Jordan News

Bosses at an orphanage in Jordan have dismissed rumors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt made plans to adopt another child during a recent visit there.

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.

The Jordan Atomic Energy Commission on Sunday signed a contract with the Australian consulting firm Worley Parsons to prepare the foundation for the country's first nuclear power plant.

Italian Ambassador to Jordan Francesco Fransoni said on Thursday that currently joint business is still below the desired level.

Jordan art exhibited in 'Windows: Looking Out, Looking In' at U.S. Department of Education By Christina Hawatmeh Washington, DC - On November 16, 2009, in celebration of International Education Week, the U.S. Department of Education in collaboration with the VSA Arts launched an exhibition artwork by students with disabilities from more than ...

AUSTRIA ITALY Northern Italy lucrative language school consisting of four classrooms and a language laboratory for sale.

Jordan: 35 minutes ago Etihad Holidays, a division of Etihad airways, has announced a new agreement and close cooperation with the Tourism Board in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to promote holidays in Amman, Aqaba, the Dead Sea and Petra.

MUWAQQAR, Jordan, Nov 17 - In the bleak and seemingly endless desert expanse that unfolds east of Jordan's capital city, Amman, lies a crucial cog in the ambitious regional designs of the U.S. and its allies in the Middle East.

AMMAN: A death sentence against a Jordanian linked to Al-Qaeda over the 2002 murder of a US diplomat has been commuted to 15 years of hard labor in jail, his lawyer said Sunday.

The deaths have provoked angry demonstrations in this stable U.S. ally. Jordan has largely escaped the reputation for human rights abuses that clings to many of its neighbors.

As it sang along its path, the river gathered into its bosom the seasonal gift of rainwater cascading down the towering cliffs.

On October 15, the State Security Court of Jordan imposed jail sentences of 15 to 20 years on 12 alleged Jordanian members of al-Qaeda accused of attacks against a church in the Kingdom last year .

Editor's Note: Idaho State Rep. Brian Cronin is in Jordan this week with the Idaho Human Rights Education Center and a group of Idaho educators.

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

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.

Carie Lemack said she looks forward to working with 'the best group of people I never wanted to know'. Lemack, who lost her mother in the September 11 attacks in New York, travelled to Amman to mark 'Jordan's 9/11'. Together with Ashraf Khaled, who lost his father and in-laws when his wedding was attacked four years ago, Lemack on Monday launched ...

AMMAN, Jordan - It is no more than a sandy lot on the outskirts of downtown, and it has a small taxi stand, a bus terminal and a milling crowd divided into two groups: those desperate to get to Iraq and others willing to take them for a price.

It's mainly a sour sensation. On the street in Jordan, people ask angrily and sincerely why Jordan ever bothered signing a peace agreement with Israel.

Jordan: 1 hour, 53 minutes ago Trowers and Hamlins, the City and International law firm, has acted as legal advisor to the National Petroleum Company of Jordan in the negotiation and structuring of an agreement that will allow BP plc to explore and potentially develop gas resources in the Risha concession in northeast Jordan.