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53 min ago | Asia News Network

MANILA : Embassies accused of sexually exploiting Filipino workers

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.

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Related Topix: Jordan, World News, Filipino-American, Asian-American

5 hrs ago | Canada.com

Jordan's king endorses treaty with UK, setting stage for deportation of radical preacher

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

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9 hrs ago | The Atlantic

'Take Your Portion': A Victim Speaks Out About Rape In Syria

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

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Related Topix: Syria, World News, Middle East, Jordan, US Politics, US News

12 hrs ago | Al Bawaba

Survival of Syria's best ice cream: A scoop of Bakdash's Amman-reincarnate

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.

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Related Topix: Syria, World News, Middle East, Jordan, Travel, Life, Dessert, Food, Ice Cream, Syria Travel, Middle East Travel, Jordan Travel

13 hrs ago | Globe and Mail

Jordan's free-press decade ended when it banned my news site - and 212 others

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.

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Related Topix: Jordan, World News, Middle East, Journalism

17 hrs ago | AlertNet

BLOG: Syria's refugees: on the road, in search for solace

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 .

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Related Topix: Explosion, Jordan, World News

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Lake Wylie Pilot

Groundwork for arming Syrian rebels began before Obama's announcement

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.

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Related Topix: Middle East, Jordan, World News, US Military, US Marine Corps

United Nations

Palestinian refugee camps in Syria now a theatres of wara a " UN agency chief

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

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Related Topix: Palestinian Territories, Middle East, World News, Israel, Jordan

Canada.com

Earliest known MERS outbreak, in Jordan, infected at least 10 people

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

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CBC News

Earliest known MERS outbreak, in Jordan, infected 10

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

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Related Topix: Jordan, World News, Middle East, Saudi Arabia

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Emirates News Agency

Jordanian Prime Minister receives Afghan foreign minister

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.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Jordan, Middle East, Uzbekistan Travel, Travel, Asia Travel, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan Travel

Daily Times

Jordan's army ready for any threat from Syria, says king

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.

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Related Topix: Middle East, Syria, World News, Jordan

The Age

Putin warns Of conflict with Korea

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

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Related Topix: Vladimir Putin, Jordan, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

Hispanic Business

'Audience support vital for success of local film industry'

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.

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Related Topix: Middle East, Jordan, World News

The Lebanon Daily News

Syria: Sunni extremists blow up Shiite mosque

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.

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Related Topix: Syria, World News, Middle East, Mohamed Morsi, Jordan, Explosion

Sat Jun 15, 2013

The Star Online

U.S. puts jets in Jordan, fuels Russian fear of Syria no-fly zone

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.

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Related Topix: Syria, World News, Middle East, Jordan

National Public Radio

Following The Moon, Dad Seeks Military Son's Resting Place

"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.'

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Related Topix: Jordan, World News, Iraq

Fri Jun 14, 2013

The Common Ills

Like the trained monkeys they are, they sell the latest war

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.

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Related Topix: Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Lincoln, Jordan, World News

Emirates News Agency

UAE-Jordanian Camp honours children for memorising Holy-Quran

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.

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Global Catholic Network EWTN

13-Jun-13 - Final Statement From Arab Christian Media Conference

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.

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