: Officials in Palestine have welcomed the UN’s appeal to Israel to end the administrative detention of Palestinian detainees.

Qadri Abu Bakr, head of the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Commission, lauded the UN move.

He told Arab News that the Palestinian Authority has made similar appeals for several years and has repeatedly urged international organizations and allied countries to pressure Israel into ending the detention practice.

CAIRO: For millennia, the Nile River has nourished the great civilizations of Egypt with copious fresh water, rich deposits of silt, plentiful fish, and means of navigation and trade. However, nowadays, the river carries another far less appealing bounty – plastic waste.

According to the Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights, about 4.5 million tons of waste flow into the Nile annually.

LONDON: Yemen’s National Defense Council on Saturday held an emergency meeting, headed by President Rashad Al-Alimi, to deal with the repercussions of a Houthi drone attack on a southern oil terminal in Hadramout province a day earlier.