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UNITED NATIONS - Up to half the food aid intended for the millions of hungry people in Somalia is being diverted to corrupt contractors, radical Islamists and local UN workers, according to a UN Security Council report.
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Occupied Palestine - An Israeli supermarket chain is using the alleged assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai by a hit squad from the Mossad intelligence agency as the basis of a marketing campaign.
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BAGHDAD - The top United Nations envoy in Iraq urged election officials Wednesday to release the results of this week's historic vote as quickly as possible, saying Iraqis "have the right to know" the results as soon as possible.
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AMMAN – The Anti-Narcotics Department (AND) on Wednesday foiled an attempt to smuggle 240,000 pills of captagon into a neighbouring country by a Jordanian and an Arab national.
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AMMAN – A total of 3,150 cases of kidney failure are registered in the Kingdom, according to Mohammad Tarawneh, head of the Health Ministry’s non-communicable diseases department.
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AMMAN – Ministry of Environment Spokesperson Issa Shboul said on Wednesday that hybrid car batteries should be considered hazardous waste.
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AMMAN –– If the government continues its economic reform programme, the budget deficit can be reduced to safe levels within the coming five years, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State Rajai Muasher said Wednesday.
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AMMAN – The consumer price index (CPI), a measure of inflation, rose by 4.4 per cent during the first two months of this year to 122.5 points from 117.4 points during the same period of 2009.
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AMMAN - The Islamist movement plans to hold a rally in the Jordan Valley on Friday to protest against Israeli measures in Jerusalem and other parts of the Palestinian territories, according to Islamist officials.
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AMMAN - Tayseer Sandouqa went to his new third-floor apartment in Al Kursi Valley in the Wadi Seer area Wednesday morning to put the finishing touches on a paint job.
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GAZA-Gaza's male hairdressers have filed a complaint with a human rights group over a Hamas edict banning them from cutting women's hair.
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Amman - Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood movement on Tuesday called on the government to reject a request by the NATO alliance to train the Afghan army.
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DUBAI - Dubai's police chief accused Israel on Tuesday of "vast falsification" of travel documents, noting that dozens of false passports were uncovered following a Hamas leader's murder in the emirate.
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AMMAN - Top Islamic Action Front (IAF) officials met on Tuesday to discuss allegations by certain members of “irregularity” in distributing leadership positions within the party.
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AMMAN - The Kingdom witnessed a rise in breast cancer cases last year, oncologists said on Tuesday.
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AMMAN - Under the modern leadership of His Majesty King Abdullah, Jordan has been exemplary in promoting regional stability and peace through a constant search for dialogue, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said.
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AMMAN - Attorney General at the State Security Court (SSC) Yousef Faouri on Tuesday issued a memorandum banning the press from reporting or commenting on the Jordan Petroleum Refinery Company (JPRC) expansion project case, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.
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AMMAN –– Persons with disabilities across the country will be able to get around in wheelchair-friendly taxis under a project being implemented by the Public Transport Regulatory Commission (PTRC).
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PARIS/AMMAN –– The government on Tuesday said it is not considering any nuclear cooperation with Israel before a solution to the Middle East conflict.
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AMMAN - Designs for a new multimillion dinar dam in Ajloun will be completed this month in a bid to conserve drinking water in the northern region, a government official said on Tuesday.
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LONDON-- His Majesty King Abdullah II on Tuesday discussed with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown efforts underway to remove hindrances to resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to arrive at the two-state solution and bring about peace and stability in the Middle East.
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CAIRO - A waxed rag in hand, Inas Hamam gives her car a good buff as she awaits her first clients of the day -- Egyptian women, tired of sexual harassment, who prefer a female taxi driver.
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LYON- Interpol has issued arrest warrants for 16 new suspects identified by Dubai police for the January assassination of a Hamas commander
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AMMAN –– Prime Minister Samir Rifai on Sunday stressed that the government welcomes constructive criticism in order to better serve national interests.
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DUBAI - Two years after Wajiha al-Huwaidar defied a Saudi ban on women driving by posting a video on the Internet showing her cruising in a remote area, she still dreams of getting behind the wheel like her other Gulf sisters.
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BEIRUT — A Hezbollah minister said on Sunday that disarming his party was not "a subject for discussion," two days before Lebanon's national dialogue on defence strategy is due to resume.
