The fight for climate justice must include the people who are most affected, including those in the Arab region
The Michelin-trained chef Gregory Czarnecki stars in an event themed around the hit television series The Bear
Yemeni children in critical need of medical care were evacuated Monday from the rebel-held capital Sanaa, in what the United Nations hopes will be the first of more mercy flights. Seven young patients and their relatives flew out of Sanaa airport, which has been closed to commercial flights since 2016, aboard a UN-marked plane bound […]
Although a petition circulating on social media calling for Jordan’s controversial nationality law to be abolished, it is more likely to be refused.
Leo ‘Zohan’ Aldardanji is a classic barber, excelling as his customers’ therapist.
Male bonding can be a thing of horror – and liable to land you in hot water (or near it).
The public wants to avenge the inhumane killing of Muadh al-Kasasbeh, but this may invite more trouble to the country.
Jordan has responded to Islamic extremist group Isis’s burning alive of fighter pilot Maaz al-Kassasbeh by executing two jihadists on death row.
This is the first hostage taken from the US-led coalition battling Isis, but the group is divided over whether or not the plane was shot down by Isis.
Institutions are doubling shifts and staff, but they are finding it difficult to cope with the demand.
The Zata’ari refugee camp, opened by the Jordanian government to house 500 people, has swollen to a population of more than 26 000.
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/ 23 February 2012
European governments have planned a radical offer of "debt relief" to its Arab North African and Middle Eastern neighbours.
An Egyptian pipeline sending gas to Israel and Jordan, which has been attacked six times since Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, has been hit by two explosions.
Hundreds of Jordanians have demonstrated outside the prime minister’s office in Amman, demanding speedy reforms and a corruption-free state.
Jordan’s opposition Islamic Action Front attacked King Abdullah’s appointment of a new prime minister as “inappropriate”.
King Abdullah of Jordan, a close US ally, on Tuesday replaced his prime minister after protests over food prices and poor living conditions.
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/ 30 September 2010
Mysterious jamming of TV broadcasts of the Soccer World Cup by the Arabic satellite channel al-Jazeera has been traced to Jordan.
Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas said Israel must accept the deployment of an international force in a future Palestinian state before talks can begin.
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/ 8 September 2009
Human Rights Watch on Tuesday urged Jordan to reform its penal code, which it says condones the murder of women as ”honour crimes”.
Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard is ready to stand trial in Jordan over his controversial caricature depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
A top United Nations official warned on Friday of ”very grave” humanitarian problems in Iraq, including a lack of food and the internal displacement of more than two million people. ”There are very grave humanitarian problems. The most serious is the internal displacement of the Iraqis,” UN Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes said.
Oxfam warned in a report on Monday that unabated violence in Iraq is masking a humanitarian crisis that has worsened since the United States-led invasion in 2003, putting at risk almost eight million Iraqis. While violence dominates the lives of millions of ordinary people inside Iraq, ”another kind of crisis” has been slowly unfolding, said the report.
Iraq warned of a humanitarian crisis on Thursday as it appealed to the international community to help countries hosting hundreds of thousands of Iraqis uprooted by war. ”The Iraqi government calls on the international community, in particular neighbouring countries, to support Iraq,” said Mohammed al-Hajj al-Hmud of Iraq’s Foreign Ministry.
Egyptian billionaire and Orascom Telecom chairperson Naguib Sawiris said he will offer within the next two weeks to buy the rest of Greece’s second-largest telecom company, Tellas. Sawiris’ Weather Investments Spa is in talks with Greek utility Public Power about buying its stake in Tellas.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday said he was ready to meet Arab leaders to discuss their peace initiative but that no conditions should be set in advance. "I invite these 22 leaders of the Arab nation that are ready to make that kind of peace with Israel to come, whenever they want, to sit down with us and start to talk," Olmert said in Jordan.
Three suspected Jordanian Islamists appeared in court on Wednesday accused of plotting to assassinate United States President George Bush when he visited the country last year. Nidal Momani, Sattam Zawahra and Tharwat Ali Draz were arrested on November 28, a day before Bush visited Jordan, and later indicted on charges of ”conspiracy to carry out terrorist plots”.
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/ 23 February 2007
Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi lawyer said on Friday he will write a book revealing ”many secrets” told to him by the executed dictator about the fall of Baghdad, his arrest and imprisonment. ”The book will contain information never before revealed and many secrets about the fall of Baghdad,” Khalil al-Dulaimi told Agence France-Press in a telephone interview about the book he is planning.
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/ 28 January 2007
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have sought safe haven from the violence at home in neighbouring Jordan, where the influx of migrants has triggered concerns over inflation and job losses. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has said more than 700Â 000 Iraqis fled to Jordan in the aftermath of the United States-led 2003 war.
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/ 30 November 2006
United States President George Bush praised Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as a ”strong leader” on Thursday and said he agreed with him that any partition of Iraq would only increase violence. Bush’s show of support for Maliki came after US officials insisted the Iraqi leader had not snubbed Bush on Wednesday when the two had been expected to meet.
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/ 28 September 2006
Saddam Hussein’s defence team on Thursday called for a halt to his genocide trial, saying it was a political "farce" to seek revenge against the ousted Iraqi leader. "We call upon the public opinion with all its organisations and segments to work to stop this farce after it intentionally prejudiced the feelings of Iraqis, Arabs and all good people … ," it said in a statement.
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/ 4 September 2006
A lone gunman opened fire on a group of foreign tourists in the Jordanian capital, Amman, on Monday, killing a British man and wounding six, an official and a witness said. Jordanian government spokesperson Nasser Joudeh denied earlier reports that the attack was carried out by two men, one of them an Iraqi.
A Jordanian court on Tuesday sentenced to prison two newspaper editors for ”attacking religious sentiment” by reprinting cartoons deemed offensive to Prophet Muhammad, their lawyer said. Jihad Momani, former editor of the weekly Shihane tabloid, and Hisham al-Khalidi, editor-in-chief of the tabloid Al-Mehwar, ”were each sentenced to two months in prison”, attorney Mohammed Kteishat told Agence France-Presse.