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Temperatures plunge 10 degrees below average as country braces for snow

Rain and temperatures will continue falling on Thursday as the country remains under the impact of a polar front, the Jordan Meteorological Department (JMD) said on Wednesday.
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US, Britain suspend aid to north Syria after Islamists seize weapons store

The United States and Britain suspended non-lethal aid to northern Syria after Islamist fighters seized Western-backed rebel weapons warehouses, highlighting fears that supplies could end up in the wrong hands and the general chaos engulfing the nation.
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Behind eulogies, US deeply conflicted on Mandela

The Nelson Mandela eulogised to the world by President Barack Obama as “a giant of history” and the “last great liberator of the 20th century” seemed a different person from the one the United States held at arm’s length, to put it diplomatically, for much of his life and career.
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Think tank ranks Jordan among top Arab world’s economically free states

Jordan, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are the most economically free nations in the Arab world, according to recent report.
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Jordan hopes line-up will be ready for west Asian championship

Jordan will play Lebanon on December 26 in the Kingdom’s first match at the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) Championship slated for December 25 to January 7, 2014 in Doha, Qatar.
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- The legend and I
The legend and I

When a legend dies, there is a pall of gloom that descends all over the world. If the deceased person has lived for close to a century, twenty-seven of those years in a prison, and after his release, has served one term as president of his country, his stature assumes epic proportions.
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End pollution

My family knows first hand the consequences of the air pollution we suffer with each day in Jordan.
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New, stronger blizzard expected to hit country Friday

A new cold front is forecast to start affecting the country as of Friday morning, bringing below-zero temperatures and heavier snow, the Jordan Meteorological Department (JMD) said on Thursday.

Legal experts, activists say draft juveniles law a step in ‘right direction’

The beginning of Lower House deliberations over the new juveniles law in two weeks will be an occasion for Jordan to present “a great image” to the world “in its march towards human rights”, a judge said Wednesday.
Authorities thwart attempts to smuggle 760,000 Captagon pills

The Anti-Narcotics Department (AND) on Wednesday said it foiled two attempts to smuggle 760,000 Captagon pills out of the country at two border crossings last week.
Behind eulogies, US deeply conflicted on Mandela

The Nelson Mandela eulogised to the world by President Barack Obama as “a giant of history” and the “last great liberator of the 20th century” seemed a different person from the one the United States held at arm’s length, to put it diplomatically, for much of his life and career.