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RIYADH - Saudi Arabia is determined to halt extremism and has foiled a number of terror plots inside the kingdom, King Abdullah said on Sunday.
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TEHRAN - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the September 11 attacks on the United States a “big fabrication” that was used to justify the US war on terrorism, the official IRNA news agency reported.
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CAIRO - Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak had a successful operation to remove his gall bladder on Saturday, a German hospital said, after handing over power at home to his prime minister while he recovers.
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ADEN - At least ten separatists and three soldiers were injured in clashes in southern Yemen on Saturday, an official said, as President Ali Abdullah Saleh's government steps up a crackdown on southern secessionists.
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The UN Security Council called for restraint following clashes between Israeli police and Muslim protesters in Jerusalem Friday and said it looked forward to an early resumption of Palestian-Israeli peace talks, Agence France-Presse reported.
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AMMAN - With “The Hurt Locker” nominated for best picture in the Academy Awards, a Hollywood spotlight has been placed on Jordanian producers, cast and crew, and locations.
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AMMAN – Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Abdul Salam Abbadi announced plans on Saturday to create a village for orphans at a cost of more than JD50 million.
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AMMAN - The Jordan Food and Drug Administration (JFDA) last week destroyed a shipment of energy drink that contained live bacteria.
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GAZA- Jordan’s military field hospital (Gaza 7) on Saturday started receiving Palestinian patients who need treatment.
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AMMAN - Islamist leaders have called on the Palestinians to start a third Intifada in response to Israeli measures against Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem and Hebron.
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AMMAN - The government has decided to reduce the exemption from taxes and fees on hybrid vehicles, and is expected to announce within the coming week how the decision will be implemented.
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AMMAN/ZARQA - Iraqis of different regions, political views, backgrounds and generations headed to polls across the Kingdom over the weekend to “take back” their country.
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JERUSALEM - Israeli occupation police battled Muslim protesters in Jerusalem's Old City on Friday after storming the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound -- one of Islam's holiest sites -- when protesters threw stones after the Friday weekly prayer, an AFP photographer witnessed.
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AMMAN - Jordanian authorities detained four people, including a former finance minister, late on Wednesday on suspicion of corruption in a 2.1-billion-dollar refinery modernisation project, the official news agency Petra reported.
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BAGHDAD-Early voting has started in Iraq's general election. In-patients, hospital staff, prisoners, police and security forces are able to cast their ballots early in the country's parliamentary elections.
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TRIPOLI - Libya has decided to impose a "total" economic embargo on Switzerland, government spokesman Mohammed Baayou said on Wednesday, after Libyan leader Moamer Gathafi declared holy war on Bern.
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AMMAN - The grey stones of Jabal Amman came to life on Wednesday as bursts of colour and art appeared from an unlikely source.
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AMMAN - Minister of Transport Alaa Batayneh is among 197 individuals chosen by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as its Young Global Leaders (YGL) for 2010.
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AMMAN –– The government is studying the possibility of partially lifting the duty fees exemption on hybrid cars regardless of engine size, according to Minister of Finance Mohammad Abu Hammour.
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AMMAN - The State Security Court (SSC) on Wednesday sentenced three men to prison terms ranging from life to three years for plotting to carry out terrorist attacks against Jordanian security officers.
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MUTAH/ SOUTHERN GHOR - An office to follow up on public complaints regarding government services will be opened “soon”, Prime Minister Samir Rifai said on Wednesday.
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AMMAN/TEHRAN - Jordan beat Singapore 2-1 in a deciding match on Wednesday in the final Group E qualifier for the 2011 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup.
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CAIRO–– Jordan on Wednesday reiterated its rejection of unilateral Israeli measures in the Palestinian territories, including the recent decision to add the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron and Bethlehem’s Bilal Ben Rabah Mosque to a list of Israeli heritage sites.
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NILIN, West Bank - On Fridays they chant slogans and hurl stones at Israeli occupation soldiers, but on Saturdays the youth of this small Palestinian village head into a newly-restored citadel for music practice.
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MADRID - The first head of the new Mediterranean Union, Jordan's Ahmad Masa'deh, will assume his duties on Thursday at a ceremony in Barcelona, Spain's foreign ministry said Wednesday.
