Amman, Jordan News

AMMAN: Jordanian security authorities have broken up a network involved in forging residence permits for Iraqis, the daily Al-Ghad reported Tuesday.

Five Jordanian police officers will face trial after a man died on Sunday of injuries allegedly sustained while in their custody, officials have said.

Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, according to former company officials.

Prior to the November 9, 2005 terrorist attacks on three hotels in Amman, which left dozens dead or injured, there was 'significant popular support' for Osama Ben Laden and Al Qaeda network, the experts said.

The violence started as relatives of Sadem Saoud, who succumbed to his wounds Sunday after allegedly being beaten up by the police a few weeks ago, took to the streets and started attacking public and private properties, said eyewitnesses and residents of Hai Al Tafaileh.

Jordan: 1 hour, 36 minutes ago Greater Amman Municipality and Al Nawares Company signed a road furniture agreement to promote and improve the usage of the public transportation modes by providing modern, civilized, and attractive bus stations.

Instead of returning to Washington, as scheduled, after attending an international conference in Marrakech, Morocco, Clinton flew to Cairo and held late-night talks with Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit and Omar Suleiman, the Egyptian intelligence chief.

During the visit, His Majesty King Abdullah will hold talks with the Kazakh leader on means to strengthen bilateral cooperation, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

The quantity of water stored in the country's nine major dams following the rainfall, which started in the evening hours of Monday, accounts for 0.05 per cent of the dams' overall capacity of 217mcm, Ministry of Water and Irrigation media adviser, Omar Salameh, told The Jordan Times yesterday.

Residents of east Amman will face water shortages after a major pipeline collapsed in downtown Amman, a Water Ministry official said on Sunday.

In this March 22, 2009 file photo, Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger, delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the Columbia University Global Center in Amman, Jordan.

Two Mossad agents entered Jordan with Canadian passports and injected Mash'al with a nerve toxin.

Foreign Ministry says group of pensioners from Ramat Gan evacuated to Jordanian hospitals after bus they were traveling on flipped over due to stormy weather.

Oct. 28--AMMAN -- Anti-normalisation activists on Tuesday urged farmers to stop exporting olives to Israel, describing the move as "unacceptable." Abdullah Obeidat, president of the Professional Associations Council, an umbrella of 14 professional associations that opposes normalisation with Israel, said farmers "should not be tempted by financial ...

Oct. 28--AMMAN -- US President Barack Obama has said the peace treaty signed 15 years ago between Jordan and Israel is a reminder that peace is always possible, despite obstacles that may seem impossible to overcome, the Associated Press reported from Washington.

Jordan: 1 hour, 46 minutes ago Al Tamimi & Company, the largest independent law firm in the Middle East, has announced that their Amman office has relocated to the newly opened Emmar Tower due to organic growth and expansion in the Jordan market.

The 370-megawatt combined cycle power plant, located 30 kilometres east of Amman, was built by AES Jordan PSC, a company owned by a consortium of AES Oasis Ltd.

Sitting in a cafe in an alley watching the crazyness of downtown Amman. Mint tea, felafel, homous and fuul and stack of bread and only 2JD - sure beats working.

AMMAN, Jordan - British oil giant BP PLC has signed several agreements potentially valued at up to $9 billion with Jordan to develop the country's Risheh natural gas field along its border with Iraq.

Renjith Maheshwary of Kerala, Elam Singh of Uttarkhand and V.S. Surekha of Tamil Nadu rewrote the Meet records in the men's triple jump and 3000 metres Steeplechase and women's pole vault, respectively in the 49th Inter-State athletics championship here Friday.