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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has demanded the United States pursue justice over the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.“As well as having Palestinian nationality, she was also an American citizen,” Abbas said in remar...

Fri, 2022-09-23 18:57AMMAN: Jordan and Sweden have co-chaired a ministerial meeting focused on developing policies and strategies to ensure the sustainability of financing the UN Relief and Works Agency’s programs.Jordan’s deputy prime...

The popular commentator said he’d cut off energy supplies to the EU if he were the president of Russia Popular conservative political commentator Jordan Peterson...

Thu, 2022-09-22 23:32AQABA: The Royal Marine Conservation Society of Jordan launched the “Clean up the World 2022” campaign in Aqaba on Wednesday, Petra News Agency reported.The campaign is a social action program aimed at combating th...

Palestine on Tuesday condemned the Israeli decision to deduct 2.9 million U.S. dollars from the Palestinian tax revenue dues that Israel collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority (PA).On Monday, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz s...

French President Emmanuel Macron admitted on Thursday that the energy and cost-of-living crisis have made life more challenging for many of his fellow citizens. The country will get through the winter without energy rationing, however, if e...

Scores of Jewish extremist settlers early Thursday stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque/ al-Haram al-Sharif compound in occupied East Jerusalem.The Islamic Awqaf and Al-Aqsa Affairs said in a statement that today’s raid was conducted through al-Magha...

The family of slain journalist Shireen Abu Akleh submitted an official complaint to the International Criminal Court (ICC) this week regarding her killing.The family included new evidence in the complaint that they say proves Israeli soldie...

The Liverpool midfielder is adamant the 2022 World Cup in Qatar won’t be his final shot at international silverware

There was trouble at the Euro 2020 final at Wembley and last year’s Champions League final in Paris

Right-wing academic Jordan Peterson will visit Israel next month for the first time in a move that will likely draw more backlash against him from social justice activists.Peterson will deliver a lecture on 6 October ...

Tunisia, SANA- Syria’s Al-Thawra Basketball team won over its Jordan’s counterpart (74/61) in its second match at the Arab Women’s Club Basketball Championship being held in Tunisia.Our team lost to its Algerian counterpart at the first ma...

A massive crowd cheers as a woman lifts a pair of scissors to her hair – exposed, without a hijab in sight. The sea of people, many of them men, roar as she chops off her ponytail and raises her fist in the air.It was a powerful act of defi...

His Majesty King Abdullah on Tuesday met with Israeli caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid in New York and reaffirmed the need to maintain calm in the upcoming period. At the meeting, held on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assem...

Israeli forces stormed a community in the occupied northern Jordan Valley region with staff from an environmental NGO briefly detained.Workers from the Israeli-Palestinian NGO Comet-ME were held in Wadi Al-Faw on Tues...

King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan met in New York with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, it was reported today.During the meeting, which took place on Tuesday on the sidelines of the 77th s...

The Liverpool captain has recovered from a hamstring injury.

Jordan and the US signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Friday containing the largest aid package to the Hashemite Kingdom in its history.The US pledged over US$10 billion in foreign aid to Jordan, to be disbursed o...

Jordanian Minister of Labour Nayef Steitieh revealed that the grant of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani provided 9,100 jobs for Jordanians in the Qatari market, indicating that this grant was reactivated at the beginni...

Tottenham defender Ben Davies and Swansea midfielder Joe Allen have withdrawn.

Daraa, SANA- The Component authorities seized Monday an amounts of drugs that were to be smuggled to Jordan.The drugs were hidden inside a car in Daraa province.More to follow…

England will compete on Pakistani soil for the first time in 17 years on Tuesday

Jordanian authorities have in the last four years intensified persecution and harassment of political opponents and ordinary citizens using a string of laws to silence critical voices, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on S...

Jordanian authorities have in the last four years intensified persecution and harassment of political opponents and ordinary citizens using a string of laws to silence critical voices, Human Rights Watch said on Sunday.

Thousands of police, hundreds of troops and an army of officials made final preparations Sunday for the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II — a spectacular display of national mourning that will also be the biggest gathering of world leade...

It was Addison's fifth receiving touchdown of the season after a pair of two-touchdown performances to start the year.

The official declaration of a cholera outbreak in the Aleppo region of Syria at the weekend, represents “a serious threat to people in Syria”, and the whole Middle East region, said the UN humanitarian relief coordinator for the country on...

A final body was pulled from wreckage of a collapsed building in Jordan's capital on Saturday as search efforts ended after four days, taking the total number killed to 14."Rescue teams were able to extract one dead p...

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said the Gaza-based group is trying to mend relations with Saudi Arabia, but there are parties that are stopping this from happening.Haniyeh said in an interview with Russia Today on Thursd...