{"id":22348,"date":"2018-11-19T02:23:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T02:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22348"},"modified":"2018-11-19T02:23:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T02:23:33","slug":"jordan-approves-new-imf-backed-tax-law-after-introducing-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22348","title":{"rendered":"Jordan approves new IMF-backed tax law after introducing changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"66\">\n<p>\nSANAA: Iran-backed Houthi militias have said they are ready to mobilize more fighters to the frontline despite a lull in battleground Hodeidah, as the UN envoy prepares to visit the country to boost peace efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\nDozens of Houthis put on a show of strength on the outskirts of Sanaa on Saturday, apparently getting ready to head toward Hodeidah, a Red Sea city home to a vital port.<\/p>\n<p>\nMen, some of whom looked very young, were lining up with bandoliers around their shoulders and rifles in their hands, chanting Houthi slogans.<\/p>\n<p>\nResidents said on Sunday that relative calm had held in Hodeidah city since pro-government forces announced a pause in their offensive last week amid international calls for a cease-fire and UN-led peace efforts.\u00a0 They added, however, that they remain on edge.<\/p>\n<p>\nUN special envoy Martin Griffiths said on Friday that he plans to travel to Sanaa in the coming week to finalize arrangements for peace talks to take place in Sweden soon.<\/p>\n<p>\nHameed Assem, a member of the militia delegation expected to take part in the negotiations, said that Houthis will continue to mobilize if UN efforts for peace fail to materialize.<\/p>\n<p>\nPro-government forces on Wednesday suspended their 12-day offensive in Hodeidah.<\/p>\n<p>\nGriffiths said on Friday that both the government and the Houthis have shown a \u201crenewed commitment\u201d to work on a political solution and have given \u201cfirm assurances\u201d that they will attend the talks. No date has yet been set.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANAA: Iran-backed Houthi militias have said they are ready to mobilize more fighters to the frontline despite a lull in battleground Hodeidah, as the UN envoy prepares to visit the country to boost peace efforts. Dozens of Houthis put on a show of strength on the outskirts of Sanaa on Saturday, apparently getting ready to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}