Amman, Jordan News

It's not just foreign employers who are abusing overseas Filipino workers . Even Philippine Embassy officials are allegedly involved in the sexual exploitation of their countrymen-so says Party-list Akbayan Representative Walden Bello.

Many key sectors of the Canadian economy have job openings, but no people to fill them.

Alma Abdulrahman is lying gaunt and unable to move anything below her diaphragm in a hospital bed in Amman.

The Levant's famous Bakdash ice cream parlour opened its Amman branch in May and has been attracting Syrians, Jordanians, and their cars, in masses.

Protesters from the Islamic Action Front and other opposition parties hold up Jordanian national flags and shout slogans demanding political and economic reform, and access to corruption cases, during a demonstration after Friday prayers in Amman on June 14, 2013.

In Mahmoud's case it was by ambulance. We first meet him, grey hair falling out from underneath his yellow turban, in CARE's urban refugee centre, in Amman .

The U.S. military began laying the groundwork to arm and support Syrian rebels more than a week ago, using a military exercise currently being held in Jordan as a cover for bringing in personnel and equipment.

UNRWA is trying to help the over 400,000 Palestine refugees from Syria in need of humanitarian assistance.

Dr. Mohammad Al-Abdallat says blood samples from 124 people were tested for antibodies to the Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome coronavirus.

A man walks towards the King Fahad hospital in the city of Hofuf, east of the Saudi capital Riyadh, on Sunday.

WAM AMMAN, June 16th, 2013 -- Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour on Sunday met with visiting Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Zalmai Rassoul to discuss bilateral ties and the latest regional developments.

He was speaking as Jordanian and US forces conducted military exercises less than 75 miles from the Syrian border, with the participation of 17 other countries.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin ask why the West is arming rebels who eat the organs out of dead solidiers.

June 16--AMMAN -- Despite winning accolades and awards at festivals around the world, the Jordanian film industry cannot grow and develop without the support of local audiences, according to a Jordanian actress.

In this image released by the Egyptian Presidency, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi addresses a rally called for by hardline Islamists loyal to the Egyptian president to show solidarity with the people of Syria, in a stadium in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, June 15, 2013.

The United States said on Saturday it would keep F-16 fighters and Patriot missiles in Jordan at Amman's request, and Russia bristled at the possibility they could be used to enforce a no-fly zone inside Syria.

"I used to look at the moon a lot," Robert Stokely says, "and I told Mike, 'When you see the moon, know that eight hours later I'll see it too, and I'll think about you.'

So Barack wants war with Syria. And how do we learn of that? David Usborne reports : "The president has said that the use of chemical weapons would change his calculus, and it has," White House deputy national security adviser Benjamin Rhodes told reporters in a conference call on Thursday evening.

WAM AMMAN, June 14th, 2013 -- The UAE-Jordanian Camp for Syrian refugees has organised a ceremony to honour the Syrian children for memorising parts of the Holy Quran.

At the Service of Justice, Peace and Human Rights ROME, June 13, 2013 - Here is the final statement from a conference on Arab Christian Media, held this week in Jordan.