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Jul 24 2009, Wa'd

Officials from the Jordanian ministry of water and irrigation have met with Egyptian officials to discuss Egypt’s worries over the Red-Dead water conveyance project. This came as a trial from the Jordanian part to accomplish what is seen as a...

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Dead Sea, South Shouneh:

U.S Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez , right, shakes hands with Palestinian Authority Planning Minister Samir Abdullah, left, as Israeli Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor Eliyahu Yishai, center, looks, during the opening of U.S-Middle East and...