Jordan News

Amman - Jordan announced on Wednesday its recognition of Kosovo, becoming the 61st nation to support Pristina after it declared independence from Serbia last year.

TEL AVIV, 7 July 2009 - A number of environmentalists are opposed to the start of a pilot project to bring water from the Red to the Dead Sea, saying the World Bank feasibility study on the Red-Dead Water Conveyance Programme was due to be finalized only in 2011.

A court on Tuesday halved the jail term of a 29-year-old Jordanian man who shot dead his raped sister 12 times "in the name of honour," a judicial official said.

Annan in Amman United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan is received by Jordan's King Abdullah II in Amman on Nov.

Jordanian police Sunday arrested 11 people, including trade union leaders, to break up a demonstration against fruit and vegetable imports from Israel , protest organizers said.

Levittown - Dick Marks, retired Waynesboro Area YMCA chief executive officer and creator of the "Friendliest Place in Town" relational skills program, recently took his consulting services across the world, all the way to the Middle East.Marks worked with management level staff at the five-star Regency Palace Hotel in May to make theirs the ...

Indonesia plans to bring back all of its workers from Jordan after presidential election scheduled on July 8, Foreign Ministry told a press briefing on Friday.

The story of "Captain Abu Raed" is so simple it might have come from another era and almost any place, despite the modern references to troubled families and independent Arab women.

Jordan's King Abdullah II named his eldest son as heir to the throne Thursday, ending five years of speculation over his successor.

US President Barack Obama has signed a supplemental appropriations bill, which includes $150 million in additional economic assistance to Jordan for the 2009 fiscal year, a senior official said on Sunday.

Jordan was not informed that the World Bank has approved the Red-Dead canal plan and its decision to finance the project with $1.25 billion, Jordanian officials said Sunday.

The Dead Sea will be eliminated next week from a contest to choose the seven natural wonders of the world because of a Palestinian boycott over the participation of an Israeli settler council.

Canada has signed a free trade agreement with Jordan, its first with an Arab country.

He Guoqiang , member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and secretary of the CPC's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, meets with Jordanian Prince Ali bin al Hussein in Amman, Jordan, June 24, 2009.

Israel is trying to block Jordan's bids to obtain nuclear technology for peaceful uses through agreements with the world's leading nuclear powers, the daily Alarab Alyawm reported Wednesday, citing a senior diplomat.

He Guoqiang , member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, also secretary of the CPC's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, meets with Chairman of the Jordan Investment Board Maen Nsour , in Amman, Jordan, on June 22, 2009.

Two swine flu cases were reported in Jordan late Monday. Health Minister Nayef Fayez told Petra news agency that two female children who arrived in Amman from abroad recently were diagnosed with H1N1 influenza, and that they were receiving the required medical treatment at hospital.

Jordanian Public Health Minister Nayef Fayez on Saturday announced the discovery of one more swine flu case, bringing the kingdom's total to 12 patients.

Some of these did not suffer from any symptoms and came on different flights than the two from the US the ministry said had on board the nine cases reported so far.

West Jordan will kick off it's free summer movie series Friday with a showing of "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" at Constitution Park, 7000 S. 3200 West.