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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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Rioting has been going on and off for the last couple of days in al Tafayleh neighborhood in eastern Amman. Riots were triggered after the death of a 20-year-old man...
made popular Nov 10 2009
Discovered cases of infection with H1N1 virus in Jordan are increasing drastically in number; approximating a number of around 100 cases a day. Strategies of dealing...
made popular Nov 2 2009
Clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces were renewed on Sunday when Israeli troops forcefully entered the mosque and attacked worshippers by beating them,...
made popular Oct 28 2009
Discovered cases of infection with H1N1 virus in Jordan are increasing drastically in number; approximating a number of around 100 cases a day. Strategies of dealing...
made popular Oct 27 2009
A new tactic of thuggish Arab dictators and their even more thuggish secret police is to hire plain-clothed thugs to go out and beat up dissidents and then the regime...
made popular Oct 27 2009
In an unexpected yet not unusual step of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he has called his government to present a proposal for amending war law after...
made popular Oct 24 2009
Public volunteers and navy divers gathered on Saturday under the 2009 Clean Up the World dive campaign in Aqaba to clean the area. Volunteers removed around one tonne...
made popular Oct 21 2009
Around 8 months after banning smoking in public places in Jordan, Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad issues a decree banning smoking in public places and public...
made popular Oct 19 2009
I have long criticized Persian Gulf royals for be vapid, uneducated, sellouts, money-squanders and selfish. But every now and then there is one royal worthy of praise....
made popular Oct 16 2009
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbads is reportedly pushing for a vote on Goldstone which supposedly proves the occurrence of war crimes in Gaza during the Israeli...
made popular Oct 15 2009
The Smiling Tyrant.
Nothing better (perhaps) illustrates the American hypocrisy in ostensibly championing human rights and democracy in the Arab world than the jovial...
made popular Oct 13 2009
A team of researchers from the Geologists Association as well as scientists from the University of Jordan will be assigned to examine a strange phenomenon that was...
made popular Oct 8 2009
As President Obama prepares to push the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution on nuclear non-proliferation on Thursday, Queen Noor of Jordan and a group of...
made popular Sep 24 2009
I went out grocery shopping the other day. I headed to a big supermarket, which is part of a big shopping mall, where you can find all you want, and do not want to...
made popular Sep 12 2009
An official from the Jordanian Ministry of Health reported that the ministry is expecting to receive the first batch of H1N1 virus vaccination in November this year,...
made popular Sep 9 2009
With the beginning of school season, worries have been raised over the spread of swine flu among students; a concern which was realised last week when two brothers...
made popular Sep 8 2009
A senior official reported that around 500 pigs in two farms located in Karak city in Jordan are to be slaughtered within a period of two weeks. The decision is...
made popular Aug 18 2009
A senior official reported that around 500 pigs -(Pig: not the most loved animal at the moment)- in two farms located in Karak city in Jordan are to be slaughtered...
made popular Aug 13 2009
Dozens of Jordan Ports Corporation (JPC) workers organised a sit-in during last week to protest against what they described as “unfair decisions by management that...
made popular Aug 8 2009
In an incident that is the third of its kind within a period of two months; Jordanian side of the Jordan valley was affected last Saturday with fires originating on the...
made popular Aug 7 2009
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Eli Raz was peering into a narrow hole in the Dead Sea shore when the earth opened up and swallowed him. Fearing he would never be found alive, he scribbled his will on...
made popular Jun 23 2009
Two consortiums will be selected in June to start researching the effects of the Red-Dead Canal Project on the Gulf of Aqaba and the Dead Sea.
One team will research...
made popular May 8 2009
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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...
