Debt-ridden Jordan is following Egypt’s lead by planning a new administrative capital in the desert near Amman while Jordanians are struggling in the kingdom’s wheezing economy. Jordan’s King Abdullah has recently told Jordanian ministers to [ More … ]
Earlier on Thursday, Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi received Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the presidential palace A trilateral summit between Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine’s leaders has kicked off in Cairo to [ More … ]
Egyptian journalist Hassan Al-Banna, who was released from prison in February last year, has been arrested by the Egyptian police and disappeared after he had been deported from Jordan. The Egyptian journalist who was deported [ More … ]
The monarch says his brother Hamzah, the former crown prince, has agreed to put ‘Jordan’s interests’ above any other agenda Jordan’s King Abdullah II said on Wednesday that the sedition reported last week had been quashed [ More … ]
An alleged plot to unseat King Abdullah II of Jordan unfolded Saturday, unsettling the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The alleged coup attempt found wide range Arab and American responses backing the Jordanian Monarch, which raises [ More … ]
Several patients died on March 13 in the Jordanian capital, Amman, due to a shortage of oxygen supplies, reminding of a similar incident in Egypt’s Shaqiya Governorate on January 3, but with different reactions from [ More … ]
Jordan is ready to play part in relaunching peace negotiations with Palestinian leadership, monarch says Jordan’s King Abdullah II has warned that continued unilateral actions will kill any chance for peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, [ More … ]
The billionaire ruler of Dubai arranged the kidnapping of two of his adult daughters and forcibly returned them to the Gulf state after they attempted to flee abroad, a UK court has found. In a case described [ More … ]
US stops sending sniffer dogs to Egypt, Jordan after seven died of ‘negligence’ Several of the animals died in Egypt and Jordan due to lack of care, says US State Department The United States announced [ More … ]
Jordanian King Abdullah quietly visited Istanbul and transited to Tunis. King Abdullah was President Erdogan’s guest on Saturday at the Huber mansion in Tarabya, where the king’s grandfather had also lived for a period of [ More … ]
Dozens of Jordanians protested at the country’s prime ministry on Thursday against economic policies and corruption as part of a growing new, leaderless youth protest movement. Some 400 young Jordanians braved torrential rain, flooded streets [ More … ]
King Abdullah II bestows Order of Al-Hussein bin Ali – Jordan’s most honorific title – on visiting prince Jordanian King Abdullah II met with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Tuesday [ More … ]
France’s Intelligence Online website and Israel’s Channel 10 reported that a secret meeting took place on June 17, 2018, in the Jordanian city of Aqaba at the request of the American envoys, Greenblatt and Trump’s advisor [ More … ]
Jordanian Prime Minister Hani al-Mulki on Monday tendered his resignation to King Abdullah II following protests over a controversial income tax bill. King Abdullah accepted the resignation and appointed education minister Omar al-Razzaz to head [ More … ]
Ongoing issues regarding Palestine and the status of Jerusalem were discussed during Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s one-day visit to Jordan Monday. Ahead of his departure from Istanbul, Erdoğan said at a press conference that [ More … ]
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