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LONDON - An influential UK-based Muslim scholar reiterated Tuesday that terrorism runs against the teachings of Islam and that those who are engaged in targeting civilians are destined to hellfire according the Islamic faith.
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Baquba, Iraq-Three powerful co-ordinated suicide attacks in the central Iraq city of Baquba killed at least 33 people and wounded 55 today, just days before nationwide parliamentary elections.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Authorities have smashed one of the world's biggest networks of virus-infected computers, a data vacuum that stole credit cards and online banking credentials from as many as 12.7 million poisoned PCs.
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DUBAI - Dubai police said Tuesday they are seeking the arrest of Israel's prime minister and the head of its spy agency over the murder of a Hamas leader in a hotel room of the Gulf city state.
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GENEVA - Up to 10,000 tonnes of apples are to be sent from Israeli-occupied Golan Heights to Syria, after long-time foes Israel and Syria approved the transfer, the international Red Cross said Tuesday.
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AMMAN - The editor-in-chief of a local weekly on Tuesday said he is suing Minister of State for Media Affairs and Communications Nabil Sharif for allegedly defaming his reputation.
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AMMAN- The national strategy to combat human trafficking was launched on Tuesday with an emphasis on prevention, protection, law enforcement and international cooperation.
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AMMAN - Special “rooms” dedicated to look into press-related crimes will be established in each court of first instance and court of appeal in the Kingdom under a piece of legislation endorsed by the Cabinet on Tuesday.
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AMMAN - Dozens of ATV employees started an open-ended sit-in on Tuesday to protest against what they called the baseless firing of 178 staff members, while the management stressed it would compensate all those whose contracts were terminated.
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Neutral Switzerland has dented its reputation as a global mediator as weaknesses in its foreign policy are exposed in its escalating row with Libya, analysts said.
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DAMASCUS- A rift has emerged between Kurdish opposition groups and other Syrian dissidents over calls for Syrian Kurds to be granted autonomy.
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Radical Israeli settlers party amid Hebron tensions
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BAGHDAD- Sharif Ali bin Hussein, a descendant of Iraq's second king, is convinced of the need for a constitutional monarchy with him at the helm, but for now is only fighting for a seat in parliament.
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At least two suspected Israeli agents behind the murder of a senior Hamas official fled to the US during their escape, Dubai police now believe.
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BAGHDAD - Iraq on Sunday branded as illegal an influential committee's recommendation that hundreds of military officers said to be loyal to executed dictator Saddam Hussein be fired.
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AMMAN- Jordan's public debt (internal and external) has increased by 12. 9 per cent reaching JD9.66 billion in 2009 compared with 2008, according to Finance Ministry figures.
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Clashes have erupted on Sunday in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, between hundreds of Palestinians and Israeli occupation police forces.
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DUBAI- A Hamas leader killed in his Dubai hotel room was drugged and then suffocated, police said Sunday, giving further details of the murder Cold war-style hit allegedly carried out by Mossad agents.
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BENGHAZI- Libyan leader Moamer Gathafi turned up the heat in his country's dispute with Switzerland on Thursday, calling for holy war against the country over a ban adopted on the construction of minarets.
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AMMAN - An international study of government accountability, issued on Tuesday, claimed that Jordan’s national anti-corruption framework during the past few years has produced timid monitoring agencies and limited results.
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AZRAQ - Perched above the desert wadi stretching out to the horizon, the brooding fortress of Qasr Usaykhim stands as a reminder of the fortitude of humankind.
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AMMAN - The Islamist movement has called on the government to lobby for the release of Jordanian prisoners held in Saudi Arabia on charges they claim are political in nature.
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AMMAN - The government on Thursday stressed that Iraqis residing in the Kingdom with expired residencies will not be targeted by police during the three-day election period slated for March 5-7.
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Around 100 Palestinians clashed with Israeli troops in the West Bank town of Hebron on Thursday over an Israeli plan to renovate two deeply contested holy sites in the occupied territory, Agence France-Presse reported.
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Former head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency says the new group will push 'for constitutional reforms and social justice.' What many want to know is: Will he run for president?
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WASHINGTON-Private American security guards working for the US military in Afghanistan removed hundreds of handguns and automatic weapons from stores intended for the exclusive use of the Afghan police and used them on drunken shooting rampages that killed two Afghan civilians and injured at least two more.
