By REUTERS ARABBEWS AMMAN: Jordan’s King Abdallah on Monday sacked his Cabinet and asked Awn Khasawneh, an international jurist, to head a new administration, in a move to placate protesters calling for faster reforms, said officials and palace sources. The Western-backed king, facing growing pressure from activists inspired by uprisings […]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Agencies) – Israel on Sunday released a list of 477 Palestinian prisoners to be released as part of the deal to secure Gilad Shalit’s freedom, many of whom were involved in bloody attacks, Agence France-Presse reported. Hundreds of them are serving life terms after being convicted of involvement […]
JORDAN TIMES AMMAN (Petra) – Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilus III on Saturday laid the foundation stone of a community centre and a Roman Orthodox school in Wahdana village in Ajloun. During a visit to the governorate, the patriarch reiterated the need to enhance the concepts of tolerance, harmony, […]
The Jordanian government decided to send a large delegation of officials and business leaders to Libya to offer support for its reconstruction, a move that is necessary, even if it came a bit late in the hour.The minister of industry and trade will head the delegation – hefty from the […]
AMMAN (JT) – His Majesty King Abdullah on Saturday reiterated Jordan’s support for the Libyan people in achieving their aspirations in the reconstruction of a new Libya. The Monarch also voiced his support for the National Transitional Council (NTC) in its efforts to rebuild Libya and maintain its sovereignty, independence […]
By Omar Obeidat JORDAN TIMES AMMAN –– As the Arab Bank continues to face allegations in the US that it provided banking services to terrorist groups, cables by the US embassy in Amman, revealed recently by WikiLeaks, defended the financial institution’s reputation. A few years ago, hundreds of Israelis filed […]
By Muath Freij, JORDAN TIMES AMMAN – Despite injuries and homesickness, Libyan fighters currently convalescing in Jordanian hospitals said they are receiving excellent care and are proud of what their country has accomplished. Since the start of the war, over 400 Libyan patients have been admitted into the Arab Medical […]
BY OMAR OBEIDAT, JORDAN TIMES AMMAN –– Jordan and the US on Wednesday signed five grant agreements worth $359.3 million. The grants, presented by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), will support various sectors, including the budget, education, health and economic development in addition to a plan to […]
By ASSOCIATED PRESS ARABNEWS AMMAN: Jordan has some of the region’s most robust laws on paper to protect migrant domestic workers, but human rights groups said Tuesday its failure to enforce them leads to continued abuse. The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Jordanian legal aid center, Tamkeen, […]
By Taylor Luck, JORDAN TIMES THE KINGDOM’S natural gas supplies from Egypt were cut on Tuesday in what marked the sixth attack on the Arab Gas Pipeline this year. According to Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Khaled Toukan, Egyptian authorities announced yesterday that an explosion 25 kilometres southwest of […]
AMMAN (Jordan Times) – The Department of Antiquities has recovered from Israel hundreds of clay artefacts after 44 years, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. The agency quoted acting Director General of the General Antiquities Department Fares Hmoud as saying Monday that the 620 artefacts, which date back to the […]
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The Dead Sea Scrolls are some of the most valuable religious texts known to man. Discovered between 1947 and 1956 at Khirbet Qumran, they form the oldest known versions of Biblical documents and take the form of 972 texts. Their age dates them at somewhere between 150 BCE and 70CE […]
Jordan Times http://www.jordantimes.com AMMAN (JT) – Somalia’s honorary consul to Jordan, Aref Rteimeh, on Sunday said 10 Jordanian doctors from the private sector will head to Somalia next month as part of the Kingdom’s humanitarian campaign to help the Somalis. He added that the physicians volunteered to provide famine victims […]
By Taylor Luck IN THE DRYING marshlands of the Azraq oasis lie the remnants of one of the earliest communities to roam the Levant. Ayn Qasiyya – an Epipalaeolithic site dating back some 20,000 years located in the Azraq Wetlands Reserve – has yielded dozens of secrets from the prehistoric […]
By Matthew Lee The Associated Press, JORDAN TIMES UNITED NATIONS – The Obama administration has managed to buy time and may have staved off an embarrassing and politically awkward showdown over Palestinian statehood at the UN. It may also have manoeuvred itself into a corner.The US and the rest of […]
Rand Dalgamouni, JORDAN TIMES ZURICH – One young Jordanian is working to share her experience in interfaith tolerance and dialogue in the Kingdom with the rest of the world. Fresh graduate Ayah Alfawaris has represented Jordan at international summits, speaking as an ambassador for interfaith dialogue. In 2010, she was […]
By Hana Namrouqa, Jordan Times AMMAN – The Kingdom is forecast to witness the first showers of the wet season on Friday as a weak depression affects the country, according to the Jordan Meteorological Department (JMD). The depression, centred over Cyprus, will start affecting the country on Friday morning, bringing […]
By Khetam Malkawi, JORDAN TIMES AMMAN – The number of tourists visiting the Kingdom from the Gulf states increased by 26 per cent in the first eight months of the year, compared to the same period in 2010, according to a Ministry of Tourism report. The report, which was released […]
SOURCE: JORDAN TIMES Despite His Majesty King Abdullah’s repeated assurances that the so-called Jordanian option is nonsensical and devoid of basis, there are some still determined to cling to this imaginary threat and exploit it to sow distrust and undermine the course of the Kingdom. There are still some who […]