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Israel and Egypt signed a peace agreement in 1979, the first signed between an Arab country and the occupation state. Since then, the borders have been mostly calm and...
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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced on Friday that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is "on the verge of...
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Jordan's Crown Prince, Al Hussein bin Abdullah II, married Saudi heiress and architect, Rajwa Al Saif, on Thursday in a wedding attended by global royalty, Anadolu Agency reports. The...
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Thousands thronged the streets of Amman to witness the procession and the wedding ceremony was attended by 140 guests.
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US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Barbara Leaf, has described the situation in Tunisia as "extremely complicated", Anadolu news agency reported. "The social space has begun...
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Jordan's unemployment rate declined to 21.9 per cent in the first quarter of this year, compared to 22.8 per cent at the end of 2022, the Department of Statistics...
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Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has stressed his country's interest in developing the tripartite cooperation mechanism with Iraq and Jordan to link the three countries' interests and reflect the...
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Iraq said that an electricity grid interconnection with Jordan will start production on July 1, reports Anadolu Agency. "Production will start with a capacity of 50 megawatts in the...
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Saudi Arabia has condemned the attack on the home of Jordan's envoy in Sudan, as violence in the country continues despite a week-long ceasefire agreement. The Jordanian Foreign Ministry...
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Jordan announced on Friday that the home of its ambassador to the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, had been stormed and vandalised, expressing its condemnation and denunciation of the act in...
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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) said yesterday that some countries, which it did not name, have informed it they will be significantly reducing the...
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May 24, 2023
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Gilbert Achkar
The Turkish election scene is truly disgusting, a scene in which the Syrian refugees have become a scapegoat and the subject of fierce bidding by various parties. Recent days...
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Crown Prince Hussein Bin Abdullah II's wedding is due to be held on 1 June
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A deadly epidemic that is spreading through the Red Sea has killed off an entire species of sea urchin in the Gulf of Aqaba, imperilling the region's uniquely resilient...
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Bahrain's Parliament has voted to abolish a law that exempts rapists from punishment if they marry their victims, joining other countries in the region in reforming such legislation. Under...
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The Palestinian General Administration of Crossings and Borders said yesterday that the working hours of Al-Karama crossing (the Palestinian side of the King Hussein Bridge) will change on Thursday....
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The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is to hold an exceptional meeting on Saturday to discuss the increasing Israeli aggression on Al-Aqsa Mosque. According to the Wafa news agency, the...
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Saudi Arabia and Israel are continuing to cultivate "advanced contact" to facilitate direct flights to the Kingdom for Palestinians and Israeli Muslims intending to travel for the annual Hajj...
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Spain issued a fresh condemnation of Israel on Monday, rejecting the rhetoric used by Israel's far-right Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, at the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in East Jerusalem, Anadolu...
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May 21, 2023
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Anjuman Rahman
Palestinian-Brazilian Lubna Lulu Abura wanted a healthy snack for her kids and thought a modern twist on a traditional staple would be perfect
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Hundreds of Jordanians gathered on Friday in front of the Israeli Embassy in Amman in solidarity and support for Palestine and its capital Jerusalem, Anadolu Agency reported. The National...
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The racism on display at Israel's Flag March has been condemned in an unexpected statement from the US State Department, along with Turkiye, Egypt, the UAE and Jordan
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Syrian President, Bashar Al-Assad, is expected to attend an Arab Summit in Saudi Arabia on Friday, ending his isolation by states that shunned him during a civil war that...
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An IMF team and the Jordanian government yesterday reached a staff-level agreement regarding the sixth review of the economic reform programme. The completion of this review will bring the...
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Jordanian MP Imad Al-Adwan has been indicted and charged in Amman for attempting to smuggle weapons and gold into the occupied West Bank, Haaretz has reported. According to the...
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Jordanian authorities have handed over a wanted man to the UAE, the Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported today. Dual Emirati-Turkish citizen, Khalaf Abdul Rahman Al-Romaithi was detained at Amman's...
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The World Bank warned of shocks affecting Jordan's economy resulting from rising poverty at rates higher than the period that preceded the coronavirus pandemic. In its report on global...
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Jordan said, Monday, that its embassy building in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, was ransacked, Anadolu News Agency reports. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry condemned the attack and "all...
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Rising fertiliser prices will exacerbate the problem of agricultural commodity prices in coming years, said Abdul Hakim Elwaer, the assistant Director-General of the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), Anadolu...
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A coalition of workers affiliated with 11 Egyptian opposition parties have demanded the Israeli embassy in Cairo be shut and the occupation state's ambassador be expelled as well as...
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The head of Lebanon's powerful armed group, Hezbollah, on Friday, denied his group was involved in narcotics smuggling and said it had no links to an alleged drug kingpin...
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The Israeli occupation cabinet approved a proposal to expand Israeli gas pipelines to Egypt to increase natural gas exports, with the aim of improving the welfare of Israelis. The...