King chairs part of Cabinet meeting, urges tangible impact for gov't priorities
AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah, during a briefing on the government’s economic priorities on Sunday, directed the government to take time ...
King receives Libya’s PM
Aug 29, 2021
Gov’t unveils economic priorities programme for 2021-2023
Aug 29, 2021
US provides additional $4.7 million to Jordan  for urgent COVID-19 assistance
Aug 29, 2021

Local

PM, Libyan counterpart discuss cooperation

By JT - Aug 29, 2021

AMMAN — Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Bisher Al Khasawneh on Sunday met Prime Minister of the Libyan Government of National Unity A ...

FAO holds training to combat fall armyworm

By JT - Aug 29, 2021

AMMAN — The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations completed the first day of the Farmer Field School (FFS) training ...

Up-and-coming Dead Sea Sirens weave rock into Jordan’s music scene

By Saeb Rawashdeh - Aug 29, 2021

AMMAN — Parting ways with playing covers, the Jordan-based Dead Sea Sirens, a self-described “rock band from all corners of the globe” have ...

Region

30 loyalists killed in strikes on Yemen's biggest airbase

By AFP - Aug 29, 2021

DUBAI — Strikes on Yemen's largest airbase on Sunday killed at least 30 pro-government troops and wounded scores more, said medical and loya ...

Israel strikes Gaza after fire balloons, border clashes

By AFP - Aug 29, 2021

Macron visits Daesh former stronghold in Iraq’s Mosul

By AFP - Aug 29, 2021

Palestinian boy wounded by Israeli forces in Gaza dies

By AFP - Aug 29, 2021

Campaigning begins for elections in Morocco

By AFP - Aug 26, 2021

World

Hurricane Ida rivals Katrina's strength ahead of Louisiana landfall

By AFP - Aug 29, 2021

NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana braced on Sunday for Hurricane Ida, a powerful Category 4 storm on course to slam into New Orleans 16 years to the d ...

Biden in solemn ritual over remains of fallen US troops

By AFP - Aug 29, 2021

US drone strike targets Daesh in Afghanistan

By AFP - Aug 29, 2021

Over 50,000 COVID deaths in Russia last month — statistics agency

By AFP - Aug 29, 2021

Bobby Kennedy’s assassin granted parole in California

By AFP - Aug 28, 2021

Business

Stocks rise on Friday as Powell cautious on stimulus withdrawal

By AFP - Aug 29, 2021

NEW YORK — Stock markets jumped on Friday after Federal Reserve (Fed) Chair Jerome Powell took a cautious stance on a potential withdrawal o ...

Algeria says to divert Spain gas supplies away from Morocco pipeline
More US firms require vaccine

Features

Making friends with our veggies

By Sonia Salfity, Family Flavours - Aug 29, 2021

Food is a lot like friends. The unhealthy junk is the toxic friendships we need to ditch. ...

Funny old world
LED streetlights contribute to insect population declines

Sports

Second gold for Jordan in Tokyo

By JT - Aug 29, 2021

AMMAN — Jordan won its second gold of the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games on Sunday, according to the Jordan Olympic Committee News Service. ...

Verstappen wins rain-ruined two-lap Belgian Grand Prix
Quartararo closes in on world title with British MotoGP win

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