Amman, Jordan News

AMMAN, Jordan, December 7 Omar* endured some hard and painful lessons about life at an early age.

When the spy movie ends, the suave intelligence chief having outsmarted his enemies dusts off the lapels of his perfectly tailored suit and disappears into his world of illusion and control.

"The country is in deficit in terms of water availability," Munqeth Mehyar, chairperson and Jordan director of the environmental group Friends of the Earth-Middle East, told The Media Line.

AMMAN: Close US ally Jordan's King Abdullah asked former palace aide Samir al-Rifai to form a new cabinet to push forward economic reforms before parliamentary polls later next year, officials said Wednesday.

Tayyibah Taylor didn't believe it when she learned that she was named as one of the world's 500 most influential Muslims.

AMMAN // The deaths of two Jordanians as a result of an alleged police beating last month have once again put a spotlight on human rights in the kingdom, with local and international rights groups calling for excessive use of force cases to be tried in civil rather than closed police courts.

Jordan: 2 hours, 14 minutes ago Moody's Investors Service today changed the outlook on the D- bank financial strength rating of Cairo Amman Bank to positive from stable.

Jordan: 2 hours, 42 minutes ago Umniah signed a cooperation agreement with the Orthodox Club - Amman, whereby Umniah supplied the Club with Umax wireless within all its amenities for the use of all its members and visitors.

ON one side is the fashionably dressed Queen Rania of Jordan , an elegant symbol of progressive values for Arab women.

Jordan and Egypt have decided to remove restrictions related to the import of medicines manufactured in both countries to facilitate trade, a Jordanian official said on Thursday.

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Arab stocks rebounded on the last two days of the week's trading, regaining a major part of the losses inflicted by the Dubai World debt crisis, financial analysts said Friday.

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Jordan: 1 hour, 48 minutes ago The Turkish President Abdullah Gul and the Jordanian prime minister Nader Al-Dhahabi have launched the Al-Desei water project, which will provide the Jordanian capital with approximately 100 million cubic metres of water annually, Kuna has reported.

Criminal Prosecutor Ali Abu Zeid on Monday charged a 30-year-old man with the premeditated murder of his niece in an Amman neighbourhood, official sources said.

Two member of the dissolved Jordanian parliament greet each other at the offices in Amman yesterday.

The 2010 budget targeted lowering the budget deficit to 685mn dinars or 3.9% of GDP from a forecast 1.176bn dinars or 7.3% of gross domestic product this year.

A DEESIDE ghillie has completed a gruelling cycle through the Jordan Valley a ' and raised over A 20,000 for the Nazareth Hospital in the process.

Jordan: 58 minutes ago Mayor of Amman, Eng. Omar Al Maani, and Governor of Astana, Mr.

Actor Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie arrive at Narita International Airport with their children Maddox, Vivienne, Zahara and Knox on January 27, 2009 in Narita, Chiba, Japan.