10 local infections, 7 virus cases from abroad recorded on Thursday
AMMAN — Seventeen COVID-19 cases, including 10 local infections, were registered in the Kingdom on Thursday, increasing the caseload to 1,32 ...
Safadi talks ties, region in phone calls with Iraq, EU counterparts
Aug 13, 2020
Int’l Youth Day marked with focus on humanitarian action amid pandemic
Aug 13, 2020
Jaber crossing with Syria to be closed over virus concerns
Aug 13, 2020

Local

Cassation Court upholds 2018 plotting subversive acts ruling

By Rana Husseini - Aug 13, 2020

AMMAN — The Court of Cassation upheld a December State Security Court ruling sentencing three men to 15 years in prison each after convictin ...

Demand for gold drops drastically — Jordan Jewellers Association

By Maria Weldali - Aug 13, 2020

AMMAN — This year local demand for gold fell by 80 per cent compared with last year and the volume sold is estimated at around JD14 million, ...

Prince Hassan calls for effective citizenship

By JT - Aug 13, 2020

AMMAN — HRH Prince Hassan, president of the Arab Thought Forum (ATF), said on Wednesday that "the citizenship we want is the effective one t ...

Region

Beirut buries more of its dead as world mobilises

By AFP - Aug 13, 2020

BEIRUT/CAIRO — Lebanon buried more of its dead Wednesday from the huge explosion at Beirut port that disfigured the city, toppled the govern ...

More than 170 dead in Yemen floods

By AFP - Aug 13, 2020

‘Civilians, soldiers clash leaving 127 dead in South Sudan’

By AFP - Aug 13, 2020

Beirut blast trauma adds new wounds to old scars

By AFP - Aug 12, 2020

Egypt-Gaza crossing opens for first time in months

By AFP - Aug 11, 2020

World

Netherlands' Belgian enclave juggles tricky virus rules

By AFP - Aug 13, 2020

AMSTERDAM — There is a small Belgian enclave in the southern Netherlands where respecting two sets of rules to fight coronavirus has become ...

Greece reports first coronavirus case in island camp

By AFP - Aug 13, 2020

Thousands form human chains in Belarus after post-vote crackdown

By AFP - Aug 13, 2020

Russian vaccine faces scepticism as nations renew virus battle

By AFP - Aug 13, 2020

Joe Biden picks Kamala Harris to be first black woman VP

By AFP - Aug 13, 2020

Business

Apple must pay $500 million over patent violations, US court rules

By AFP - Aug 12, 2020

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple must pay more than $500 million in damages and interest for 4G patent infringements held by intellectual property comp ...

Peanut traders baffled by Sudan export ban on key cash crop
Saudi Aramco chief sounds optimistic over oil demand rise

Features

Dwarf planet Ceres is an ocean world

By AFP - Aug 13, 2020

PARIS — The dwarf planet Ceres — long believed to be a barren space rock — is an ocean world with reservoirs of seawater beneath its surface ...

Cloning one’s computer hard disk would be a wise choice
Medical masks best, cotton good, bandanas worse

Sports

'Thousands have tried' — Bayern ponder how to stop Messi

By AFP - Aug 13, 2020

LISBON — Bayern Munich midfielder Leon Goretzka said the German giants are working out how to curb the legendary talents of Barcelona star L ...

Leipzig’s Poulsen ready to replace Werner in Champions League tilt
Lillard scores 61 as Blazers stride towards play-offs

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