Jordan seems to be doing the right thing since the International Monetary Fund predicts that the gross domestic product will reach 3.8 per cent this year and 4.5 per cent next year. In its recent world economic outlook report, issued on the sidelines of its meeting with the Worl

The Greater Amman Municipality prides itself with having erected pedestrian bridges in many parts of Amman, where traffic is heavy, to help people cross streets safely. According to the municipality, there are 96 such bridges, and it plans to build seven more by the end of the y

The latest edition of the Economist magazine classified Amman as the most expensive city in the Middle  East and the entire African continent. This is, one hopes, not the kind of “record” that our capital would want to pride itself on. Residents feel it and vis

His Majesty King Abdullah’s Sunday meeting with the head and members of the “Parliamentary Initiative Bloc” in the Lower House is part of the King’s continuous efforts to enhance the effectiveness of the Lower House and attune it with pressing national and

The Greater Amman Municipality wants to set closing times for public places, like, for example, cafés, night clubs, wedding halls, in response to repeated complaints from people living close to such establishments who have to put up with the inconvenience such proximity cr

Jordan has circulated an in-house draft resolution to members of the UN Security Council aiming to de-escalate the fighting in Yemen and bring it to the negotiating table after more than two weeks of fighting that took a heavy tool on human lives. The specific terms of the resol

His Majesty King Abdullah’s met with the speaker of the Lower House of Parliament and heads of parliamentary committees on Wednesday to discuss ways to increase the effectiveness and proficiency of Parliament in addressing the challenges facing the country, from within and

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not stopped finding fault with the agreement recently reached by the P5+1 countries and Iran over the latter’s nuclear programme. He now tries to put a spoke in the agreeing countries’ wheel by insisting that the final ag

The wresting by the Iraqi army of the major Iraqi city Tikrit from Daesh’s control a few days ago was a big victory for Baghdad. It might also prove to be the moral encouragement that pushes the army to continue the fight to recapture other Iraqi cities from the grip of th