Local

Painting event held in honour of late journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

By Rayya Al Muheisen - May 20, 2022

AMMAN — Over 250 people on Wednesday participated in painting a work of art in Amman’s Jabal Luweibdeh neighbourhood to commemorate and hono ...

Global Land Forum 2022 to kick off in Jordan on May 21

By Maria Weldali - May 20, 2022

AMMAN — The Global Land Forum 2022 (GLF) is set to kick off on May 21, heralding a “significant shift” in land governance in the Kingdom, ac ...

Wedding venues suffer as clients shift to non-traditional settings

By Batool Ghaith - May 20, 2022

AMMAN — Wedding venues in Amman are still struggling and their situation is “getting worse” amid the shift to private farms alongside many y ...

Region

Israel arrests Shireen Abu Akleh pallbearer

By AFP - May 20, 2022

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel has arrested one of the pallbearers of slain Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, occupation authorities said ...

Students revel as Hamas bloc wins West Bank university poll

By AFP - May 19, 2022

Lebanon independents celebrate: ‘Change has begun’

By AFP - May 19, 2022

Trawling Iraq’s threatened marshes to collect plastic waste

By AFP - May 19, 2022

Tense times ahead for Lebanon after elections

By AFP - May 18, 2022

World

Ukraine steelworks defenders surrender as Kyiv accuses Moscow of war crimes

By AFP - May 20, 2022

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia said on Thursday that 1,730 Ukrainian soldiers had surrendered this week at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, sho ...

Finland, Sweden apply to join NATO as first Ukraine war crimes trial begins

By AFP - May 19, 2022

Spain, Portugal detect suspected monkeypox cases

By AFP - May 18, 2022

Russia says hundreds of Ukrainians surrender at Azovstal

By AFP - May 17, 2022

Sweden, Finland NATO bid no threat to Russia but may 'trigger response' — Putin

By AFP - May 17, 2022

Business

Indonesia to lift ban on palm oil exports from Monday

By AFP - May 19, 2022

JAKARTA — Indonesia will lift its ban on palm oil exports next week, President Joko Widodo said on Thursday, relieving pressure on the globa ...

Britons feel the pinch as cost-of-living crisis bites
Indian insurance giant slumps after country's biggest-ever IPO

Features

Pollution behind 1 in 6 global deaths in 2019

By AFP - May 19, 2022

PARIS — Pollution caused some 9 million people to die prematurely in 2019, according to a new global report published on Wednesday, with exp ...

End of the line nears for NASA InSight Mars lander
Experts sound alarm over baby tongue surgery

Sports

Jordan Rally gets under way

By JT - May 19, 2022

AMMAN — The 2022 Jordan Rally was officially flagged away from the Royal Automobile Museum in Amman on Thursday evening by HRH Princess Ayah ...

Hussein seek to maintain Jordan Football Pro League lead
Jordanian duo aim to maintain MERC2 title challenges

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