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BAGHDAD - More than 20,000 army officers who served under deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein are to be reinstated, a defence ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
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DAMASCUS - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Iranian counterpart President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday publicly shrugged off US efforts to drive a wedge between the two Middle East allies.
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ISTANBUL - Seven senior Turkish military officers were charged on Wednesday over an alleged plot to topple a government that secularist hardliners fear is pursuing a hidden Islamist agenda.
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GAZA - With their fishermen at risk of being shot at by the Israeli navy, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are finding new ways to supply the blockaded territory with a staple that is in short supply.
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JERUSALEM - The son of one of Hamas's founders says in a new book that he served as a top informant for Israel for more than a decade, providing top-secret intelligence that helped prevent dozens of suicide bombings and other attacks against Israelis.
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DUBAI - Dubai is hunting for at least 26 people over the killing of a Hamas commander in a Dubai hotel in a suspected Israeli operation that has caused a diplomatic furore.
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AMMAN - Jordan will take all measures needed to ensure that Iraqi citizens in the Kingdom cast their votes safely and smoothly in the upcoming Iraqi parliamentary elections, the government said on Wednesday.
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AMMAN - Authorities are sending an increasing number of copyright violations to court this year as part of a nationwide crackdown on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) infringements.
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AMMAN - Health Minister Nayef Fayez on Wednesday defended a decision imposing fees on blood units, saying that the measure aims to cut ministry funds spent on foreign patients.
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AMMAN - The government on Wednesday expressed its support for a plan proposed by the US to hold indirect talks between the parties involved in the Middle East conflict as a precursor to direct negotiations.
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DUBAI - Police on Wednesday widened their search in the hunt for the assassins of a top Hamas official in a luxury hotel, saying 15 new Western passport holders are now suspects, with the total number sought now 26.
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CAIRO - A new report by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Egyptian government says the number of children living in income-poor households is increasing, causing poorer living conditions and a greater deprivation of their rights as children.
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TEL AVIV- The family of US activist Rachel Corrie, run over by an Israeli bulldozer during a demonstration in Gaza in 2003, will sue Tel Aviv over her death, their lawyer said on Wednesday.
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OSLO - Israel's nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has requested that his name be removed from the list of candidates to the Nobel Peace Prize, the head of the Norwegian Nobel Institute said Wednesday.
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OTTAWA - Canadian authorities likely played an "indirect" role in the torture of a Canadian in Egypt by telling his captors he might have plotted attacks in Canada, portions of an official inquiry declassified Tuesday said.
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AMMAN - It's late at night and the discotheques, music bars and shisha lounges that have sprouted around Amman are buzzing with clients, belying the city's old image as the sleepy capital of a conservative kingdom.
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Mohamed El Baradei, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will not run for Egypt's presidential elections because he has already announced he will not accept any position in governance, Egyptian media expert Hamdi Qandeel said .
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MADRID — A pre-emptive Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities would be a "disaster of unpredictable consequences", Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned in an interview published on Monday.
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NAZARETH, Occupied Palestine- The Israeli government and its right-wing supporters have been waging a “McCarthyite” campaign against human-rights groups by blaming them for the barrage of international criticism that followed Israel’s attack on Gaza a year ago, critics say.
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BRUSSELS - EU foreign ministers strongly condemned Monday the misuse of European passports by alleged Mossad assassins of a Hamas commander in Dubai, as their Israeli counterpart faced tough questioning in Brussels.
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DEIR EZ ZOUR - Drought in eastern and northeastern Syria has driven some 300,000 families to urban settlements such as Aleppo, Damascus and Deir ez Zour in search of work in one of the largest internal displacements in the Middle East in recent years.
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DUBAI: A fertility clinic in Dubai is to begin next week disposing of about 5,000 human embryos on religious grounds, an Emirati newspaper reported on Monday.
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HEBRON, West Bank - Palestinians clashed Monday with Israeli occupation troops in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian West Bank town of Hebron amid outrage over an Israeli plan to take control two flashpoint holy sites in the Palestinian territory.
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AMMAN - The Islamic Action Front (IAF) is expected to hold party elections in two months despite ongoing differences over granting new members the right to cast ballots, according to party officials.
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